I'd prefer ISK.

For every spaceship destroyed in lower orbit, % of ship cost goes into paying mercs of opposing side.

Not war points, no need to give the blob more power in Eve. Isk however I'm fine with

Well, there should be an amount of WPs which is acceptable however small it is.

No. We should not be given free skillpoints and precision strikes for having someone hover above us.

Put an incentive for fleets to sit in low orbit (not just a warp stabbed throw away destroyer with a cloak) and you'll get a lot of people looking for good fights. Pirates, Capsuleer mercs, Awoxers and gankers.

It creates content, it will cause escalation. It creates a reason for a fleet in low orbit.

It just rewards people for doing what they already should be doing

Capsuleers will not just sit there so we can get extra WP and they get nothing.
The reason they show up in the first place is just to blow mercenaries up, no other reason.

so how about the capsuleers can earn some LP just as if they were sitting in a plex..

That's contribution to the actual battle, not ship babysitting

So you want to give a further advantage to people with Eve support? Particularly encouraging blob tactics which shouldn't affect dust? Having oms is enough of an advantage without making it mandatory

So you want to give a further advantage to people with Eve support? Particularly encouraging blob tactics which shouldn't affect dust? Having oms is enough of an advantage without making it mandatory

And one that puts the vast majority at a major disadvantage is a needed one?

Suggestion: give a steady stream of WPs to all members of the team who's allied eve ships control low-orbit.

If allied ships (uncloaked only) are uncontested in low orbit, then Ground commander earns X WP per minute (alternately each member of the team earns 1/16X WP per minute). X would have to be fairly small amount so as to not be game breaking, but still providing a benefit to having friendly fleets in low orbit.

How it works: (open to suggestion, just putting out a general idea here) If team 1 has a ship in orbit (uncloaked) team 1 earns X WP. If team 1 and team 2 have ships in low orbit, nobody earns WPs.

Potentially the amount or class of ships in orbit could affect the WP gain per minute as well.

This is just the starting point of an idea that could be further built on. This would create a more meaningful connection between eve and dust, without being necessary.

ideas or suggestions?

I support this.

It does require an overall Field Commander (in the MCC?) to receive the WP. I would also have the WP only count towards OBs and not towards his/her rewards from the match (SP/ISK).

My recommendation is:

10 WP per 10 seconds for control, plus

10 WP per 10 seconds for each Frig/Destroyer
40 WP per 30 seconds per Cruiser/Battlecruiser
100 WP per 60 seconds per Battleship
300 WP per 120 second per Capital/Supercapital

This rewards people for control and encourages the use of larger, more expensive fleets (a goal of CCP's).

Having control with a single destroyer means earning only 1200 WP towards a strike during a 10-minute Skirmish. That's hardly game-breaking, but it could easily account for one extra strike.

To guarantee an extra strike in 10 minutes just from ships' WP would require 4 destroyers. Alternately, parking a dreadnought in orbit would generate 2100 WP (1500 + control) in ten minutes.

Mind you, it might be prudent to wait to add the higher payouts until we have anti-ship cannons. In that case, control would generate 10 WP + 10 per ship every 10 seconds.