FW is currently a joke.

Some experience should be required to enter these matches. Join a game by yourself on the Caldari side and you'll see what I mean.

After you leave the academy, pubs should be the only thing available to you. After a certain amount of SP gained (500,000 or so), the player should be informed that they are now eligible to enter Faction Warfare, along with a more detailed explanation of what FW is all about.


To further help with FW, rather than having all 4 races selected by default when you first enter FW, you should have the race you chose for your character selected by default. This would spread some of the players that don't have a clue what they're doing, rather than dumping them all in Cal/Amarr.


Lastly, we really need all the racial starter fits. Let players choose which race they like best right off the bat. If someone likes the Amarr loadout in the beginning they might decide to stick with it and fight for the Amarr in FW.

TL;DR

How to improve FW

1.) Introduce SP requirement to enter FW (100,000 - 500,000 or so)
2.) Instead of all four races selected by default, make your race selected by default
3.) Introduce racial starter fits. Might incite a bit of racial loyalty if new players want to stick with the starter fit they like.

But you can fix all of that by making FW accessible only with team-deploy.

I like this idea. Combining it with other related concepts to help improve the experience for both new and veteran players results in:

Public Matches
- high security space
- no minimum SP level required
- four person squads
- two tanks per side max
- no proto suits, weapons or equipment allowed

Factional Warfare
- medium security space
- minimum SP level requirement (500K or 1M?)
- five person squads
- three tanks per side max
- any suit, weapon or equipment is eligible

Planetary Conquest
- low security space
- modest SP level requirement (5M or 10M?)
- six person squads
- four tanks per side max
- any suit, weapon or equipment is eligible

TL;DR

How to improve FW

1.) Introduce SP requirement to enter FW (100,000 - 500,000 or so)

TL;DR

How to improve FW

1.) Introduce SP requirement to enter FW (100,000 - 500,000 or so)
2.) Instead of all four races selected by default, make your race selected by default
3.) Introduce racial starter fits. Might incite a bit of racial loyalty if new players want to stick with the starter fit they like.

I asked CCP Logibro about the 2nd bullet, and he rather categorically rejected it.

As for the first bullet, something similar was highlighted to CCP prior to the introduction of FW, so by now I think it safe to say they've had ample time to review it, and it likely wont come.

FW is currently a joke.