King Rothgar wrote:Your proposal is long and needlessly complicated. It also throws out the very essence of what FW and low sec is all about. Most of us in the militias and in low sec in general once lived in null. We left because of the mind numbingly boring nature of it combined with blobtastic lagfests. FW and indeed low sec in general should not be viewed as a stepping stone to null. They aren't, never have been and hopefully never will be. Low sec is more of a pvp arena and that arena-ish style is what draws virtually everyone to FW currently in it. It would be a dire mistake to attempt to change that.
Low Sec isn't an Arena.
That's the attitude of people who live in Null Sec towards Low Sec. Low Sec residents treat Low Sec like a home. It's a place for them to claim actual "sovereignty" without needless mechanics - we own our space because we EXIST there.
Don't bring Null Sec perspectives to Low Sec.
The irony is, your recommendations will create the exact thing that you want to avoid - "MInd-numbingly boring nature combined with blobtastic lagfests".
The concept I've written out above is about negating most of those elements and creating a dynamic environment.
You say it yourself "That arena-ish style is what draws virtually everyone to FW currently in it..."
What people in FW? FW is almost dead in terms of activity - you can hardly get a 10-15 man fleet together on a Sunday afternoon. So you're telling me that appealing to the people that are already attracted to it is going to improve the population?
Erm, no. You attract people that AREN'T in FW to attract more people. The people attracted to the limited gamestyle of FW are clearly not sufficient in quantity. It is also intended to be an environment to get new players INTO PVP - but where are those people? They hang around very briefly and leave.
They're unskilled, incapable and overwhelmed and noone is able to guide them because all of the productive FW corps LEFT. Why? Because this "Arena-ish" style doesn't attract long term and invested players. It attracts single-minded PVPers who want immediate satisfaction, and even then they DON'T GET IT, why? Because you can't grow a garden on bullets. You have to create and manifest an environment of cooperation and competition. Not this "Arena".