EVE General Discussion

I don't do FW myself but I enjoy shooting people who do. There's a lot of fun in that.

Hi,

you don't join a corp or alliance to enjoy FW. You join a corp after you have flown with them a couple of times and you have decided that you want to put an end to the disconnect that you felt, because you were not part of their group.

A fleet is not formed to connect the people in FW on a social level. A fleet is formed to channel intel and firepower, benefiting each fleet member.

If you want the fights to matter, make friends, join the player created chatrooms and maybe join a corp at the end of this process.

Jill.

edit:

To your other questions:
Q: Why not null-sec instead ?
A: You'd have to live in 0.0. With FW, you have the choice between low-sec and high-sec.

Q: FW is supposed to be a quick pick-up feature like RvB (not sure what the question part was, Jill)
A: Let's not forget RvB is 100% player created awesomness. FW is CCP setting the rules, players filling the voids. FW is still quick pick-up. You join the militia as individual or as a corp, or you join an existing corp alliance ... and bam, you're in. You see on the overview who your targets are and who is in your militia. You can shoot and get shot. And, unlike high-sec wars, it's a very consensual choice.

Q: Who is Supreme Commander in the militias ?
A: Depending on time-zone and activity level, an alliance (or before alliances were allowed into FW, it was corporations) will take some leadership. They will never control 100% of their militia, but they will definately have a word to say when in comes to defending system A rather then system B.

Why does it work like that ? Fights that involve more then 2-6 ships benefit from having a fleet with an FC (fleet commander). Fleet commanders want people willing to learn out of mistakes and hey, why not experienced fighters. Pilots on the other hand hate losing ships to bad FCing. So they tend to join fleets with better FCs if there is a choice to do so.

So, good FCs attract good pilots and good pilots attract good FCs. And there you have a beginning of supreme command, because at some point the FCs will talk to other FCs about strategical decisions rather then the everyday tactical ones. They may decide to have a common intel channel or even form an alliance ...

Jill.

Fw is fighting for the faction doen't mean you have to be in the NPC millitia corp, like in real life there are more than One Unit in a army corp.

FW is suppose to be a quick pick up and play feature like RvB this is where YOU get it Totally WRONG.

FW is about War , not only pew pew... war is not only about shooting at others , it's about politics, intel, embargo, sabotage, Traps etc etc.

When you'll understand that , FW will be very fun for you.

You need a good corp for that too

I don't like something, therefor it is bad (because I'm a self-absorbed numpty).

How does that answer the question "How is faction warfare fun??"

this, fw chat fleets are fun if you are completely alone and are a complete newb into fw. and the whole spy thing is bs, unless you are trying to join a large fw alliance, of which there aren't many, no one will care about your background. mainly because there aren't any assets to lose. stations cant be lost, fleets can be awoxed but its rare to see anything bigger than cruisers. (on fleet) and most POSes are small, to be used only as safes, and they are up a weekend at most. if the pass goes public hardly anyone will care.

anyway your problem is doing FW alone is doing FW wrong, don't think that by clicking the "enlist me" button you joined the militia.


and about the LP farmers.... there's a reason why the militia window is under the business tab. because its supposed to be used to make money, while having some danger. and warzone control is an objective because it increases the isk making capabilities of, guess what, lp farming.

so basically what you are saying is ...
if you click the enlist me option in the FW tab , you are basically joining a band of unorganized farmers and AWOXERS who aren't there for the pvp fun , but are mostly there for the farming ...

FW is the introductory to null sec pvp and if you want to FW seriously , you should join an alliance specifically for that?

No.
Joining the FW militia corp is a useful first step. But from there you will need to do some work to prove yourself different from the farmers and awoxers. From there you can either formally join a FW corp, or simply rely on contacts you've built up to get yourself into fleets on an ad hoc basis.

I personally don't subscribe to idea of FW being an introduction to nullsec pvp, anymore than drinking beer is an introduction to drinking toilet bleach. To each their own.

Old Mac Donald.
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