Severus Smith
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.12 15:10:00 -
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I created a thread here that got some nice feedback, I'm posting it below to make sure you see it FoxFour.
Faction Warfare needs some love. Some serious love. When I pitch DUST to my friends they all love the idea behind FW. That winning a match means something. That they just fought and won a battle to take a planet for someone. PC will be the end all of this, but for now FW needs to be the place everything gets worked out. Here are my opinions on what could revitalize Faction Warfare.
1. Standings
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When you fight a match for the Amarr against the Minmatar you should gain standing with the Amarr and lose standing with the Minmatar. Standings are like Reputation in other MMOs.
2. Planets, not Districts
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The Amarr don't want just 1 or 2 districts on Sosala V, they want the entire planet! Instead of us picking one district to fight over, we should pick a planet to fight over. Once selected we are put into FW matches to take the districts of that planet. The matches keep going until the entire planet is taken, or lost. This makes it so that when I log in I can be entertained for hours trying to defend Sosala V from the Minmatar, or conquer Floseswin IV for the Amarr. If the Amarr succeed in defending / conquering the planet I feel successful. This is what my friends who play CoD and BF find awesome, that they can play and take planets for a faction. And unlike PS2, where territory flips hourly, that planet may stay conquered for weeks or months.
3. Contract Levels
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The higher your standings with a faction the better FW contracts you should have access too. There should be level 1, 2, 3 and 4 contracts. The higher the level the higher the standing requirement and the ISK reward. Level 1 contracts would be for planets in non-contested systems (low priority), while level 4 contracts would be for planets in hotly contested systems on the verge of flipping in EVE. Payouts would scale with the level. A level 1 contract may pay roughly 150K base, plus loot on victory. While a level 4 may pay 1.2 million, plus loot on victory.
4. Collateral
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To get into a FW match you must pay in some collateral. This ensures that people don't just join FW matches in crap gear to farm ISK. The collateral is based off of your gear losses. So for a level 1, you pay in 50K as collateral. If, at the end of the match you lost 55K in gear then you get your 50K collateral back. However, if you only lost 40K of gear then you only get 40K of your collateral back (the other 10K is kept). This makes players want to use better gear in FW matches; you are going to lose 50K somehow, it might as well be in gear. It also encourages teamwork, squads, and anything that means victory because you are going to lose at least your collateral in ISK, so to make money you need to win. The contracts payout on victory should be roughly 3x the collateral so that you are essentially doubling your money on a win.
Level 1 = 50K collateral, 150K payout
Level 2 = 100K collateral, 300K payout
Level 3 = 200K collateral, 600K payout
Level 4 = 400K collateral, 1.2M payout
5. Match Connections
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There needs to be some connections between the different matches. I don't know exactly what (this one has been hard) but something that makes me call out to my corpmates who are in another match "Charlie, can you shut that f***ing artillery battery down!? We're getting f***ed over here!" or "Bravo, we're at the gate. How close are you on that hack? We need the door open ASAP." or from EVE "All squads, hostiles just appeared on grid. I need all the Skyfire batteries active now!".
Maybe shield relays that could be taken out in 8 vs 8 Assault matches that help the main force in Skirmish. Or artillery batteries. Or reactors. Or anything...
6. Loyalty Points (LP)
Loyalty points could be rewarded on victory and allow for the purchase of Faction equipment, suits, vehicles, etc. Just like faction modules in EVE these would be stronger than Prototype modules (think current Officer) and thus highly valued. This gives even more incentive to play FW as they are only obtained through winning FW matches and gaining LP. |