Well, if this is implemented in the way outlined here, it'll be one step forward and about ten steps back.

I'm so tired of seeing so many blatant issues with every single new feature added that I don't even feel like it's worth my time explaining why this stuff is so bad anymore. This might just be the last straw for me. I can only watch this dev team blunder and stumble for so long, it's just painful to watch... almost as painful as actually playing Dust 514 is at this point.

DUST players targeting specific systems is something we are looking into, but will not make it for this iteration.

They've arrived! Needless to say I'll have a lot to say about these changes, I'm going to likely throw them up on my blog. We saw them posted internally only briefly before they went public, and I've been so busy putting out various fires the last couple days I haven't sat down and processed it all yet, but I'm quickly catching up! FoxFour and I have talked about this stuff for a while now though, so the general idea here is no surprise.

FW peeps - I'll give the disclaimer now. Yes, I'm the FW expert and worked heavily on the EVE-side FW changes last year as part of the CSM. I fight for Minmatar almost exclusively, and will be doing so in the days ahead. No, I don't care about the fact that you feel feature _________ favors the _________ militia, I've had my fill of those ******** arguments and I wont waste my time with them this time around. If you want to obnoxiously badger me because you think I'm trying to game the system for Minmatar or whatever I'm prolly just going to ignore you. The rules affect all miltiias, if they hurt one day they'll be hurting your enemy the next.

Likewise, because I have such a long history with FW - I'm usually the last person to buy in to the "BUT ___________ IS GOING TO DESTROY FW AND END THE FIGHTING!!" arguments. You can win me over, but its tough as nails. I've heard them all, and 95% of the "serious issues" I was warned about last year never materialized when people actually got out and used the system. I'm notorious for disappointing FW people because of this, and not taking your pet issue seriously enough for you to be satisfied.....but I look at the big picture, and the long haul. Data comes in over MONTHS that determines whether these systems are elastic enough or not, if you've decided in the first 2 weeks that the system is broken cause your faction isn't coming back I'm prolly going to just tell you to fight harder. I've literally seen it all and heard it all in the last few years and I am extremely resistant to hyperbole. I can be swayed.....but it takes a lot of hard evidence, and a fair amount of time.

My feedback for CCP will be informed by this experience, of course. I'm much less likely to be alarmed about some features because I understand that they are unpredictable and need to be released into the wild to see what players do with them before coming to conclusions, and FW is nothing that any designer can simulate or test in-house the way they can a rifle. Don't be shocked if you hear me say "we'll see" a whole helluvalot.

I also want to bump my newly created Dust Scussion channels. I'll be moderating a Skype chat on Faction Warfare, anyone is welcome to join, but I will ruthlessly boot people who are being disruptive. I look forward to getting to know more of you that are excited for and/or actively fighting for the militias regularly!

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Well yeah, that's why I said:

"I'm so tired of seeing so many blatant issues with every single new feature added that I don't even feel like it's worth my time explaining why this stuff is so bad anymore."

I'm done wasting my time trying to explain why the dev team is terrible, I will now commence with simply stating that they are in fact terrible.

This is a good point and something we have discussed already. Whether we should be tracking kills, damage done or maybe ISK destroyed. Kills are simple for now in that they can also be forgiven and are easy to track and explain to players.

Flux grenading your whole team just before a big skirmish is pretty lame though, so we'll keep chewing on that problem.

We will have a forgive option to cover accidental where the victim agrees it was an accident. I kinda like the suggestion about no TK penalty for squad mates as well. Will discuss that with the team.

Not rewarding players with ISK for participating in faction warfare means that it will be impossible to have a faction warfare only corp. Unless they buy Aurum Gear only of course.

You can't transfer funds between games.