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Angry I'm concerned about the lack of small gang warfare in 0.0, I would like your opinion as to how would you go on about introducing more small gang into 0.0 warfare?

Those are some decent ideas. Some other candidates simply fill out their post with meaningless replies but you actually presented ideas. I can respect that.

Seems like a good guy from what I know. And funny. +1

It’s broken in the same way the pre-nerf Incursions was broken. FW, as it stands, is such a good source of income that players have to keep an alt (or more) in faction warfare to be competitive in income. FW plexing in a WCS frigate can easily net 100million isk/hour in the form of FW LP, all while in a ship that costs maybe 4 million isk max. FW missions can net up to 300million isk/hour in a bomber. This is extremely high income (especially compared to the ~45 million isk/hour earned by ratting post taxes), and distorts other portions of the game. If you do not have a FW alt, you are not making as much money and people who do, and they can price you out of the PLEX market. Not only that, the current FW income mechanics are completely anti-conflit, to the point that something like only 20% of ships in FW complexes are fitted to fight, and fighting FW organizations purposely keep their tiers low in order to push farmers to the other faction.

I’m going to ramble on a bit, but I think the current state of FW, and wormholes to a lesser extent is one of the big contributors to the reason that there are no new faces in Nullsec. Compared to Nullsec PvE events, FW and Wormholes are vastly superior, while at the same time the price to wage war is much higher in Nullsec. A small-ish group trying to make its own will join FW or move to a C4/C5, and never “move up” to sov Nullsec because the individual members would find their incomes drastically decreased. AFAIK the only alliance to move into 0.0 from FW (rather than a 0.0 alliance building their wallets in FW, and moving back), is J4LP. There are lots of groups in FW/WH’s that can make it and survive in 0.0, and in the past (pre Apocrypha) might have taken sov space, but don’t do so now because it’s simply not as profitable as what they currently have.

However, while sov Null is relatively bad for member income, it’s one of the only places to gather alliance income. Moon and renter income can go straight to the alliance wallet, and unlike WH loot/LP, ratting is easily taxed by the alliance. If you try to force a WH/FW pilot to hand over 15% of their income to the alliance for alliance use, they would mostly tell you to get ******. On the other hand, to wage a sov war, Alliance war chest is what’s important, because SRP runs out of alliance wallets. No matter the organization, there will be a distribution of member wealth, and as a sov war drags on and losses build up, the poorer members of the alliance will be force out of the fight unless their ships are reimbursed. Without alliance income to fund SRP, members will start dropping out of the war, then fleet numbers start dwindling, and the war is lost.

So the dilemma is, Nullsec is worse for individual member income so they don’t want to move to sov null. Alliances need Alliance level income to fight a sov war, but sov null is the only place to get alliance income without relying on donations. These two barriers combined discourages any groups trying to make their way into the game of sov because there are much better alternatives.

Am I saying that FW income should be toned down a little? Yes. Am I saying that FW/WH’s should be “nerfed into the ground” to drive their members to sov null? Hell no. There’s 3 aspects to the “fix sov” problem.

• Revamp of the way that sov wars are fought (“split the blob”)
• Revamp of the way that sov is held (structures, power projection, and consolidation)
• Give reasons for people to want to try sov (fix income)

The first 2 get a lot of attention, the last one gets lost in the cries of “fix supers” “fix tidi” and “fix blobs”. Without an economic reason for alliances and members to move out of their comfy suburbs try and build their own settlement in space, they won’t do it.

Like Bill Clinton said “It’s the economy, stupid”

I don't think we quite need to, small gangs can already have a pretty significant effect in 0.0 warfare.

A few years back, PL was very successful with their 10-12 man roaming blap titan fleets. Right now, Rooks and Kings are very successful with their 12-man small gang smartbombing battleships.

More recently, the CFC was able to take all of Immensea sov within a week and a half with a small gang of about 40 supercarriers, supported by another small gang of 60ish dreads.

Last week we purged every BL pos in Venal with a 50 man mixed dread/carrier small gang after another small gang of bombers and blap dreads played a key role in taking out their maelstrom fleet.

So yes, small gangs are very effective right now, the people comlaining about the inability of small gangs to make an effect on 0.0 warfare need to man up and upship into things that can make a differance, or just learn to EVE better.

EDIT :: THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS POST, i'll make another post actually addressing the problem later. The question I answered to was a troll from jayne, so i trolled him back.

I like the things you have to say, but I regret to inform you that it was Bill Clinton, not Ronald Reagan, who said it.

>.< derp, right, RR's thing was "morning in america" which doesn't exactly fit here I guess..

Your analysis about the importance of the initiative is spot on. Given all the advantages the wardec corp has already, it's no wonder that they almost always win. Even when"carebears with claws" decide to fight back, 90% of the time the aggressor just isn't there...

CSM9 Candidate Interview: Angry Mustache
http://capstable.net/2014/03/09/csm9angrymustache

You still appear to be one of the most in touch candidates with my way of thinking then so many others. I doubt my acct votes are gonna sway things for you(they are yrs btw), but be aware you are getting some newbie highsec votes from being intelligent and articulate. Good luck!