Don’t worry too much about the state of the warzone. It fluctuates over the course of months due to a variety of factors (farming alts switching sides, combat groups becoming more or less active, etc).
In all honesty, warzone control means only 2 things:
- One cannot dock in any stations in a star system controlled by an enemy
- More offensive complexes (and thus, Loyalty Points) to farm for the “losing” side
My advice is simple: Join and make friends with the FW people in your timezone. Learn from them, have fun with them, help them.
If it is not your thing, you can always drop out.
Also… if you do join I would suggest making a second character and training it up to use one of the “fast” cargo ships.
Having a “neutral” character to resupply your “main” one is invaluable and will take away some of the risk when you have to buy and move a bunch of equipment (remember, joining Faction War puts that specific character in a GLOBAL war declaration… meaning you can be attacked anywhere at any time by the opposing sides).
Here’s some info I posted about FW “basics” too (it was awhile back, but the info is still relevant):