Warfare & Tactics

Excellent idea with no down-side that I can see (as long as the inactivity periods are appropriate). However, this would have to apply only to the NPC FW corps and would, thus, provide only a partial improvement to the accuracy of the data.

What I would REALLY like is a list of all the corps enlisted on all sides. I assume that this data is available from the API and exists invisibly in the belly of the killboards but if someone could collate it for me or show me how to read it I would be so happy.

The last time Gallente won the warzone, CCP came up with a script that pulled LP gains from a certain time frame. This technology could be used to truncate the inactive, yet enrolled, capsuleers from the militia tab.

Question will be:

When did you kick the pilot from the FW after 1 month ,2 month 6 month of inactivity?
what about people in player corp?
Why now ? because when Test join calmil with 3000 pilots no one asked for a real count of pilots in FW but now suddenly ...

Now is as good a time as any. But, since the latest FW cycle has come to and end with people leaving FW or EVE as a result on both sides now, we ultimately will have to come up with a plan to make the whole FW system more fun / less broken.
And a simple headcount really would be the first step, don't you agree?

It's surprising that doesn't really exist...

o/
Njord

In a corp, when somebody goes ahead and says: "Guys, I'm quitting the game." 8 out of 10 people will probably quit corp first.
If not, then 8 out of 10 CEOs will kick them eventually, since most people aren't interested in phantom numbers.

In the NPC corp however, nothing of this kind seems to happen, which is why you end up with dead bodies over dead bodies in the statistics. Fixing this would be a big improvement in itself.

And it would also be kind of nice to know how many people from either side were actually actively fighting in a given period of time, which could possibly even have a future use as a rewards modifier for understaffed faction militias to get at least one negative feedback loop into FW mechanics.

Actually, I don't think it has to be paid for. I have 2 friends who use to play, and they stopped. Their accounts still show even though I know they have not subbed or logged in for over 2 years. As far as I know, CCP does not delete accounts for inactivity.

Federal Defense Union (FDU) is a NPC Corp.

Maybe we are not talking about the same thing. Do you mean the number of players in militia in the faction war window? How would you know they were still being counted?

Njord, we do not know how CCP got that numbers.

And statistics are only interesting in what they do not show in the first place.


If you simply look and the mili chats you see only 100+ to 300 capsuleers. Less post there. The ppl that read the mili channels are most often capsuleers form opposing militas - there is simply no reason the read your own mili chat.

If you roam the farmzone you find 50+ active capsullers in each milita. Most are activly farming in frigs and cruisers. We have 3 big time zones (eu, us, au) - give eu and us two intervalls of capsuleer activity and au one, the you have about 250 capsuleers active in each miltia per day - about a 1000 capsuleers in all. 90% are farmers.

That is way 5-10 active players can make a big impact in FW - Xgal and a vaild example.

If you look at active farmfleets you barley find 30+ fleets - most 30+ farmfleets only exist to bash ihubs and consist of bombers, some cruisers and frigs and some BCs on occasion.



The other side: In a Concord sanctioned war, why would you get free intelligence on your opponents?

The best way to do FW is to war dec farming corps ot the other side and attack their assets and farmers in high sec, where they live. For that you have to leave FW, of course.

Hidden Snake tried just that - but the cal mil never unterstood this concept.

i wonder why it is so important to know active pilot numbers on militia which is full of randoms anyway.