Warfare & Tactics

Spies? Role Players? Fools .....

.... oh yeah

well happy with my band of bitter vets ....

In the end Chiang still had his own island resort though. What did Poland have except ruined cities and ethnic population hated in equal measure by the Germans and Russians...

Mind elaborating on that? Are they changing what is shown in the tabs? Judging by the screenshot used in the blog all they have done is add a tab containing a great big warning label and the other tabs are called same as current.

PS: Anything has huge potential if iterated upon, but the devil is in the details. On paper the current map is the most powerul tool until one realises that a system can go from uncontested to vulnerable in the time it takes for the damn thing to register it .. just sayin'

The new UI is much more useful than the previous militia tabs (LOL @ "news" from two years ago) and is just a framework for more features to be added in the subsequent inferno releases. So yes, there will certainly be iterations upon it. Right now there is information regarding warzone control and victory points, as well as a tab that has information for new players on "how to do" Faction Warfare, more or less.

That one made me especially happy, since I had previously spoken about new player experience and the fact that the FW UI had great potential for empowering new recruits by showing them where to go and what to do. My long-term goal is to refine this such that we can permanently end the pattern of new players sitting around in militia chat x-ing up for fleets, and give them enough tools that they can find the action on their own, and meet friends and form relationships on the battlefield instead of in stations. The new UI is a great step in that direction.

Also, the slider bar that demonstrates the percentage of contestment is pretty cool, its a concept players have been putting to use for some time now through a custom app, and now is available to EVERY faction warfare pilot through the new UI.

I was pretty clear during the campaign that much of the expansion may very well be set in stone by the time I took office, in fact many brought this up repeatedly, asking me why I was running even though my election might be “too late” to do much about Inferno. The reason I ran has always been to make sure that no matter what was implemented, there was an experienced FW participant on the CSM to help with iterating upon whatever CCP had come up with. I’ll be doing this regardless of whether anyone else on the forum wants me to or believes I’m doing it, that’s just my responsibility.

I knew full well my influence on the first pass of changes would be limited, and I knew full well that we’d have consequences (good and bad) that would need monitoring and adjustment. I knew full well that people would blame me for everything that they didn’t like in Inferno, whether or not it was my fault. I knew full well that sometimes CCP can be stubborn, and that’s why I made a pointed effort to go over the worst-case scenarios everyone’s been describing in this thread, I’d done so long before any of you ever saw anything on SiSi.

All that to say, regardless of the “FW is ******, they’ve broken it forever” attitudes floating around these threads (which get more and more useless by the day – I cannot even believe the ridiculous Chiang Kai-shek banter, are you guys really trying to stay relevant here?) I’m going to keep doing what I’ve been doing, and what I was elected to do. The reason i'm not in panic mode is that the dedicated team CCP's tasked on to FW up until the next expansion means I will have more opportunity to help you all get your concerns addressed than any of us could have ever imagined even during the rosy optimism of campaign season. It's just not going to happen now, deadlines are deadlines.




Not sure if serious. First off, I hope to god / goddess/whatever that you don’t actually believe that rolling dice is a valid way of managing one’s life.

Secondly, the “lives are at stake” language is way overblown and isn’t going to get you anywhere with the developers. The more extreme people’s postings become, whether they’re treating this like a civil rights issue or a matter of “managing lives”, the less CCP’s going to take feedback from those individuals seriously, if they’re even still looking at this thread by now.
Now some of you are here just to vent at me and call me names, that’s totally fine. Some just want to extend their role play into the forums – that’s totally fine too, but there’s a separate forum for that, it has nothing to do with the CSM.

For those here that are trying to actually accomplish something in terms of sharing feedback to CCP (and I know many of you are) – I just want to make sure everyone is clear that the **** talking and role playing are completely counterproductive and reflect quite poorly on the community as a whole.

First no one is suggesting limitting the number of people in a system or plex.

However when ccp implements mechanics that promote blobbing that is a problem. For example no one being able to dock will severely limit the number of different systems the losing side can hit at at the same time. (thereby splitting up the blob) Hence the effectiveness of having a blob is amplified. This is the sort of pro null sec mechanic that is a big part of the new system. Do you think limitting where people can base out of hurts blobbing?

This and other reasons how this will lead to more blob warfare have been explained, so I won't go through them again - unless you missed them.

Your solutions:

A) recruit more. Why not just say get your own blob? I am not interested in the politics of recruiting and "empire building". I wanted to be in a "fight club." What happened to those ideals?

Also note what damarr said. Recruiting for the losing side is pretty hard to do if you have a rational person. The only way you will be able to turn the tide is if you can get some sort of large alliance on your side. And well that again will just make this more like null sec.

B) I really don't know what do you mean by "cooperate/coodinate" better? Do you mean all form into the same big blobby fleet instead of having numerous small gangs? If I wanted to join a blob I would be in null sec already.

C) Why is it so wrong to express our thoughts on the forums to let ccp and csm know what we think?

The war zone is not going to be the same as it has always been. Its going to change due to the mechanics ccp is putting into the game. For people who like sov null sec and big blobby fights it will be better. I am happy for them. But I also say to them why not just leave that in null sec and give people who like more frequent less blobby pvp a single mechnanic. Just one.

There will always be small gang fights off the main pipes. If you're after small fights, then roam away from the front lines and the home systems of various FW alliances/corps. Make a base in a non-FW system that's close to the action:
Gallente/Caldari low sec for Minmatar/Amarr theater. Gallente low sec or even Syndicate for Gallente space. Mara/Karja for Caldari space.

Its not a matter of can or can't find small gang pvp. Its a matter of whether this makes it easier or harder to find. Not having ships in the war zone to ship up or down in, makes it harder.

By the way, give input in the official Soon™ threads"

FW: rebalancing NPCs and you.

FW: I-hub and system upgrades

Yes, thanks for reminding everyone Veshta! This is a *GREAT* place to be putting concrete feedback about what you guys want to see, and I'm glad that both the NPC rebalancing project is "out of the closet" as well as the fact that the developers are proving that they're more than willing to tweak the system as needed, including addressing full lockout if need be.