Great expansion so far! Really enjoying the boom in low-sec content and added features. However, there is one major criticism I have, which has been echoed by other FW Vets, and that’s the rewards / incentives for the empires to push suppression, which I feel doesn’t line up with the behavior and motivations of the common FW pilot. I think this is evident by how little suppression has been pushed, despite the huge increase of activity and fights in these systems. We’re fighting in sites - not for them.
And here’s why (spoiler alert) - most militia pilots are pirates too! At least in the general sense.
The sentiment amongst the large group I actively fly with is that it’s better for the pirates to max their corruption, as this leads to more content for us. More space to become low-sec, bubbles to develop with alts, and more content as a whole.
Take a look at our own rewards:
Increased bounty payout and sec increase.
Who enlisted in FW is actually ratting?! Most of us have piss-poor sec status anyway. How is this relevant?
Bigger LP payouts.
Apart from the farmers and seagulls, my impression is most people think fights and system pushes to be the primary motivation for enlisting, with the reward of LP being that icing on the cake. I for one don’t think much about how much LP I’m getting per-plex. Good, but not great.
Corruption suppression
I get it, but do we really want to prevent corruption in the first place. Decent if we were pushing.
Increased web and scram range.
Cool, but without other fun rewards, is this even worth the grind to level 4?
Sentry Gun Buff
As mentioned, we do pirate-y things. We gate-camp, we chase targets and fight on gate all the time - this hurts that content for us. So why, as our main reward, would we even bother?
I have some pipe-dream solutions to this issue, but would love to hear how other militia members feel about the update as a whole. Could we use some more relevant rewards? I think so.
