This is a pretty interesting topic, I can only talk from my experience but when I play FW with my corp we win I would say more than 90% of our battles for minmatar in our time zone (Aus), so to me it really does feel like were winning all the time. However you do raise an interesting point in that because you don't have many districts anymore anything you do take back is instantly swarmed and lost because there are so few targets for us to attack so your basically stuck.

Im gunna go with option 2

Wait, I thought that other guy from your corp (I forget his name) was saying not too long ago that he wants more players to step up to the challenge of winning more minmatar battles as he keeps dominating the minmatar...?

I'm confused.

That was the whole reason we even started FW and now we do it almost exclusively

Bloody American time zone letting us down jks jks, I don't think I have ever seen PIE inc in game before, maybe I need to do a 24 hour seesion My eyes may fall out of my head but the games will be worth it

I'm curious, who are the most active faction warfare corps and who do they fight for? I barely touch it so have no idea. This might also help answer the OPs question, if it turns out there are loads of corps fighting for Min/Gal. So far we have:

PIE inc - Amarr
Science for Death - Minmatar

I agree, I did an amarr contract. Got into a half finished match. Want to know were my team was? In our redline trying to figure out wich side of a gun the bullet comes out of.

I went to work, captured a cannon, destroyed some protos using a MLT scout and some RE.

Seriously though, matchmaking for FW needs to be looked at.

Well if you think about it, the average FPS player who has no knowledge of the EVE Universe whatsoever will probably support the Minmatar or Gallente. Those ideals of strength, rebellion and freedom simply appeal to someone who just wants to shoot people.

As opposed to the corporate, industrial Caldari which no one cares about in DUST because everything is bought from an NPC store at the moment, and the Amarr who're probably shallowly interpreted as religious fanatics by those with a narrow view of the lore and at best, slavemasters. The first thing I personally learnt about the Amarr, and I'm sure this applies to many new members of CCP's universe, is that they had took the Minmatar as slaves, and I was opposed already.

Obviously, this is not the full picture. But first impressions count, and that's what I got, and that's most likely what another average player felt.

Is this an invite?

I have to say that I did consider joining PIE before joining my current Corporation. I didn't apply because, although I am loyal to Amarr and love it's suits and weapons, and I even like the RP aspect of your corp (that's why I stick in PIE Public even with the Ground Deployment Channel), although all that, I couldn't part away from my SMG. Simple as that, I just couldn't.

It's already too intensive to aim with the Scrambler Rifle at medium ranges, if I also had to use a precision gun at short range, with no bonus to armor damage on top of it, I would go nuts. It's just so relaxing to swap to a SMG and melt people in close quarters that I couldn't give it up.

To contribute a little to the question at hand though, I will tell you my experience when I play alone in FW for Amarr. I lose pretty much every time. I do finish in 1st way more often than not but it simply isn't enough to carry the whole match. Sometimes it's clear that there is an organized squad at the other side. Other times it just feels that the Minmatar side is overall less stupid. Evidence is inconclusive but it's such a pain to play alone that I'm hardly willing to go back there again to gather more "data" (and by data I mean bullets and explosives from all sides and not a hint of support from the team).

You're darned tootin' we are.

Especially when I'm playing.


Munch

I mean it is odd. Many of the matches PIE Ground Deployment squad enter end with EVE support and the win, yet we never gain ground.

Sadly I feel there are only 30ish players who actively make a difference to Amarr FW.

The FW map is all determining how it looks on EVE. Even if amarr had won 100% of every FW match in the past 3 months and the EVE side of Amarr FW did nothing that map would look the same.

The thing that Dust does is make it easier for the EVE players to take systems.

The indoctrination runs deep in this one. But since he's been granted immortality, he may have time to see through the lies and adopt a life that has conscious meaning.

Until them we'll just keep putting him down. I like to think of it as tough love.

The good news is all you will need is a simple 10 minute lock but on the district. Though they will likely have to reset the planets now :-(

You can blame matchmaking or farming or whatever you like. The fact is that Amarr and Caldari lost, and will continue to lose because those factions are unpopular -Not because the game treats them unfairly.

Pretty much a combination of 1 and 3.

Gallente and Minmatar had some more skilled players, took almost all the districts, and now are having an easier time keeping it like that. We basically don't do any matchmaking on FW matches, think of them as being for more veteran players.

We do have... some changes coming to FW in the more near future that should hopefully help balance this out. :)

Only read the first page of this thread but would like to point out in case no one has stepped up and said it already:

The Covert Intervention alliance has just finished a month long FW campaign for Gallente in both EVE and DUST.

Our alliance supports Gallente in EVE and so this carries over to all corporations in DUST (although I have seen some members ignoring this obligation). Throughout this FW campaign and even outside of it we try to q-sync as much as possible and near enough always win.

If you are still adding to that list you can find 13 for Gallente >here<

+1

The moment I heard "slaves" I was turned away from the Amarr.

It's not just dust and eve, that happens everywhere. And people do it because it's easy. You don't need to think about your race's background or some lore somebody else made up. You can just be yourself. It's pretty simple.

So I have authority issues.

I like how you accuse someone else of domestic violence when you beat your slaves.

I didn't assume anything. None of these races are great enough to reflect me. They all have flaws unlike me. But the minmatar are the closest to reflecting me.

And please, stop judging other people for overlooking their race's flaws. Especially when you devote so much effort on overlooking the Amarr's flaws. You want everyone to acknowledge their own faults but ignore yours.

So all your meaningless gripes will be nothing more then lost concerns that hold little weight within the grand design which is Dust 514.

2. EVE based support however much better than regular OB support does not make enough difference to encourage players to go out of their way to aid the ground troops nor make a massive difference to ground Ops.

Yeah but it our issue now. Regardless of the system being broken we proved CCP wrong and did end up unbreaking the system

That is exactly how we talk.

"Oh Aero I do say have you read that new novelisation of the Scriptures yet, it is ever such good reading my dear man."
"Why no Adamance I have not yet, I was busy last weekend on the Estate with Lord Admiral Gavin, you see, such a fine man, making a right royal game of Wickets"
"Oh sir I do protest to your weekend debaucheries with Lord Gavin, those iced teas and Gallentean post cards with corrupt your souls."

Ok

The main point was District Selection, did that register at all with you guys (in all seriousness)?

Secondly, Angel Eyes was a bad guy

That was definitely a TT-3 Assault Pistol right there.