Any plans to have mercs (who are in a FW corp) be included in the FW Militia chat channel?

I could be going off of the wrong impression, but I thought that in FW we will be able to "stack" squads, so that we could essentially go in with 16 members of our corporation / alliance.

Any word on that?

There are numerous FPSs which have FF always on, and it has never been an issue in the games I've played. Sure, you get accidental TK sometimes and the occasional asshat, but those are part of the game.

There are also numerous ways to alleviate abuse, many of which have been outlined in various pro-FF posts on these very forums.

FF should be on in FW, PC, and there should be a hardcore mode for Skirmish and Ambush with FF on.

Oh c'mon Foxy. LP isn't THAT hard to keep track of. I thought these games were supposed to attract some of the smartest gamers around? You have a reputation to uphold! Don't go getting soft on us now....

In the meantime, I'll be the first to ask what those "plenty of rewards" are that your team has in mind already. I know you've got some good ideas, out with it! Don't be shy! We'll all be happy to tell you if they're worth fighting for or not.

But I love my LP :<

How about allowing EVE players to contribute to the ISK payout at the end of the match?

We are mercenaries. It would be awesome if other players could pay us to fight.

Couple ideas:

Have a base ISK reward that is exactly the same as Instant battle. Give EVE players the option to contribute an additional amount to the total match reward for their faction. Have a set limit on the additional amount. So if the base reward is 2,400,000 ISK for each team for the entire match, give EVE players the chance to contribute up to another 1,000,000 ISK per match. Or any amount that would not be too destabilizing.

Give EVE players the option to contribute to the payout with no limit on how much they can add to the base reward. But tax the transfer at rate that would control the flow of ISK so it did not become destabilizing. EVE pilots are rich. If you tax the "sweetening of the pot" at something like 90% to 95% even 98% then a lot of pilots can throw their billions of ISK in pocket change into a match without causing too much upheaval in the system. This would also give the economics guys a chance to look at a minor and controlled flow of ISK fro EVE to DUST.

Seed battles with enough lead time so that the bonus EVE ISK per match can pile up a little, and let DUST mercs see how much ISK is in the pot.

And it would also be helpful if DUST were more visible to EVE pilots participating in faction warfare. I am not even sure what EVE pilots see when they are fighting in terms of the effect our battles are having on the war. A lot of DUST mercenaries might not care either way about faction warfare but if enough players start to participate and battles begin to have a real effect on the outcomes of the fights in space it seems like EVE pilots at least are going to start to care. Hopefully a lot. We really don't have much to do in DUST so a ton of people are going to try it out from curiosity or boredom. There is enough stuff to do in EVE that I would assume the pilots fighting in faction warfare are there because they care and it is something they are invested in.

Edit* You could also make it so that the losing side only got a some of the EVE bonus ISK. And the winners would get all of the bonus ISK put up for their side. That way you weren't punishing the losers so much as rewarding the winners.

Though I agree that we do not want to beat people with sticks and call them names for trying something new, or taking a risk faction warfare and possibly failing miserably.

So is there anything else that goes into these dynamically generated battles? I'm wondering if the contested status of a system will matter? Like if a system is currently uncontested, but the enemy 'owns' a couple districts on a planet can you run some defensive plexes to then try and open up a district to take it back and 'clean up' a system? Also does it matter the size of a complex that is completed? So if there are 60 complexes completed every 10 minutes across all warzones, will mediums and larges be more likely to spawn districts than novices and smalls?

I've had a few thoughts here on FW.

Also, in terms of linking the Eve-Dust connection further. I've wondered if there are permanent system infrastructures on FW districts? If we will be fighting ont he same places/sockets in each district when we revisit?

Also, could we make it so that I-Hub upgrades in systems in Eve then possibly lead to bonuses Dust side?

The two main ones I'm thinking...

Each tier of upgrade could increase the owner's MCC HP by 2.5% and clone count by 10 and could also reward defenders by increased amounts.

Or you could tie bonuses to the SI on the districts so that there could be a different urgency to strategies in each battle. Loot rewards could also be different based on the outcomes of battles with each type of SI as well. Kill MCC in a production facility reward modifier A, win by clones at PF get reward modifier B....

So districts with production facilities could be harder to take because defenders get more isk from defending at them and therefore fight with higher risk.

Districts with research labs could return more officer salvage for the winners.

Districts with cargo hubs could start with more clones for the defender but give more loot to the attacker based on clones killed.

Also each SI could spawn specific salvage that could then be traded to Eve when those markets link up.

This tells me the layout is already decided.

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