Warfare & Tactics

Killing enemy faction rats gives small standing loss. I shot 2 years rats in militia and i am still able to go any highsec with diplomacy 4.

If you do FW missions and do those where you should kill some structure you will get approx 100x more standing loss that in those where you kill commander.

Best way to wreck faction standing is do normal lvl4 missions where you kill opposite faction ships. It seems that in FW that standing loss is lowered quite much, i do not exact value but i would say approx 100x times less except structures.
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I cannot find it at the moment, but I read that all the corps in the Alliance must qualify on standings or the whole Alliance is removed from the Militia.

confirming that this thread belongs in Warfare & Tactics; CAOD is overrated

One consistent complaint I've heard from varying CalMil pilots over the past year is that they lack cohesive, reliable intel. Even when CalMil was very active earlier this year, it seemed as if each of their corporations was doing something different, and not passing intel between each other. This is something we exploited a lot.

For all of the things GalMil does wrong (and believe me, we derp a lot), one thing we tend to do right is communication. We have shared and mostly-reliable intel channels as well as readily-accessible voice comms with varying levels of security. In addition, we generally have a culture of friendly competition where it's not unusual or suspicious for the member of one corp to drop into another corp's comms just to chat. As a result, we often join each others' roams and our fleets tend to coordinate and exchange intel.

Good communication gets you the following benefits:

- Targets. It's much, much easier to PvP if you know where to go to pew pew.
- Numbers. If a target is too heavy / too numerous for you, there are often pilots around willing to fleet up and even the odds.
- Support. If you run into unexpected trouble, a fight turns sour, or a falcon uncloaks, there's often a few pilots in the area available to help.
- Evading gatecamps and gank attempts.

Now, there is drama that comes up sometimes. Personality clashes are inevitable. But by and large, GalMil has a rather strong and friendly community between its major corps.

When we flipped Enaluri, one of the complaints a CalMil pilot voiced in local was Gallente reliance on 'blobs' and dirty spying tactics. Speaking from a personal perspective, I've never had access to spy data during PvP. Our FC at the time, one of the more well-known ones in GalMil, was also ignorant of any infiltration by us in CalMil's channels.

In battle, it's easy to mistake an enemy's penchant for having the right numbers at the right place to leaked intel or the presence of spies. I think we really are just better coordinated.

In short, my advice is this:

- If you fear spies too much, you'll never develop a relaxed community of PvP-centric pilots. Who gives good intel versus who gives bad intel can be ascertained quickly enough. And making that judgment call is a small price to pay for having reliable intel channels.

- FW corps can (and do) go it alone, but good things can come from working with others. Splintering into a multitude of corps in FW is inevitable due to personality clashes, time zone variation, small gang versus fleet roamers, and differing interests. But there's a world of difference between a bunch of isolated corps, and a community of people at least loosely working together.

.....then you have the Enal guys that seem to try to fight Gal gangs, but honestly just don't have the numbers to compete head to head.....