Warfare & Tactics

This.

So FW is no worse for pvp than anywhere else in Eve?

Reason No. 4 to join FW: You can make Damar cry on the forums. /thread

Thanks for the responses. I think I'm gonna give it a shot.

- Which faction would you recommend? I prefer small gang (4-12) but am confident soloing or bearhunting. Activity in early US prime time is the most important factor, both for my and my opponents. I lean gallente (fighting the noob zerg) or matar (lore), but I'd rather play for a small, cohesive group even if outnumbered.

- Any recommendations on corps that might consider accepting a pvp vet with proven skill/loyalty but who is new to FW?

- should I try to rebuild my terrible rep or just buy an alt? (Also, anyone selling a good alt :D)

I would recommend Caldari, they are outnumbered in USTZ, especially late. They do tend to get blobbed quite a bit , but for a vet getting blobbed by a bunch of noobs can be a good thing ;) For small gang I see them out quite often in 10 man fleets, but rarely anything smaller. I hope you enjoy it...i sure do...done just about everything else in eve and FW is the best place for small gang pew with out question. Enjoy.

Just opposite, FW is worst PVP in EVE.

It is full of people who thinks they know something about PVP but not many of them really do.

So if you are new player and want to learn to pvp FW is not right place for it, there is no one who can or will really teach something. If you are lucky you might get in some corp who know something but usually 'spy' problem prevents joining those corps.

Wrong, the Minmatar US (and I believe EU as well) timezone is the weakest it has ever been.

For Minmatar USTZ
- The Latenite Group is down to maybe 3-5 active players on any given day.
- AUTOZ has maybe 5-10 active players, and we've been ignoring the Amarr mostly to spar with Pandemic Legion.
- What other major USTZ Minmatar groups are there? Pretty much none, except for Valkyr Industries (part of the Latenite Group) who come on sporadically.

We pretty much can't muster more than 10 people to fight the Amarr during Minmatar USTZ and their usual fleets (Wolfsbrigade mostly) generally are 15+. vOv

At least, thats the way it seems to me lately.

WTF happened to the days of Gentlemanly Sparring where we'd end up getting 3-4 good rounds of 15+ man fleet combat EVERY NIGHT? )':

I am bitter vetting nowadays, it seems I can frig roam for 4-6hours and still find nothing. I did take a month off in Oz, but still roam now I am back. Solo is super hard to find and fleet fights are mostly boring if in bs. I have moved away from the huola cluster, as it is largely station games. I will come find you then for some fun on the weekend :)

It is untrue in fact. I get so many convos from people asking me to learn about FW or just ask general militia questions and I love to answer them. There's more people here that do the same. All this knowledge is passed from the old generation to the new generation of militia pilots.

When I was fresh meat in the militia, people took me under their wing and taught me everything I know today. I still hang out with these people and EVE truly is EVE for me today because of those people.

If I recall there was a general decrease in pvp since dominion. (insurance nerf? Null sec changes? we can all speculate) So I wonder how this compares to the general decrease in pvp in eve.

Just considering the decrease in active players in eve as a whole I'm not sure fw is doing worse than other ways to get pvp.

It might be, I'm just not sure.

Good day:

I was in Minmatar faction warfare from October 2010 to September 2011 (leaving to join The Tuskers, and get into pure piracy).

I concur with Bengal Bob (one of Minmatar faction warfare's finest solo pilots, who also does fleet up) and Vordak Kallager (who has such positive notoriety -- if there is such a thing -- that you have people in Minmatar FW that want to have his children) that Minmatar vs. Amarr (and sometimes Caldari) FW has declined to a large degree.

The number of solo pilots on each side declined leaving less and less targets. Some of the corps on both sides would take advantage of that and use what appeared to be solo (bait) and then land on the solo pilot with such overwhelming numbers (or ship class advantage) that it was mind numbing.

So solo pilots stuck to fighting absolute known solo counter parts unless you felt comfortable your target might not be bait; and hoped you were correct.

On the fleeting side, there are a number of extremely competent fleet commanders. But due to RL issues (which may also have included a degree of burn out with being an FC -- a very hard, and often under appreciated job -- as well as frustration with Eve), the FC's were not on with any consistent basis (i.e. you can count on a fleet being run by so and so every x -- i.e. day, week, month, day of week, time, etc.).

And some corporations do not run mixed militia fleets; which meant that the corp in question has good FC's and they run on some consistency, if you were not in their corp, tough.

So on the Minmatar side, fleets tended to be small; and (at least when I was in Minmatar FW), frigate to cruiser in size often running with no shiny ships. From time to time (it became rare as time went on), there would be a BC fleet.

On the Amarr side, they typically ran fleets every single day; and they were relatively consistent on the times of day (which did help if you liked to solo since you had a general idea when a large Amarr fleet was out and about even if you didn't watch intel channels like a hawk).

The Amarr fleets tended to have logi whether it be a single neutral alt running in a scimitar or multiple guardians. They would often run so much logi that the Minmatar could not counter the fleets and would therefore station spin (and as Bengal Bob pointed out, only the unfortunate who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time would be ganked -- and the Amarr would congratulation themselves on how great they are at piloting).

When they would not run medium to large logi gangs, they would overship (compared to what the MInmatar was flying) bringing out multiple Machariels, Tengu's, Cynabals, and other shiny ships.

You would have Mystical Might's Corporation station camping Auga 3rd (and for a while Vard top station) for hours on end with instant locking Machariels, Tengus, or Cynabals blowing up ships and pods alike -- again often smacking in local how great they are as pilots and how terrible it is to be a Minmatar faction warrior.

When Mystical Might and his corp mates were not station camping, they would often chase around solo pilots who were in much lesser classed ships smacking them in local as to why they don't want to 1v1.

There are other issues as well.

All of them led me to looking at getting out of FW rather than crossing FW sides. For me, I picked The Tuskers who have an extremely good track record of being family oriented, professional, and (from a pure pirate's point of view) honorable.

Thank you.