Warfare & Tactics

In fairness as well, to set up an attack on a defended system and actually take it requires a good chunk of effort on the attackers part if even only minimal co-ordinated defence was present.

The issue farmers provide is that if you do not attack multiple places with a degree of effort then natural farming deplexers will just keep everything safe.

Amarr for example learned a long time ago that if you want to retake grund your pvpers must be willing to plex, and they must be willing to fly all over the place. God damn i love a good caravan deployment XD

+1 for Epikurus, he knows the deal. For a look at this in action, go visit Hasmijaala.

In short, there's two ways to make a system vulnerable:

1. Wait for farmers to plex it up, looking for systems with high contested percentage due to neglect. Then bum rush it and run a plexing fleet for about 10-12 hours to push it vulnerable, bash the hub before anyone notices it's under real threat.

2. Pick a system, push plexing fleets there until it's vulnerable, grinding down everything in your path until the iHUB is lubricated with the blood, tears, and pod goo of the wailing masses that dared defy the inevitable. Bash hub at your leisure while quoting Conan and praising the Galluminati.

Your folks are obviously familiar with the former, but that requires a convergence of high farming pressure and low deplex pressure. Amarr at Tier 4/5 with full warzone control pushed a lot of those farmers into Cal/Gal space, Combine that with decreasing Tier and lower activity on the Gallente side (due to Squid inactivity) and the contested percentages slowly creep up across the WZ. That presents opportunities for Caldari to start making easy flips off the back of this general pressure.

This, of course, increases interest from the Gallente, who become more active, causing more fights and getting more deplex alts running to reduce overall pressure. Then, the Minnies start pushing a bit on the Amarr side, gradually wearing down their Tier level, This draws the Amarr back to their WZ, which decreases overall pressure on the Cal/Gal WZ. That's the stage we're moving into now - an equalization of passive farmer pressure and active pressure from PvP groups.

As things become more difficult for passive farmers and that pressure continues to decrease, the focus then turns to those PvP centric groups who are willing to withstand the crucible of 2,000 ships per day being reduced to scrap in the pursuit of gaining just one more system.

We await that day with eager anticipation.

well it could be like this
offensive plexing: novice+small 0,5 / medium 0,6 / large 0,7
defensive plexing: all plexes give you same amount


+ i would add this:
for deplexing almost stable system you wont get almost any lp why not do this for offensive plexing as well?
the more the system is contested the less lp you get for offensive plexing , this would chase the farmers out and leave the system for ppl that truly want to take that system

Because they couldn't just blob you in 100 frigs/destroyers?

That doesn't make sense. Bigger numbers always win. No matter what, no matter where.

Hm. You might want to double check your facts with Test.

Yes, but if Smalls and Novices were worth less than Mediums / Larges, that would negate that advantage. In addition, there's ways a large force could keep enough folks in small stuff to delay capping the Novices and Smalls.