Warfare & Tactics

Start recruiting! I almost never see spam in the recruitment channel or on the recruitment forums regarding main Amarr Militia Corps. I hate to give advice to the enemy although all the Amarr Militia need to do is work together and think about what needs to be done to fix it. Let me also remind you there are many times in the past year you far out numbered Minmatar Militia. So if we can get our act together then so can you.

No, by resetting occupancy you are resetting occupancy, fairness doesn't factor in to it.

If fairness is the goal then no major mechanics changes should be implemented without first addressing the stupidly lopsided NPC balance, geographical balance and the base plexing mechanic (orbiting is not all its cracked up to be).

Sometime down the road we might get NPC reblanced, but I frankly doubt they can/will do as promised and use some incursion stuff for it .. so as far as I am concerned FW is over. All my stuff (3 years of collecting adds up!) is spread out in border systems which will be the first to drop as Minnies keep the easy mode captures done by single frigs, have numerical superiority in just about all TZ and never be more than 5-6 minutes from major reinforcements thanks to geography (you should try offensive plexing as Amarr in the minnie backwater .. takes forever to even get there for Goddess sake!).
I do take a little pleasure in knowing that due to these facts, the Shakorite's will be drowning in LP for the first several months so all their LP store goods will be utterly worthless

Either CCP resets and moves stuff to nearest border or they contact each and every person with stuff in locked out systems to hear where they'd like it teleported to .. would the CCP you know do the former or the latter?

If you knew anything about organized plexing, then yes blobbing truly does "pawn all". Only way for that to change is to make some pretty drastic changes to the plexing mechanics themselves which I don't think will happen in the foreseeable future.
By the way, all the "Yay .. we are not invisible, lets have scraps for supper!" people who embraced the idiocy of 6-7 hrs flips in December used your exact arguments .. "when plexes are everywhere, all the time the blob won't work" .. guess what ...

Want to eradicate the blob (most of it anyway)?:
Change;
- Introduce poison-pills to all mission plexes (just because, and needed for ..)
- Remove any and all automatically spawning plexes, replace with player generated sites (has pills, remember? )
- Introduce useful strategic feedback in militia interface (ie. systems under attack messages)
Result;
- Attacker can't park a blob in a central location and have satellite crews capping plexes in adjacent systems because by the time they arrive the plex is gone.
- Ninja plexing is obsoleted, and
- Time spent becomes equivalent of benefit (zero LP for defender, so zero time).

The "no LP for defensive plexing" appears to be a really good idea to me since it automatically limits the amount of farmers cleaning up the mess the attackers have made. What is the real incentive for defensive plexing? System defense (especially your home system) and pew. Attack is what drives conflict, and therefore its the attackers that should get the majority of the rewards.

The big question is why would a sov reset jumpstart FW? If the currently proposed mechanics are going to work, they need to work when one side has an advantage over the other as well as when both sides are even. BTW, now that we have an exchange rate for VP to LP (17k LP for a medium plex, XXX VP for a medium plex), I feel it's time for CCP to reimburse all my hard work! :D

I would buy a carrier. For every pilot in my alliance. Then i'd get a titan and selfdestruct it for the lulz.

I disagree Now, when you chase someone out of a plex they are running, you get no reward (except to fight off the stick of losing docking access to the system you are fighting over, which you may or may not care about for that particular system). What incentive now is there to defend plexes in hikko, immuri, pyne, kedama, hirri etc?

IMO, no LP for defense is completely borked.

I think the docking restrictions will seriously hinder new players from joining and staying in FW. Most of the people in favor of the docking restrictions like Julius or Victer seems to be veterans (at least I think they are?) but they don't understand how challenging it will be for the newbies to stay in FW. It is stupid for CCP to ask for young players who have no alt to go create another alt on the same account and postpone training time with our main. Or even dumber to ask us to get 2nd account just for this.

People don't understand that the younger players are likely to suffer the most because of the docking restrictions. But what does their opinions matter since it's only the vets whose opinions matter as Hans pointed out

U r right ... And even the vets r not happy about it .... I checked history of people who strongly advocating it and most of hem are either alts or not very active in fw.

I do believe that FW will become so much worse for newer players. Station lock outs will be a big deal to someone new to the game who doesn't have alts to move their things, etc.

Also, with all of the datacore farming that is going to happen, I doubt new players are going to get picked up for plexing fleets, who is going to want to share LP with them?

Station lockouts are going to be bad for pvp as well because now we can roam all over the warzone, but once we are locked out of 75% of the stations, I think we are going to stay very close to home.

Already with FW we get shot at if we go into enemy highsec. Now we are just getting more limited on where we can go. Station lockout is not a good thing IMO.

Corporations who are looking to join FW after the expansion are going to join the side that is winning, who wants to join the losing side and have one or two systems you can maybe dock in?

Datacore farming is not enough of an incentive to join the losing side. A player can always go run Incursion and make more ISK and not have their standings butchered to the enemy side and have access to dock wherever. So yeah.

Just base out of Minmatar highsec. That will become a very viable alternative if we can all rat ourselves up to -1.9