Warfare & Tactics

it does not matter much which system has been longenst held because CCP ****** up things several times and decided/ caused that owners should change.

One of the longest conquered systems was back in times Ladistier until exPERVS players decided they do not want to hold it anymore. Nisuwa has been strong hold for gallente some times.

Basically i would not count systems that originally belong to some faction because those are much easier to hold and retake than conquered ones.

So much for this 'fortress' sahtogas

It got plexed up in 2 days. Taken straight after it. I hear WINMATAR? :)

Sahtogas has never been anything like a fortress since I've been there. The only reason it was unflippable was because corps like AVNG and KOZA actively patrolled and harassed, even in poorly translated Russian, any Minmatar that thought they could just casually farm up the contest rate. The events of last night just highlighted the sorry state of Amarr militia. Only three or four small corps represented, all of us lacking the will to accept heavy losses knowing no backup was coming. ILAW came at least but they were the only ones and it wasn't enough.

I guess the impact of Fweddit leaving never resonated as strongly within the militia as it should have. We're basically down to just small corps skirmishing and relying entirely on outside income because we really can't raise hundreds of millions of ISK in LP daily like the Minmatar can. To be frank, a lot of good pilots aren't just leaving FW, they're leaving the game altogether because of various grievances with the mechanics, the most pressing of which is the borked LP payout scheme (i.e. more LP for kiting a button than for earning a kill).

In the end, there were no winners yesterday. Sorry to speak on your behalf, WINMATAR, but there could only be one reason to show up for a hub bash with a combat doctrine. I know at least R.A.P.E. corporation threw most of our remaining ISK (earned with alts outside of the warzone, ofc) into an attempt to supply a strong combat fleet but our allied forces were few and bitter. It's a sorry state when we can't raise a decent combat fleet even on a weekend at the end of summer.

Maybe farmers will come and wrestle back some warzone control for Amarr, but the status quo outright sucks right now. Minmatar will have to settle for fighting SC and PL, and Amarr militia will likely continue to fall apart because we certainly don't have the will to keep farming plex for a pittance (because it's the only way to earn in FW, thanks CCP).

It would also appear Sirekur has never been flipped either, according to Dotlan.

We refuse to recognize the existence of the Siseide-Eszur gate.

Edit: weren't you in front for a bit? Not interested in null I take?

Not really no but I didn't leave front for that. OF are great old mates, my first alliance and ever since then I've always had a soft spot for them.

So last night in my drunken rampage across the stars I was **** talking up local.... somewhere near sahtogas. I engaged a nado pilot in my trusty slicer and while getting dizzy nibbling his shields off waiting for his mates to turn up a minmatar Biohazard guy joined me in **** talking. Turns out sis is on the cards according to his local splurging (although my splurging was worse in fairness)! OMFG WHO KNEW THIS!!!!!!!

Anyway I had to bail from the nado as it got close to armour, he called in talwar buddy and I was like DAMN YOU LML SPEWING FRIGATE DEATH MACHINE.

True story!

And this is something to boast about....why? Or is this your way of saying FW is flawed?

In fairness I can't disagree with the bolded bit, minmatar militia are all still terrible though [insert thinly veiled reason why here].

On a side note your earlier post suggests that if I call a system you shall have it conquered in the name of the mighty minmatar. AWESOME. I shall get the dartboard ready so I can randomly pick one of the remaining amarr systems to be OMFGROFLstomped (which in an odd twist of fate is the name of corp in minmatar fw!)

Anyway, for what I can do I'll see if I can rustle up some kind of fight in the EU TZ. I think it's going to take some prodding and some pretty epic small gang **** to inspire everyone first mind you :P

TALLY - HO

/wipes away tear

I MISS YOU TOO PERKIN.

Serious note though yeah, I'll see what I can rustle up. Pretty tough task but someone's got to give it a go and at the very least it'll be a damn fine laugh trying. May even inspire some less ******** people than me to take up some reigns :D

OOOOooh that's why everyone gone!

Makes sense, old school / new school and all that. Hope you guys are having fun whatever you're doing :)