Okay, I warned you guys that if you did anything like this, then it was exploitable back when you first announced the FW changes last month. And you went and did it anyways. *faceplam*

So here's the issue. If you win a FW match you gain 75 standing and loose 15 standing, but if you loose a FW match, you gain 0 standing and loose 0 standing. However in BOTH CASES you still earn LPs for that faction!!!!

HELLO, this not only encourages AFK'ers to soak up LPs, but it means that if you are a HIGH STANDING member of the opposite faction, but you want the loyalty store equipment of the other faction, then you want to join their side AND MAKE SURE THEY LOOSE so that you also don't loose any of your good standing.

Let me give you a more concrete example so that you understand it more fully.

Assume I have level 10 faction standing with the Caldari State. I however also like the tanks provided by the Federal Guard (Gallente) way better than the ones that the Caldari State is giving me. But I don't want to jeopardize my level 10 standing with the Caldari State. So I join into Gallente matches and do my best to sabotage and otherwise make them (the Gallente side that I am also on) loose the match. If the Gallente win, I loose 15 standing with the Caldari and I don't want that, but if the Gallente loose, then I loose NO standing to the Caldari and I succeed in earning LPs for the Gallente towards getting one of their tanks.

Now if this is your intent all along to make people want to become AWOX'ers in DUST, the bravo you just did it and are probably the source of all the complaints about how unbalanced a lot of the FW matches are right now.

However if that was NOT your intent, then you need to do the following:

Win at FW = +75 standing and -15 standing for other side
Loose at FW = +25 standing and -5 standing for other side

This will not only encourage people to stop AWOX'ing for LPs, but it will also give a consolation to the losers so that they will continue to play FW or else we'll be stuck listening to Scotty bitching all the time due to inability to match us up against anyone.