Warfare & Tactics

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So we used to complain about all the mission runners, now we are trying to promote mission running?

Why are people trying to promote defensive plexing? I don't see getting standings as a big deal but the current system where defensive plexing is only done as a last ditch effort to save a system has allot going for it.

The tag requirements are actually going to be allot easier to meet if we have to start shooting rats. FW plexes drop allot of tags.

My thought on it is to promote people in plexes (defending or otherwise), while also discouraging the current attempt to "farm" FW mechanics with almost no repercussion. I thought to allow missions not to encourage them, but because if D plexing is the only way to gain standings Missions are the only other way to (reasonably) gain standings with any length of time. It's certainly an 'alpha' level of development as an idea. Just my general idea.


You are/were very keen on a requirement to shoot rats. If more items (Im thinking 85% of the LP store) required tags from a wide spectrum of plexes, players would be encouraged to shoot NPCs instead of speedtank. Its far more sandboxy than somehow trying to force players to act a certain way. Perhaps it will also cause misison runners to co-ordinate better and kills NPC in missions for tags. Draketrain, I believe, does/had encourage their membership to loot tags as they actually have some value since no one loots them...ever.

I see what you mean. I too think our faction war rank should have some value. But first they need to make achieving the rank require something significant. If ccp can make plexing a truly pvp mechanic then the rank should be gained from that. Until that happens though I think they are a joke.

As far as adding some actual benefit to the rank I was thinking that if you were high enough rank in your militia you would be able to always dock in your factions stations. I am not sure what we are to imagine is going on in a 24th imperial crusade station that won't let 24th imperial pilots dock. But whatever sort of hodge podge of political bureucracy we are to imagine in those stations, the higher ranking pilots would have the pull so they could sneak their ships in.

So a mid to high level ranking amarr militia member would always be able to dock in a 24th station. (even if we lost sov) A top level amarr militia member would be able to dock in any amarr aligned station - like Carhum conglomerate. This would btw favor minmatar who have more systems in the warzone. But perhaps ccp could put a few more amarr stations throughout to sort of even things out.

The whole rank system is something they could work on.




The tags definitely have value. Its one of the main reasons running majors can be more rewarding that smaller plexes. You are right that the smaller tags have very little value and this might be remedied.