Warfare & Tactics

One of the main reasons that we didn't do the remaining work for Tier 4 was that morale was pretty heavily depleted at that point. A lot of the fresh blood into Amarr had burnt out on trying to play FW from a "save the Amarr" perspective rather than the farmville it was.

This is also why some of my blog posts may seem incomplete of skewed, since obviously blogging about how hopelessness and lack of morale isn't something you want to be writing about when you're trying to rebuild your militia. I probably have at least a hundred scrapped posts I scrapped or never published. For example, the Nulli post was only part one of 3 more posts, all equal length discussing things even more in depth. It was also around this time I realized I was spending more time writing about EVE than playing it, at which point I took a step back and decided rather than hope for mechanics we would never get, I would just play EVE and push the mechanics we had.

Anyways, around this time many of us had just discovered how profitable FW could actually be on Minmatar alts, did we store up a decent amount of Amarr LP? Yes, but we weren't stupid so rather than put all of our eggs in one basket we made sure we had Minmatar LP to offset the possibility Amarr tier 5 never happened.

Could the Amarr have gotten Tier 5 if all those people hadn't bothered plexing Minmatar and did Amarr instead? Who knows, but it doesn't even matter, because like many people have pointed out...Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar...under Inferno, the faction you cashed out was just a name that put the ISK in your wallet. You didn't need Amarr LP to get Amarr faction BS when you could just farm another militia and convert the LP to ISK. Even then, there were so few Amarr left that cared, against the overwhelming non-farmer Minmatar, I doubt that it could have happened. Thats how bad Inferno was.

Also, we were actually planning a second Tier 4 push with Agony prior to Retribution, but the ninja patch happened so that ended up never happening. #YOLO

I do find it interesting and appreciate how post-Inferno people are more willing to be candid about their militia alts. One more thing that just shows how broken it was.

Finally, does Tier 1 suck? Yeah, it kinda does...but at the end of the day posting on the forums won't stop the Minmatar from getting all the systems, so we plex. Is ihub bashing meh at times? Sure, but even then the past few nights have been entertaining with some great anti-bomber sniper work by the Minnies and even failing to take the Asghed hub last night.

(Gals...is there anyway you could bring back Bolster to replace Cearain? He was at least an entertaining troll..)

So let me get this straight you post pinkys blog as the 100% fact of what happened then You get pinky slapped and told that blog was meant to be part of a set and can be a little incomplete and skewed and then you go and argue with him...... Priceless cearain totally pricless

1. Thanks for looking up THIS toon. I feel all gooey inside. Oh, and as I've mentioned dozens of times before, THIS ALT isn't in FW. The guy sitting at the keyboard has multiple alts in FW, so you just invalidated your cutesy comment.



2. Reading comprehension ftw. Try re-reading what I posted if you insist on commenting on it.

Thanks Alu1208. Best idea on the thread.

I hope CCP take notice of the fact that farming needs to be forced away from war zone plexing to missions.

As for my topic on separation of the factions. That sounds bollocks now. Lets just get those pesky farmers stopped from having any influence on war zone control.

Regards

This wont effect farming as much as many may think it would. Doesn't matter one way or another though.


- killz

Ya i like having minnie allies thats because were friendly with them and spent a year there so have well forged bonds idk why caldaris dont have same links with there allies it could be good for you guys if losing a home system call in some amarr mates to shore up the TZs.

That would make sense and to some extent we see a jump in pvp in non fw corps and alliances. Retribution was a great expansion with not only new ships but changes to crimewatch.

But again just sort of ad hoc looking at the killboards it seems the biggest december jump in pvp from the fw corps rather than the non fw pvp alliances. The non fw corps seemed to to take a bit longer to get the boost in pvp. See eg shadow cartel with not so great a december but a very large january and february. That seems more likely to be what we would expect as people get out and start fitting new ships.


But for fw corps the changes in plex npcs seemed to lead to an immediate increase in pvp.

But you are right we would need to get the stats on how many kills were happening in plexes before and after retribution.