Warfare & Tactics

If you don't want a system to be taken then move there.

Myyhera is still at 0% contested, right?

edit: systems w/o stations solution is: let them farm/flip it and then you farm/flip it back.

You didn't say anything about mission running in your original post, but I agree that they shouldn't be part of the war effort.

You must have recently moved to Kourmonen.

You are correct that Myyhera, the system where the vast majority of your corp lived for the longest time, is in highsec.

PvP hotspot is created anywhere that have people living there.

If you want pvp then go start plexing a system where someone lives because they tend to not like that.

Yeah, I like the idea of notifications. At least within the current system it would improve things. But there would still be a long grind to plex and most of the time the end goal (flipping the system) is very far away. That is poor gameplay because the grind (and all the farmers doing it) is currently the deciding force in FW sov war.

Making only one system plexable in each constellation will create 10 different target systems in Amarr/minmatar. Winning any of these will have a significant impact on sov and it will probably stimulate more fighting over sov. And I don't think you can blob all 10 of them at the same time.

We still get fights now. That is not the issue. The issue is that sov today is decided by mindless grinding done by farmers and PvP is completely disconnected from the sov warfare (except in some rare situations). Why can't farmers run missions and leave sov warfare to PvP pilots? At least that is how the game should be designed.

No.

No.

People seem to be so worried about blob warfare happening in faction warfare, but everything i've seen so far has shown that with the current mechanics, its not uncommon for a militia to form up under one fleet or "blob" and go around putting own the opposing militia's smaller fleets, until that militia decides to all get into one fleet or "blob", or disband entirely. So i'm not really sure how any new game mechanics are going to make things worse than they are now, since during from what I can see, any groups interested in working with each other already do and theres usually no more than 1-2 main fleets at any given time.

I have no opinion on the OP's proposal, but I thought i'd share my observation regarding peoples constant worries that FW will suddenly turn into blobfest 9000.

Perhaps, but I would also concede that the reason you see more "blobs" is simply because there are more groups in FW. If you get rid of all of the "new guard" groups that joined FW post-Inferno the "blob problem" would instantly go away and things would be back to how they were for I.law pre-Inferno. Perhaps I.law should go back to flying by themselves if blobbyness is becoming too much of a problem for them?

I think the biggest change regarding Faction Warfare and blobs is before, it was just PVP for PVP's sake. Since warzone control didn't matter, working together was never a huge deal since there were never any strategic goals that really mattered.

My impression is the opposite actually. There used to be more groups in faction war. There used to be a group of minmatar I would fight in frer. A group in and around todifraun and a group in dal as well as a group in arzad to name a few. Now most of those systems are empty when I pass through. A much larger percent of the fighting is in kourm.

I guess we could ask for some statistics, but I would be willing to bet that after inferno a much larger percentage of the fighting is happening 1 or 2 jumps from kourm than before inferno.



I don't speak for I law. Allot of players in I law like the larger fleet fights that inferno brought. We are a fairly diverse group. We just like pvp, honor 1v1s, and don't mind going gcc.

If we fly in smaller groups we will find vast areas of minmatar space with no gangs to fight. Why? Because they aren't expecting us to come fight there for good reason. We won't be able to repair or reship if we lose some of our gang. The no docking rule has just changed things around allot. Now if you want to pvp in a gang you better get a big fleet because its pretty much kourm or gtfo. But again just my impression I would love to see statistics on the percent of faction war pvp that happens in kourm pre and post inferno.




We have always had goals. We didn't get isk for achieving the goals but we always had goals. But really not much has changed.

Now the " sov goals" are just as far removed from the group pvp goals, it is really not much different. The only thing that changed pvp wise is the station lockouts means the fighting is less spread out.

Plus there are many more active people, so much more fighting in general. Inferno did a lot of good things and the increase in pvp is great while it lasts. It didn't do one important thing though. Bridge the gap between sov and pvp. They are still mostly 2 different arenas.

Not sure why you wanted me to read this.

I guess I would say, you shouldn't be able to hide from your enemies while you are attacking their military complexes.


If you like hiding from war targets and fights you can run missions.