Hello everyone! I came by the forums for the first time today in hopes of finding some support for my suggestion. Since my squad and I have had a BGS faction (about 2-3 years now) we have been victim to several attacks that are trying to reduce our influence. We love this content and the challenges that it provides, not to mention the amount of teamwork and coordination that we somehow muster together and usually manage to pull through with in the end. The problem that we've had is that ONE of about 10 attacks so far has been in open. I understand that not everyone wants to play in open and that's perfectly fine. I think everyone experiences ganking at some point in their journey.
My suggestion is that influence gains or losses for a PMF faction in Private Group or Solo have reduced effectiveness (like 75% as effective or so). Whereas gains / losses in open would be 100% effective.
I feel like this would make fighting wars or hindering mercenary groups way more interactive by encouraging more teams into open rather than looking at a spread sheet and BGS report every day. There's going to be obvious flaws in this idea such as simply switching to open to turn in missions or bounties and then switching back to private... so I'm of course open to discussion and criticism.
This is stemming from someone who is currently tanking our security state in a system. They have a 69 million bounty on our board and there is NOTHING we can do about it other than fight NPC and turn in vouchers.... When we got our own faction, we imagined big wars and big egos... Instead, I am literally doing the same combat that I was doing on day 1 several years ago. It's time for some sort of revamp.
My suggestion is that influence gains or losses for a PMF faction in Private Group or Solo have reduced effectiveness (like 75% as effective or so). Whereas gains / losses in open would be 100% effective.
I feel like this would make fighting wars or hindering mercenary groups way more interactive by encouraging more teams into open rather than looking at a spread sheet and BGS report every day. There's going to be obvious flaws in this idea such as simply switching to open to turn in missions or bounties and then switching back to private... so I'm of course open to discussion and criticism.
This is stemming from someone who is currently tanking our security state in a system. They have a 69 million bounty on our board and there is NOTHING we can do about it other than fight NPC and turn in vouchers.... When we got our own faction, we imagined big wars and big egos... Instead, I am literally doing the same combat that I was doing on day 1 several years ago. It's time for some sort of revamp.
