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[[EVE University]] is now able to participate in Factional Warfare!!

Any player can join Factional Warfare provided that their [[standings]] towards the empire faction (e.g. the Gallente Federation or the Caldari State) they wish to fight for are 0.0 or greater. Note that only raw, unmodified standings (i.e. without taking the effects of skills like {{Sk|Social|icon=yes}} into account) count; you can check your standings on your character page.  

The CEO or Director of a [[corporation]] can enlist their entire corporation (i.e. all their members) to Factional Warfare, and the executor of an alliance may do so on behalf of the alliance. If part of an alliance the corporation retains the decision to join Faction Warfare, so an Alliance can not prevent a member corporation from joining. However, due to wars being shared between alliances and their member corps, if a corp joins a militia, the entire alliance is enlisted as well. It is recommended that, if the alliance does not wish to be enlisted, corps who want to participate in Faction Warfare should either leave their alliance or enable Direct Enlistment so their members can freely join a militia. While individual pilots can join and leave the militias at any time, corporations and alliances will have to wait some time before they are joined into the warfare and may fight on behalf of their chosen empire. As with solo players, the corporation must have a standing of 0.0 of greater towards the empire they wish to fight for (corporation standings are an average of its all members' individual standings, see [[Corporation|corporation standings]] for more details). Enlisting a corporation takes effect after the next downtime.  

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Factional Warfare Complexes, commonly known as "Plexes" (not to be confused with [[PLEX]]) are small areas of [[Deadspace]] in war zone star systems. They are a type of [[Cosmic Anomaly]], which means that they show up on the system scanner (but do not need [[Probe scanning|scan probes]] to find), although once someone has warped to a complex, they will also show up on the [[Overview]] (even if someone initiated a warp to them, but canceled it immediately).  

Additional ships from your faction will not make the timer count down faster; if you leave the complex or the capture radius, the timer will pause (but will not reset). If an enemy ship enters the complex, the timer will also pause until ships from only one faction are present in the complex capture radius, and then it will resume counting down. Note that the timers for both factions are additive - so if a Caldari pilot has spent three minutes capturing a complex, and is then destroyed by an incoming Gallente pilot, the Gallente pilot would have to spend an ''extra'' three minutes in the complex in order to capture it (in order to "undo the capturing" previously done by the Caldari pilot, so to speak).  

 

{{quote|[Rank / Size] + [ADV / NVY] + "-"[Number] OR [Open Complex]}}

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! style="padding: 0.3em;" | Type

! style="padding: 0.3em 1em;" | Capture time

! style="padding: 0.3em;" | Allowed ships

! style="padding: 0.3em 1em" | NPC defender

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Scout

| style="padding:0.3em;" | Frigates and smaller

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Small  

| style="padding:0.3em;" | Destroyers and smaller

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Medium

| style="padding:0.3em;" | Cruisers and smaller

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Large

| style="padding:0.3em;" | Battleships and smaller

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Open

| style="padding:0.3em;" | Unrestricted

Complexes are defended by a single NPC (in rare cases, two); it's designed to be killed without too much trouble by a player ship of similar size. Once killed, the NPC defender will respawn after between 90 and 180 seconds for novice and small complexes. In medium and large complexes, the NPC respawns after between 90 and 300 seconds.<ref>EVE forums: [https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/topic/343137 Kronos Factional Warfare Complex Improvements] (2014)]</ref>

Which systems have complexes and which complexes a system has available can both be found in the [[The Agency|Agency]] window under Encounters > Faction Warfare.

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! style="padding: 0.3em;" | Complex Type

! style="padding: 0.3em 1em;" | Victory Points Awarded

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Scout NVY

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Small NVY

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Small ADV

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Medium NVY

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Medium ADV

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Large NVY

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Large ADV

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Open

| style="background-color:#333333;padding:0.3em;" | Battlefield

| style="text-align:center;" | 2000

Supply caches, also called supply depots, are NPC faction structures that, when destroyed, will remove 2% advantage in the system from that faction. These structures are guarded by a small NPC fleet of frigates, destroyers, and cruisers. Each faction has their own supply caches that will spawn in frontline systems in friendly and enemy faction warfare space.

Supply caches grant roughly 10,000 LP to every player who damaged the structure. There is no limit on the amount of time between damaging the structure and the structure being destroyed for you to qualify to collect the reward. In other words, every pilot who had ever damaged a supply cache would get an LP payout if the supply cache were destroyed. One method of generating LP is to warp to a supply cache, damage it, and warp off before the NPCs can kill you, leaving the job of finishing off the structure to a bigger fleet.

 

Rendezvous Points are combat sites found in frontline and occasionally command operations systems, and awards loyalty points and 2% advantage in the system for that faction. The sites must be scanned down and will appear in the probe scanner as level I combat anomalies named for the faction NPCs contained in it, ie. "Amarr Rendezvous Point". Sites for both empire factions will be present in system with a 15-20 minute respawn timer after a site is completed.  

{{example|A Gallente pilot captures a novice complex in a Caldari-held system. The Gallente pilot is rewarded (say) 10,000 LP for her efforts, and hence, the Caldari LP pool for that system is reduced by 10% of that (1,000 LP in this case).}}

For example, the base reward for capturing a novice complex in an enemy-held system is 10,000 LP. If your faction is at Tier 1, then you will only receive 5,000 LP, while if your faction was at Tier 4, you would receive 25,000 LP for capturing that same complex! This bonus affects [[#Capturing complexes|capturing complexes]] and [[#Factional Warfare missions|running missions]], but not [[#Destroying enemy player's ships|ship kills]].  

While the primary reason for Factional Warfare is to encourage PvP in low-sec, players are also rewarded directly for participating in the Factional Warfare mechanics.  

{{note box | The recent update to system dynamics has altered LP payouts, so the information in the below table is no longer accurate.}}

If you capture a [[#Complex information|complex]] you are rewarded with [[loyalty points]] (for your faction's militia corporation, so a pilot flying for the Gallente would receive LP for the Federal Defense Union). The LP rewards for capturing a complex in an enemy-held system ("offensive plexing") depend on the size of the complex and on the system's status (Frontline, Command Operation or Rearguard)<ref name="PN Version 20.10" />. A Rearguard system has a -99% LP multiplier, while other status are shown in a table below. You have to be within the complex' capture radius at the moment it's completed (i.e. when the timer runs out) to receive a reward; if there are multiple pilots within the complex at the moment it's completed, the LP reward is split evenly between them (irrespective of how long they have been there). You get no rewards for partially completing a complex!  

[[File:Defensive-plex-reward.png|thumb|200px|The LP rewards for capturing a complex in a friendly-held system. This example is based on a novice complex at tier 2 (base reward: 10,000 LP).]]

{| class=wikitable style="font-size: 90%; text-align: center"

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! style="background-color:#333333;" | Complex type

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Command Operation<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(base)</span>

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Frontline<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(+50% LP)</span>

| style="background-color:#333333; text-align:left" | Scout NVY-1

| style="background-color:#333333; text-align:left" | Scout NVY-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Small NVY-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Small NVY-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Small ADV-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Small ADV-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Medium NVY-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Medium NVY-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Medium ADV-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Medium ADV-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Large NVY-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Large NVY-5

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Large ADV-1

| style="background-color: #333333; text-align: left;" | Large ADV-5

| style="background-color:#333333; text-align:left;" | Open

| style="padding:0.1em 1em" | 30,000 LP

| style="padding:0.1em 1em" | 45,000 LP

If you capture a complex in a friendly-held system ("defensive plexing"), you receive a reduced reward based on [[#Capturing systems|how contested the system is]]. The formula for this is<ref name="dev blog fast forward" />:

: <math> \displaystyle \color{wheat} \text{LP reward } = \text{Base reward of complex} \times ( \text{Contested percentage of the system} / 100 ) \times 0.75 </math>

This means capturing a complex in a friendly-held system will pay out, at most, 75% as much as capturing an equivalent complex in an enemy-held system, and the closer the system is to "stable", the lower the reward.

The base reward for destroying an [[#Infrastructure Hub|infrastructure hub ("i-Hub")]] is 40,000 LP, split between all the pilots who damaged the i-Hub.  

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! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Tier 1<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(-50% LP)</span>

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Tier 2<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(base)</span>

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Tier 3<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(+75% LP)</span>

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Tier 4<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(+150% LP)</span>

! style="padding: 0.1em 1em" | Tier 5<br><span style="font-weight:normal; font-size:95%">(+225% LP)</span>

{{note box | The recent update suggests that the LP reward is approximately equal to Tier 5 level rewards (+225%). A flat 3.25 multiplier has been added to the equation, but testing is needed to confirm that this is the exact value.}}  

: <math> \displaystyle \color{wheat} \text{LP reward} = 3.25 \times ( \text{value of ship hull} - \text{value of ship insurance} + \text{value of modules/rigs/subsystem/cargo ) / 10,000} </math>

The second of these restrict your movement through high-sec systems controlled by the enemy faction. If you enter one of these systems, you will get a text warning on your screen; if you don't leave the system promptly, you will be attacked by NPC faction navy ships. These ships are more powerful the higher the [[Security Rating|security rating]] of the system you are in, and will use [[electronic warfare]] against you (such as [[Capacitor warfare|neuts/nos]] and [[web]]s). They will not point you, but they will web you, meaning if you warp off immediately it requires a very slow ship to be caught. They also do not scram, so if you are caught, you can still MJD to escape. Unlike CONCORD, it's certainly feasible to survive encounters with them and with specifics fitting to sustain the NPC DPS it's even possible to "camp" in enemy space to catch opposing militia players - but they make travel through enemy-held high-sec a hassle at the least). The in-game star map (or a third-party site like [https://evemaps.dotlan.net/map Dotlan]) can help you to plan safe routes.  

Additionally, you cannot dock with a ship in stations controlled by the enemy NPC factions in the [[#War zones|war zones]] (but you can dock at enemy NPC stations in all other parts of space). This means that if you have items or ships in a station that is now held by the enemy faction you cannot access them until your faction takes the system back (although, in a pinch, you can create a [[contract]] to a neutral player, alt, or hauling service to get your items out).