What do you do in game besides flying Dramiels (and now Assault Frigates) and sitting in stations?

Thank you for your questions.

What I had expected from FW when it was announced is not what I see now.
I had expected it to be a roleplaying PVP environment, scripted and managed by CCP stuff, with lots of events, in game history evolution, based on backstories, and players that could participate in the show.
The first thing I thought when it was announced was GÇ£Wow, where do they expect to find the stuff to support this?GÇ¥.
The answer was trivial, they didnGÇÖt. We god a mix of unfinished wardec system with the unfinished missions system and a rejected prototype of sov warfare system.
What I want to ask CCP, is to define the goal that FW should achieve.
The way I see it GÇô itGÇÖs a good ground for CCP events, CCP stuff could lead those armies on a pre-made script, having fun (I know, lots of CCPeer want to play EVE), evolving the background history with those players enjoying events.

The main restriction is that those FW events should be limited to FW and game backstories, and have no influence to the rest of the sandbox. ItGÇÖs a tricky thing, considering the butterfly effect, but I believe CCP can manage this.

What do you think about wardec mechanics?

The day one part of Eve is deliberately set aside to "have no influence to the rest of the sandbox" is the day that Eve dies.

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Well done and good luck with the rest of your campaign.

That means that CCP EVENTS should not influence the rest of a sandbox. Not players, that participates there.
When it comes to the roleplaying part of EVE, that activity should be guided, moderated and somehow supported. Otherwise it would be ruined just for fun, as it allways happens. FW can be a good ground for the RP, if CCP would help those, who want to play their roles as a rebel slave ets.

All events in a sandbox should affect the rest of the sandbox, that's the whole point of a sandbox.

If roleplayers want some action, they may get it always and everywhere. If you are absolutely lazy, you may join RedvBlue or become one of the Goner Monks(that guys even built a temple station somwhere in null sec! at the RA territory). THAT is called ROLEPLAY. Why CCP has to spent their time for what player have to do?
CCP still have so much other things to do, they even did not finished boosting minmatarshybrids!


P.S.
Supported.

What Roleplayers and Factional Warfare participants need from CCP is not special snowflake treatment, but the same things every other Eve player needs - interesting, rewarding game mechanics (particularly for lowsec, but also for whatever other areas of the game they occupy) which make them enthusiastic to log in and blow each other up. The Butterfly Effect should be encouraged whenever possible, because what makes Eve special is when non-scripted events take on a momentum of their own and spiral away in ways that nobody could have predicted.

So what your statement is that CCP events based on EVE backstory should affect the rest of the sendbox, including the nullsec sov holding alliances?
I don't think thats a good idea.

Or do you stand against any CCP ingame events?

kk, I'll bite. If by "special snowflake treatment" you mean preferential nurturing I agree with you completely.
My argument always has been that the butterfly effect washes up on the shores of highsec but does not impact significantly upon it. When it does, we're stuck with it in perpetuity. CCP lead rp events suck because the RP dept is under-resourced and lack the tools to develop and iterate story-lines continually in response to player involvement.

I also believe that CSM6, 7 & 8 will not in any way influence CCP to improve the situation because The Mittani's priorities are different. Even if a RP candidate got in they would be sidelined while 'other stuff' got sorted out.

Nobody in CSM6, and in all likelihood nobody in CSM7 either, is going to jump up and down and demand CCP pour large amounts of resources into creating scripted roleplaying events. But instead, they might well support reworking Empire in general, and FacWar in particular, to have content which makes people want to log in and generate their own content. If you want roleplaying in Eve to grow and thrive, you do so by creating an environment where the next CVA or Ushra'Khan can form and develop identities of their own, not by having GMs leading groups of players around on scripted roleplay safaris.

I really can't fault your argument.
I just don't think you and The Mittani realise how intimidating your power block is to people who want to be identified with the NPC empires.