My take on it has always been that if you plex sites for your ally then you earn your ally's LP for their store.

Its the farmers that are 1day olds that are the problem, just stop speed tanking plexes, make it so you have to kill the NPCs. Sure there will be a way around this but its a start and makes me wonder why it wasnt in there off the bat. Level out LP rewards for doing it a group though and maybe very small LP rewards when you kill the NPCs. 5 for a frig, 10 for a dessy, 15 cruiser, 20 bc, 30 BS. Something like that. It all will add up.

That being said, I have heard of people infiltrating plexes with recons to scram and web the plexer. They do this for the jollies, which is what PvP is supposed to be about IMHO. PvP shouldn't be about kill mails, ISK efficiency, or other game mechanic reward. PvP should be about taking someone's stuff despite their best attempts to avoid that loss. The prestige is in getting the hard or lucky kills because you were smart or brave enough to catch that prey.

Once there is some reasonable level of probability that people in low-skill combat ships can catch and kill other people in low-skill combat ships, I would expect plexing's milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard. People will go plexing looking for fights and being handsomely rewarded if none are forthcoming.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but i think Hans means if the changes already proposed go in, should diagonal plexing stay.

The BIG problem is that the laughably, retardedly broken plexing system means that FW plexes are farmed by an endless procession of unarmed Incursus alts, many of whose mains AREN'T EVEN IN MILITIA.

Obviously the Incursus needs a nerf, right?

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They are in militia just not one of the locals .. CCP still haven't managed to make the ally militias show as such in local channel.

Another argument against cross-faction plexing: It removes a major balancing tool as there is no consequence to steamrolling at home as one can merely send excess farm hands abroad to rake in the cash.
Success ought to be a double edged sword, once combat operations are completed, principal income should come from the newly acquired territories thus emphasizing defense.

That is unless the bi-annual flip of entire regions rather than a continual tug-o-war is the desired goal.

The community has been very loud and clear that we need to get back to FW being a PvP-centric feature, where players enlist for the pew, and stay because they can afford to fight, as supposed to enlisting for the isk, and fighting if they have to (which is never.)

I am ofthe oppinion that simply making the ships inside the complex destroyed is sufficient to pretty much wipe out the farming community.