* Corporation Locations (Bookmarks) can now be saved directly into the Corporations folder.

* The New Neocom

* Adding Alliances to Faction Warfare.

Inevitable I guess.

Could you give a very quick rundown on how that works, exactly? Is it "alliance joins", or "corp in alliance joins"? If the former, how are the standing requirements handled? Are there other restrictions of some kind?

(Also, if you can, I'd be curious about your opinion on how that will affect FW as a whole, and what your idea for FW is so that that is an improvement :-))

Current corps to FW don't have access to supercaps

...could you perhaps comment on whether the logi bug for fw pilots has been fixed (where you lose faction standing for repping flashy corp members)?

A fix for that has just gone in for testing today.

All corporations within an alliance need a 0.5 standing to join, if a corp within the alliance goes below min standings that alliance is ejected from FW 48 hours after a warning, unless the standings are regained.

A corp of the same faction may join an alliance of that same faction without dropping their allegiance. A corp of a different faction will be required to drop it's FW allegiance before joining the alliance, where it will automatically join the militia of the alliance.

Edit: The executor is the person who enters the alliance into FW.

Feel free to ask more.

I would suggest you change the standing requirement dramatically. I would say all corps in a FW alliance must have in the neighborhood of 3.0 to 5.0 standing or higher with their faction. This might keep it to alliances being formed between existing FW corps and existing RP alliances, both of which already have good standing to their respective factions. 0.5 will allow every alliance in the game to join a faction, because why not?

Also, you need to add the cannot hold sov requirement as well.

I was going to post on our corp boards today to comment about lack of targets since it seems many caldari have moved on. I appreciate the addition of possible new targets, but this is a bit overkill. ;). Thanks for the attention though.

Keeping an open mind...

The primary problem facing the Faction Warfare system is a lack of effective rewards for encouraging players to go out and fight, coupled with a lack of consequence and lack of meaning to the occupation of enemy faction's systems. Simply put, any fighting that goes on amongst the factions right now is completely arbitrary and grudge-driven, NOT mechanically driven. The "I'm fighting you just because" carrot went rotten years ago.

The remote rep standings fix was long overdue, so kudos for that.

I would have to agree that a re-examination of fundamental FW mechanics, such as plexes and missions, is more urgent than shoehorning Alliances into FW.

That said, I'm rather ambivalent about the 'alliances in FW' prospect. There are a number of corporations that would like to join FW, if they didn't have to break up their alliance to do so. On the other hand, there is a danger of inducing hundreds-strong blobs and supercap warfare into an area of PvP that largely goes without. I think the standings requirement isn't enough. One proposal fielded by the community, which I endorse, is that alliances can enter FW as long as they don't hold sovereignty.

If you want an RP explanation behind that, say the Empires would rather not allow capsuleers to bear their flag, when those capsuleers are making competing territorial claims.

A fix for that has just gone in for testing today.