Warfare & Tactics

The problem is that area's of concentrated activity do not always coincide with systems that can be objectively measured as good in quality.

Just look at the Dotlan map for killboard activity in the Gallente-Caldari war zone. Area's of activity are clearly concentrated around home systems. However the location of those home systems seems to often be chosen arbitrarily or for reasons that may have made sense at some point in time (war zone borders) but no longer do. This means fighting occurs where the players have (indirectly) decided to make it occur. Player driven game mechanics is what CCP want.

Moons, systems security status, system location (high sec adjacency, trade hub accessibility, connection to the rest of the war zone), LP store, FW agents, other agents, ... If you would base system weight off of these and other objectively measurable parameters you would end up with very different home or core systems than we have now.



This is the very reason why there will be no player driven system weights unless someone comes up with a genius idea that can't be exploited.

Eh, we just abandoned our home system because the Chinese Caldari farming pressure became too much for a 34 person corp to deplex and still have fun but I'd still rather have held a home system and get fights one warp from undock than hide in a non FW low sec because of a lack of confidence in being able to defend the system.

If all Amarr hid away in Egg, there'd be no way to force fights with plexing pressure, and then you guys would cry that there's no content in FW

I like the idea but you know what the outcome will be, right? Blobs!

I highly doubt you would see enough blobs to cover every adjacent system. I hate the blob too, but there should be more concentration. It would make the warfare more tactical, especially knowing exactly which systems are being invaded and how to react appropriately. Imagine how many more fights there would be.

Well I roll through FW neutral currently, I still don't see as many fights as I'd like.

I like this idea.

The farming of FW is an abomination that needs to be taken care of.

but xg back in the day it was 1k kills in battleships. now its 3k kills in destroyers n stabbed frigates

Basically this. In the Gal/Cal warzone you had Khan try to take all the systems for total caldari domination by sitting 50 talwars in a single plex in a system that would be instantly deplexed.

As per usual, its not the game that is broken, its the players.

@OP thats actually how planetside 2 fixed the "contesting" chaos and tried to create more battles through bottlenecks

but i am skeptical that it will change anything on the fact that most of the plexing is done with non combat alts. The plexing mechanic itself is still one of the main problems since alts can make progress while running away. Without some form of timer resets there is no incentive to stay and fight, which makes it more efficient to run and contest the next best neighboring system just to come back and finish your job when the combat pilot already left. If you can't hold the line in a plex you should not be able to influence sov - its war after all.

it does matter. Since only one of both is content. CCP isn't stupid, they know their sandbox. For the same reason they are slowly fixing OGBs since 0 risk boosting is no game content too. Its just an alt in safety. Conflict is a main part of all the interaction in eve and plexing is basically conflict avoidance if you want to be efficient (doesn't matter if you are after lp or sov).

why are there timers in the first place? Why can't you just scan a plex down, press a button and receive LP, first come frist served? Exactly... to create conflict, combat, wrecks - its the reason why you are forced to stay in space for all the time but it doesn't work and people got used to it that it doesn't work so they farm.