Warfare & Tactics

You know. I'm starting to think CCP will introduce Interceptors that have 3 warp stabs built in and are nullified.

Might start having REAL TIME camp monitoring too. Like threw the billboards and sh!t. Change the channel in your captain's quarters to see what OMS or AMAMAKE gate is like... Game seems to be going that way.

He didn't blow up alone.

Pirates at a gate aren't 'griefing' anymore than the enemy FW is when they camp gates or plex clusters. Denial of travel, resources, reinforcement, etc are among the most common tactics in any sort of warfare.
Nowhere does it say FW is strictly a two sided affair. That is an artificial and flatly incorrect interpretation of FW in the first place. What you want is R-v-B if you want clearly defined 'sides', designated combat areas, and artificial limitations on how wars are fought. FW is an organic war, taking place in space populated by civilians, including care bears, explorers AND pirates. They all are part of FW, whether they are in a milita or not.

Real militaries rarely operate lone warships during an open conflict (submarines being an exception), so flying solo into hostile space and being bushwhacked is a failing of tactics, not the game.
Much like the incident with the USS Pueblo in 1968. Essentially the US Navy had a multi-billion dollar T2 spy ship ganked. Lost to what amounted to pirates (for all intents and purposes- compared to the navy they stole the ship from, it's a fair assessment) because it was without escort in hostile waters.
TBH, it demonstrates how close Eve comes to 'being real' at times. Flying alone in hostile space is wholly unrealistic for any military, and the tactic works as well in Eve as it does in RL.

The term pirate is also somewhat misapplied. It could simply be that the people that live in those regions don't want ANY of the empires there. Consider Afghanistan as an RL model- the people that actually live there hated BOTH the US and the (former) USSR. The locals accepted the help of the US to defeat the USSR during the 80's, then immediately turned on the US when the Russians left- their ultimate goal to expel BOTH sides from their land.
Just like in RL, most of the military fighting in contested regions don't actually live there- they come from Empire space. They arrive in death machines to blow things up, kill anyone not 'blue' to them, then leave and go home to the safety of high sec. Leaving the people native to the contested space living in a state of constant fear and deprivation, just wanting to farm their PI while seeing both sides of the ongoing war as 'the bad guy'.


One capsuleer's terrorist is another capsuleer's freedom fighter

This man gets it

Base out of true stronghold systems then. If your faction cannot be trusted to hold on to any system then base out of systems that are outside of the warzone, but are still lowsec.

This is why I am not playing EVE right now because griever blow up my ship too much and don't want fights only ganks. You are totally right and the sad thing is that it is not much better even when you have lots of SP like me because WINMATAR. is pretty much unstoppable right now so why should I undock if they just blow up my ship everytime and have already won FW.

Maybe they just don't like you?

I'm sorry.

*snorts*

Around Avenod Amarr milittia is doing pretty good in kicking minmatar ass.

If someone is blackmailing you into playing EVE, you should contact your local police department.

If you've been imprisoned or kidnapped and forced to play EVE, but your captors are allowing you forum access, you might see if CCP will pass on information relating to your whereabouts to the relevant authorities.