Warfare & Tactics

I was having a look at the stats on dotlan today and paid attention to the global DUST stats for the first time. Only 3 systems have a positive score for CalMil while 52 have a Gallente advantage. Averaged across all Caldari held systems (including those with no score) Dust gives the Gallente a 5.71% victory point advantage while the average across all Gal systems is a 3.7% Gallente advantage. Across the warzone, then, CalMil has to do an average of 9.4% more work to take any Gal system than the Gal's have to do to take a Caldari system.

A couple of questions:

1) Is this the normal state of affairs or was my first real look at the global figures on an unrepresentative day?

2) Is there anything at all, other than orbital bombardments, that eve players can do to affect these figures or are they entirely dependent on factors that are completely detached from our game?

That's a bit crap since, potentially, DUST could create a pretty much insurmountable barrier for one side.

Is there anything that can be done at the DUST end if they coordinate with eve corps? Last I heard the contracts were procedurally generated but not sure if this is still true.

You make it sound as if this is nothing ...

Making it take less time for one side and more time for the other side is equivalent to giving one side a bunch of free plex victories. Giving one side a 10% advantage over the other, and potentially anything up to a 50% advantage, seems like a pretty poor mechanism if there is nothing we can do about it



But my question is, are shared intel channels any use for anything if strategic coordination is impossible? Can the DUSTies choose which systems they target or is that done mechanically?

Yeah - that's not really approaching anything like an intelligent comment on the mechanics. The potential for one side to have a global 50% victory point advantage over the other without anything happening in-game is clearly not nothing.

It's literally like 3-5 more hours of plexing. And when it's that high (97%), everybody is evacuating and not contesting plexes anymore. And it's only really important if you actually fighting for every percentage point, otherwise, it's just a little more time to capture the system.

These words you are putting in my mouth ... can't ... fit ... them all in.

I'm talking about the quality of the mechanics here. You seem to be talking about something else ('how things are'?).

You're also missing the use of the word potentially in your misrepresentation of quite a few of my comments.

As to,



Really? When the question is about the issue of having ingame effects from out of game sources your suggestion is go buy a different gaming machine and play a different game? You really think that's a good mechanic for eve?

Incidentally, in your previous post you stated that you didn't know whether anything could be done even from this angle as you didn't bother to find out about these mechanics. It's probably best if you don't just make reflexively contrarian posts and try and engage with the question in good faith instead.

It's called "get into DUST intel channels and provide orbital bombardment support whenever they are attacking one of those systems".

Don't know. Why don't you try it out and get back to us. You can at least make some good LP out of it.

Dust is bad and its interaction with EVE is boring, though it did save us 2 hours of plexing in the last heyd capture. Though as has been said it was academic since resistance was all but gone at that point

I hope someone telling you what you already know makes you feel better.

The autisim in this thread is too stronk.