When I first seen it say it will take 2minutes to get into a FW I pooped my self. Good thing you posted this or there would have been a lot of QQ

Have the war barge time increased, or is it only the waiting time in quaters?
I.e, will we have more time to contact our EVE buddies of where we fight?

- Waiting times will be different for different factions.

Warbarge times are the same however you will more likely be getting in to the warbarge right at the start of the countdown so effectively you should get more time to organize the orbital support.

I don't think this does anything to change the fact that FW matchmaking by default makes one faction inevitably control 100% of the territory.

I'd like that to be looked at too.

We need to be able to see the District we're fighting on in the warbarge. Or let us link our location with a chatcommand like /loc to the Eve players.

I don't think this does anything to change the fact that FW matchmaking by default makes one faction inevitably control 100% of the territory.

I'd like that to be looked at too.

There are some subtle changes to the way it constructs matches which I expect will fix this problem too. That is unless 1 faction is just better all of the time in which case they deserve full control.

Any idea on when i know aero and true will want to test this their both sick to death of winning loads of battles only for it to mean jack

It doesn't do that by default.


Fixing the scotty errors? At last? <3 you Nullarbor.

Warbarge times are the same however you will more likely be getting in to the warbarge right at the start of the countdown so effectively you should get more time to organize the orbital support.

We need to be able to see the District we're fighting on in the warbarge. Or let us link our location with a chatcommand like /loc to the Eve players.

Up until now, it's just a game of numbers.

X faction has more players playing for it, X faction continuously reaches closer to 100%.

When CCP launched that special FW event where Caldari and Amarr had the most sought after rewards, we saw the same pattern. More people played for those 2 factions, the result was both Caldari and Amarr reached very close to 100% throughout the event.

When the event finished, everyone went back to play for their favorite faction and soon enough Gallente and Minmatar were once again closing to 100% control.

So to me it seems that by default the system results in complete domination by one side with just one factor deciding which faction it is: the number of players.

So far that's what is happening. Take a look at the graphic shown at the end of a FW battle. I'm Gallente and every system i fight on, the graphic shows a straight line at 100% with spikes going down to 80% or maybe a bit more if it's a planet with few districts and then shooting back up to 100% pretty much straight away. The faction that is being dominated stand no chance of coming back through skill on the battlefield, only through a mass transfer of players from the opposite faction, such as in the FW event.

Anyway, i hope the slight changes will produce some results.

These changes were deployed at downtime today.

A small PSA since I suspect there may be some questions about this. We updated the matchmaking for faction warfare today and you should notice a couple of things:

- The battles will be full (mostly), we are putting more emphasis on these being a full scale balanced fight of 16v16
- Waiting times will be longer, especially around downtime when there are not a lot of players on.
- Waiting times will be different for different factions.
- The estimated time shown on the battle finder should be more accurate and takes into account which faction you are queuing for.
- Hopefully no more Scotty errors and endless spamming of the join queue button. If you hit queue you will eventually get in, unless there are not a lot of people playing and you've been queued for more than 10 minutes.
- We are giving priority to squads because they are generally harder to fit in to public contracts. We also want faction warfare to be pretty competitive so squads should be right at home here.

If you have any feedback on how its working out please leave it in this thread.

Thanks!

Does this mean squads are more often teamed up against other squads?

THIS! THIS! THIS! I cannot say it enough times, THIS!

Right now in DUST our LOCAL Chat channel NEVER changes. That is because, effectively, our mercs NEVER leave their quarters even when doing matches. So from the moment you created your toon, whatever NPC starting corp you were in determines where you spend the rest of your existence... forever.

Now if the mercs could at least change their Local Chat when deploying (on the warbarge) or deployed (on the planet) then it would be possible to not only show up on the local for the EVE guys to see (thus cluing them in on DUST battles going on) but it would also mean the DUST guys could SEE the pilots in space in the local chat, recognize if one of them is a FW support pilot that happens to be hanging out there, and then request them to support the ground fight!

Common CCP, this is a logical next step and it NEEDS to happen to further bridge the gap between the two games!

EDIT: While the one guy on the match selection screen gets to see the district location (for all of 2 seconds) prior to the match start, no one else does. While on the warbarge there is NOTHING ANYWHERE telling where you are about to fight, so this "extra time" to call for OS support is not really there. If you changed our local we could at least tell pilot what system we were in. If you displayed the region, constellation, solar system, planet, and district on the player list while on the warbarge, that would be even more helpful. Little common sense things like this being missing really hurt the process of play more than you can imagine.

A small PSA since I suspect there may be some questions about this. We updated the matchmaking for faction warfare today and you should notice a couple of things:

- The battles will be full (mostly), we are putting more emphasis on these being a full scale balanced fight of 16v16
- Waiting times will be longer, especially around downtime when there are not a lot of players on.
- Waiting times will be different for different factions.
- The estimated time shown on the battle finder should be more accurate and takes into account which faction you are queuing for.
- Hopefully no more Scotty errors and endless spamming of the join queue button. If you hit queue you will eventually get in, unless there are not a lot of people playing and you've been queued for more than 10 minutes.
- We are giving priority to squads because they are generally harder to fit in to public contracts. We also want faction warfare to be pretty competitive so squads should be right at home here.

If you have any feedback on how its working out please leave it in this thread.

Thanks!