Warfare & Tactics

Over half of the battlefield isn't used. I propose a connection between Gulmorogod and Ualkin. This would tie the Amamake area to a backwater area of Metropolis and hopefully pull it more into play.

Kourmonen is a central system to either side in the war. It's adjacent to Kamela, Lamaa, Huola, and Auga. It's two jumps to Dal or Siseide. It's four jumps from Arzad. It's five jumps from Sahtogas and Rens. Kourm, in fact is central to the point of killing FW and need for strategy or decision making. Simply set up your booster alts in whatever system catches your fancy for the day and farm the kills. In this way FW is very noob unfriendly. I propose deleting the Kourm/ Auga gate and making the system a bit less important.

Discuss.

Would be awesome if we had some sort of revision of the Shakorite/Amarr warzone. There needs to be short-cuts, back-doors, ambush points etc. littered all over the place.

As for specific changes .. 'meh' .. whatever

Every war has its "focal point" where the bulk of both sides clash. If Kourm was removed, then another system will take its place.

Human nature is a hard thing to beat.

Not more systems, but a revision of connections as you have started doing. Removing Kourm/Auga has the unfortunate effect of making Ezzara/Vard the only access point which will make Vard the new Kourm . .defeating the purpose.

The trick to a dynamic front is to reduce the amount of focal points by having multiple 'options' for any given gang/fleet when deciding where to make a stand as well as offering the enemy the ability to bypass said gang/fleet if fight is deemed unrealistic .. when I left one side almost always had absolute superiority and fights were really just ganks, primarily on gates, result was for the smaller to dock up (or go mission whoring) and wait for their own prime-time.

With the ability to give an enemy the run around (NB: not to be confused with a reach around!) you invariably force larger gangs/fleets to be more mobile and hopefully getting more actual fights as a result .. a lot of blood can be spilled before a "main force" can arrive on scene.

But ... It has been how many years of the exact same paradigms being used, gank when possible and dock/mission when not, question is if people are even interested in continual small scale fighting or if the one or two large romps in between ISK printing is the limit to participants need for blood.

The design of the map is not really to blame.

If you want people fighting in these areas again then:

1)end the no docking rule.

2) make it so plexing and therefore the sov war in general is no longer a pve activity.



Otherwise just enjoy the rvb like fights kourm provides.

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however the general problem from my time out there is that no one will spread out. Any amaar corp willing to go to the north can put a real foot hole there and swing the state of the fw zone. As it is people only fight in 4 systems.

Lame

That idea has been brought up frequently. Such a move would make alot of people depend on a few for logistics. There is also the chance it might be plain boring. The inhabitants of the area are mostly in the European TZ. Amarrian invaders are predominantly in the US TZ. It could turn into a plexing battle with no real fights. That is the pushback I get at least when I push the idea.

How about Rens > Amarr and be done with all that low sec shenanigans.

Coming from the "lets camp eszur/hof with neutral resebo/loki/logi alts" corp, your opinion is 100% irrelevant.

On the Caldari/Gallente map if a gate is permacamped, there is another way. If Eszur/Hof is permacamped, you have to travel all the way around. http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Amarr_VS_Minmatar/Hofjaldgund

Effectively making the universe smaller by adding more connects has drawbacks. I agree the minmatar gatecamps in hof/eszur are, and always have been, lame so another route would be good. However just making it so a blob can cover the whole front of faction war in 5 jumps creates more problems than it solves.

Most people said the war would be concentrated to a few systems when the no docking rule was announced. And they were right. Just let people dock in the stations and the war will be spread out. There is no drawback to ending this stupid rule.

And no making docking depend on people paying lp into the ihub is not a good solution. No one is going to place ships in a station when they know the enemy can lock them out by just paying some lp.




At this point you have to be kidding right? I mean plexing is an unabashed carebear game that has nothing to do with shame or pride. If anything I would think minmatar would be ashamed when all the farmers converged after amarr hit tier 4 for 30 seconds or so. It sort of demonstrated how silly your boasting is - unless you like to boast about carebearing.