It's a cool idea no doubt, but the problem with this in my opinion is it makes the individual matches too long and gives the players no convenient opportunity to leave. I know some of us can have massive gaming sessions, but not everyone always has that much time. To me, it is important that individual matches still last about the same length.

Again, just my opinion.

Actually, that is an amazing point in favor of having these breaks. In this scenario, you're going to be playing against relatively the same people each match. So why not give you an opportunity to make fits based on what you learned about the enemy?

I don't actually "laugh out loud" often when reading, but this cracked me up.

I am going to get the addresses of all my regular squad mates and order them nicely packed orange slices for the breaks!

Yes, that was exactly the foundation for my brainstorming: "How can CCP make Dust FW infinitely better without needing to actually create anything new?"

Well, if it's better to have breaks in between matches, then fine by me. I just threw in my suggestion to see if others like it.

Still hours for one district if it goes back and forth

Player corps do somewhat have territory in FW, they base out of certain systems, which effectively become home systems, I don't see why Dusters cannot make use of Militia constructed facilities in those systems.

But Aero's point stands, its using in game content in a new way, to make the battles much more dynamic.

The only issue I see with it is who will stay for 3+ Matches when they are redlining to opposite team every time.

I donGÇÖt see a problem with a battle for a district taking hours or even days, as long as the individual matches are the normal length. Players can rotate in and out of the conflict as their time allows. You could wake up the next day and check your star map to see how the battle went after you logged off.

The battle for a planet might take days or even weeks. With that train idea, once a district is conquered the battle moves to the adjacent district, and then the next until that planet is taken, but if the attackers are pushed out of the next district, than it goes back to the previous district and the side that lost it the first time become the attackers.

If a full planet is taken it should be locked until some condition is met, possibly in EVE, causing the side that lost the planet to counter attack. Meanwhile the same thing would be happening on other planets.

It would be a real never ending war, with each battle having a meaningful impact in both games

Hey guys,

I just wanted to let you know that we have been reading this thread and staying on top of it. The discussion is really very good. Right now though we are focused on getting the current iteration of factional contracts out the door, iterating on it after launch, and then a laundry list of other things we need to get done.

We have been have serious discussion internally however about how we slow down the flipping of districts and this thread along with what you guys have been talking about has come up often. So please keep the discussion going and I apologize for the lack of dev response, as I said we are just trying to stay focused on our current goals. :)

I think this is possibly where FW could go. AeroGÇÖs idea is something that can be implemented with what we have today, but would also fit very well into any number of advanced scenarios that could be developed later.

They are talking about having EVE pilots fly the War Barge to the planet and anchor over the district to start PC battles in Planetary Conquest 2.0. They could easily adapt that to allow EVE players to start district battles in FW in this manner. Then EVE/DUST Alliances that specialize in FW can do as you suggest and plan their attacks at the meta level.

I do think that Team Deploy is part of the puzzle and could really add a lot to Faction Warfare. On the matter of district size you would think that 6 v 6 may help against less organized teams but it can have the opposite effect at times allowing a larger force to actually cover more ground. Maybe the smaller fights happen alongside the main district conflict?

The District battles will eventually end. If two sides are balanced it may go on for a while, but as players leave and new players join the battle the balance will change. It would require a great deal of cooperation and coordination to have a battle last days. Players on both sides would have to cooperate to drag it out.

+1

corporate and factional warfare should be the core of this game

Fair. I just had to throw that one out since I am feeling really good about the fact that the DEVs are watching this thread.

AS for the ideas, I think it is time to compile a listing of those initial features we are looking at presenting with it working down to the more advanced ones that can be implemented after the basic structure is inserted.

We have created quiet the mountain for the DEVS to sort through and climb. IF we are going to get this implemented, WE should take the initiative to sort through the content presented and create something that the DEVs can actually work with, i.e., a road map of sorts. If we can do that, what it will do is shine the light on specific features and the DEVGÇÖs would have an easier time of identifying the means of coding and getting them out to us that much faster since a mass majority of the work in conceiving the scaffolding is just waiting to be assembled. No cut pile necessary in carpenter like analogies.

It is almost a prefab house. Pick up the pieces and put them together. Fine tuning being of an absolute necessity, but the major lifting that is conceptualizing the building is done. Also this thing we call being recognized for the mass amounts of brain power that we are putting to work or the only payout as being the enjoyment of this game and the escape from our own existences for portions of our existence.

I will start to work on one version, if I can get Booker, Aero (but of course the OP) and all of the other major contributors to do the same. Then we could at least arrange a time to meet online in squad and talk this over on coms or something of the like.

What do you think?