Aero, I wouldn't called it organisation and Amarr patriotism. It's just, like me, they want the Amarr proto logi suit reward. Amarr simply had more people specifically choosing their faction as sole preference.

And really, what I'm saying is I'm disatisfied that the FW pendulum is swing much mroe strongly by mere participation of numbers and only very weakly by skill, or organisation.

After all, how are we supposed to gather more people to the cause in Dust? There are almost zero community tools. And as an FPS, I'd much rather that it was about the quality of the fights and not the quantity of the mercs.

FW should be personal and not a game to play with your corp or alliance, if you are in a normal corp with members of every race.
But there are some roleplaying corps like PIE, that is a legitimate FW corp for example, i've always seen only amarr in their corp.
There should be some kind of system to reward your loyality to a race, like the corp and alliance chat channel, there should be a Faction channel.

Also, there should not be other events to play only in FW, they are breaking the metagame, most of people just think about their own interest instead of their race and don't care about the districts flip.
Scrambler would have been much more useful for me, but i will never play for amarr.

Zerg doesnt matter when its 16v16

If you cant beat the 16 in front you wont win

Interesting.

I wonder if this is working as intended? Once you get down to a small number of districts it seems like it wouldn't take that many people to overflow the number of places to defend.

Did you even read the post, or did you just completely fail to comprehend what was being said?
This is about overall district control and mechanics, not the actual matches themselves.

@OP - Does it still generate more attacks for the Amarr even if there aren't enough Minmatar players to fill the defence slots?
Would this lead directly to a numerical advantage/disadvantage in the actual match itself?

This is a pretty significant flaw in the district system it seems. I'll post here again later - I'm going to try and dig up some FoxFour posts on the district system.

Zerg doesnt matter when its 16v16

If you cant beat the 16 in front you wont win

So it occurs to me that Dust FW literally boils down to the zerg: whichever side is more popular is the side which earns all the districts. Being ~equal in popularity results in zero net movement.

You can have 1000 players for gallente vs 16players for caldari

If 1 match can only spawn the 16 caldari could beat all the gallente over time, they may have more players but if each gallente team cannot beat the 16 in front of them what can they do?

Zerg doesnt matter

Unless it spawns more battles without sufficient resistance against the Gallente.
I have experienced matches where there aren't full teams in FW for much of the match.

You can have 1000 players for gallente vs 16players for caldari

If 1 match can only spawn the 16 caldari could beat all the gallente over time, they may have more players but if each gallente team cannot beat the 16 in front of them what can they do?

Zerg doesnt matter

Technically you are correct in the exact scenario you spell out, however in reality there are plenty of people who multiqueue for all factions and therefore 'fill the gaps' as it were. You'll find the 1000 get more than a single fight - they get to fight unorganised randoms who don't care which faction they fight for - and don't even play together in squads for the most part.

So it occurs to me that Dust FW literally boils down to the zerg: whichever side is more popular is the side which earns all the districts. Being ~equal in popularity results in zero net movement.

Last week Amarr were down to 5 districts and now we own practically everything. It wasn't a sudden upsurge in quality, but of quantity because of the FW event. This meant that we filled all the defence contracts and starting raising attacked contracts of our own. Even if you assume an even number of losses and wins you'll find that once you've got more attacks going than defences this results in an inevitable increase in districts.

So all being good and organised can do is temporarily stem the flow. It's like trying to push water from one end of the bath to the other and keep it there - it'll all just immediately flow right back. Only by having more guys fighting for you will actually TILT the entire bath and result in any change.

Maybe this is just how FW is SUPPOSED to work, but I'd really prefer it work differently and rewarded skill and organisation [at the Faction level]. Does anyone else agree that this is completely unsatisfying?

Not seeing much of a point to go into FW battles if I'm gonna lose every time cuz the Amarr side always has a squad from a corp or two mixed squads communicating with each other and having no organized squads on my side ( Minmitar).

THEN ORGANIZE THEM YOURSELF.

Gods above its not all that hard. Make a channel, reside in that channel, invite core Minnie FWers to said channel, let word spread of your actions amongst the Minmatar and Amarr Militias....

Channel Grows, good players come, you have your fighting force.

As I have said before. Minmatar Militias are lazy FWers.