Warfare & Tactics

thanks for the info. I had no intention of hanging up my bomber. and hams have bad range when you always start 50-100km off along with beacon change cant land cloaked anymore.

eft on the tengu is giving me only 0.6 sec faster align time for 0.6au/s slower than the bomber so more than likely a wash.

I guess I just really like hitting at 70 km with navy torps (start shooting as soon as I land). find that's the biggest time waster in missions, moving to the target.

edit: also 60 mil is nice and easy to replace if I fall asleep at the pc while running missions although this happens less now that I have to pay attention in a mission and not use a tp vigil to speed tank it.

Removed some off topic posts.

You can't get to tier 5 if you only have one system. The amount of lp you have to spend to hit higher tiers decreases as you gain more systems. I think it's misleading to argue there is a disconnect between warzone control and tiers.

I do not really care too much what ccp does with fw missions. But to the extent missions remain a much easier way to get the same lp as plexing then plexing and tiers will be of little interest. On the other hand if they removed missions entirely there would be more interest in plexing and tiers. But you would also likely see the warzone become even more lopsided.

It might be that you can make about 50% of the lp from plexing. But that likely assumes oplexing. When you get to higher tiers its much harder since generally you have fewer systems to offensive plex effeciently.

The economic factors do indeed effect the war. Its not a motivator for everyone, and it motivates some more than others. But it is not correct to think people are "either" in faction war solely for the isk or they are in it solely for some other reason.

Making missions effect system control is just caving in and endorsing fw as pure pve.

I will say that there is an imbalance in the missions. Caldari and Minmatar NPCs missile spam making running missions impossible for amarr/gallente bombers that wish to run them (IMO bombers shouldn't be able to solo FW LVL 4's regardless of faction). Another frustrating issue is EWAR from both gallente and caldari NPCs (damps and ecm). You can either be running the mission or just entered trying to catch a mission runner and you will be permajammed or damped to upwards of 1 min locktimes/under 10km lock ranges making any kind of action take ages. I'd either like to see all FW missions increase in difficulty, making it a group activity and be unsoloable or the other side of the coin is make all missions have missile spam and remove/reduce significantly annoying ewar.