Warfare & Tactics

If you guys think this all sounds kinda ridiculous and nonsensical, its because it is. There needs to be more rewards for plexing, and more consequence to occupancy!

I've been working for months to organize the four militias into a single voice for change, which will now be supporting me in the upcoming election as a CSM7 candidate. I encourage all of you interested in cleaning up the Faction Warfare system to stop by and check out my campaign announcement thread over in Jita Park.

Hans will also promote mechanics that brings about more pvp in plexes. He is not going to just boost the rewards so plexing becomes the new way to carebear.

Derailiing thread again. Current plexing mechanics are great for pvp. Some minor additions could be made like an incursion-like bar showing how "occupied" a system is, or perhaps Cerain's idea w.r.t. a "Plexing Alert" alarm. Otherwise, there have been a very large number of plex fights since the Crucible patch was introduced. This is due modifications of the plex spawn mechanics - NPCs have been nerfed, and casual players can now contribute to the Occupancy War no matter what time zone they are in. The destroyer buff has also "nerfed" the influence of pirate faction frigs in minor plexes. Newer, less wealthy, players can now play a real role in plex fights without getting steamrolled by dramiels.

CCP now needs to move forward with the Rewards portion of the Occupancy War - which is another discussion altogether, and hopefully Jans will lead the way in supplying CCP with a list of suggestions they can implement.

If anybody cares to notice, CCP collected the list assembled by Hans directly from the forums and has been slowly implementing suggested features. It's time for us to vote Hans into the CSM so we can get our best representative that much closer to the developers at CCP (with less chance of the message getting distorted by CSM members who have no idea w.r.t FW).

One more thing that is nice about the current spawn mechanic: You can flip a system in a reasonable amount of time if there is no opposition. If the other side chooses not to engage, you don't have to wait weeks to accomplish your goal.

The minmatar npcs have not been nerfed. They are still unbalanced when compared to the amarr npcs. But there are a few fits that you can still use to efficiently run plexes and possibly pvp in if company comes. Your just a bit limitted in your fits, and you still may need to warp out if the enemy comes at the wrong time.

Overall X Gallentius is correct. People who have done pvp in plexes love it. There has never been a better time to give faction war and plexing a try.

Also vote for Hans because CCP *will* continue to work on faction war this year and he is clearly the most qualified candidate to make sure they don't botch it.

So I had been messing with my overview settings over a few sessions and decided to fix them, the system was contested so I thought why not run a defensive plex to pass the time, after dragging out fiddling with the overview for 10 minutes I still had more than half the timer left, being stubborn I stuck with it but I saw no one, one or two war targets buzzed across the system and after a time I even lost interest in hitting dscan to monitor a couple of local neutrals.

Think this is the dullest thing I have done in eve and needs looking at, unless you happen to be passing through when someone is offensive plexing the defensive plexing seems a waste of time.

On a positive note despite my general lack of play time I have actually managed to kill someone one on one this week and have had a few other skirmishes, think things are picking up but slowly.

Destroyers aren't half as bad as the Dramiel used to be.

Griffins. Griffins everywhere.