Also just thought about a small issue to work around: What if the trains crash? Like say one train the defenders keep winning the initial Ambush and catch up to another train? I think in this case you could probably just reset the train in a new location as if it were a new train being added.

And I'm not going to keep putting quotes around "train." I think everybody understands I am speaking figuratively, these are not really trains zooming around New Eden.

Great idea +1

It's also good to see something like these kinds of threads from time to time other than the usual whining, b!tches threatening to leave but end up staying because nobody cared, and the constant "look at me i have this! i do this!" threads.

I hope they'll implement this..

A contested district would have to be marked as either about to start, indicating the overall fight hasn't started yet or contested, medicating that the match is somewhere in progress, or even better mark them according to stages. This way people would be able to organize going into matches with squads better, allowing for some more organist ion. All we need added to this now is to be able to select the district we want to start on specifically.

How long will the district be locked for?

Faction Warfare right now has some flaws and CCP is addressing some flaws with the recent changes, mainly adding rewards. But even after these changes, faction warfare will still lack a sense of progression and EVE players trying to give support to their Dust players will still end up getting ping-ponged across New Eden. So why not knock out two birds with one stone?

Part of the progression issue is that it seems odd that a 15 minute skirmish is all that decides the outcome of a district. Instead of making the battles longer, I propose the following.

Say the Imperial Guard is attacking a district owned by the Republic Command. The battle will proceed as follows:

1. Ambush. The attackers are trying to gain a foothold in the district. If the defenders win, then the district is successfully defended and temporarily locked up. If the attackers win, proceed to case (2).
2. Ambush OMS. The attackers gained some ground and opened up the battlefield to off map support. If the defenders win, return to case (1). If the attackers win, proceed to case (3).
3. Skirmish. The attackers have made their presence known and are trying to seize as much territory as possible. If the defenders win, return to case (2). If the attackers win, proceed to case (4).
4. Domination. The attackers are going in for the finishing blow on the critical objective. If the defenders win, return to case (3). If the attackers win, the district is successfully captured and temporarily locked up.

Here is a flow chart by everyone's favorite cat to help you visualize this,
http://i.imgur.com/fnaa7RI.png
EDIT: It came to my attention that a mod may mistake me for a Cat Merc alt. Obviously this is not the case, he simply helped me in collaboration of this idea over skype.

Each battle would happen on the same mega terrain, but would use different maps and moods as you are moving to different portions of the district (perhaps rotating moods between matches to give the illusion of a day/night cycle). After each map, players will be returned to the warbarge where they wait about 5 minutes for the next stage of the battle to happen. If players leave, new players queued for FW will replace them. Bonus rewards for players who stick from the beginning of the battle to the end if successful. This would also help solve the case of EVE players ping-ponging across the warzone, as they would spend more time sticking around the planet then flying several jumps to the next one.

Additionally, imagine you take all the districts that the Amarr and Minmatar fight over for example and string them together to form this circular track such that one district leads to the next nearby district and so on and so forth until the last district leads back to the first district. Now imagine you are on a GÇ£trainGÇ¥ following this track. Once the district you are fighting on gets GÇ£locked,GÇ¥ you advanced along the track to the next district. This will give an even deeper sense of progression for the Dust players as well as further help in keeping the EVE players localized. To accomodate for the large player base, new GÇ£trainsGÇ¥ will be created to follow this same track but be evenly spaced out. Also in this case, the district wouldnGÇÖt actually need to be GÇ£locked,GÇ¥ instead it simply wouldnGÇÖt be attacked again until the next GÇ£trainGÇ¥ arrives.

And even better, CCP wouldnGÇÖt have to create anything new as this uses entirely existing resources.

Zion

Who is Zion?

Domination is a god awful game mode and should not ever be used for anything official under any circumstances.

It is the single most ridiculous meat grinder this game has to offer and there is zero strategy whatsoever.

Yeah dude, not cool.

Domination is a god awful game mode and should not ever be used for anything official under any circumstances.

It is the single most ridiculous meat grinder this game has to offer and there is zero strategy whatsoever.

If you really want you could add an ambush in their somewhere, but what I think you should do is turn these 3 stages almost into 1 large battle!

Break each bit up as normal but give every merc in the previous battle, the chance to renew their contract to automatically take part in the next stage!

Ah ha. I think I will do some research into just who you are Aero Yassavi. I think I have you previous character finally figured out!

That is already what's happening. It's one large battle, but there's breaks in between as usual and if you don't leave you automatically get placed in the next stage.

Don't ignore me Aero, I'm getting close I know it!

I'll give you a hint: Sometime this week you did acquire a key bit of info to help you on your path, but it was not today.

Well IWS, the "tug of war" thing is actually how I described this, or tried to describe it at least. You keep going through this cycle until one team satisfies the winning conditions, then you repeat the cycle on the next district on the train track.

And would we really need to wait until more game modes are in? Wouldn't it be possible to implement this with the current game modes, then as new game modes are added CCP can simply append them into the tug of war?

This week had to have meant yesterday, but we only played a single match together....