Comments:
- Please don't implement some kind of color coded system to get information across in PVP. There are a non-trivial number of color blind people playing Eve that would suddenly be at a MASSIVE disadvantage in PVP.
- It sounds like the intention is to make Low Sec == FW. If you do this, please don't forget pirates. We were here first. If nothing else, bring pirate factions into the FW with missions like "Get 20 kills in region X".
- I am very glad to hear that you're hesitant to overboost AFs by giving them an extra slot. I am equally glad to know that the second mid is mandatory.
- Please don't mess up WH space. Its one of the few bastions of actual small gang warfare and WH stabilizers would really mess with that.
- Please fix POS living, and allow Rorqual clone bays to work in WH space. PLEASE.

Hmm, that's probably a good start. :)

-Liang

Ed: Oh, I'm super stoked to hear plans of buffing T1 frigs/cruisers and command ships. While you're at it please look at all ships that have the reputation for being total rubbish or being impossible to properly fit.

Also the Drake nerf is probably not necessary but I won't fight against it too much.

It's the "little" things like this that make a HUGE difference to those who actually engage in FW. The problem is, both the developers and the current CSM do not participate, and so it is no surprise that the big picture ideas that get brought forward basically entail emulating what makes nullsec fun for them, and bringing into our feature.

The best improvements to Faction Warfare will be simple, elegant, and transformational - much like your suggestion here.

I am grateful for the CSM's time speaking about Faction Warfare, and am thrilled to see that it will finally get some attention. I just pray that CCP pays close attention to all of the blood, sweat, and tears that the community has put into providing feedback, because there are clearly still some fundamental misunderstandings about what Faction Warfare brings to the game, and what will actually turn it back into a vibrant, exciting, place to find fights like it was in its early days.

Faction Warfare players want, above all things, to be able to fight every day. To fight PLAYERS, and not to run PvE. PvE has been a means to an end - its a means to bait fights, and a means to pay for ships But the goal - the carrot - has always been the fights.

Improvements to the Faction Warfare system that draw it closer to emulating nullsec will ultimately alienate the thousands of players its has entertained so far.

Complicated is not better to militia pilots. Spy's, intrigue, politics, economic infrastructure to maintain, etc, are all seen as barriers to steady fun. Its just a different mentality. Its why many have ended up in FW after being bored with nullsec and not finding enough PvP out there.

I know the minutes represent the planning stages, and are subject to change. Hopefully there is still time for CCP to look past the admitted experience-deficiency the current CSM has with regards to the feature and listens to what their customers really want to be happy and keep playing.

Baaaad idea. Without JF, you gimp Low Sec even more than it already is.