Warfare & Tactics

13 SB kills in a row. i love tier 4, can't wait for 5.

I am sorry for your bomber loss. You can orbit beacons with stabbed 200k rifters. try that, its even more fun! And efficient like hell. (don't fight since its LP inefficient)

You cant say it much fairer then that

BUT

you forgot to add in the trade mark "didnt want that ship anyway", "why can i no warp! i have stabs", "ARE YOU ALL NEZMOR!?!?" and something about everyone Blobbing.

Only then is it a true evaluation of the FW warzone and how far it has fallen since the "Farmville patch".

I like FW as it is now but didn't originally.

Currently since we are at T4 I'm making money. Which I then spend when we are at T1 on home system defence (scary times but pretty epic pvp).

First off, corps that actually set up in the warzone, instead of basing in outskirt systems like ovaries, do need to worry about sov because of this thing called station lockout. Second, chasing off stabbed frigs isn't a problem, it's a solution. If every FW corp based in the warzone, as they should, and simply occupied a plex just to force a farmer out of it, then the ISK:hour ratio of plex farming would drop like a stone, farmers would be forced to do missions instead (not affecting sov), and then maybe just maybe the only people left sitting around in plexes would be the pilots actually prepared to hold their ground when someone comes bombing in to fight.

It actually meant something when it had no ISK value, you fought plexes for the sake of the fight, not for LP. Also there was a bit more barrier of entry, limited access to the %contested data from the server meant that uncoordinated players made a lot less impact, although I'm sure given enough time those tools would have become widely available. Now it is the uncoordinated players that drive the majority of the Sov war

People complained that FW didn't 'mean' anything, now its worth farming and people complain that people are farming it.



I do not believe there are enough players that find sitting in a comet / condor / January'sFOTM cashing stabbed frigs fun to cover 70 odd systems 24/7. Until then farmers gunna farm.

So.... whats going on these days...

Much of the same, but Minmatar have the upper hand, steadily holding teir 4 for almost 2 weeks now. The Usual... I wont go into the details of what is said about the corp or the Alliance I am part of... say what you will but I <3 WMTR. I found the pirate entities in Amarr space though... Death By Design left militia since my last post here, and they are now Kamela's resident ... 'less desirable' inhabitants lol. Outlaw Horizon, are basing out of Kourmonen it seems, which was swiftly removed from the grasp of LNA and... whoever else lived there a few months back... it has been consistently kept below 10% contested and in the Amarr hands for that period. Preiously mentioned Outlaw Horizon and Death By Design are known to work together pooling their resources to be very effective at all types of engagements including BS and Blops warfare, you can >>>ALWAYS<<< count on them to drop triage to save face in an engagement when it doesn't go their way.

I have read much in this thread about the 'endless cycle' the 'farmville attitude' and 'winning the war'. So my thoughts... boo ******* hoo. I'm having blast. FW zones have the perfect combination of income/pvp/warfare/smack-talk, and pretty much anything else you can think of (except industry lol) If you think the grass is so green, see how you like CTAs and Structure grinds in sov-bloc warfare. If you are struggling and finding the everlasting cycle of high-tier/low-tier a grind or some kind of problem... you are limiting yourselves to only faction warfare... My corp enjoys all the things that any large lowsec corp should. but FW does provide other interesting opportunities.... like a whole **** ton of targets to shoot at. but more importantly... an enemy. I think that many take the whole, 'Faction warfare, two sides, locked in everlasting power struggle' thing a bit too seriously. I have been found guilty of this myself before. My view is that if you do something, do it all the ******* way and at least commit. So yes you have seen the propaganda and the chest beating... but how else are we supposed to get people a little bit immersed and give them just the tinyest bit of a feeling that the plex they are capping, or the hub they are bashing is important and is worthwhile because **** the *insert least favourite faction here* If it were not for these pilots who enjoy feeling immersed and that they are part of 'something bigger' whatever the **** that is. All we would have is russians controlling one warzone at high tier making sure they have pleanty of space to oplex while maintaining one particular faction at T5 for the rest of time. **** that lol.

So whats going in where you are?

I will admit the COA post is f***ing r******d, DBD are truly a commendable corp, and I hate to say it, but if there was a video every time they won an engagement against us... lets just say their would be less cloud space...


The one thing i don't get though... if one pilot makes a post bout their corp... does that make them the voice of their corp. does that automatically mean they project the views and ideals of their corp/alliance.

Yeah I mean, we have never really projected ourselves as a 'no fucks given' corp so I cant really say that we don't care about the perception. It's different for me I think because I put a lot of work in and a lot of time and it was my first CEO. I will say that we have a fantasic community within the outer shell of 'the perception' lol we are fuckin proud of the things we have acheived, even if they are not at the sov-bloc scale, but more than anything... we love a good ruk with somone.

Anyway, enough of me talking about me, why don't you talk about me :-)

On a serious note, I have to say I have seen the amarr up their game considerably over the last few weeks when it comes to defending hubs. They normally cannot hit us head on with firepower so they relentlessly make it difficult by plexing out form under us... good tactics, SO annoying lol.

I hope we can see some more Amarr join the WZ soon, we are mostly shooting at pirates at the moment if we bring out aything larger than dessys, we cant get the Mar to fight :-(

You see a lot of bad in FW from all sides (often because of new players) but that corp raises the bar.

Aviators so far seem to be the perfect storm of local smack, terrible pvp, laugh-out-loud-comedy fittings largely without the excuse of being new.