Warfare & Tactics

When I'm waiting for the plex timer to run out, I'm not really playing a game at all. Often I'll have my browser open on my second monitor watching Youtube or something. Every once in awhile I'll spam d-scan, esp. when there's a pirate or enemy militia on local, but otherwise I'm not interacting with the client whatsoever.

The problem is that the plex timer is too long. 10-20 minutes doing nothing is not playing a game. Probably the only joy I get from plexing is griefing pirates and enemy militia whenever I cloak or warp out.

If we reduce both plex timers and LP rewards in half, then there's more chance for PVPers to catch plex runners while they are in transit between plexes. And for plex runners, it actually becomes more of a "game" as they are required to hop around systems more often, dodge gate camps + PVPers, plan routes etc.

NO. All that happens if the plex timers are shorter is that it's easier for farmers to sneak in and grab a plex, making it less likely someone will interrupt them, and decreases the chances that pvp will happen in that plex as there is less time for someone who cares about defending the system to respond.

Essentially you are everything that is currently wrong with FW. Of course nothing interesting is happening - because all you do is run or cloak up. Why even be in faction warfare?

It doesn't even matter for the most part if you are caught, because being as risk adverse as you - there are probably warp core stabilizers on your ship. I'd rather push you out after waiting 20 minutes to cap your plex, then put all my alts in your plex to bring up the timer while I chase you around.

no one forces you to farm lp

The best ship is friendship. Even if you cannot have someone around to help you plex 24/7 having someone to guide you at becoming better at pvp is the way to go. You can get a pretty decent t2 fit frig fairly quickly (within a couple weeks), it's just the knowledge and trial and error from there on. Other players can help you with this.

The atron comes in close at second.

Of course all military scholars agree that any recitation of the DerpAtron Creed should finish with the DerpAtron Salute. A good example of which appears at around 1:26 in this clip of the distant ancestor to it, the Vindaloovian Empire Salute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZbzIHGj8U

I'm starting to worry about you.

Since when did the squids start using portions of quotes to get a point across? IbanezLaney.... Pfft more like Bill O'Reilly

It's your decision. To plex in an empty system. To fly stabbed farmer ships to burn out the defenders. It's my decision. To waste time "fixing sec status", "farming killmails/isk", "posting on forums" - instead of chasing and fighting you. But it becomes your decision again for NOT taking the fights, for running away and coming back with more ships to "gank" my frigate. It's a sandbox, it's what we make out of it. And most players just want to farm killmails in the most boring ways possible - until they run out of money, then they farm ISK.

- Hey, do you want to join my fleet?
- What's your objective?
- We are all fighting in FW plexes, everyone in different systems, looking for fun fights, or at least make some ISK. We just need a fleet so if the enemy shows up with multiple ships we can take all fights.
- Lol noob.

- Hey, do you want to join my fleet?
- What's your objective?
- We are spinning ships in a well known "staging system" to make sure the enemy knows our force the moment we undock. Then we jump from gate to gate like rats in a maze looking for super boring fights wiith at least 90% chance of a victory. We have multiple logi pilots already.
- GIVE ME TS ADDRESS NOW *doesn't care that most likely his fleet will get trapped and killed by even bigger fleet*

This used to be like this: I log in, I am docked in Asghed. No matter if Amarr or Minmatar has the system at the moment, I have access to my hangar. I undock and see who is here in which plex. Now if the opponent is in top 0.1% of minmatar militia (meaning its not bait, he really is here to fight) then I go and try to fight. I lose my ship, I try again. I lose again, oh well, this time I almost won. 3rd round I win, opponent docks in the same station as me, I repair my ship, he gets another thinking he will counter my ship and we fight again. Sometimes it was 5 rounds in the exact same plex, all 5 good fun fights. And now it's you in your cloaky ship complaining about plexing becoming boring, and me with my 6 cloaky ships being hellbent on outplexing you no matter how many ******** nullbear farmers make a gallente/minmatar alt.