1. Throwing the match for the side you want to win is a tactic that is going to difficult to deal with.

LP or Loyalty Points
This goes back to the rewards thing but to be honest, we have two currencies in the game already and we don't see the need to add a third. There are plenty of rewards we can offer in FW to incentivise it without adding the complexity of LP.

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.

Har har har. There is a difference between giving players complex choices and just adding complexity because you can't come up with a better way to do the same thing. We have the chance to possibly come up with something different and that works better for DUST.

But I love my LP :<

AFKing
This is something that should be looked at when viewing the entire game, not just factional warfare battles. For that reason it is not something that will get much response in this thread.

Serious question. Why?

Because its named Loyalty Points.
That's like putting a monetary value on loyalty.

he probably meant that if a team joined a game and show 6-12 imperfects on the other team, got scared and left then there should be a penalty for leaving. Or if they didn't wanna fight /// was beat up soo bad they switched to militia gear and stayed in MCC

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.

Will you be restricted to specific factions based on your EVE corp affiliation
No, as it stands the faction your EVE corporation is in will have no effect on what matches you can join or what faction you fight for in DUST.

for a start hopefully u will add penalties for people that leave games. would love to see Deserter occurences on their permanent files along with an Deserter %. expose the rage quitters.

then make it so player contracts have an option and some of the higher npc contracts have a minimum Deserter % threshold on them. provides the perfect incentive for mercs not to desert.

Hey guys,

I just got into the office and want to respond to your feedback and concern.

Rewards
Yes, we hear you and we agree. Factional warfare should offer something more in terms of rewards than instant battles. What we have done with Uprising is a major shift in how the FW battles work and we wanted to focus on making sure that the actual mechanics of it work right and work well.

There are a lot of things we can do, and could do really easily, to increase the rewards in FW battles. Having the loot be what people used, just increasing the ISK payout, and other things. However when we look at FW battles we want to make them something more special than that. We are looking at incentivising you to fight for one faction and increasing the rewards you get based on your loyalty to one faction.

What we don't want to do is just increase the rewards for the winners. As soon as people think they are going to lose they would just drop and go to another match where they have a chance to win. That is no fun. In planetary conquest battles we have things like the minimum clone loss, loot rewards, and other mechanics to help incentivise people staying until the end.

TL;DR: Our focus for Uprising with FW was completely redoing the foundation, we will continue to iterate on this and make sure you have a reason to play FW over instant battles.

But what if one of your squad fails to launch with the squad (I've had it happen to me and seen it happen numerous times)? Should the squad stay in the match while the poor sod that got left out sits and waits? If your idea were to bear fruit, if that squad left to launch with their whole squad they'd get a little black mark on their record, all cause they were just being a good squad.

Quitting battles, not participating and team killers should get some type of status change or security status that is easily viewable to everyone. I don't want to pull a merc into my squad only to get killed by him. I try to pull in mercs that I know will work hard and will not rage quit.

Dynamically created battles
FW battles will no longer be created by corporations selecting a district to attack. Instead the server will dynamically generate battles for players to join. Where these battles take place will be based on where complex are being completed in EVE FW.

The system will make sure there is always a battle available to join. So as running battles fill up new ones will be generated.