Warfare & Tactics

If everything is pretty much the same why is there so much resistance to having the npcs switch around every now and then?

Why are there no fits posted to support these claims?

Actually they could have some gallente plexes guarded by cooperating minmatar npcs and some minmatar plexes guarded by gallente. The amarr and caldari could also cooperate in this fashion.

http://gallente.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13530894

Again here is my evidence as stated in my first post and yes it was a good fight but look at the damage inflicted on him it did not change the fight at all.

At base CCP needs to decide if they want occupancy plexing to remain an activity that is best done in a pve ship or if they want to make it a pvp activity.

To the extent they increase the power and importance of npcs, they will make it more of a pve activity.

To the extent they make it easier for players to fight for plexes, they will make it more of a pvp activity.

Humm it was 7 now 5.. We will see your 5 and raise you two captured Gallentte systems. Caldari forces have evicted the Gallente president from his slum lord offices in Ladistier, as well as captured Odamia.. (we are now losing by 3)

We are winning by losing.. It's like Charlie Sheen is our co-pilot.

On the NPC battle front I still see lots of NPC kills in the captured systems Caldari have taken, 1000 in the last 24 hours in Odamia, over 2000 in Ladistier..

Meanwhile in systems like Kehjari that is under attack by the AFK Dramiel coalition, funded by Gallente Militia, there has been only 116 NPC deaths in the last 24 hours., despite plexes being run almost 23/7.

Things that make you go hummm. Could it be Gallente are just lazy & want to make excuses or could these 2 week old alts whom are farming Kehjari in AFK Dramiels, just happen to be elite Gallente plexers that are just much better than the rest of Gal Militia?

Do the math. You're still behind.

Speaking of lame mechanics, I heard that people can exploit the LP mechanics by joining the minmatar faction (who is winning with t4 bonuses) and still run gallente plex to gain minmatar LP, which is worth more because gallente is at t1 right now. Thus gallente can leech off of the victorious minmatar even though they didn't do anything. Or maybe I'm wrong, I haven't tried that yet.

+1 for making fw plex require all rats to be killed. Or you could speed up the timer if rats are killed. Say you get a time bonus for killing each wave so you can speed tank a minor in 15 minutes or kill all the rats and complete it in 10 mins. Defensive plex needs to give something, even if it is only 2 lp just so it doesn't seem like you are wasting your time.

Upgrade bonuses are really lackluster as well. Clone costs - who cares it is low sec you rarely get podded and market tax and more slots aren't useful because most systems have no stations. I'd rather have a 5% boost to scan resolution or sensor strength per upgrade level or something. Or how about cheaper insurance or free repair or PI boost.

I solo plex in PVP fits.

I am the 1%.

Brutor + goggles = sexytime

After 10 pages I have a simple solution for the Gallente in this grand war.

I know its complicated so I will make sure to state it clearly and simply.


DEFEND YOUR SPACE.


There, CCP no need for coding or spending more time on this I think my solution should solve all problems for FW. When we have attempted to take systems and the enemy has shown up in force to defend a system we either have to fight hard for it or run away and go after another system. If you sit in the station all day, or form your 45 man fleet with 4 neutral boosters and roam around FW space for hours while 4 of your systems are at 60% or higher then you will lose your space, the same can be said for every other militia. If the Amarr choose to run around minni space while one of their systems was at 75% then getting mad at CCP because they lost their space would anyone care? If you don't like the FW mechanics as they are come up with solutions that do not fix just your own little problem, the Amarr are in a much worse position than the Gallente because their NPC's are useless while the Minni's NPC's are a pain in the butt. Not to mention the Minni’s ships are specifically designed and built to kill Amarr so they work extremely well against them. I think the Amarr rats are the ones with the best case for change and buffing not the Gal’s.

You need to choose your place within your militia if you want to form fleets and run around trying to PVP while ignoring your systems then don't blames CCP's "broken NPC's" for you losing those systems. It wasn't CCP's fault we lost the systems we have lost it was our decision to not defend them in any way NPC’s were not the reason. If you want to win you put in the work and you coordinate your fleets to fight for your militia and not your killboard. We are taking systems because we are all working together on a common goal and each corp within the militia has taken it upon themselves to fight for the good of the militia not themselves. We form fleets and plex our butts off for the systems we want which in most cases are plexed for days in advance by active pilots or fleets for the express purpose of claiming them not the afk LP farmers.

Oh yea one more thing, how many missile centric ships do the Gallente have in their inventory? If I am not mistaken the Gallente use hybrids and drones for the majority of their ships correct, so why would CCP "invent" ships that spam missiles just so afk LP farmers can't solo a plex? The Caldari use missiles just like the minni's use projectiles and the Amarr die uselessly this is the price you pay for using only the ships of the particular race. Instead of adding artificial buffing for the plexs just removed the NPC's all together and make a ping go off in the FW tab that someone is running a plex in XXXX system. I guess this would mean something if you actually defended your space beyond your home system.

If all you want to do is fight it doesn't matter where you sit in low sec.