Warfare & Tactics

I chuckled

All those implications could be deduced by logic and were discussed in the weeks/months prior to patch .. we actually started bitching/moaning/whining immediately after FF when they presented the lame-brain ideas. They did not listen and barely responded in that period, what makes you think they will now that the turd has been allowed to fester and any change would require a much larger /facepalm'ing session on their part?

CCP are bogged down with mediocrity and ineptitude. They probably do not have a plan for FW at all .. they have said repeatedly that they are drawing one up but with game breakers changers like this recent without revealing said plan beforehand other than "use FW as guinea pig blablabla".

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lol that just dosnt look right ROFL :)

Maybe you should of been trying to build relations with the Caldari so that our blobs could come down there and help you out. Instead you decided to side with the enemy and shoot at us. You deserve to have nothing and I hope the minnys push you out of lowsec all together.

Adapt or GTFO

This. Split up and fan out and get solo/duo groups hit and run and plex. The Caldari have better Warzone control last I checked, and they capture more plexes than we do, because they split up and fan out, despite them having literally no chance in an open fight.

You say you're the underdog, but it sounds like you're still fighting as a *fleet* and not scurrying around like guerilla fighters like true underdogs do. You can't be an underdog AND just sit in fleets all day, that's not how guerilla warfare works. But if you feel your side truly is the more competent one pilot for pilot, split up in small groups (5 max) and fan out. Hit plexes, kill enemy stragglers, and fight like a guerilla force.

One thing though: NPC balance is needed, I feel for you having to deal with the TP + missile spam rats.

Minors and mediums are fine, but try getting jammed for a minute solid in the larger plexes. It's not fun.

Question: Are the Minmatar rats a significant threat even in minor plexes? (Assuming you don't come in to a full spawn)

I do agree that CCP should have nerfed all rats into oblivion BEFORE these changes. But what do you mean by having a warzone specifically designed for FW...?

Contracts, man. Contracts.

Black Rise.

Veshta, you left FW.

Your corp for all their roleplay never really impacted on the Amarr miltia, or the Minmatar Militia.

When the going got tough, your corp found a weak RP reason and left. You will probably be back to lord it over everyone and RP in militia channel once others have done the work in bringing the Amarr back from the brink.

In the meantime, your and your corp are simply inconsequential. No one cares about has-beens. Stop cluttering the FW threads with your whine unless you have more than words to contribute.

Put up or shut up.

I have no idea what CCP wanted to accomplish with this patch but definatly not to fix FW in the long run.

Or they are far more stupid than i have ever imagined..

So they just went ahead, ignoring all well known imbalances, bugs and exploits, and implemented severe consequences into the FW system that pretty much screws over the numeric inferior side completly.

Eventually leaving them no way to earn isk, dock in low sec and in consequence no chance to retake any system.

So combined with the original FW system, that already was completly designed against amarr in terms of ship balance, npc balance, system distribution/layout and the fact that due to bad racial role play design amarr milita has always been less attractive to players than any other faction, thischanges only aim towards one goal which is to remove the amarr milita (or any milita on the loosing side) completly from the game.

And if this was not the intention of CCP then it can only mean that the people of CCP are some of the worst devs, game designers and game balancers in game history.
Its almost as if CCP does not know at all how their own game actually works.

My prediction is that once the new and shiny effect of this patch has worn off and the supply of suicidal noobs on both sides has dried up, FW will be in far worse state that it was before this patch.

Fcs on the amarr side will burn out fast and no one will run fleets anymore.
After that Amarr Milita will probably become mostly inactive with the exception of a few die hards that will not care about plexing (since the LP rewards are useless with this store prices) and try to roam around in small/fast gangs to pick off lone WTs.

After that caldari milita will have to fight the combined blobs of gallente and minmatar which they will probably not have any chance of beating and that will slowly bring them towards the same end as the amarr milita.

Minmatar and Gallente militas will be flooded with farming carebears and the amount of stealth bombers running around low sec would blot out all suns IF they were not cloaked most of the time ;)

And with the Empyrean Age (imo the best expansion eve ever had) will come to an end.

Unfortunatly the only effective way to communicate with CCP is through the cancel button in the account management which i have used 3 times recently.

And to those the still cling to the hope of CCP fixing the bugs, imbalances and the promise to keep iterating on FW i can only say:

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

CCP never thinks long term and in short terms this patch might actually look like a success.
So they will be pretty much done with FW and hardly do anything anymore.

It will be interesting to see how dust514 will turn out since there is unlike with eve a lot of competition out there.

But since CCPs strategy seems not to be to attract new players but instead just keep milking their existing ones by making them buy more accounts (T3 booster alt, capital/super cap alt, industry alt, neutral hauling alt) and now even more games (dust 514) it might work out somehow for them.

And with this my final eve rant is over and all the cry more, htfu, gtfo and adapt or die replies can come ;)