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.

I am personally in full favor of making the loss of gear or even clones in Dust more expensive than it currently is. Increase Isk scarcity! Make profitability as necessary yet difficult as you can without negatively impacting playerbase growth.

Make loss hurt! That is such a great driver of intense gameplay and wealth distribution based on skill and complex gameplay. As long as your playerbase is growing then making successful gameplay more closely aligned with playing profitably then you make the economy a viable force.

EVE Orbitals
On my todo list is to add kill mails for OB, LP rewards and improve the locating of battles. We have some rough ideas for a battle finder in EVE to help the FW guys out. Making the district name visible in the war barge should be possible as well. We may do changing local for dust mercs in battle now that local is delayed and not leaking intel. We will very likely allow connected EVE pilots to talk and chat in the team channel.

EVE Orbitals
We have some rough ideas for a battle finder in EVE to help the FW guys out.

I didn't find the salvage rewards when playing PC that appealing, perhaps the quantity and randomization could be tweaked, especially if there will be no ISK for matches. I don't like the idea of having to switch to Public contracts "to make my wages". On the EVE side can't they convert LP to ISK?

Accidental Leak?

but they'll show up in Eve local, which will give a big hint that things are going down somewhere.

Which might be okay, I guess, but i was expecting beacons, not local spikes :)

That's fine, we want to be showing activity in DUST when it happens.

We are more concerned about DUST accounts being used to dig up intel for EVE.

Friendly Fire
I can see us also doing a max TK per battle as well as the standings penalties. That was actually in the original design but we didn't include it in the notes here. I think of all the numbers and mechanics, the friendly fire penalties will be the area that undergoes the most change based on player feedback and just how well it plays out once we go live. We are acutely aware of how important it is to get the FF penalties in pubs correct.

1. Friendly Fire
2. EVE Orbitals
3. [Team Deploy ... missing]
4. [Suicide / Sabotage ... missing]

No ISK
Faction warfare right now will not be a sustainable career on its own. There will be objections to this of course but we are doing it on purpose for some good reasons. There is quite a lot of ISK in dust and not a lot of things to spend the riches on, so items exclusive to FW as well as the progression in FW itself will be the motivation to spend some of that money. When the secondary market comes online (itshappening.gif) faction warfare specialist should be able to maintain it as an exclusive career. The other concern we have though is that faction warfare becomes more profitable in every way, leaving public contracts under populated. We still want to continue working on matchmaking, levels, game modes and rewards for public contracts and with the current dust population having this starved for players would be a negative overall. A healthy dust lifestyle in our mind includes playing a bit of public, FW and PC. This may change as the game grows however and specialising becomes more sustainable.

Please look at this whole post. Who are you to tell us what game modes we should play to be considered having a "healthy lifestyle" in Dust? Isn't this supposed to be a sandbox? Your "good reasons" to remove the ISK penalty is punishing people who only do FW with an ISK sink?

I am part of a corp that has been focused on FW since it was introduced in EVE. This is all we do. Now you're telling me in order to participate in FW I'm going to have to play pub matches for these randomly selected corps like Blood Raiders and Sansha's Nation? And while I'm fighting for these corps, my faction that I truly care about could be losing a district in FW that I otherwise would of been able to defend?

I'm sorry Nullarbor, you're going to have to come up with a lot better reasoning than that. And look, I see your argument of "we still want people playing public matches" and that's great! But you can't FORCE us to play public matches. Why not instead have public matches pay more ISK while FW matches pay less ISK and LP. So basically

Public Matches: Lots of ISK payout, no LP payout
Faction Warfare: Small, but still there, ISK payout. LP payout.

That would give people a reason to play public matches over FW without FORCING people to. FORCE being the key word.

And again, as many have said, I'm fine with the removal of ISK from factional contracts if you gave us another way to make ISK that doesn't take time away that I could be spending defending my faction, like a player market where I can sell LP and salvage. But until then, FORCING us to play public matches is absolutely unacceptable.

Also in terms of team kills, I know there is no way to tell between an intentional TK and an accidental TK, but it really shouldn't matter. If you are TKing at all you are a liability to your team and should be punished (unless of course you are "TKing" someone who has already TKed to defend yourself"). Yeah it will suck for the person who gets too many accidental TKs and gets suspended from his faction for a long length of time, but that will teach him to be more careful.

As I said we expect specialists will exist in the game, but that won't be sustainable until the player market comes online. Until then we're not compromising on our big picture plan, so you'll need to supplement it with pubs / PC / corp income etc

Since when was it a good practice in game development to release something before it was ready? If something won't be sustainable until something else arrives, then it needs to be delayed so they both arrive at the same time. Game development 101. I know you guys are excited about expanding FW as am I, but you can't get ahead of yourselves.

As for supplements, I already made my point on pubs and PC is a terribly exclusive party with how few districts there are. Corp income on the other hand really shouldn't even be listed in my opinion, as right now corps have no way to get income aside from PC, which is already listed, and taxing players, which is through pubs and PC, both already listed. But that does bring up a good question, will corp tax apply to LP as well?