BL4CK FRIAR
HDYLTA
Defiant Legacy
76
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Posted - 2013.06.06 15:53:00 -
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The other day I was in alliance chat talking with some of our diplomats, FC's and pilots about the Minmatar war effort and what we as a Dust corp can do for the war effort and concluded that we could do little. The simplest solution would to be allow us, the dust players to initiate attacks on our own instead of being forced into fights that do not matter to the war effort. For example last night I was fighting on labapi only to find that there is no push by either Amarr or Minmatar for the region as it is firmly in the controlled area and our efforts, which BTW are marginal, so even if the other side wanted to support the dust efforts they would have to go through several enemy regions.
We need to be able to initiate attacks, to chose systems that we want to attack such as Dal to support our factions pushes and we need to see our efforts have more effect on that push. The matches can still be populated the way they are now and perhaps havea fee of 1 mmillion but this needs to happen as right now the One universe/One war thing is a joke. |
Geirskoegul
Soul-Strike
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Posted - 2013.06.06 16:08:00 -
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BL4CK FRIAR wrote:The other day I was in alliance chat talking with some of our diplomats, FC's and pilots about the Minmatar war effort and what we as a Dust corp can do for the war effort and concluded that we could do little. The simplest solution would to be allow us, the dust players to initiate attacks on our own instead of being forced into fights that do not matter to the war effort. For example last night I was fighting on labapi only to find that there is no push by either Amarr or Minmatar for the region as it is firmly in the controlled area and our efforts, which BTW are marginal, so even if the other side wanted to support the dust efforts they would have to go through several enemy regions.
We need to be able to initiate attacks, to chose systems that we want to attack such as Dal to support our factions pushes and we need to see our efforts have more effect on that push. The matches can still be populated the way they are now and perhaps havea fee of 1 mmillion but this needs to happen as right now the One universe/One war thing is a joke.
I certainly agree with the sentiment and intention, but I think you need to do more to flesh out the "how" of it. Do you mean something akin to PC, only for FW corps? It doesn't seem like it would be functional on the individual level that FW currently works on.
Perhaps a better system would be a smarter system for generating the matches? A system deep in controlled territory, while a potentially good target in EVE (poorly defended compared to the front lines) is, as you say, nearly useless in Dust. Keep the system generating fights in contested systems and those adjacent to them.
Another alternative, particularly when things become more integrated, would be to add an item to eve for dropping in a merc strike force; they bring it with them and deploy while fighting for the area in space, and it generates a fight on the dust side that we can join (early version; i still hope to literally be transported by eve players for PC, and hopefully FW, in the long run; this is just a stop-gap and an easier thing to implement). Especially once skyfire batteries are implemented, this could be used as a kind of king-of-the-hill game mode, where you try to keep control of the battery to provide supporting fire to space during the conflict (such a game mode would need the timer turned off and be limited solely to clones at most, and the conclusion of the in-space fight at best.) |