Warfare & Tactics

Are there any downsides to having a small corporation join a militia for a few days (like over the weekend) and then resign... and repeat this cycle over and over? I wouldn't be switching sides - just moving in and out of the militia.

During the week I like to carebear (run missions, mine, etc... depending on how much attention I can pay to the game) but I would like to do some PvP occasionally as well. It seems like FW would be the best place for me to do that.

I have a small corp with most of my characters in it. I was thinking that the most efficient thing to do would be to have the corp enroll in the militia when I want to PvP, clone jump to lowsec, and get my pew on. When it's time for me to go back to carebearing, I would leave the militia and return to high sec.

Any problems with this plan? I know that it might be easier to just have a FW alt who lives in the warzone full time... but I would rather fly with my main and I think this plan will let me do that without placing him at risk when high sec missioning/mining (other than the typical risks of getting suicide ganked).

Thanks!

Snark?

Pretty much this, if you are bearing mid week and PVPing on the weekend, your sec status will be fine. If you are welping ships faster than you can gain sec status you can always spend some bear time ratting in .1s and .2s in search of clone soldier tags and then turn those in to keep your sec status up.

But to answer your question, I do not believe there are any consequences besides the mentioned possibility of making it harder to bear in certain areas due to faction standing hits.

Nice reply, those are good reasons.

last time i have heard about low-sec lvl4 agents people were talking that these agents give the same missions like in high-sec? If so they i have no ideas how would you run such missions when you cannot use decent ship I mean you would need something like kiting T3 to be able to warp fast and pass the gates. But T3 have bad DPS for PvE.... And using BS will make you target for anyone around....

I've tried it once to run missions in low-sec given by high-sec agent.... Used my Rattlesnake. Got scanned out in first minute
Brought Gila next time and still locals were waiting for me already.... No ship losses but needed to abandon mission and lost some time.

Yeah I imagine running one solo would be perilous as you pointed out. But if the guy is doing this as a corp organized activity / fleet it's feasible. If we find a decent combat site to run, we typically just bring a standard small-gang, PVP-fit cruiser / assault frigate fleet with at least one logistics cruiser.

As soon as good FC will find out your tourists behavior you will get problems to join really good fleets, IMHO.

So, one feature the CCP Devs told us at fanfest they were considering implementing was a "Militia Pass" that players could activate to join FW as individuals without leaving their current corp.

They didn't share full details, but the basic philosophy was that players would be able to buy a "Pass" for a set period of time, say 7 days, activate the pass and enlist themselves for a tour of duty in the militia of their choice. CCP's goal with this idea is to make FW accessible to more players who are in situations similar to yours, committed to some other aspect of EVE gameplay long term... but interested in some short term pvp in FW.

If you like the idea, you should let CCP know that it would benefit your game experience.

Btw, for FW vets thinking "OMFG the farmers / awoxers will blot out the sun..." one of the first things we told CCP, and the main things they said they were wary of about implementing this kind of feature, was the potential for abuse. If you have any ideas on preventing exploitation, I'm sure the Devs would like to hear those as well.