Warfare & Tactics

These comments are just regarding those fighting for amarr against the minmatar npcs:


Lots of people like buffer armor tanks for pvp. Especially at the cruiser level. No 1600 plate ruptures,vexors or thoraxes. Unless you want to kite them but then you are not on the button the whole time. As you say, you can't use them to run plexes.

But even a shield rupture can't solo them well or at all depending on the type. Even if you can make it before hitting armor you will likely have to warp off if an enemy comes. If someone else started the plex earlier and you have the build up of npcs forget about it.

If your favorite pvp cruiser is the caracal or some other active tank cruiser (I can't even think of one non faction t1 cruiser that I active tank) then you are right you will have no problem soloing the mediums in them. Otherwise though your options are a pretty limitted.

You can run closed majors in a heavy missile drake. But I would say running them in a ham drake will force you to run if any enemy pvpers that come during the majority of the time you are orbitting the button - unless you want to fight with less than half your tank.

Zealot I haven't tried. I generally like to fly cheaper/insurable ships in faction war. Shield harb does not work well, at least not the pulse harb I used. I haven't used a shield cane, but based on my experience with the ham drake its pretty unlikely to work, but the explosive damage profile may make it work out ok.

Have you soloed a major in any other ship besides a heavy missile drake? For the majority of the time you were there, if an enemy cam in, in the same sort of ship would you have to warp off? I generally go into plexes looking for pvp so fits where my tank is just about to break under npc fire is not really a good option for me.

But again we are talking only about restricted majors. Unrestricted majors you will likely have to warp out and kite off the button even in a heavy missile drake that is set up for pvp. They are very hard for even a non top skilled mostly pve dominix.

I don't fly allot of active tank pvp ships (and the few, I do use, use cap charges) so that might just be the difference between your experience and mine.

*yawn* again with the 'lets balance it by making everything the same'? CCP Ytterbium, you should be able to do better then that. You HAVE to do better then that.

How about balancing it by FINALLY adding some dynamic balancing mechanics to the game? Have the game keep track of completion rates, popularity , etc and have it adjust the difficulty on the fly by adding more ships with other abilities, or other nasty stuff.

The good thing about this is that you don't have to redo the whole thing manually again next year if CCP launches some new ships totally putting everything on it's head again.

Achieve balance by giving the other factions their own curve-balls to deal with, not simply remove all curve-balls! Be creative! Gallente plexes are too easy? Fine, have the game automatically start throwing stasis towers in the mix until the metrics match those of the Caldari.

Besides, equalizing downwards by making stuff easier is NOT the direction that belongs in EVE!

Rather pivotal line hidden in there .. he should have bolded it but 'meh'

I guess I honestly don't understand any of the issues you're complaining about. I plex in solo PVP fits all the time. No problems. And I get a ton of kills.

There's nothing wrong with having to fight on a obstacle course.

I'll agree that ECM balance has issues, but this is an overall problem, which should be addressed instead of just removing all NPC that the players deem annoying.

Something like reducing ECM cycles to 5 seconds and giving drones the option to prioritize and auto-engage jamming ships.

Except now CCP is actually trying to fix the issues, for which myself (and many others) are quite thankful for.

see as previously stated i play to win. and thats what im doing, if this requires exploiting a loophole im all for it. and dont do that holier then thou crap. i was chasing your afk plexers out long before i started doing it, i just embraced it as a valid tactic before you. but i see even you Qcats are now down playing in the mud and that makes me smile because it shows your adapting and will make this war even more fun.

I hope you agree that both are lame tactics, and that CCP ought to find a way to make them not efficient. Edit: Also be careful w.r.t wishing for lame tactics to be used in FW. They can get very, very lame indeed.

The next thing you should try is getting your alt to +5 Federation standings so you can enter all Gallente faction plexes and not get shot at by NPCs. Then you can bring a real pvp ship.

This hasn't been fixed? Wow that's crazy lame as well. I agree completely, death to all these lame tactics! Shouldn't be too hard for CCP to fix, let's hope we won't have to wait for the next expansion for fixes.