Warfare & Tactics

Just to add... Many of the people that have joined so far have ground their rep from -5.0 with the appropriate faction to +0.5 to get in... Hate to say it but there are plenty of peeps interested in these new changes. Doomsdayers just need to take a step back... Or Register for the Apocolypse Afterparty on facebook... One of the 2. :P

As Mike said, the future of the Militia's will be written by the old leaders that stick around and the new people that come... And there are plenty of those new players...

But now you have a better option to prevent them from making isk...kick them out of the plex

Problem is that if you are right and the militias all get a massive surge of active pilots due to the new farm-friendly mechanics then the FW we have bled for and moaned about the past 3 years ceases to exist .. hell it will do so even without a surge due to the farms necessitating blobs to keep them pristine.

We are already close to having zero solo/small-gang fights these days .. in the years after it kicked off, majority of fights was <10 man per side with big romps on weekends only (almost) .. add your hundreds on all sides and no fight will be with less than 50 per side, lockouts take care of that as offense will always aim for superiority from the start due to not being able to reship.

I seriously miss the days when I could take a Punisher or Nomen out and fight 1-3 people in contests of skill and determination over the right to irrelevant VP .. "GF"'s were abundant then. Now you need to check Titan's for people waiting to drop you, keep a looooong list of all the enemy neutral boosters/scouts and then hope to find an enemy that doesn't outnumber you 4:1.

What I and most others have lobbied for since 2010 (current trend started back then) is mechanics that encouraged staying small and challenged the individual on an hourly/daily basis .. problem of course is that CCP didn't read anything FW related until last December onwards and at that point in time all people could talk about was how poor they were (FW LP devalued in preceeding year) and wouldn't it be great if there was pay involved and some effect of taking space ..

FW truly held promise beyond anything CCP has released since I started playing; Small scale fighting, ideal RP/PF/Lore platform .. purpose. What it is about to become is a blobby farm fest with almost no redeeming features .. even the once :awesome: size restriction on plexes has been killed of by the new pirate/navy hulls and T3 boosters.

R.I.P Factional Warfare. Thank you for teaching me which is the pointy end.

PS: How is that for Doom Calling? Do I win something!!!!

Uhmm .. more times spinning buttons ? Three times more ?

Inferno is going to require 5xs the button spinning to flip a system. Haven't you heard the advertisement "Faction war now with 5xs the button spinning"

Hrett thinks 3xs the button spinning is plenty. I think 1/6 the button spinning is plenty.

I think tagging them should be enough. FOr example, how awesome would it be if it would be 10 man plexes, where a 10 man fleet will start a timer in, let's say enaluri, then have to tag 10 buttons across FW area and get back to Enaluri in an hr and tag the plex again in order to get victory points . That would actually, y'know .. .encourage roaming.

Granted, that beeing said, I haven't slept in ages so what seems like a good ideea to me atm might be in fact the dumbest thing ever.

Ninja edit : Oh, it would also take NPCs out of the equation. Also, inb4 "omg, 10 man blobs, etc." . The minors could be done solo, the mediums with 3-4 guys, etc. The main point is that it would be better if plexing would encourage ppl to roam rahter than forcing them to stay in one place.

Well, as long as you are running the button, you are sitting in one place aren't you ? But this way if everyone was on the move all the time, think how many skirmishes would happen en route with guys or gangs running in to eachother.

Not whining yet. Not going to chase stabbed condors 23/7 either. We have other plans for them.

Warhammer Online started to wear you down when you started running after every battle objective that was being capped for the xp. But there were always people trying to beat the clock because all you had to do was get there.

The good thing about EVE is the acceleration gates make it much easier to pick off the inevitable stragglers, and known leaching jerks will get ostracized.

Besides lockouts taking away tactical reshipping and pushing low sec dwellers to go neutral I'm fine with the coming changes.

As I understand the idiocy coming, losing plexes in a non-upgraded system has zero impact on warzone control unless it actually flips. So as long as its a 'chaff' system you can wait for as long as you want (until flipping) before dropping a blob in there to counter with no adverse effects .. as they are still not killing of the DT shuffle, I reckon the post-DT action will be back in full force for defenders as they get no immediate benefit so will want to minimize time spent plexing.

PS: You just ran out 20 Amarr with a 50 man triple neut boosted fleet .. calling you Shakorites for blobbers in very appropriate