Warfare & Tactics

The problems with the UI affected everyone in the entire game without question, Faction Warfare is only small subset of players, and besides no one's been able to successfully convince CCP yet that there is a "crisis" here where one faction is stuck purely based on the mechanics alone. So I think the sense of urgency you'd like them to have on this issue probably isn't the same sense of urgency they're going to have.

I've already spoke with them about this though, and discussed the exact solutions proposed in this thread by you all. I'm just not sure they're going to devote the time to it or not. Like I said, that's something only Ytterbium can clarify or give reasons as to why that's not possible.

Regarding the sleeper AI - whatever they end up using, the design goal is to tailor fit them to be fought against using PvP fits. The NPC's may not be copycats of incursion rats or sleeper rates, CCP has the capability at least to custom make new NPC's and adjust their strengths and firepower to fit. If it were me coding them, I'd make them fewer in number, smart enough that they mitigate speed tanking and force a ship-up for each plex size but are still straightforward enough to kill that they don't serve as a persistent deterrent to PvP. They shouldn't force pilots into *tank-the-room* PvE fits that focus on DPS-soaking, but they should have enough webbing frigates and such that you put yourself at much higher risk going into a larger plex in a small ship. All that to say, I've heard enough of their intentions here to not worry too much about this pushing FW back into PvE-land. We already have incursions, there is no need to duplicate that here,

The only thing this has done is give us better LP-ISK conversions. It has done nothing in terms of actually taking and holding space, except from a very abstract view in the sense that we have had the potential of making more ISK from FacWar than you have.

It's not like you guys haven't been exploiting the fact that the Minmatar have had T4 and occasionally T5 warzone control, either. Many of the Amarr have admitted they use Minmatar alts to farm missions or plexes in order to make ISK.

And so what if Jade says he has made "BILLIONS (holy crap, billions! with a B!)". Many of us on both sides of the war have made and continue to make billions off of FW and other activities. Billions is nothing special, unlike the Goonies' Trillions which is indeed impressive. But those Trillions are in Goon pockets, not ours.

A system reset goes against everything CCP has stood for in the history of EVE. Thinking CCP is going to give you one is just naive, wishful thinking.

Some Amarr have farmed due to a broken mechanic. Doesn't change the fact that your side can complete majors in a 1 frig with a one week old char and we can't whilst you get bonus LP and cheap ships and we don't and the goons propped you up.

The reason you held that many systems is because you could plex more effectively than we could BEFORE Inferno AND it only took 5-6 hours to flip a system instead of something that now takes over a day.

Justify it all you want but broken game mechanics and lack of balance HAS given the minmitar a massive advantage and all you tell us is who great you are and how much we suck. Make it a fair fight once and for all and then see how things work out.

Do you also agree that one side being able to speed tank a major in a frigate with a 1 week old char whilst the other cannot should also continue to exist???

I don't expect a system reset. But I would love you to give Hans a kick up the backside and tell him to represent ALL of the militia and get this stuff fixed ASAP. If you guys win due to being better, I accept that and +1 to the minmitar militia. But deep down, you all know that you have been given a leg up and therefore you haven't had the true victory you all claim. Get behind the Amarr cause to fix the NPCs and balance everything and THEN if you are still winning, you will know you truely earned it...

We are kicking him about this stuff all the time, mate. It might seem like Hans is a snake just because he is enjoying the benefits of being in the Minmatar, but listening to him on TS3 every day, I can say that he does truly care about the health of all FW, not just the MinMil, like some tinfoil conspiracists like to claim. Ultimately, he (and the CSM) doesn't have a lot of power over CCP. I think he is doing his best to give advice and push suggestions that preserve the spirit of FW while maintaining a fair system. You can choose to believe that, or not.

This assumes that "Goon manipulation" is the reason we've held 56 systems in the first place. All the Goons are claiming to do is to have propped up the WZ control level with their invested LP. That doesnt mean that the Amarr are necessarily going to suddenly surge forward now that our "backers" are gone. They lost all their space long before this manipulation ever took place. It's not like the easy money has anything to do with why we are winning the territory war. If Goons were claiming to have rolled hundreds of plexing alts into the militia to grind system captures, that would be a different case entirely, but they're not.

Also, the end of manipulation of the WZ control doesn't make Tier 5 a suddenly impossible achievement. It takes several million LP to invest every one of 56 systems to level V, this is easily earned by a handful of individual pilots investing an afternoon's worth of work. In other words, Goons are *not* the only ones capable of a coordinated pooling of LP upgrades by any means.

I'll agree with you that what Goons did was a **** move. But technically, besides the market manipulation part, it was all within the rules. So, now, instead of doing something about it.......like a major offensive plexing fleet. (goons left FW, (as far as my knowledge goes, and according to their post) so there goes alot of the competition) you guys want CCP to come in and press the reset button?

Wow, just......wow

The only thing that should, and CCP Shregs already stated that will happen. Is a few perma bans and a few negative ISK balances...