How about actual territorial conquest within FW???
not some half assed gambling system ccp implemented
let us control districts/planets in FW and let it show up dust side so ppl can see which corps control what districts and if they control entire planets

these things will motivate the REAL corps to get involved in FW not SP
ppl that want to play this game solely for SP have no place in FW or nullsec

Problem - Corps can rig planets for themselves

What happens if corp A make dummy corp B accept every contract they can with dummy corp B and corp B refuses to show hence corp A wins with no risk but yet gain passive ISK and LP from a phony win - CCP cannot stop that unless they change it so the corp actually has to show but if corp A is large enough they could easily get some members on alts to nip on and lose in 5/10min and help pad KDR/WLR

How many contracts can you put out on the same planet in 24hrs? if its infinite you can just time it down until the corp goes to sleep/runs out of active members and you start to win in your TZ and start to win by default while everyone is asleep, if its a set number like 10 then corps can rig it for themselves to suit them so even if the odd corp does cap it before the dummy corp can then it doesnt matter if they lose because 7/10 win they keep the planet

Passive ISK and LP? LP no you get that for stuff in general like defenidng and capturing and PvP not for sitting down and doing nothing, ISK i can agree with because the planet can do something

Except we dont actually own FW districts. We just flip them and then they're in the hands of the empire we worked for. An empire that doesnt spend a dime in any of those fights.

btw Loyalty points is SHOULD be changed in DUST
why?
simple because the word LOYALTY implies ur loyal to a specific group/faction and that goes against the whole mercenaries lifestyle in DUST and wouldnt fit well within it and even IF CCP told u u had to enlist and join a militia to get LP then certain empires atm would be screwed in their LP store because we do not have racial variants for all the gear

LP should be renamed to MP (Mercenary Points) in DUST. We're mercs so we should earn Merc Points and be given access to all faction gear whether we enlisted in a faction or goin pure merc route.
Then why enlist u ask? (granted ccp provides that option anyway) well perhaps enlisting will grant u a discount on that factions specific weaponry whereas others will pay a higher amount

Example: say u pay 7000 MP for a faction gallente HAV but ur goin the pure merc route perhaps u would pay 4000 MP if u enlisted ur corp under gallente and 5500 MP for their allies the minmatar (when minmatar gets their own HAVs of course) instead of payin the full 7000. That gives some sort of "loyalty" bonus to those that want to support a specific faction


@Caz im not talkin about nullsec ur comment was if we do planetary conquest for FW it would require more EVE interaction and to that i replied u wont necessarily need to add more now . Like i said treat FW planetary conquest as nullsec LITE, save the full blown stuff for nullsec....use FW to test SIMPLE planetary conquest mechanics so they can get feedback and data to make the full blown nullsec one much better and wont have any hiccups because they used FW as a testing ground think u misread my comment thinkin i was talkin about null planetary conquest requiring less

Territorial conquest doesn't need to be all that hard or complex TBH.

It only happens in low sec, so take a page from both high sec and 0.0 and have them meet in the middle.

Districts can be claimed by corps who meet a standing requirement just the same as high-sec POSes can be anchored by corps who meet the standing requirement. I am thinking that the standing requirements would be similar to high-sec POSes though inverted (Faction Standing >= 8 to claim a District in a 0.1; >= 7 to claim a District in a 0.2; >= 6 to claim a District in a 0.3 and >= 5 to claim a District in a 0.4). This standing would need to be with the Faction that held Occupancy in the system (so if you are grinding Minmatar standing to get a District, you've got a vested interest in the Amarr not gaining Occupancy in that system)

If your corp has the appropriate standing to claim a District then you can plant a Command Center on your selected planet the same way you would for PI. Once you had your Command Center all set up with extractors, processors and spaceports (as well as any other new planetary modules CCP would give us); the only thing left to do would be to "Incorporate District".

Once your District is incorporated, you cannot make any changes to it via the PI interface, it is locked in.

This is where things get interesting.

Once incorporated, you can visit your District and even have your Dust Merc live there if you so choose. Districts can be customized (within certain parameters) with the placement of specific Industrial, Military and Strategic installations. As you increased your indexes in those three areas, you could place better installations that were more specialized for their associated index (as well as being more profitable).

Little bit of High-sec POS, little bit of Null-sec Sov, all Low-sec Dust.

I think the originally planned 6 man squads would be reasonable enough in our current pub matches.

For FW linking squads would be awesome, and having adverts for squads that aren't full, seeing adverts by corp / alliance / militia / standings ?

My feedback on FW in dust, not a complete idea but it fits here with a Q sync for larger groups: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=50493&find=unread

I see FW being updated to were signing up with a Militia would give you the FW influence map in the Star Map for your faction. any Squad Leader looking for a battle could go to Faction Tab and see battles going on and the time left in battle, battles starting in a few minutes. As to allow for restocking, fit creation/editing, etc. and the current ability to create a battle but getting to see and choose SYSTEM > (available) PLANET > DISTRICT and how much it will influence that system for FW

Only way to gain LOYALTY POINTS (LP) would be signing up and fighting for only one side in New Eden. Although, making sure all factions have someone to fight for them that's a different story.

An easy way to make sure all factions have corps to battle each other, I think, is allow dust players to do Gallente & Minmatar vs Caldari & Amarr faction contracts, because they are allies.

LP and ISK to spend on Faction Gear would be the reason for corporate squads to do more then roll in pub matches after their SP cap has been hit.

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As a side note, PvE, high sec vs low sec better rewards but more deadly drones obviously.

If FW districts have a captured timer for however long, few hours or whatever then there could be LP rewards, and whatever else we get from PvE, and could be really amazing and in large drone infestations call a Faction Rally (by NPC mail?) and allow for larger amounts of players then in the high sec PvE.

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Thanks for reading as I'm posting with no sleep at 7:30 AM my time.

-Royal

So you start by saying it does not have to be complex and then lay out a complex plan for how things should work, I dont get it. You also leave out the mechanic for flipping the planet. Do we now have to come kick in every door of every Duster that "lives" on the planet and murder them before we can take over it? I could see some of your suggestions about putting command centers on planets working in some sort of high-sec scenario, but it does not seem to have a place in low-sec.

I'm sorry folks but as far as i know, planetary conquest is 0.0 only. I mean, player owned planets. Not planets conquered in the name of an NPC faction. If you think differently, please link a source cause for me, low sec districts are not planned to be owned by player corporations....

Thus why i only talk about null-sec. Owning a district, or a planet with your CORP name on it, and changing stuff on it needs to be done in a Sovable system. Thus why i say that planetary conquest for our corps isnt close, and SHOULDNT be close.