Warfare & Tactics

Hello Pilots, I'm a fairly experienced player with extensive Caldari and Missile skills. I currently fly a CS Nighthawk and have pretty good leadership skills. Of course, I can also fly a Drake and a well-fit Raven or RNI.

If I was looking to get into Faction Warfare, where would I start? Would any FW corps even be interested in taking me on? Is there money to be made in FW? If so, how much? How often is the PvP, and is it balanced? Which FW corps should I consider?

Thanks

I endorse this post. ILAW are a good bunch in a great militia.

Isk:
There is still good money in FW, but it's not the isk fountain it was a month ago. Therefore I'm sure there are better ways just to make money. Also: your standings with the opposing faction will tank, there is no longer a viable way around that.

Ships:
Forget about your Nighthawk and your Raven. You will mostly find yourself in small ships. Frigates, destroyers. That is unless your FC calls for bigger and better.

Pvp:
When in factional warfare you can pretty much always find something to kill these days. Solo is a bit harder, but not impossible.
That being said, with the new system, there are medium scale fleet engagements every single day now in the Gallente/Caldari war. The fight over chosen systems can be pretty intense. Most of the time you will need to be in one of the anointed corps to get in on these though.

Corp:
I suggest you join the NPC militia corp and from there on make your way into the recruitment channels of different corps. Try to get a feel for which one will fit you best.

what is your goal?

1. do you want isk?
A: join minmatar or gallente

2. do you want fights?
A: join anyone

3. do you want to blob?
A: join minmatar

4. do you want to small gang?
A: join amarr or caldari

5. do you want a challenge?
A: join amarr or caldari

6. do you want to drop caps on everyone?
A: join gallente or Happy Endings alliance in caldari

7. do you want to be on the winning side?
A: join gallente or caldari

8. do you want to be the underdog?
A: join amarr but caldari is a close 2nd

Gallente and Caldari are both winning sides because you are much less likely to run into Dan Carter Murray (Amarr right?)and his cloud of hate and anger. Not having to deal with that makes you a winner.

because caldari is close to getting tier 3.

minmatar aren't winners because...you can figure that one out <3

get an Incursis, put some reppers on it, fit it for speed tanking , wait, wait....

never mind

Nothing to say but i just wanted to see how often i could get my name on the warfare and tactics board as seems it is all it's used for.

1)Yes, 2)Yes, 3)No but you should. If your corp won't change to faction war then you must leave it.

If you are new to pvp you want to go solo may want to try rvb first. Its a bit more limitted in the types of ships and such, plus you will be able to get quite a few more decent frigate fights per hour. FW you are looking at about 1 fight per 1.5 hours rvb you should be able to double that.

1) Yes

2) Yes-ish

3) No but do. You'll get more help, more fights and generally have more fun.



I joined EVE and FW almost immediately before Inferno which was absolutely insane in terms of fighting (I have a brilliant memory of limping home to Arzad in an unfitted Rifter at about 4am on the morning of the Inferno patch - check out Susan Black's blog www.gamerchick.net for some vids from that time). Looking back I didn't do much more than make up the numbers but wow what an introduction. For me, joining FW ironically made lowsec much safer because suddenly you know who to avoid. As a new player it's a great idea if pvp is what you're after. Ignore marketjacker. Nullsec types like him don't have a very good track record of winning in lowsec.

There are loads of fights available in the warzone but pure solo pvp is still tricky because although things do even out with skill and experience eventually, at the 2mil SP mark, age is still a significant factor. If you want to win occasionally that is. To start with you'll want to take fights with people who are about the same age as yourself and they are tricky to find but then that's probably fairly true of anywhere. Things will improve though. I baited this slicer that thought I was an easy kill. http://rust-in-pieces.org/kills/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17061 He's got about x6 the SP I have and his ship was worth x6 mine. My alliance-comrades came in and finished the job but by then he was neuted, scrammed and causing minimal damage so it was only a matter of time before he died. Things will improve and the buzz you'll get will be well worth it

I'm not saying that you won't get fights from the start because you will, loads of them. I have only 8mil SP so I'm still an extremely young player compared with many in the warzone and I am on just short of 200 killmails. Most of those are small gang and fleet kills but it's pretty exciting tbh. On 2mil SP you can make the biggest impact in scout and tackle roles where it is not SP but RL skills that make the biggest difference. Join fleets, get on comms, join a FW corp/alliance. I would personally recommend Iron Oxide. The nicest, best and most competent of all the lowsec alliances ...although I'm not sure if we're recruiting atm.

Getting into the better and more interesting fleets and fleet fights is easier when you're in a FW corp/alliance. People don't generally trust General Militia on account of all the alts, spais, idiots, etc.