# Gallente FW pointless?

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**Created:** [June 27, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/gallente-fw-pointless/251686 "2020-06-27T02:26:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/gallente-fw-pointless/251686/2 "2020-06-27T18:29:45Z")

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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):

> [@Newbie: Questions About Faction Warfare PvP](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/newbie-questions-about-faction-warfare-pvp/164596/9):
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> Shamelessly copy-pasting an old post of mine: SET UP YOUR OVERVIEW!! Make it so that “friendlies” do not show up (helps to prevent friendly fire incidents and reduces irrelevant information) and especially make sure that militia status is above suspect status (quite a few militia members have low security status… if you attack them you will incur a large faction standings penalty… and will often be blown up at the hands of your allies). Buy ships and mods in bulk (mostly frigates and destr…

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