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.

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

Oh hey, Science for Death. We did face you one time last night, and did beat you pretty handily if I do recall correctly

Ok, ok, let's not turn this into a smack talk thread. Stay on topic people! However, since I did take a jab at you I will allow you one as well

wait for faction rewards... lasers... lasers EVERYWHERE!!!!

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

When you look at the star map in Dust and switch to the faction warfare tab, what you are looking at is who controls the districts Dust-side. Something some of you may have noticed since Uprising 1.4 hit is that the Minmatar and Gallente have held over 99% of the districts for what is now nearly a month.

Before I continue, let me get the elephant out of the room. Yes, I'm a known Amarr supporter. Please do not take this as me making excuses for the Amarr doing poorly in holding districts. I simply want to discuss this topic with an open mind, so please leave all snide comments at the door.

So, many people are playing FW near exclusively now. And by most accounts I have seen, whenever you play you seem to win practically every time, regardless for which faction you support. So assuming that both sides of the affair have a roughly equal number of corporations supporting them, which seems to be the case, then it must come down to the random blueberries who fight for on our behalf when we are not there. However, does it seem logical to assume that these blueberries are winning 99% of the time while on the Minmatar or Gallente side?

I've been discussing this with some people and here's a few theories we came up with, though of course with no way to prove them:

1) A dev said something around the launch of 1.4 that they were afraid Minmatar and Gallente FW matchmaking may get broken because they have no districts to attack. So this may imply that each faction is constantly pushing out contracts to attack other districts, and then the other matching that contract with a defense. So if the number of say Amarr or Caldari attack contracts are equal to the number of Minmatar or Gallente attack contracts, with so little districts for the Minmatar or Gallente to attack they will constantly be attacking the same district until it flips over, and as soon as the Amarr or Caldari gain a new district it will be relentlessly attacked until they lose it again. So it's not so much a case of the Minmatar and Gallente winning 99% of all battles, but the Amarr and Caldari simply stuck in a hole.

2) The matchmaking looks at various qualifications for who attacks and defends, taking the higher skill point players to do attacks while the lower skill point players defend. This would result in the Amarr and Caldari gaining districts, but unable to hold them for any length of time. I do notice that every time my squad takes over a district, usually within 20 to 40 minutes (1 to 2 matches) it is lost again, and that my squad almost never gets defense contracts.

3) Amarr and Caldari random bluedots are simply scrubs while Minmatar and Gallente random bluedots are actually intelligent.

Or maybe it's none of these. I'm not sure. Though I do think it would be appropriate for CCP to do a small investigation on the matter, even something as simply as looking at which side is winning what percent of the battles and relating that to the ownership percent of the districts. I know some say it doesn't really matter, but Dust-side control of FW districts does impact EVE to an extent.

Again, I am not trying to make excuses for my preferred factions status in FW, I am simply suggesting that with a mode controlled by random teaming, it is a bit suspicious that one side can hold control of over 99% of districts for so many consecutive days. If there is some proof given out that Minmatar and Gallente really are winning 99% of all FW battles then I will accept that.

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.

Definitely agree that first impressions are a big deal and that a lot of people read Amarr and slavery and instantly hate them, even though they are not quite the bad guys first impressions would lead you to believe. Of course PIE is working on a way to better inform new Dusters on who the Amarr are before they make up their minds, because people like you are already pretty locked in your belief against Amarr which is totally fine!

Still, there are plenty of players supporting all sides so I would not suspect this to be the root of the problem in FW.

Definitely agree that first impressions are a big deal and that a lot of people read Amarr and slavery and instantly hate them, even though they are not quite the bad guys first impressions would lead you to believe. Of course PIE is working on a way to better inform new Dusters on who the Amarr are before they make up their minds, because people like you are already pretty locked in your belief against Amarr which is totally fine!

Still, there are plenty of players supporting all sides so I would not suspect this to be the root of the problem in FW.