Warfare & Tactics

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...?

Can Caldari major plexes be runned in a pvp nano drake or a dual/tripple repping myrm?

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 lass 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 ;)

NPC balancing is a legitimate complaint. It is unbalanced when you can run a major plex with a t1 frig fit up with overdrives and a shield buffer. It's particularly bad now that FW has had a slight numbers boost since all the newbs in t1 frigs plus the usual alts are running around contesting backwater systems and running from fights constantly. That's a problem that exists across all tzs and it means you can wage occupancy war for substantially less isk than your opponent. CCP needs to get on NPC balancing right away, and should have done so before the patch even hit, but it seems they don't actually ask actual players for advice, cause no one in their right mind would have suggested this system in its totality.

Causing them "grief" does absolutely nothing other than allow for the accumulation of infini-LP through plexing .. (maximum of half what a Shakorite would get as they can solo any plex by the way).
Even if by some miracle, Shakorites are asleep for several days and a system is flipped somewhere in the sticks the plex balance is so broken that it will be a practical impossibility to hold such a system .. (ref: any system held beyond Dal pre-idiocy)

Reset wouldn't have helped much, merely delayed the current situation. Difference in plexing is really that pronounced, a small fact that the Gal/Cal chest-beaters can't seem to fathom as they both have stupidly solo'able NPCs and a warzone specifically designed for FW.

whine translation = I can not camp auga third anymoarz

"revolved around playing stations games and camping a handful of gates in the same few systems day after day."

It was like high sec war dec PVP.

Which most Amarrs love and prefer than non stop PLEX grinding all day.