I think everybody has noticed by now that Caldari and Amarr don't really have a chance to win, and it seems that it will be getting worse and worse for them? Why? Because they don't win and get killed often in the process of the losing. This will cause Caldari and Amarr players to only use Militia or Standard gear at best. because they're going to lose it anyways. Gallente and Minmatar on the other hand win most of the matches. So it doesn't hurt them much to pull out the advanced and proto gear. Then of course they win most of their games due to obvious reasons and get their standing faster and earn more LP due to this. This will then allow them to use the specialiced proto gear from the LP store, making them even stronger. So what do we get? Pubstomping Extreme: Proto Teams vs. Militia only teams.

I really like the new faction warfare, but it's really hard to actually have fun with it when I'm going to get stomped 95% of the time. We really need some way to balance this. I mean just look at the stats at the end of the game: The Gallente line is always at 100% and Caldari always at 0%. Pretty sure it looks the same for Minmatar / Amarr. Not really the way it should be. Funny thing is that it's the other way around in space, according to some Gallente pilots I've been talking with. But not even orbitals manage it to change the tide of battle here.

I think there should really be done something about this. Of course you can't tell the better players to fight for the other side. A kind of "solution" I could think of woud be that the "underdog" faction should get some of their suits reimbursed from the NPCs, encouraging them to use better gear. This would make the fights at least a little bit more balanced and also kinda benefit their enemies, because then they will get better loot.

Not really sure if this is that good an idea, but at least something should be done against these extremely unbalanced FW matches.