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The fix Factional Warfare thread

Author
Irsam Samri
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2014-03-03 10:02:35 UTC
Hello, Im making a post here after reading a page over in warfare&tactics. Factional warfare leadership across all factions came together to sort of say stabbed cloaky farmers ruin the warzone. This isn't really a question about dedication as current mechanics make it easier and more profitable to run a bot farming FW than mining. People bot and nothing is done to stop them.

the argument that we aren't good enough or dedicated enough to catch FW afkers is invalid, its a long arbitrary boring process that nets you a 1 mil or less ship kill, and gimps your fit because you need to fit 2 warp stabs. The farmer is back it 5 minutes later.
Say that I chase someone out of a plex, over and over for the entire day, the stabbed farmer will still capture plexes, this seems impossible but in the 5 to 20 seconds it takes you to figure out where they went they can move into the next plex and run the timer until you chase them out of that one. I've warp stabbed farmed before, and even with 2 good players actively chasing me, I can slowly plex a system as long as there are 3 plexes open.

Something should be done. Like I said nearly every factional leadership spoke against this mechanic and the lack of options legitimate players have to deal with it. The only naysayers were forum alts who I can only assume bot FW plexes for profit.

Suggestions please??