Warfare & Tactics

It's hard to say the problem is with the number of players. The miliitas have about 19,000 pilots to cover 170 systems.

The problem is there are not enough active pvpers. I predict that if the fw occupancy mechanic was more of a pvp mechanic more pvpers would participate and the 170 systems would easilly be covered. Just like now its a pve mechanic so we get allot of pvers.

Cearain. It looks like you basically want a channel with even more free intel. Isn't local, dotlan, the contested status of every system, beacons visible on the overview, and the Dscanner not enough?

4 years and the same problem with occupancy so of course the solution is the same. CCP never did anything to address the real problem with occupancy. They just threw isk at it. People didn't care about it before inferno and people don't care now.

Ok so, i think this would be a good time to remind you that this is a computer game. Part of the fun is the hunt. PvP's a journey, not a destination.

Speaking of which, i started hunting you when your other toon passed through nis the yesterday. I was elbow deep in pvp and potential pvp all night in that area. You just passed through without pausing for long enough to do a quick d-scan survey.

You are truly terrible at finding pvp in eve. If i were YOU, i would want a notification of everyones whereabouts too.

As far as plexing goes, i can honestly say that 90% of the plexes i have entered in the last few days have lead to pvp. People farming vacant plexes? who cares, only you. But i doubt you could articulate why other than you like to cry about stuff, constantly.

It's a good time to remind everybody that Cearain's proposals do not accomplish his stated goal. His proposals are "chase rabbit-then pve" - which, of course, we can do already.

You may like "hunting" I think its boring. I like fighting.

Eve has plenty of mechanics for those who like to roam around "hunting." But very few where you get allot of fighting.



If that is the case I was probably in low structure and just looking to get repairs. Or all the plexes were within 14 au and I could tell they were all empty or of ship types and numbers I couldn't match. Here is a tip, you can scan while you are still under your gate cloak.

I have found that I can sit in the main gallente hubs and if anything comes it will be at least 3 destroyers and a griffin to fight a t1 frigate.




You of course don't know what you are talking about. You see my ship one time leave a system and presume to know how good I am at finding pvp.




Thats probably because you wait until your buddy gets a point on something before you come in to blob it.

I do see you crowing in local about your gatecamping skills or how you are so good with your boosters. None of which are of interest to me.




I have articulated why I think it would be great if the fighting in plexes was going on throughout fw.

You have said numerous times that you do not care about occupancy in 90% of systems. Under the current system I agree. Actually under the current system I don't care about it in 100% of the systems. Thats why I left fw and just go in plexes for the pvp.

You can keep gate camping blobbing and bragging in local, it seems to be your calling in this game.

XG you continue to try to argue against letting players know where plexes are being taken so that they can fight for them. Just how much do your alts make?

No chasing necessary if you have a notification system. And there would be far less pve in plexes, and far more pvp.

And how them are active, an how many of those live in lowsec? I know for a fact good, regular size gallente corp live in either highsec or non fw lowsec. A huge Amarr fw alliance lives in non fw system. How many caldari live in Icho or around in their highsec?

This is not CCP´s faul, it´s player decisions. If those people decided to live in lowsec and fight for their systems, even more of them would be fought for.

You are taking a very particular fw experience (yours) and trying to force it down everybody else´s throats, even while many of us IN faction warfare keep telling you there is a lot of pvp happening, and we have the killboards to prove it. You maybe saw Crossi gatecamping once, and decided that´s all he does even while his KB will show you the huge ammount of solo or small gang fights the man gets involved with. His secret? He goes out and LOOKS for fights, no notification needed.

As for intel channels being too much work? again,. that´s a player problem not a CCP problem. If some guy decides it´s too much work to report intel, that´s his problem. There are enough of us in galmil with both regional and "whole area" channels that do report them and get into fights.

They all have active accounts.
I don't know the answers to the other questions. Lots of them are no doubt alts farming plexes contributing little or nothing to pvp yet having a huge impact on occupancy.



Well ccp was told that just throwing isk at faction war plexing, without making them more of a pvp mechanic, would lead to this. Yet they decided to just throw isk at plexing and this is what we got.



I don't doubt that their is more pvp in low sec and in faction war in particular. But the pvp in faction war has very little to do with occupancy. The 90% of the top vp gainers are not pvping at all.



Again getting in fights does not = winning the occupancy war. When gallente did their push to gain occupancy their pvp per pilot was much lower than it was after that occupancy push ended. I am not saying people in the miltiias never pvp. My point is that the occupancy war should not be the carebear race it currently is.

You say its not ccps fault that the occupancy war is a carebear race. I disagree. It is a natural result of the mechanics they put in place and yes it is working as predicted.

Nope people flying around would set the destination and be there ready to fight in minutes. If you kept warping off then this combined with a timer rollback would mean no more lp for farmers. Hence everyone in a plex would be ready to fight for it. The number of fights per plex would skyrocket and the fw occupancy war would stop being a carebear joke. Winning all the systems would actually be something to be proud of.