EVE General Discussion

It's a tactic used in Guild Wars (called "spiking" there) and doubtlessly other MMOs as well. Call it remote rep, healing, or whatever you want, it makes spikes/alpha necessary. However, sometimes hitting their whole team at once is the right strategy.

What the issue in Eve is is that, in the absence of remote rep, it is far easier to coordinate a "primary X; primary Y; primary Z" fleet, and no real advantage to tactically spreading fire.

And here I thought the level of intelligence in this thread couldn't go any lower. Bravo.

In those videos you showed there may have been a few (less than 10) shots that would have hit friendly fire because of LoS. Ships are tiny compared to the distances between them. Get in one of those battles and use the "Look At" function on any ship to see just how wide of an open window it actually has to fire. Looking at battles from far away doesn't tell you anything.

I picked the Maller because it is a reasonably brick-ish ship that can actually move. If you want a bigger example, I could talk about the Tempest or something, but it's the same issue with a much larger mass. Please explain to me how a carrier moving at 70-80 m/s is ever going to block anything on purpose to save an ally.

No, 10 people is a small gang. I have been in hundreds vs hundreds fleet fights, been blobbed by 30-40 Hurricanes all shooting me at once, and other assorted fun large fleet things. You are in a hisec training corp. Please shut up before you make yourself sound even dumber.

I never played WoW, so that beats me, but it sounds about right. I was drawing a parallel to Guild Wars, where there are some "spread fire" tactics that are useful, and sometimes spreading fire is the best way to prevent the enemy from doing useful things. Ignoring everyone else to focus on one guy could let them do some long casting-time stuff that could wreck you (not going into details because it's not worth it).

And your "pipedream" won't happen until CCP removes logistics entirely from the game, and even then the fleet concentrating on taking down the other fleet one by one instead of trying to take out everyone at the same time by having everyone shoot their own target, will win.

Give up. Or fly bombers, and realize that you're using alpha here as well.

easiest solution, though not always practical, is to avoid blobs
a thousand people are going to get bored really quick if everyone but the criminally stupid blue-balls them

smaller gangs with obvious logi & falcons suffer the same issue, if you are OP people just wont play with you, and you are reduced to either shedding the advanced ships or picking off loners at gates and belts or the occasional dumb gang that doesn't bother to scout

sure you still get KMs but its nowhere near as interesting

also you might consider moving to a place where blob warfare is not the norm
Where I live we never see fleets bigger than 50 unless someone is on a field trip
NPC null is severely under-rated