Warfare & Tactics

I've never done any Faction Warfare but the idea has been somewhat appealing to me. I watched a few videos on it on youtube. I like the concept of doing something within EvE that is directly linked to the lore aspect of it. Anyway I sort of cringed when I see Minmatar Milita fitted out with Amarr Battleships or Amarr Milita using Hurricanes en-masse etc etc etc.

So I thought, what if there was some sort of bonus given to the respective militia members for using racial ships? I've come up with a couple ideas.

1. Literal bonuses skill wise. It would work like a fleet booster. These boosts would work solely in Empire space where they are fighting their battles or whatever variation needed. The bonuses could be given on an individual level so people could have their choice, or on a group level where a specific percentage would be required to be present for bonuses to be given.

2. Providing free racial ships. I think this would be very popular at least on a newbie level. I remember being new and treating my Tristan as if it were Proteus or Tengu. I think it would go a long way to get new people involved in PVP quickly. On the higher SP level, perhaps racial ships could be given of better quality depending on the person's killboard. This goes further than just giving ships to people for nothing. It could go beyond that and actually provide ships for whole FW corporations for their effort en masse. Say you just took over a station, you could have an event (sort of like an incursion) where an NPC hauler fleet actually brings in racial ships into the new station. This helps with logistics and providing new ships for people.

Now the big question is WHY? Because doing something just because "well it might be cool" is a stupid reason, i'll tell you why.

1. It diversifies fleet doctrines. And you have to deal with the respective strengths and weaknesses of each racial type's fleet. It would be very interesting to see how a Caldari battleship fleet would face up against a Gallente one. The various factions actually fight according to their factions.

2. Well some of you may already be griping and saying "But faction so and so has all the best ship for X and Y!" This may or may not be true. BUT by these means we will be able to see what is what with hard data and balance if it needed. If there is a ship imbalance it can be more directly addressed.

ECCM, Sensor Damps, Webs, Blasters. Any questions?

Racial ECM on a bonused hull from 140km, Blasters, Webs, Torps, Smart Bombs, Racial ECM on a bonused hull from 140km. Any questions?

Would probably be great for minmatar until it reached BS level, then it would suck, I cry when I see a phoon in a large fleet and the tempest is only a bit better.

Hey don't be mean to the phoon.

It has a lot of utility.

Currently FW pilots get massive LP discounts on their respective faction ship hulls.

I think rather than giving a ship bonus out of nowhere, the militias should offer encouragement to pilots by giving a bonus to LP awards for actions completed in a racial hull. Plexes captured / missions completed / enemy ships killed etc.

Say... 20% bonus.



T.

The problem with current ships is that not every faction have ships which can meet all styles of playing. For example: Amarr have with the navy slicer the perfect kiting frigate, no other non-amarr frigate in game is even compareable with the slicer. On the other side minmatar has the fastest frigates in game. Since people are searching for ships which are matching their style of fighting as good as possible, they choose ships of other races if they match better than other ships. Limiting people to a specific set of ships would also limit the style of playing and fighting which would really reduce the fun.

But yes, in general I hate Amarr flying Minmatar ships und vice versa.

Fw is fine the way it is no need to fix what aint broken RP all day if you want but dont punish us taht wanna have fun

Yes. Do you think that the gallente fleet would stand a hope of victory?