I believe it's meant to prevent enemy faction in faction warfare from docking. So neutral players and pirates wouldn't be affected. I might be wrong though.

I believe it's meant to prevent enemy faction in faction warfare from docking. So neutral players and pirates wouldn't be affected. I might be wrong though.

Standings prevent us Nullsec players from docking in most stations. Don't see us QQing and running to high or low sec.

But in nullsec you can't just leave your alliance and instantly gain access to enemy stations. The problem is that it creates an incentive to leave militias.

That will happen I'm sure. It's point is to make you actually work to take/retake systems. It gives you a reason to do so. Imagine if you did take the system and suddenly they can't dock up. That's what you should be worried about doing not whining because you can't dock in an enemy station. Pirates will be able to dock, but I don't think that gives them any real advantage.

You might work hard to get the systems back. Or you might just quit militia. Or not joint it in the first place.

You might work hard to get the systems back. Or you might just quit militia. Or not joint it in the first place.

-Faction Warfare is in lowsec.
-Piracy is in lowsec.
-Faction Warfare players fight pirates. (Often more than they fight

Therefore, not being able to dock puts FW players at a disadvantage against pirates.
Therefore, there is a new incentive to leave faction warfare to be better at PvP.

But in nullsec you can't just leave your alliance and instantly gain access to enemy stations. The problem is that it creates an incentive to leave militias.

No, that's absolutely ridiculous.

That's like saying I'm gonna leave WI. because I cannot dock in Raiden.'s or IRC's stations, or that I would choose not to move to 0.0 in the first place because of that 'limitation'.

so have the faction police, who CAN be defeated, spawn if prates attack you.

It's not the same, because leaving WI wouldn't let you dock in Raiden's stations, so that incentive isn't actually there.

The real problem is that CCP are trying to increase the number of people who join FW, but implementing mechanics like this does provide an incentive to leave it.

So quitg FW suddenly increases your standings to the point you can dock with thier stations?

you would have t grind like NUTS to get into the ammar FW systems even when your NOT IN FW, becuase while in FW, your standings with ammar tanked.

... but the FW police would kill solo piracy in FW space. And to me, that would be a GOOD THING.

We need to increase the stuff you can do in the sandbox, not decrease it.
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if you're in a warzone and you need to get out of the fight, do you go into a hostile controlled area and ask if you can take a quick rest? No, they would shoot you on site and never allow you in. How does that not make sense to people?

Being able to dock in stations belonging to a Faction that really hate you is also stupid. The way stations are totally randomly distributed over all Factions is also stupid.

You might have a point if Caldari space was filled with exclusively Caldari stations, but it isn't. There are Minmatar and Gallente stations in those systems. Factions that are actually at war with the owners of the space they occupy. The fanfest proposals would apply to the, too.

Not that it would matter, since it's not about some loose sense of consistency with the lore. It's about game design that encourages people to play the game like the developers want them to. In this case they want people to join FW but are introducing disadvantages for doing so.

It's problematic to simply say that they have been "occupied", because then why would they still have the original faction's agents, sentry guns, standings and LP stores?