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No, just the pirate faction and T2, leave the navy faction to have entrance (they aren't nearly as powerful). However, if the dessy changes are true this will no longer become and issue.

Well, I think the idea of a rookie plex (no faction, no t2) and then an everything as a minor makes more sense. Whilst some of the empire faction frigs aren't as powerful as the pirate ones, the hookbill and the comet totally outclass every T1 non-faction frigate. The plated, two web and tracking disruptor hookbill fit that's become fairly common (http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14509645) can't really be challenged by any T1 non-faction frig.

The intel channel would not allow players to post in it. It would just say things like "cearain, entered minor, auga, frigate." Then when I leave it would say something like "Cearain, exit minor, auga, pod." They could have all the intel on who is in what plexes when you first sign in or you might have to wait. Either way you will find pvp 10xs faster than you can now.




I like the map idea - if the map worked well. However my map always cause major slow downs and crashes in my computer.

Also there shouldn't be too much of a delay. I don't like alts too much so requiring a bunch of scouting is not really my thing. The idea should be that there are so many fights spread out that there are just constantly pilots jumping in plexes as fast as they can. Not the slow ass scout out the enemy form a fleet and then have them dock and ship bs that happens now.

BTW having this intel channel or map system would make it so spys would be less of an issue.

Don't get me wrong I support the Intel channel idea, if it's an intel channel or nothing then I would take that, I just believe that the same information can be presented in a slightly more user friendly way.

I also have problems with the star map, what we need is something much simpler and more focused almost like Dotlan but live and specific to faction warfare.

The slight delay I would prefer although maybe 5 minutes is to much, you see I enter plexes to provoke a fight or limit the ship classes that I have to fight and a few minutes delay means I can engage people within the current system without the hordes descending on me. However if I am just sitting orbitting a timer then it should leave just enough time for someone to get too me and try to stop me.

I am also normally a solo pilot a little bit of the unkown is prbably good for us.

Regarding bubbles in plexes, I have seen this idea before but I feel it may put people of rather than encourage people to PVP within them and may result in a lot of sniper camping.

People would probably try to sell their characters that are in the plexes because they would realize without the ability to warp it will take years to get anywhere else.

If you mean no one can warp out until the plex is taken that is different.

I think the problem there is the pvp will not have the same complexity that is involved when you have to keep someone tackled. It would be a sort of dumbed down pvp.

Yes good points. I think the main thing is to make it so we can know our militiary complexes are being invaded. If its by map that is ok with me - as long as the map is fixed so its not so buggy.

Now with the destroyers buff there is no reason to do minors in anything other than thrashers. Although this request is not part of the op I do destroyers were not allowed in minors.

Please come plexing for the minmatar. I think it will take some time for people to sort out the fits but other than the slicers and hookbill I don't see anything that will be able to stand up to destroyers. There are reasons why those 2 ships are not as good as destroyers including their price.

But that is fine I am willing to wait until the majority of the ships doing plexes are destroyers. In the past I would say only about 25% of the plexing ships were one of the 4 pirate ships yet people thought that was a problem. Now I bet over 50% of the ships in minors will be 1 of the 4 destroyers. (at least if they have any intention of staying for a fight instead of warping off as soon as an enemy comes)
I think that will be the inevitable result once people figure out the fits. If I am right then this made the diversity of ships in minor plexes much much worse.

Regardless of this issue though. What about the op proposal? Is hide and seek plexing still a problem? Wouldn't we get more fights if the players knew where the plexes are being taken?

Well if you are openly attacking their military complexes, isn't it odd that they are *not* notified of this?


Its actually pretty easy to plex without pvp. Ank proved this. She capped over a hundred plexes in less than a week and never did *any* pvp.

I agree for the most part both sides want gfs. The problem is finding them.

When I plex I would say there is less than a 5% chance a war target will enter the plex I entered. I don't think that is really that great for pvp. In fact I think that sucks. Giving the militia a notification would solve this.

It may be moot.

But anyway what I was thinking is a seperate channel that would only give notifications of complexes that have been entered. No players would be able to type in the intel channel. Otherwise it would look just like any other channel. It would just generate messages like "Cearain merlin entered minor auga" The timestamp could be enabled so you would know when I entered.

Actually there would be one chat channel for the gallente caldari front and a different one for the minmatar amarr front. I would have access to both but I would probably only look at the for the front I am currently fighting at.

The intel would be immediated that way a pilot nearby would have enough time to jump there and possibly save the plex.

It would take balancing but the idea would be to keep the fighting fast paced and dynamic.

The militias would have to assign different pilots to several different sections of the front. So if the minmatar saw the message "cearain merlin entered minor auga" someone might report in their intel channel that they are going in that minor with a destroyer. If 5 people from the minmatar said they were going in with destroyers someone might reassign some of them to another system that would need defending instead of doing overkill in that one. That way they would be using all their pilots as effectively as possible.

If one side had larger numbers then the other side may have to abandon certain areas but they could still regroup and try to be competitve in others.

That is the goal I would be going for. There would need to be allot of tweaking, but this proposal would be the first step.