EVE General Discussion

was about to join fw then i discovered that people just fly 5 days old alts with multiple warp core stabs to farm lp, lol no thanks.

i hope more people do this, hopefully ccp will be forced to fix it instead of ignoring it

5 day old alts with warp stabs? Try 1 hour alts with no training.

Fly an arti thrasher then. Target and alpha, then rinse and repeat.

Fit multiple scrams.

It works as most of the LP Farmers I kill have 2 or 3 stabs fit. I carry an extra scram in my cargo and refit in station, removing my web.

That tends to be enough.

But seriously, if you can't find good fights in FW areas and only come across LP Farmers, you aren't looking.

There are lots of fights to be had and in many cases, the LP Farmers are alts of pvp players. It's a way to cover the cost of lost ships from pvp. On that basis I hope nothing changes. If it's not possible for FW players to cover the cost of their pvp ships, then they'll have to resort to other methods or drop out of FW all together. That would be a poor outcome from any change that nerfed LP farming.

Unfortunately, the average EvE player appears to be smarter than the any of the Devs, and will find the exploit in any mechanic.
It was infinitely worse last year, when you could speed tank offensive plexes with a 2 day old alt.
Until FW matters to the rest of EvE, it will be nothing more than a haven for pirates, frig gangs and alts farming lp.
CCP should never have provided highsec routes between factions, FW should have been instrumental in controlling safe lanes thru the lowsec regions and in return receive isk (tolls) from those who use the route and lp for controlling a route.

FW is broken for one simple reason. everyone has an alt spai in every faction. There is no loyalty. There, I said it.

You can't win em all. There'll always be someone out there with that 1 extra stab.

In FW areas I haven't found that to be a problem and for the most part fitting 2 scrams works.

To be fair, the reason people do this isn't because its just easy to make isk, they just don't want to be bothered with PvP. I find it easier to run from a fight I know I can't win, than to spend 20-30 minutes reshipping fitting and flying back to my farm spot.

If CCP wanted to encourage PvP, they would make complexes give groups the same reward as they give solo players, then people would have a reason to form gangs and pvp.

I find it difficult not to get killed when I am afk orbiting eating bagel bites

This is not why FW is broken. In fact that's one of the more fun things about FW, because let's face it, when you've been in militia chat for more than a couple weeks you want to awox all those guys anyway.