Just a newbie's point of view, but I'd like FW to be a true 1 v 1 - frigates vs frigates, navy frigs vs navy frigs, dessies vs dessies, no off grid boosts, no fleets, no option to warp out once you are in, no option to d-scan who's in a plex. You enter a plex. It is a fight. you have to fight. The better pilot wins. No farming - no NPCs. Just a plex that is activated when a pilot warps in and stays until there's a fight and a clear winner.

This is one approach, an easy one, but definitely needs more tweaking/balancing ... otherwise "positive" sec-status will become meaningless in lowsec as almost everybody is flashy.

The root cause is the sec-status hit when engaging a neutral in FW plexes. Making everybody suspect can eliminate the hit, sure, but has a lot of other, not all positive, implications.

I agree.

Factors in attracting fights

+ Fly T1s
+ Solo
+ Poor combat record
+ Reputation for standing your ground
+ Be a pirate

There are allot of problems with almost all these suggestions.

But one thing I do wish is that the fw plex deadspace area counted like a different system when it came to boosters. If you want the boosts then they would need to enter the plex.

I know ccp has technical difficulty making it so they only apply on grid. But I wonder if that is something they could accomplish.

The argument that links can't be restricted to grid is complete horse feathers. It is just an outright lie. The real story is that CCP employs people who play the game and who like having unfair advantages because their knopwledge and access to these unfair advantages makes them a big deal in their little worlds.

Weapons/aggression timer for links please.

* Neutrals should not be able to see/scan the Militia Outpost on the probe scanner panel.
* Neutrals should not be able to warp on Militia Outpost or inside the plex.

Has anyone brought up suspect flagging nerds who shoot at their own militia too?

Or better yet, fixing the default overview so that all the little militia newblets know that I am not trying to kill them?

Fair enough.... but....

1. We fly t1s. Exclusively.
2. Way to get blobbed. Isn't eve a squad game?
3. We had this for a while. Then we killed a t3 dessie with two tristans and now folks avoid us unless they have blob advantage or crazy links. So what to do? Even we can't suck forever.
4. See above. Only works while you are easy prey.
5. Mmmm. There was a time when I would say never. With every passing day, I find myself inclined to hoist the black. One of our guys suggested we go back to Solitude to hunt rats yesterday. What he really meant was "Let's hoist the black and go hunt bears!"

We need a mechanic that makes it impossible to know the enemy you face.

Otherwise the vain losers with too much time (hello!) will continue to ambush bears and claim that they have some nuts.

Both changes favour the farmer, let me know when they change FW in a positive way.

Well most people doing fw don-¦t realize what it really is: An isk making machine and nothing else.
I was some months in NC last year. Bear bomber hunting was over because every damn second bomber I catched was b*tch*ng at me "hey I am NC alt, my main is blue to you".
FW is broken like hell and I am happy I got away from it.

It is killmail farming for nolifers with links hunting down prey without links.
It is isk farming for the cleverer 0.0 boys realizing how idiotic it is to rat for 150mil/h in a 2b carrier instead of using a 4 months old alt in a 30mil bomber and making 200 up to 300mil/h.

FW missions need a huge change/income nerf. And yes I have my own bomber alts covering several militias, too.
LInks are killing lowsec.... yes I wait until someone comes aka "burn the witch" because I wrote that :P

4) No docking rights in enemy hisec
Can't dock in 'contested' enemy held systems, but still can in their regular lowsec, and hisec. Completely stupid.

Changes I'd like to see in FW, and lowsec in general now that the neutrals gaining a timer and a split of the FW ally system are near-confirmed. Some may even be basically repeats of already requested details by many others, but I simply also support.

Actually, I expect the newFW missions to be quite a big nerf to mission farmers.

Haven't seen anything about them, you'd have to elaborate.

One of the many reasons to redo FW missions is the imbalance between the factions as well as the rediculous Tier4 Stealthbomber junk.

We've been told we won't hear much more beyond that until after the CSM summit, but I trust in Team Space Glitter and Sugar Kyle.

I see, I thought something had been floated already. They definitely need reworking.

Personally, I'd exclude the LP payout from Tier bonuses and compensate by making them a viable means of contesting a system. Allow pilots to allocate a target location, and a successful mission adds VP to that system. Failure reduces the VP. Add a time limit that has some meaning, rather than the arbitrary expiration timers that currently exist.

As for difficulty, well that's a racial thing and would require a serious rethinking of PVE mechanics as a whole.

As for difficulty, well that's a racial thing and would require a serious rethinking of PVE mechanics as a whole.

Or just canning FW mission EWAR NPCs all together. It's not like they add anything to the actual challenge (running a mission in hostile space, constant interruption, camps, long warp chains, etc), all they do is force you into a gimped fit to counter it. Minnie need to counter nothing, hence the disparity.

Would also like the mission rats not to shoot friendlies...

No to that last part. It would be exploitable by having an alt in the opposing militia complete the mission for you.