Following the changes to Battlefield NPCs, people are realizing how much they punch back when they are not being kited.
This is good for commitment, but the problem is that the very few people who were running those are being further pushed away. A battlefield just sat for an entire day uncontested.
All the current pain points of FW all come from the same mistake from Uprising.
Trying to make a space for Frigates and Cruisers be about Battlecruisers and Battleships.
Too many plexes? Blame Larges and Opens, and the obsolescence of Novices and Smalls (zero reasons to run them now unless you are a noob and don’t know better), Battlefields not being contested? Limiting them to Frigates up to Cruisers would have lowered the barrier of entry.
With hindsight, all those changes were made to accommodate the Pirates with Havoc. We can’t ask them pirates to lower themselves to Frigates, so we have to disincentive them in FW if we want them to play together.
Unfortunately, that ship has sailed, but at least the number of sites in the Warzone should be drastically reduced, so that more friction actually happens and groups are formed in space, that’s the only way you gonna get more people outside farmers doing Battlefields.