SGTheron Shal'Tek wrote:I've been in Factional Warfare on multiple alts for a while now, and at first it was a 'goldmine' for me, I had no interest in pvp. I just wanted to make bank on the sites, which pretty much dumps millions of ISK into my wallet. I once made 1.3b in 3 days flying around a stabbed merlin that could take out the faction ship guarding the plex and that's it.
So that's all nice and grand, I love sitting on billions of ISK made from the sites... But for the past few months I've actually been fighting and doing FW as it's meant to be done (you know, where you actually attempt to shoot at other factions) and it's such a damn drag. The idea and concept behind FW is so good, but the fact that people are able to make billions of isk with an inexpensive ship and no PVP action is ridiculous. All they need to do is sit in a site, watch D-scan, and warp out at the slightest hint of a threat.
I was flying a cheap Thrasher the other day, just looking for a fight for fun. I didn't care if I lost my ship, I wanted to win but no matter what I just wanted to fight. There was another pilot, same faction as me, in a site plexing it down, and there were two WT's in the system, so I figured I'd fly to him so we stand a better chance and can work together. I get to him, he's in a Condor, and the two WT's are in Navy Comets. My Thrasher is worth 1.6m, and does 214 dps. Not sure what the condor was capable of, but we could have killed at least one of the 20m+ comets before we both died. That's not what happened though... My fellow militia jack ass ran as soon as they landed, and left me to die. I lost a cheap ship, who cares. I am always happy to lose a ship in a good fight :) BUT, the point is, this little worthless bastard was plexing just to get some cash and had no interest in any kind of fighting. Pretty worthless pilot.
So how about the LP reward system flip? Make the most profitable way to gain LP by fighting other pilots? Down the amount of LP people get from sites and increase how much they get from killing people to make FW do what it was intended - PVP! If they want to farm LP and not do pvp that bad, there are FW missions! (Though missions are complete bull ****, being 8+ jumps out is ********)