Warfare & Tactics

Factional Warfare is about fighting other factions. The goal is to control sites in low sec to eventually control them at 100%, then bashing the hub, and switching the system to your Faction. There is a few things to know before doing it, and here is a list of what you should know.

Travelling

1- If for example you are enlisted for the Gallente FW, you won't be able to fly without getting shot by militia members in Amarr space, and Caldari space. It is possible though to fly there without dying, as they won't scramble you. Use small ships, and you'll be fine.

2- Avoid flying big ships in closeby systems of Caldari and Amarr space, as many enlisted War Targets fly there. They will be able to shoot at you, even in high sec. Therefore, it is NOT safe to haul stuff for you as an enlisted pilot.


Docking restrictions.
You can't dock in Caldari and Amarr controlled Low sec stations. So don't buy stuff there, and don't try to dock.

Loyalty Points Farming

To earn loyalty points, you got to O-Plex or D-Plex. To D-Plex, you got to go in a Gallente space, defend an outpost for a certain time. To O-Plex, you got to go in a Caldari controlled space, go in an outpost, shoot at the mob there, stay there untill the timer is gone.

Outposts
To fight ships you are able to fight, you got to go in certain outposts. There are ships restrictions to enter them, as :
Novice : T1 Frigates can enter
Small : T2 Frigates, destroyers and below can enter
Medium : Cruisers and below can enter

Combat tactics

1- Local. To know what are the possible threats, you should ALWAYS look at the local chat. Check the total amount of members, check if they are together, if they are war targets, and how old are their characters.

2- Scanning. By using D-Scan, you will be able to know what are the ennemies. Using long scan (99999...max range) at 360 will let you know if people are in range, but far enough. Short scan (1million or so) at 360 will let you know who's in short range, so either outside of the outpost, or inside.

3- Fittings. Choosing between a MWD fit and a AB fit is important. AB fit will be tanky, sitting at the gate of the outpost waiting your ennemy and fitted with a scrambler and a web to have full control of the fight. MWD fit will be fast, and usually sniper fit so your ennemy won't even reach you.

4- Farming VS Fighting. You can choose to ''safe plex'' so basically just farming loyalty points. To do so, you should fit a cheap fit, with either a cloak or warp core stabilizers. Roaming pirates usually get bored when they see you disappearing from scan, or warping away.

5- Saving your POD. When you know you're about to die, align somewhere, then insta warp away. It's not worth it loosing a 80mil POD for a 8mil fit.

6- Scouting. Before flying big stuff, check at the systems statistics on the map, and scout before going there to avoid gate camps. Even scout at 100km outposts if you're not sure what is in there.

7- Warping to an outpost. Always warp at 10km, never at 0km because you will be stuck in the gate.

Just made this guide, and I am planning to update it. Feel free to comment !!

Rezoom, it is a good way to make ISK, but that way you won't control systems, then not making that much LP compared to tier 3-4.

Also, fighting is much more fun !

Yes, there are LP farmers in all the FW areas, but there's also a lot of players in it for the fights. Many of the FW corps are purely about the combat.

How much isk do u make cloaking for lp gain? Are there any faction hits for the cloak farm method?

I'm in FW for the fights and the ability to have lots of them without affecting my sec status (don't know why I care as HS is boring as ****!)

I also make enough LP from baiting in plex's or stealing them from LP farmers who assume I'm there to kill them (Hint: I will if I can )

To anyone who has the parience to farm LP in FW - bugger off and do some research, if you can stand doing nothing in game for hours on end you can bloody well look **** up!

\o/ My work here is done, now I can go back to being a filthy scum pirate!

People who are just in FW for fights still make a lot of isk so no need to become a farmer.
If you are farming with a cloak and stabs - you are also having no fun.

Sure your profits are much higher but what is the point of continuing to farm if you don't fight?

There are a few tactics that will cause a cloaky farmer to leave a plex.
My personal fav is if they seem to be cloaking up when I get to the accel gate - I go fit a cloak and cloak up with them in the plex.

When I cloak up with them It's as if I can hear them calling upstairs to their welfare dependent mothers saying 'HES HURTING MEH IMAGINARY INCOME MUMMYYYYYYY WHAAAAAAWHAAA.'
To which their mothers reply 'You're a good boy Bubby' (If you know what that references - you are laughing about now)


So - The farming tactics mentioned in the OP no longer guarantee you any income.
Basically - The best counter for a cloaky seems to be another cloaky.

Don't forget, always, always spam warp to the plex celestial beacon when you get popped on the accelearion gate by your old ceo after talking a ton of smack in local. Save your pod every time

I do rage at myself when my income is hurt, but damn, that's a bad idea (for me), never happened to me before and thank goodness. I don't cloak though, so that won't work. Runners always get off better because they can always go find another PLEX.

I'm plexing in plexs for plex.