Warfare & Tactics

Goooooood morning warfare and tactics.

With the new update rolling out very soon I and I am sure many of you are interested on it's impact on faction warfare. Changes to EAFs, Inty's, new plex capable cloaky death ships and perhaps the secret addition to all our LP stores of a refreshing beverage. MMMmmm Rubicon.

What are your thoughts on the impact these and the rest will make? I for one will expect to see many EAFs soloing for uncontested LP farming, SOE ships cloaked up ready to surprise the rest and inty pilot's cackling as they land in front of the already rare battleships to point them for their frigate horde comrades.

Plexes create a unique engagement environment in EVE. Personally as a solo/small gang pilot I feel that the major impacts to me are that BS will be even more rare now in small gang environments and while you always had a careful eye out for cloaky surprises that empty small plex with 1 unlocated WT in local just got a lot more interesting.

Oh and EAFs... they will blot out the sun till it all settles out again.

Your thoughts?

I'm stocking up on beam Coercers, Rail Cats and Corms, and even Arty Thrashers. I'm also debating the future Heretic for small plexes. It looks like a Talwar on crack and it will have an 8 AU warp speed.

The SOE frig will will be the greatest PITA. Farmers can now farm all plex sizes in 110% safety.

Generally it's going to be a lot of fun, although all the irritating elements of small/solo pvp are going to be exacerbated by some of the new ships and mechanics.

Epic double post for the winzies.

Are you still giving out free ISK, Garr?

I resubbed 4 accounts a month ahead of time 'cause i'm pumped for rubicon. FW is cruiser-and-down mania so the amount of engagements is going to multiply dramatically simply because more people get "caught" from faster warps almost across the board.

Everybody wins in all of this, tbh. I'm pumped! Gotta leave my bubbler alts out of militia though...damn standings hits. Those of ya who wanna roam with me after rubicon's hotfixes are all done, hit me up. I'll forward ya the mail i'm sending people I know. For the 0.0 roams I plan on inviting wt's and friends/allies alike...0 fucks given.

Inties are gonna be near-impossible to catch except for pilot error--but there'll be plenty of that everywhere so YAY!

Expect marauders to die more often in the beginning while pies and various people testing out fits/etc get used to the new builds. Then expect marauder fleets to multiply dramatically, mainly in lowsec. Getting MJJ battleships down to 1 minute per microjump is pretty awesome for a fleet doctrine:D


Expect epic videos from groups such as Rooks n' kings on the likes of said shenanagins within 2 months ♥

I like the warp speed changes - but I wish they wouldn't slow down BC and BS too. Speeding up the small ships is enough. Its going to make the rare large ships even rarer otherwise.

I must be blind or something. EAFs (just not the kitsune) are already pretty good at what they do but I seldom ever see them in the warzone. The vast majority of the time what I am seeing is mobs of lemmings who can't scout/tackle, can't EWAR, and basically expect FCs to feed them targets they can F1 to death while praying that the purple logi outlasts the other side's. The biggest change Rubicon could do for FW is providing new players with quick n easy tutorials for how to be an effective pilot that knows how to do things that might just be necessary when someone is trying to put together a fleet at times when the unicorns who currently fly EAFs are offline.

I can see the warp speed having quite an impact, an inty will be able to catch anything, not just battleships, even dessies will suffer.

As for the EAFs, I think that they will have a lowsec impact rather than purely a FW impact. The EAFs is the only real part of Rubicon that got my attention tbh.