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Talos Alomar
Subdreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.06.29 00:17:00 -
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I'm sure you guys have picked up on a general theme of people saying that they are kinda bored on the state of the game because there is no reason to fight. If there is no reason to fight then people will wander off to another game.
hopefully passive SP will lure those types back, but there is no guarantee for that.
Fixing PC will only do so much for you as well as not everybody gives a flying F about holding a district.
There needs to be another option - and that option is FW.
I love helping to make the fun happen for my nerds, but getting people to fight a war with the only reward being "look guys, we are making a statistically noticeable difference to people if they pay close enough attention!" can only work for so long.
There NEEDS to be a reason to pick a side and stick with it. If there are reasons to pick a side and fight for them you'll have better fights in the FW battles as more corps get interested.
That reason is loot. I understand an LP system is a long ways off, so I'm only going to mention it this once.
Thats why I am suggesting a "racial loot" system.
All FW battles will have a chance to drop special faction weapons ( a gallente SF Assault rifle, a Caldari partisan sniper, Royal Marines dropsuit, etc), and the chances of those items to drop rises as the modifier for holding districts goes up, with the chance to receive those weapons skyrocketing for a victory.
This will let participants in FW get paid in loot that is both useful and valuable for when the secondary market opens up.
Mercs switching sides to get more gear will be kept in check by the fact that if the market gets too flooded by a certain type of racial loot the price will plummet thus hurting your paycheck if every corp pushes for one side.
Corps would also get bored if there is nobody worth fighting on the other team so they'll switch sides for some good fights.
Give me a reason to fight and i'll take my nerds to war. If we have that war you'll have more people logging on to play. |
Poplo Furuya
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.29 01:32:00 -
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A sound enough idea. Faction Warfare giving the impression that the outcome has actually impacted the EVE universe in a small way is good, figures and basic status updates on how the fighting is going on a district and planetary level would go quite far. Race specific equipment with slight modifications, functional and/or cosmetic, would incentivise participation further.
Might see special stuff occasionally getting fielded too if it's merely a less available commodity instead of outright irreplaceable. |
Zatara Rought
TeamPlayers
EoN.
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Posted - 2013.06.29 04:23:00 -
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+1 If I saw racial loot drop when I won a FW battle I'd play it instead of pubs when no PC is going on. |
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