It seems like a great idea overall.

Currently I have only two concerns and a question of clarification.

The first is due to the current matchmaking system which is trying to stop putting people near the end of the game. So in essence this concern is more that example at system 4 might not work well with the match making system currently implemented. (otherwise nothing else on that aspect.)


My second concern, Is the viewing of the number of people versus (forgive me if I misread); My concern comes from possible free LP gains via viewing that particular info about amount of players via each side. As we know, there will be many player that would love to tag on to an end of the battle where they can join a winning side of (eg. caladari 16 vs Gallante 4) and get loyalty points via that route [whether at the last minute or just by viewing information. (of course then some people complaining about uneven or possible proto stomp or even corp stomping).
-my suggestion don't provide that number for each side on the main hud of battle. (the general count from x/32 ) should give enough information to say f they really want to join seeing that matchmaking system tries to balance the match out either way.
-Otherwise, hopefully matchmaking system will take care of this concern for the most part.


Lastly. my question for clarification to help me understand: I understand there is a thing where corps can fight for districts. my question will this effect factional in anyway?
Reason for question is if districts is effecting factional in general we could have an issue where people avoid certain factional because specific corps will protect certain system and can possible over dominate (or even under dominate ) certain areas.

In advance thank you for your clarification since I'm still relatively new.

Overall Thoughts:
I feel its a great idea and provides a great tie to eve and gives a more dynamic tactical aspect to the fighting in factionals. My best wishes to see if this pans out with ccp.

It seems like a great idea overall.

Currently I have only two concerns and a question of clarification.

The first is due to the current matchmaking system which is trying to stop putting people near the end of the game. So in essence this concern is more that example at system 4 might not work well with the match making system currently implemented. (otherwise nothing else on that aspect.)


My second concern, Is the viewing of the number of people versus (forgive me if I misread); My concern comes from possible free LP gains via viewing that particular info about amount of players via each side. As we know, there will be many player that would love to tag on to an end of the battle where they can join a winning side of (eg. caladari 16 vs Gallante 4) and get loyalty points via that route [whether at the last minute or just by viewing information. (of course then some people complaining about uneven or possible proto stomp or even corp stomping).
-my suggestion don't provide that number for each side on the main hud of battle. (the general count from x/32 ) should give enough information to say f they really want to join seeing that matchmaking system tries to balance the match out either way.
-Otherwise, hopefully matchmaking system will take care of this concern for the most part.


Lastly. my question for clarification to help me understand: I understand there is a thing where corps can fight for districts. my question will this effect factional in anyway?
Reason for question is if districts is effecting factional in general we could have an issue where people avoid certain factional because specific corps will protect certain system and can possible over dominate (or even under dominate ) certain areas.

In advance thank you for your clarification since I'm still relatively new.

Overall Thoughts:
I feel its a great idea and provides a great tie to eve and gives a more dynamic tactical aspect to the fighting in factionals. My best wishes to see if this pans out with ccp.

I'm not sure how this would work, as I don't really understand what you're getting at. Also, this doesn't fully solve the woes of FW, especially the fact that people don't want to play it because it's so unrewarding.

EDIT: Would something along the lines of this be something you would be interested in?

There is a easy fix for you second concern; if you aren't in the match for X amount of time, or did X amount of work, then you didn't help enough and you get no rewards. If they meet the requirements, then they deserve it.

Also, why the hell would there me MM in FW?

FW corps does that a lot. Teamwork is OP, deal with it.

Your first concern:
Actually Matchmaking does NOT apply to factional warfare. You decide which faction want to fight for, and when, therefore, even right now, matchmaking cannot even up the teams. You set your filter to only "Caldari" for example, and you will join the next battle that Caldari can fight. Matchmaker cannot decide that your team is OP and put you on the Gallente side.

Your second concern is a valid one. However I think emergent gameplay will naturally prevent it from being a real problem. For example, it's the middle of the night and player count is low. You see a few full matches and one pops up that is almost empty. You go for it hoping to get some easy LP, except you are not the only one doing this. The more people scavenging for easy LP, then the more the match will fill up naturally. Perhaps it would be wise as you suggest to only put the total amount of players, and not necessarily the amount for each team?

Your third concern is a non issue as planetary conquest and the player controlled districts have no impact on factional warfare and vice versa.

Thank you for reading and raising these concerns, I'd love to continue discussing your #2 if you have any ideas, or disagree with how I see it.