Warfare & Tactics

Waves would be bad. So would heavily increased numbers of NPCs. There were massive balance problems with the old system, and the sheer casualty numbers were just silly from a lore point of view. Single patrol boat seems right for a novice plex.

What is needed is slightly stronger and more dangerous NPCs. And then escort frigates for the cruisers and up.

A solidly fit t1 fit t1 frigate should easily beat a novice plex rat, but a stabbed/WCS one should not. That makes a pretty fine sweet spot, but it should be achievable.

I also think all FW NPCs should be fit to kill. They should have webs and scrams. At the same time, I would get rid of the silly speed thing they have going.

Plex difficulty is a relatively minor issue in FW mechanics, however.

Missions and the whole tier system are significantly more problematic.

Yeah, I can see how that would be problematic.

My intent was to create a mechanic with a tendency towards a neutral timer count, so that bailing from a plex and coming back a half hour later doesn't mean you get to pick up where you left off. I hate the disparity of effort it takes to capture a plex that's been run down by the opposite faction, as that disparity is part of what causes so many folks to simply leave rather than put in a disproportionate amount of effort to capture a plex for less rewards.

Not sure how to make that a reality though.

thats standard in any home system.

Then you can complain about people having bigger corps or more friends and ask CCP to change the game again.

Many people have no problem with other people having the ability to put up a fight while outnumbered.


Why do a minority want to make eve pay to win by making it so only the person who can afford to consistently leeroy link ships on grid can use them?
(Of course they will also make sure their link ship are neutral so its not effecting their corp efficiency.)

It is just another form of pay to win if links go ongrid the richest players will be the only ones doing it.
The rest will camp on station undocks to be ongrid with their links and their will be no real pvp as we know it.


This is one of those 'Be careful what you wish for' situations.

Remember:
ECM alts are the next thing on the list you must complain about because you will 'want a place to escape it'


What do you think people will do with those toons once they can't use them to boost?

+1 to annoyance mail spam tactics.

And welcome back Cearain!!!

I agree with the unnecessary locking range and speed debuffs because what you're trying to say is you shouldn't be able to lock at all. +1 for your great idea which I agree with 100%.

ECM alts are also lame I won't deny it. But at least they show up on the killmail and have to be on grid. So its easier to identify these people and either avoid them or plan to kill them.

I don't know what people will do with the alts, maybe take them out of faction war and low sec, and use them in high sec or null sec. But the issue gets worse the longer ccp allows this to go on.

There was a time when people wanted to attack and defend a system for the great pvp. There were also economic incentives. That were driving people to plex. Unfortunately CCP did not take all the necessary actions to make sure the plexers were not just alts. They did take some actions here but not enough.




Not really. There was logistics before. Now the logistical options are more limited.

The only thing it did was help with station camping. But if ccp wanted to do that they would just need to say the enemy can't dock in the actual enemy faction war stations. That way people who don't know how to deal with station camps will have several stations they can choose from.





It just means pvpers will become pirates instead of staying in faction war. Unless you are big into gate camping. Thats really the only reason to stay in fw.



There were before and there were very big fights that started as a result of inferno. Right before inferno there were big fights in a few systems. It had to do with several changes that were happening at once.

1) Station lockouts
2) huge incentives to win the war
3) the number of plexes you need to run to flip a system was going to be 5xs what it used to be (or something like that)

Now because of the first factor the battles were largely fought in only a few systems. (plus many people couldn't participate because they were busy moving stuff out of systems they knew would fall) If 1 was not the case there would have been just as much fighting just more spread out. The idea would have been to spread out and capture as many plexes and systems as you could before 3 kicked in.

There were changes after inferno that made faction war extremely stagnant to the point where you think the only reason to capture a system is to kick your enemy out of a station. That had to do with how the rewards for system occupancy were paid.

I thought Cearain ragequit Eve? Dude, you can't quit and then come back like nothing happened. You lose your street cred. We need an explanation - an inspiring story on why you resubbed to this wonderful game.