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).

K I'll check it out later Cyrius

Same here

Yes the amarr bounes were good, I thought the caldari's was better but to each his own. This is incentive to fight and win for a faction, something that Would be really good to have for FW. If we gained loyalty points for fighting and wining battles and can spend them on FW goodies like state protectorate suits and the like.

From what I understand the amarr did a good job at recognising a potential boost in recruits and acted on it with good organization and recruitment. Sure there may not be a lot of 'fps' skill involved with co-ordinating corporations, but one of the collest things about this universe is the politics, and that's a skill in its own.

If anything I think this has set the bar on how FW teams need to be organize. This should serve as a wake up call for people to get their acts together and get all the assets they can before searching for a contract.
I tip my hat to the amarr

You have a point, but whats not being talked about is people switching sides simply because amarr has the momentum. No one likes to loose and there is nothing to keep players loyal to one particular faction. People are changing sides simply because the amarr are winning. Players will always take the easiest road to isk and WP/SP.

You don't have to be Amarr to fight for Amarr, Templar 1 was Caldari.

I've been told FW doesn't affect anything in EVE by a long time EVE pilot himself. What's the point in fighting anyway? The only thing I can think of, really, is the standings for your Alliance, and those things can be worked around.

Hey BRO I don't know much about EVE, still a noob player (my own corp mate attacked me >_< but then I got his stuff :D) so I'm just going along what I've been told. Do you have it out for me or something? :'(

The problem, as Aero pointed out on the first page, is that each side attacks equally. I would suggest that attacks happen at a certain rate in each of the two wars, a district is chosen at random (either M/A or G/C), and then who's attacking and who's defending is based on who owns the district. It's a way to approximate that the more districts you own the more you'll end up defending. There's almost certainly a better way to do it, but at least this way should be relatively even-handed.

As for what I'd like to see, it would be nice to see more intent in FW. Right now it's random. Whether a planet is owned has consequences EVE-side, but it makes no sense to coordinate with EVE because we can't choose where to attack. I'm not sure how this gets done in the interface or balanced out in terms of availability vs. complexity, but it sure would be nice.