Warfare & Tactics

Hi yes hello.

Thank you for the warm welcome to FW. I hope you will all be pleased at our daily sacrifices of T1 frigs to the Navy Comet menace. The sacrifices will continue until the Wreck God is satiated.

From my experience the only alts in Gallente FW are owned by Gallente FW pilots. It's a sad, lonely life we lead as members of the Gallente Militia. Some day a Null Sec alliance will look beneath the easy "market access" of the Caldari (you know what I mean), the blaster fleet doctrines that get our ships killed in large engagements, and see us for what we really are. Loyal, hard working, dependable, and always there when the chips are down.

IHub bashes have been exceedingly enjoyable, everyone getting real quiet as we all call our various different handlers. Perhaps some sort of MAD doctrine will arise as someone who want to drop on us will be under threat of being dropped by one of the other interested parties.

I wish we would get more TESTies in Nis area. All we are seeing is them in stealth bombers trying to get plex in Nis and Noto, then consequently warping away in pods.

So hows the whole taking Essence thing going froggies?

i already feel pity for the average Test Member, so much i let a pod go yesterday night i had already scrammed....currently not much of a "fight" with test, its more a guranteed slaughter. And they know it by now, as they start to flee even if clearly in supreme numbers to our fleets. No wonder Goonswarm could take Fountain that easy. Anyway a nice addition of targets and i hope you develop into real enemies over time, Test.

PS: I like smack, but what you bring is........meeeh at best, only number smack, no real good smack, improve on every front please

JUSTK is considering a "don't goo the TESTies" policy, mainly because we love the idea of making them fly their pods 20+ jumps back to their staging systems.

We're not pirates, we're privateers!

You seem a little upset?

Also, please do hurry with all the structure grinding and other PvE. Im growing impatient waiting for my stacks of faction items and ships to start increasing in value!

Here's the thing. We're getting kills by the bucketload, and we haven't lost a single system that means a dang thing to GalMil. Noone deplexed or fought for any of the systems you've taken to date. You want Nennamalia? Come give it a shot. There's nothing at all stopping you from plexing it up right now, actually. Hell, from what I've heard there's even a technetium moon or two there you might want to try to take.

Doubt you will though. See, any corp / alliance that's actually serious about playing in FW, and who plans to go the distance, bases out of a FW system inside the warzone. TEST is based out of Tamo from what I've heard, which is 3 jumps out from any warzone system, and 9 jumps from any major GalMil staging area. Not exactly daring by any means.

Now, if you're here for iskies, then ya'll are actually ready to make bank right now. We're not impressed that you're halfway to tier 2 right now. See, with CalMil holding 42 systems, you could actually be in Tier 3 making 3.5 times as many LP per plex / mission as you are right now, without having to bash another hub. But you're not, which means you don't know how to optimize for the isks you want to make.

So, here's how you do it, since I know you're wondering.

1. Upgrade every system you currently hold in CalMil to 5. That puts you in Tier 3 immediately.
2. Have everyone run 1-2 plexes a day and donate those LP to the nearest / lowest IHUB to maintain all 5s.
3. Run around in a warp speed optimized inty, picking up L4 missions. At Tier 3, they'll pay about 50k LP each.
4. Run them in groups of 3-5 with Nemesis for DPS. If newbros don't have a bomber, no worries. Just have them open the mission plex when the group jumps in system and hang out while the older crew runs the mission.
5. You control enough systems to gather up 14 missions at a time. Gathering them up, running them, and turning them in should take about 4 hours total once you get it down - most of that travel time. The warp speed changes will speed that up a bit.
6. Running a block of L4s should therefore net you about 600-700k LP, for about 150k LP per hour.

Converting the LPs to isk can be tricky given the whole market issue, but having Dreddit logistics guys stock needed stuff at a designated turn-in system would make things easier. Could even do a set up where folks receive items and isk from your logi guys, convert it in the LP store to predetermined items, and give those back to the logi guys to handle the transport and sale on the open market. At a fixed value per LP, people could profit at various points along the chain, and you could avoid crashing the market for longer.

Just a thought.

But hey, you're here to "win" FW. To do that, you basically need to keep us from completing the Ladistier takeover, though that's really a fight between some Russian crews more than anything. Then you need to take Nisuwa, Nennamalia, Hallanen, Eha, and Vlillirier. Those are the major GalMil staging areas that I'm most familiar with. Taking systems next door doesn't really mean much, just gives us a place to find easy fights and offensive plex for more LPs. Since we can maintain Tier 2 all the way down to only holding 21 systems, it'll stay worth it for a good long time. Oh, and because GalMil doesn't have the same farmer density as CalMil (which TEST is definitely contributing to) we actually have just as much fun in Tier 1 as Tier 3 - if not more.

In short, thanks for bringing more sacrifices for the Wreck God, and hope that we've been able to educate you a bit on how to better make isk / LP during your stay. Looking forward to whether TEST plans to actually push for core GalMil systems or just around for the good fights and iskies - either way works for us.