Is this in the normal DT or is it going to be extended?

Where these on test server or we just hoping everything will be fine?

To implement this earlier is biggest fuckup CCP can make in FW ever

I was looking forward to the re positioning of the capture / defending nodes in the faction ware fare plexes. Did I miss that in this blog? I did not see it.

A bit .. did you read the same blog as I did, they are doubling (2x) buffers/upgrades and decreasing bleed by a whopping 80% .. that is a factor ten compared to current, Have fun plexing that down when defender gets points for being AFK on top

Systems held after DT will not flip in the foreseeable future, will be nigh impossible to do, so map tomorrow will be as static as null has been for the past year+ (excepting renter/sheep changes).

As for pew increasing .. I checked the data and the spike didn't really happen until the farm was running which means that it is millionaire-fights (as opposed to bum-fights before) .. all FW boards should move the digit in the kill value one or two places to the left. ... hahahahahah
Personally never took pleasure in killing, was purely out of service (RP) and quite frankly see no point in it if it has zero effect on anything which is what infinite ISK (effectively) means. War without recognized costs is just a slaughter (ref: WWI).

What scares and annoys me is that this is supposedly the last iterative pass for the time being, tweaks here and there probably but what they push on the morrow is what you have to live with for the next two or three years .. not really seeing it.

By the way, CCP: Are you going to develop the storyline at all? Has been completely frozen for ages.

Hmm. Seems the only posting the CSM does now is to cheerlead devblogs.

At least we know the CSM is doing their job marketing the game.

I'm sorry to disturb you sir, but but but..... is there any chance I can direct your attention over to the Combat Cruiser thread. It's getting really terribubble whatever that is.

If someone wants to farm defensive plexes, more power to them. The payout is pretty ****, per Fozzie's equaltion.

LP Gain = Base value of plex * (Contested percentage of the system/100) * 0.75

They payout strictly from the T2 base (modified downwards by contested percentage) ... there is no warzone control scaling. So the ISK/hour potential is very low. Thus, there is no real problem here.

CCP is working via a variety of methods to bring the price of PLEX down, and FW has been identified as an area that can help the process along.
Can you elaborate on this comment in the blog? I am sure I am not only one with a ... limited period of vested interest.

Actually (and unfortunately) that's not the case.

The d-plex payout and (again, unfortunately) mission payouts are both affected by warzone control.

Worse: vulnerable systems count as "120% contested".

So:

Major plex: 25k lp.
Vulnerable system: 120% modifier to d-plex payout.
Defensive plex: 75% of 'normal' payout
Tier3 (frex) warzone control: 75% bonus to payout.

25klp x 1.2 x .75 x 1.75 = 39k lp for 'running' a defensive major plex in a vulnerable system.

Or do a level 4 mission with tier3 WZ control and get about 51k lp. Either way, not great. Don't think either of these should be adjusted by WZ control.

... and... HOW is it you can be more than 100% contested? Is the system so contested it's leaking over to other systems?

Any word on this?

Does this mean that in an identical fight the pilot who is a member of a faction with a higher tier will actually get more LP for the kill?

100 VP is what, a medium plex? So one is looking at a minimum of 15 minutes if plexes are to be used to deny a bunker bust . 15 minutes just happens to be the average time it takes to drop a bunker with todays tier3 BC swarms and/or 1-2 dread drops