Warfare & Tactics

Yes, plexing is best part fw has to offer, if enemy really tries to prevent you. But without fights it is boring and that is the situation where PERVS ended when they dominate too much plexes

Anyway if military leader is elected from funny guys who can talk nicely it will not change anything from current situation. Leader should be someone who has earned his position to make sure that he understand even bit of FW mechanics.

Think about situation where Ankh will be selected as militia leader

yo, why do you keep laying this on nullsec reps' feet when it was (according to the credits section) hashed out with two step who is a WH dude?

from talking to my csm, he was like, "i didn't say **** about FW; **** em"

You do realize that those credits are referring to who wrote the draft on that particular subject for the summit report, not who was in attendance to each session, right? Otherwise you'd have like 1 CSM per meeting

So he just watched the trian wreck and stayed in his car........I feel so much better about him being there or bothering to take his role serously. What was his name agean so I never vote for him?

There are a number of things that would HELP fw (it doesn't need fixing imo, but that is my opinion). However, considering the ideas soundwave/csm were shitkicking around it is blatantly obvious that they don't even know how this part of the game/this community of fw'ers works.

There are now a number of distinct threadnaughts about various ways WE think fw could be improved and my point is that they haven't even been looked at. Debating the utopian fw has its place, but i think that everyone involved would appriciate a well thought out change from someone who was experienced in fw, regardless of whether they thought it was the best change or not.



It is simply obvious that we need direct representation so that WHEN we have their ear (not often) they (soundwave) are actually hearing good advice.

The person i think makes the most sense to rally around is Hans who I think we can all agree has been doing a great job representing the community in the past few months. Of course he is not the only option for a candidate, but it is worth getting people thinking about it now, because we (as a fw forum community) need to start campaigning sooner than later.

Tho there is truth in that It's a dangerous mind set to have one bureaucracy is a foot. Its how small towns in the American mid west wound up with busted mono-rails that just went in circles around town.

Yes Victory points should be voting points. I agree. But unless they improve how you get vp I don't think these leaders should have much power at all.

Doing plexing wrong:

IMO plexing is/should be the core of fw and the best way to get good fights in all of eve. That is the only opinion I will give. I will not give any recomendations as to how to fix plexing but just try to give some facts:

Whether you are doing it right or wrong depends on what you are looking for. According to this poll
http://sovereigntywars.wordpress.com/:

60% of people use plexing sometimes but only to get fights.

15% think plexing is an important part of their game
and
25% never bother.

We can see that the vast majority in fw do not catagorize plexing as an important part of their game. Yet many want to make the consequences of this mechanic more important.

I bet if you asked this same question after fw came out you would get many more people saying yes of course occupancy plexxing is important. The whole point of fw is to gain occupancy for your faction. Well that view changed and then many never did plexes. And now we seem to have a resurgence of plexing "for the fights".

But using plexing "for the fights" is different than plexing in order to do plexes efficiently.

So how do i use plexes to get fights? 1) I go to a very busy wartarget area I fly for amarr so I go to vard - eszure. I find a system with allot of wts in local and ships on dscan and open a plex. When I open it though I usually don't actually run it! I move away from the rat spawns so they don't agro. Plus I don't want to actually run the plex. I just want fights so why would I want to close the plex? That is one way plexing can be used to get fights.

As far as how you do plexing in order to actually cap plexes efficiently. Well doing what ank did is still a very good tactic. People can say what they want about her (carebear, dirty rotten contract breacher etc.) but she was a very efficient plexer and nothing has significantly changed about plexing that would make the methods she described anything but excellent.

I like the idea. I think it would revamp everything in a good way. This might bring more people from high sec to militia. We have a lot of people dreaming of null security space, including myself. This set up would target that group and bring them into the militia. This would turn up the heat. I see more espionage and power hunger. I sure hope this gets in to place soon. I, being a owner of a militia corporation, along with other militia corporation owners, directors, CEOs, and Vice CEOs should like this. This will boost the corporations size and bring in more revenue as a corporation. What CEO would not like that is not out of their mind? Good ideas CCP. Please put them into actions.

From Meissa Anunthiels on the CSM minutes;





but then....



My best analysis is that he wants FW to be meaningful. And like the rest of the CSM, they may understand how FW mechanics needs to be fixed (all you need to do is read forums), but they certainly do not understand the motivation of why people join and stay in FW. There are many reasons and avoiding nullsec drama is one of them.

So in an attempt to fix FW, they give silly solutions like electing leaders which opens up Pandora's Box to being more like nullsec asshatery. What they (Nullsec CSM and CCP) consider meaningful is totally different than what FW pilots consider to be meaningful.

Until their meaning is aligned with our motivations, FW is going to become nullsec

Contrary to popular belief, destruction doesn't occur in one fell swoop. It starts with the slight misstep on a slippery slope. Welcome to that slope.