Market Discussions

I am intrigued to know who is doing so, and what they are planning.

But someone (I am guessing the CFC) are buying certain things in economy warping alliance supply levels.

I noticed a particular meta 4 module that I know the CFC (and other entities) have spiked the price on before go up, and looked at the other things you'd usually use alongside that module, and saw a dramatic price rise on something that the CFC have been known to spend a half trillion on in the past.

I'll state what it is once I've had time to corner the market.

I'm pretty sure this is Cetus ECM Bursts for the resurgence of the ECM-bursting smartbombing RHML-FOF-Scorp doctrine.

Considering the potential war some entities are planning for. I am not surprised in the small rise in some doctrine ships and modules.

It's mostly about getting scrubs into fitted ships - and Damps in general are becoming very popular on all PVP ships to try and slow down the crazy ammount of logi these days (most fleets are 1:3/1:2 logi:Dps.)

In the CFC, the typical rule for Ewar is to pick an appropriate target close to your name on the alphabet. It's a quick n'dirty way to get ewar spread across the enemy fleet without trying to organize a 50-man damp queue while also running a fleet battle.

Of course the typical CFC line member has a hard enough time doing one thing correctly so maybe you can get away with more involved strategies with pilots who are actually competent.

Oh, it is difficult with any fleet. The larger the fight gets the harder it gets as well. A 600+ local fight would be alot more difficult than a simple 30-50 vs 30-50. What I have done in the past was have a specific person do tagging for EWAR. That way the FC, BackupFC and the OMG We are running out of backup FCs were not calling out 6+ different targets at one time. That only calls for confusion and miss-broadcasting.
With using a dedicated tagger, that person can solely watch the EWAR targets (while hitting F1 on Primaries and keeping anchored up.) I would also designate a secondary EWAR tagger incase tagger 1 died, dc'd, self-destructed, got awox'd, AFK'd to take a bio.

It required additional willpower but it can turn the tide in smaller fights. When running a 600+ local fight, honestly 300 vs 300 EWAR really doesnt matter to hard where it goes. Especially if you just say "all Damps on the logis. Spread the TDs." and it will be pretty effective no matter where it goes.Some ships wont get hit touched by them but others wont be able to target farther than 2 meters or track anything smaller than a titan not moving.

Who said anything about just the CFC adding EWAR to their combat ships that don't have specific bonuses to them for that said EWAR? This has been a practice for quite some time. I remember quite clearly fitting TDs and Damps to all my Apocs/Geddons/Maels back in the day.

As I said in my initial post. Not only is the CFC staging for war at the moment but so is N3. See Kadeshi titan loss in fountain, literally halfway across eve from their own space. Fountain being a closer staging point to the CFC than Tenerifis is. Goons are close to home where as the South is not, meaning they have to restock and resupply in a deployed environment as all their assets are at the other end of space.

Meta 4 Shield, Armor, Damage mods, EWAR, Weapons and -some- PG/CPU items have a large role in a warzone. Not everyone has the ability to use T2 of everything. So, it is better for them to have a M4 than having a terrible fit or even worse empty slots. The demand is not so big on damage mods because of the M4 Ballistics. People are still use to suggesting damage mod kills first before even suggesting Cybernetics 1. Though, M4 Plates, M3-M4 Shield Extenders, Meta EWAR, Meta Props. They are all largely used for fitting. There are so many M4 items that are the same as T2, or just barely worse for a much nicer fitting requirement.

Its purely a sympthome that 0.0 has scaled up too much. Yay! Blobfun! (#Sarcasm)