Should we prepare to join FW to participate to the event?

Will the system's node be reinforced or do I have to fill out the large fleet battle form?

A weekend is much more inclusive.

The real ironic part I find funny is that Any Gallente militia toons can show up and not only hold a tactical advantage of having their NPC big brothers to protect them, but they can also OB dusties.

As I understand it, and thanks to CCP's brilliant game design, you can only OB if you are in FW. Since Caldari militia will most likely be targeted by NPC Battleships and player militia, it stands to reason that CCP is essentially precluding you from being able to OB unless you are signed up for Gallente militia. If you are signed up for Caldari, you will find it damn near impossible to get off a OB shot before being gunned down by NPCs.

Meanwhile, Gallente are free to OB. It seems that there is no way to play this from the Caldari side. Another blow to Caldari pilots. Give it time and no one will even play the race let alone fly their ships.

You can also only OB if you are in a Factional Warfare system.

Luminaire is not a factional warfare system.

Say will Empire factions be issuing Letters of Marquee that give CONCORD immunity as long as your targets have high enemy faction standings? Obviously you get automatic -10 faction standings from enemy faction navies...but not necessarily civilian stations unless you attack.

I'd say that is an idea that its time has come. All standings would just need to be public info and instead of just CONCORD security standings.
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Not at all, there is no FW requirement to the event.

I really hope that will change in time. I don't feel like I should HAVE to join FW to use a new feature and it seems the last few expansions FW has been given priority in terms of new content. Datacores, LP, and now OB. FW is a great feature of itself but restricting OB to it limits the interaction between dust and eve.

Will this live event have any actual impact on who controls the system? Could the system changes hands from Gallente to Caldari? Or is this a static event with no repercussions on the game?

To clear up the most common question:

It's not physically possible to just "turn off" factional warfare NPCs, or the status of a system as a Factional Warfare system. Whether or not players decide they want to depart from the militia for a few days or not is entirely their own choice.

Anybody who's been in caldari / amarr militia for a bit will have bad enough standings to be instantly hounded by faction navy spawns...


Leaving the militia does not reset your faction standings, so yeah, this is a heavily biased event and not worth anybodys time on the amarr/caldari side...

Yeah being in the militia is not the problem.

The problem is



How are the Caldari players supposed to be able to do anything when they are being hounded, NOT SOLELY BY THE FW NPC'S BUT ALSO THE GAL NAVY because they have poor standings.

I don't think the shame of having a Caldari Titan in your home system for 5 years is really the victory anyone would ask for :P

I don't think the shame of having a Caldari Titan in your home system for 5 years is really the victory anyone would ask for :P

The shame of the impotent victim to the whims of a CCP employee who is evidently mad with power.

They aren't.

It seems to be CCP's new policy to hand out easy victories to the gal/min militias and to exclude vast swathes of paying customers from live events.

Good job CCP :(

So if I have a toon that is gal but fly cal ships, have higher cal standings and favour a cal corp, am I considered a gallente or Caldari ?

So if I have a toon that is gal but fly cal ships, have higher cal standings and favour a cal corp, am I considered a gallente or Caldari ?

Quick question for those dissatisfied with Gallente NPC aggression in Luminaire.

When you took the decision to join FW and war with the Gallente, you understood at the time that it would cause faction standing loss, and that it would cause NPCs to aggro you if you entered a system hostile to you. Given that EVE is a game known for having consequences matter, what makes this different from any other reason you might have to want to enter space owned by those that are hostile to you? There's no "you can't enter" sign on the gate; it's just more difficult for you to be in that system, which seems perfectly natural to me as you chose to be at war with the faction that controls it.

All good points. But:

The space near Caldari Prime is not Gallente space, its Caldari space. So a Caldari loyalist would expect CCP to set the rules so he would be safe there. But you did not. There is no

If (distance to Luminare VII < Caldari_influence ) then Activate _NPC_navy = FALSE

Q: is this event reserved to Dust players in specific corps? Only player corps? NPC corps? FW corps? Everyone without regard to affiliation? TIA.