Its what I said on the title. Faction Warfare isn't anything the players are using or care about, so lets just shut it down for now and bring back Corp Battle Contracts and leave out the FW connection. Just bring back the gambling.

Hold on the balancing for now and lets get some innovations such as the Rogue Drones, Open Market, Corp Roles, Spectator Mode, Arena Build and lets work together to make Dust meaningful to EVE.

Thanx,
Shad

LOL Adamance,

How is it interesting to you bro? Tell me why my suggestion is stupid. Do you play FW in EVE or do you just enjoy the set up of the battles?

Look forward to your reply

Agreed bring back corp battles, but fw needs more reason to fight for a specific race I believe

Absolutely. There should be rewards for loyalty, and those rewards need to be above and beyond what you'd see in pub matches. I strongly believe FW should be fairly hardcore and competitive, but easy to join and get into. It should have the option to team queue (or not), it should have friendly fire enabled, and in doing so create a high-risk, high-reward option for casual play fulfilling the needs of competitive corps that want to squad up and run matches when they're not fighting for planetary conquest districts.

With sufficient enough matches spawning (Yes, I know this is currently a problem - lets just assume it gets fixed for the purposes of this discussion) and sufficient enough reward to attract those that can take on the extra challenge level provided by FW matches - a major side benefit to fixing Faction Warfare is that it will pull a lot of talented, well-equipped, high skill players away from high sec random matches, creating a separate space for them. This not only helps the protostomping issue itself, but it opens the door to options like a "CONCORD ban on experimental technology in Empire space" (in other words, gear restrictions) without removing a readily-available place for players to go use their best gear any time they want to without crushing noobs and hurting new player retention.