There are some issues with the battles starting up correctly and the system ensuring there are enough battles. CCp Nullarbor is looking into this, along with a few other issues. Please bare with us as we get to the root of this and fix it as quickly as possible.

Lots of work going on at the office right now and we do apologize for this. :)

Would love a FW lobby area or just an easer way to find players than spamming local :-P

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?

http://www.army.mil/symbols/armyranks.html you might want to re-look at your rank structure.

Wait I thought we didn't appear in system local...?

You guys should really think about doubling the ISK reward and adding the system that lets you salvage Aur items (like the PC one is going to be) as soon as possible (as in, before 5/14) because if the Instant Battles I've been playing lately are any indication, your matchmaking system has once again failed miserably.

You need to get high-SP and high-skill players out of Instant Battles in order to pit players who are less experienced and with less SP against each other so they aren't getting completely smoked every time. The only way you're going to keep new players playing for a long time is if they have fun--and getting destroyed by someone with 11 million SP isn't fun.

The message to the community should be that FW is where the competitive crowd that wants more of a reward and more of a challenge is at and Instant Battles are where people go get better at their gun game and build up SP until they're on a more level playing field (and thus start getting into FW).

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.

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.

Solution:
No SP or Isk if you leave a FW match before it ends.

There must be a reason to win.

You don't want to give more isk for winning?
Give 2x salvage to the winner and none to the loser.

posted a thread that disappeared into the ether so i'll ask here. Do I have to be a member of a mercs corp or alliance to OB for the minnies in EVE

friendly fire on pls. leave the casual stuff in instant battles.

Problem with this is that if you give nothing to the loser, as soon as it looks like one side don't stand a chance of winning, everyone will leave. It needs to be a reward system that encourages people to fight to the bitter end, even if they're going to lose overall.

What about splitting up players through squads. So more experienced players join a battle they join with other experienced players. Giving new players who are not in a squad will join a match with others who are not in a squad. This would defeat the whole pubstomp against other experienced played. Because currently it's random, for instance- you are in your squad with say corp members, then on the other team is full of new players who are trying the game out for the first time, the squad with corp members are more likely to win.