Warfare & Tactics

A really good article I wanted to share that partly explains the momentum shift to Caldari/Amarr.

http://themittani.com/features/apathy-swings-pendulum

I especially liked the psychology concept that was covered; "The Diffusion of Responsibility"



Many individuals in Frogland have wondered why Gallente have slipped to T2 WZ Ctrl when they can so easily hold T3. I will certainly give credit to corps like Liandri and Templis who have plexed their minds out. After some private conversations and emails, I believe there is a certain apathy that many of the workhorse corps/individuals have in Gallente. They no longer wish to carry the load for warzone control. I can't blame them.

A few individuals have tried rallying the troops to hold T3 but it seems no one really cares. I hope we do not slip into T1 because it will be a major uphill climb and have adverse affects on recruitment drives and attracting new blood. Many of the corps who rely on new players will suffer major attrition. Long time vets can sustain themselves but the newer players will suffer the most.

It's time for new blood to take over.

In the end, it's nice to see new blood entering on all sides. It seems every militia now has over 4K players in it and that's hopefully alot more pew and player driven content.

When Caldari were at T1, I didn't see it as a huge deal, and I still don't see it as one if Gallente slip to T1. Personally, I'm quite happy with T1 for a while, it will let the millions of LP I have stored rise in value. T1 still makes ISK, it's not like the penalty we used to have with ISK price increases.

Even if we slip into T1, getting back to T2 is pretty easy when people care to push for it again. The Caldari have an easier time getting large alliance recruits since Caldari is such a popular mission running race (meaning their rebound from T1 isn't something that would happen as easily on the Gallente side), but even at T1 the ISK still flows, you can make enough to pvp.

Personally - I pushed for occupancy, we got all the systems, I was very happy to stop that effort as soon as the 24 hour mark passed.

Uggh. Looks like a lesbian Princess Nexxalla wannabe.

I lol'd :D

I was going to put down Hidden Snake, but he's not even Caldari :)

Or like all aspiring and established shrinks/mindbenders/"psychologist" the whole thing is a desperate reach for relevancy by a practitioner of a pseudo-science that does so want to be considered a 'real boy'.

Allow me to explain the shifts, by using old-school common sense without the same claim of relevancy by quoting that which is not quite a science:
In FW, the few earnest can easily hold up the many leeches, LP generated is more than sufficient to counter the silly 'diminishing returns' that CCP were so proud to include.
Gallente stopped because their balls fell off from being denied the exercise appropriate to keep those marvellous products of evolution in tip-top shape .. if one wants/needs to fight in a war in order to prove oneself, yet can only find wooden ducks in a tent the interest in said war wanes. It is a simple matter of "not what it said on the tin"

Flip that for the Shakorites. They didn't want conflict or the feeling of having to do anything to get 'their due'. Years of having the vast majority of systems in play hidden behind a bottleneck and thus "safe" without having to do a damn thing, benefiting from a much healthier market due to being better situated in relation to hub and enjoying a steady, high demand for their product due to trending FoTY/Winmatar made them into what is (in less polite society) called 'sponges'.
Tiericide has proven devastating for their market value as Winmatar is being whittled away, the previously safe 'Corn fields of Iowa' (far from border, get it? ) are anything but and their healthy markets are lost to them in accordance with rules regarding docking rights.

-Or-

The Caldari/Amarr farmhand hunters became too much of a nuisance and started carrying too many points for the alt horde to make ISK hand over fist any more.

-Or-

Markets became too depressed and stockpiles of items grew too large, so farmers are merely rotating fields as is proper if ones aim is to maintain a high steady output.

Personally think has most to do with that last line. Pure greed, nothing more nothing less.

The turning of the tides is interesting. Down here in Amarr space, when we hit T3 with a comfortable margin it suddenly became almost impossible to get the militia to bash any hubs that became vulnerable. There are two system that's minnies now have defended into the 70's that we did have vulnerable.

On hitting T3 it seems many just went into mission carebearing mode or had plexing fatigue from the effort it took to flip 25+ systems during that time we had the upper hand in the WZ.

Minnies are now outplexing us daily and have flipped 5 systems without us a having a flip response. Will be interesting if we take Hof today, or it might be another 5 flips by the minnies without a response from us. Will be interesting to see what happens if/when we are pushed back into a T2 only position.

So basically CCP did a good job in rebalancing FW by creating a pendulum which always swings back and forth.

Or just this

This is a game which is intended to never end. Therefore it has to be impossible for any side to win, otherwise the game would end. What in your opinion should happen when one side completely conquers all enemy FW systems and achieves Tier 5? Should faction warefare end for those two? No, one faction gets a medal that's all. Then people get bored and go somewhere else until after some time a new generation will spawn which will go for it. And the cycle of life will start over again.

Damn girl! That's some sexy hair!