I posted this on another thread. But it seems appropriate here as well.


I don't like separating players based on age of the character, war points or SP.

However, for FW, an interesting idea that will probably never happen would be to arrange matches based on players Standings.

For instance all Caldari players at LVL 3 standing would go against Gal Players at LVL 3. Maybe even allow one level up and down to increase match frequency. So level 2,3,4 would be in the same matches. But a LVL 10 player should never play a LVL 3 player.

This would solve some of the problems in FW. Mainly the fact that soooo many players play for Gallente. There are probably tons of them with high level standings since they almost always win, meanwhile most Caldari players have much lower standings, generally speaking, since it is so much harder to win for Caldari.

So the tons of players that spammed Gal FW and have high standing will have to wait even longer for a match. finding 16 players on the caldari side at level 8,9,10 will be much harder than on the Gallente side.

Or maybe just have 3 tiers. Lvl 1-3 fight together, Lvl 4-6 fight together, and 7-10 fight together. That would probably be the simplest way to prevent newberries getting mixed in with better players every single game.

This means the masses playing for the same 2 sides all the time will have to wait even longer to get a match, or they will have to suck it up and fight for the underdog side.

That could maybe help balance out the very lopsided state FW is currently in.

/wins matches all day, gets booted just before DT to keep playing with nubs.

/repeats the next day

I posted this on another thread. But it seems appropriate here as well.


I don't like separating players based on age of the character, war points or SP.

However, for FW, an interesting idea that will probably never happen would be to arrange matches based on players Standings.

For instance all Caldari players at LVL 3 standing would go against Gal Players at LVL 3. Maybe even allow one level up and down to increase match frequency. So level 2,3,4 would be in the same matches. But a LVL 10 player should never play a LVL 3 player.

This would solve some of the problems in FW. Mainly the fact that soooo many players play for Gallente. There are probably tons of them with high level standings since they almost always win, meanwhile most Caldari players have much lower standings, generally speaking, since it is so much harder to win for Caldari.

So the tons of players that spammed Gal FW and have high standing will have to wait even longer for a match. finding 16 players on the caldari side at level 8,9,10 will be much harder than on the Gallente side.

Or maybe just have 3 tiers. Lvl 1-3 fight together, Lvl 4-6 fight together, and 7-10 fight together. That would probably be the simplest way to prevent newberries getting mixed in with better players every single game.

This means the masses playing for the same 2 sides all the time will have to wait even longer to get a match, or they will have to suck it up and fight for the underdog side.

That could maybe help balance out the very lopsided state FW is currently in.

I really don't like the incentives. It's a "hey we're getting our butts kicked by you, so could you come over to our side and help us kick other butts...mainly, can you kick their butts while we continue to try"

"Why fight for a losing cause when you can fight for a winning one"

I really don't understand the mentality sometimes. I'm not trying to offend but its a defeatist attitude. If you learn to find victory in the storm, you have create a stronger character within you and be prepared for anything. Plus the sense of accomplishment is much more gratifying because the odds said you couldn't do it. In truth, we can.

The truth is, I don't want their help. Because in the back of my mind and theirs, they were just kicking my faction all over the place. So not only will the respect factor be out the window, I will be upset with myself because I have to use them to win.

Especially when I strongly feel that if Cal troops band together to fight, we wouldn't have this discussion.

Where I come from, we didn't have someone always there to kiss our wounds and change aspects in the environment to help us succeed. We had to learn how to gather our strength and crumble the opposition that swore we would fail if we even tried.

No sir, I don't want this.

You could do that. But you will never get a higher standing so your LP would be limited. Also, why would any good player only want to play against nubs? Seems kinda lame to me. I thought most l33t players liked a challenge. Maybe I was wrong.

Currently the Factions that are mostly chosen and are winning majority of the time are Gallente and Minmatar. These two factions have crushed the Amar Empire and the Caldari State; not because of Loyal point rewards for better equipment but because the player base has no incentive to fight for other factions that are already losing. Why fight a losing cause when you can join a winning one? Give players a reason to fight for these losing factions.

I would suggest a way to give players more incentive to migrate to other factions more frequently according to how each faction is currently doing in the New Eden. When a Faction fall beneath a certain threshold of lose, the faction should give its mercenaries more incentive to fight for them such as increase to Loyalty points till threshold is push back. Perhaps another option is to reward players Loyal point for losing a battle that is equivalent to the winning of a battle. By doing these kinds of incentive players will be force to choose between gaining standing for the factions they deem worthy or gain easy Loyalty points to fulfill immediate needs.

Other ideas are welcome too, please post below.

Call it whatever you want, but results are results, LPs are LPs, and winning is winning.

Your stubbornness and nobility is no doubt admirable to some, but your average ******* is in this game to win and buy stuff.

EDIT: Apparently, S-C-H-M-U-C-K is not cool, brah.