Warfare & Tactics

Minmatar numbers are greater in European prime time. Amarr numbers are greater during US prime time. When I was in Minmatar there was always a large presence on teamspeak. You might be off doing your own thing but if someone shouted everyone started to move in that direction. Amarr needs that desperately.

DING DING DING DING. WE HAVE A WINNER!

Sudden Buggery is signing up to the minnie side next week because, well, our Amarr standings were worse to begin with than the Minnie standings (but still, we need a week of humping missions).

...plus, I've shot TEST (aka Reddit) in Delve before, and will enjoy shooting TEST (aka Fweddit) in FW just as much. As much as a bunch of guys leaping into local and spewing memes and silliness could be seen as a joke, the fact that you can get guys to shoot at who care only about the shooting, not the politics and dramas and whose e-peen has the least goon slobber on its sack than the other guys, well, that's all for the best.

Yes, there's got to be bearing. Maybe the minnie dominate the territorial control at the moment. Maybe one mob has a bigger TZ presence than the other bunch. But so what? You've got to make your ISK somehow, and you may as well spend it PVPing versus accumulating ten digits of ISK. Can't take it with you.

Looking forward to this.

Are you saying that you decline "the best place for skirmish PvP" because of a few points in standing difference that would probably not even be noticeable in you week of standing grind?

I am not criticizing you. You made the right decision. But lets be honest and state the true reason.

Sometimes you do. Sometimes you don't.

They can plex in Caldari space.

Also, the numbers arguement is still bad. We can dominate in a single timezone yet still totally lose the plexing war in 2 other timezones. While in some situations it works out well, fighting a 10 man i.law/MT gang and a 30 man fweddit thrasher gang with 20 dudes might be 2:1 odds on paper, but as far as actual gang effectiveness, its a much more even fight than most people would think, especially when half of the Fweddit gang (bless their hearts) die in the first 20 seconds of the fight.

To be honest a lot of this arguement on why the Amarr are losing is stupid as neither side will ever really agree or see eye to eye. I feel like blaming things solely on game mechanics is lazy, but after being in FW for a little over a month now, I don't think its fair to minimize the effects of game mechanics on the Amarr militia and dismiss all complaints as whining when many of the post-Inferno Amarr joiners are just giving our assesments and evaluations of our experiences thus far. When they fixed plex bugging, we noticed a huge difference, when they removed the ewar, we noticed a huge difference. I can't speak to many of the bittervets claims blaming it on why they lost pre-Inferno, but as someone new to FW, I can say that we definitely noticed a change when these things were fixed.

Amarr were on the ropes because of the differences in plexing requirements (frig for major vs AF/t2 cruiser or better) and the fact that you could flip a system using that plexing advantage in a very short amount of time which undid any work amarr had done earlier in the day before USTZ undid that work and flipped a system...
As soon as the e-war was turned off and amarr could speed tank like you have been for years, you dropped to tier 2 within a day or so (goon exploit was also stopped).

Is whole of eve story.