Warfare & Tactics

Amazing! First of if you’re going to bash me at least spell my name right. I’m not going to take your misguided attempt at slander personally because it doesn’t describe me. Especially since anyone could read my older post and see that I don’t carry a negative opinion of Caldari Militia. I’m a proud member of Caldari Milita always have and always will. I never liked tooting my own horn in public, but since I have been called out I’m have to oblige for my space honor. I have quietly gone about my business in my time with Caldari Militia. I stepped up and lead PVP fleets when no one else would do it. Sure, I’m not the most dynamic and cool FC in the world, but I earned my battle scars thought grit and determination. From time to time I have been known to catch the war targets off guard like using a wormhole to warp in fleet on top of the war targets on the Kedama gate in Tama. I led plex fleets during USTZ when the 22nd and allies were in the Verge Vender/Placid Campaign. I even worked with Damar (gasp) during the first takeover of Heydieles. The only way we made progress was because Damar disappeared for a few hours. It was basically Kruger81, few wingman and myself fighting through the night. To the PERVS credit they did come in finished the job when I had to go to work. I’m sure chatgris remembers the epic marathon of battles that was. I supported upcoming and established Fleet Commanders with scouting services. I helped set up unified coms before I took a break from the game. Even late last week I was helping Gost and the EU timezone guys counter attack in Enaluri. We even managed to put the system in vulnerable state after a week of fighting. We couldn’t hold the system because of lack of numbers, but it was good effort none the less. To have people who hardly know me or fly with me incorrectly bash me is bewildering to say the least. I left the game in protest in January 2011 because I didn’t like CCP lack of direction in Faction Warfare. I only come back to the game because of plexes changes and promise of more changes in 2012.

Do I have a problem with Damar style of play. Damn straight I do. I don’t care how good you are if you treat others players badly you’re not worth my time. I understand when people mess up they need guidance and if they refuse your guidance that’s fine they will either learn or leave FW. Nature will take its course. If you enjoy having someone belittle you and treating you like garbage then that’s your problem seek help. I stand my previous comments about Damar. I been consistently critical of Damar over years, this isn’t news. Damar instead of spewing poison on public channels about how you were victimized by the Caldari Militia in the past. Why don’t you step up? You keep talking about how loyal you are to state but you’re fighting for the amarr. Too me it looks like you were driven away by your lack of current results in Caldari FW faction warfare space. In fact all those that process that you care about Caldari FW the fight is in Enaluri, where are you?

Prior to FW missions most players flew pretty crappy stuff, it's one of the reasons everyone laughed at FW gangs because for the most part they were pretty incompetent in ship types do to the contentious loss of ISK by most players. Added to this it meant the average player would need to leave low sec to go grind ISK then come back later. (kinda silly to think a person fighting for a war effort for a state wouldn't get paid and had to keep a job else where)

FW missions added the much needed paycheck to recoup the losses and allows players to always stay near the main battlefield if they choose. It also allowed the average players to fly more expensive ships with a means to replace them.

Farmers on the other hand pretty much ruin the idea behind the concept, but then again maybe the prices are down enough to keep the FoTM farmer away as it's now more profitable to do incursions.

So after lots of time of people saying "We dont want to fight in plexes, go f..k yourself carebear PVE n00b", they would now expect me to return? To an enviroment where back-up is available after filling proper form, posting three copies of it to right government official and after people have ventured into Jita to buy proper ships because having more than 1 pvp ship ready at any time is frowned upon?

No thank you. I quite like it in my home-in-exile since I have people here who actually want to pvp, are on comms, can reship to proper sized ships in the two minutes (which is maximum it should take no matter how inexperienced you are) and understand how to fight.

If I am such a divisive figure, then you should be happy. You can now organise rest of the people into a proper fighting force without my venemous influence. Or perhaps some of the Caldari should take up my offer and come join my gangs here. They might even learn something.

Edit: And yes, there is not enough firepower in Caldari militia to shoot a bunker down. This is not badmouthing or anything. It's pure mathematical fact. Unless you can get mission whores to bring their bombers to bunker, which they wont. If you cannot get enough numbers for your "home system", then how can you expect to get it in any other system?

Sounds like a plan, but now think how much PERVS would have earned on their journey to take all systems. And how much would have gallente made profit out of it?

Fact is that system you propose does not work, it will give more isk for those who really do not need it and less isk for those who are already losing.

I am sure that if you promise lot of isk from plexing someone will gather a competent people to farm all isk out of those and leave others to have left overs.

All you can do about it is to fund more those farmers by giving t2 loot from your ship.

Well the LP awarded should be the size of the plex with a mutliplier thrown in for how contested the system is. That way people have a choice plex in high risk highly contested systems for biggest return or plex a backwater system for a lower but less risky return
Either way your helping the war effort rather than just yourself.

Sorry if its a bit off topic but the mud slinging was getting boring anyway P.

There is no risk at plexing really.

Yes but even you guys left Cal militia after recruiting tons of pilots and taking them with you just like Wolf brigade and others in the past. I understand the issues of not getting GF's that larger corps in FW have, but it's not like you can't still do other stuff to get them. The fact is most of these larger corps are very lazy in the fact they don't do anything to get those GF's other than expect to shoot the same WT's over and over then wonder why they don't undock.

There is nothing to keep a large corp from shooting other people out side of FW by either piracy or going to null sec and picking fights. Not like you guys are in an alliance taking Sov & systems. There is no reason a corp has to use FW to build up it's numbers than leave because they can't get GF's because Black Rise & Placid offers up some of the best locations in EVE to roam into multiple null sec locations.

The only difference is that if you are a farmer and you've spent 15 minutes in a 20 minute plex, that time is now wasted (since the opposition camping the mission either gets a fight or gets LP (or both) therefore having incentive to wait) , unlike the current mission system where you continue with one of the other 15 open missions you have and return later with whatever progress you made still there.

I am not stuck on LP, a VP system or an LP system where you get rewarded more when the system flips is a great idea. I am against the current mission system where it's

- purely a pve only exercise (be it stealth bombers on the caldari side, or gila/ishtars with cloaks on the gallente side)
- where the opposition can do nothing to sabotage your mission progress even if you choose to avoid pvp
- where the opposition feels like they lose if they manage to hold a plex because they just wasted x minutes of their time with no fight and no reward

I completely agree with this. If CCP cared, it would be worth spending a weekend to put together a document on how the above could be achieved: But given my understanding of CCP's processes, the best we can say is "we'd like plexing to be worth something, and we dislike the situation where farmers can purely pve with no practical way to stop them" and let CCP work out the details.

LOL, there's nothing wrong with FW missions and there's plenty of good fights lately in FW plexes.

I think the devs should be more worried about 0.0 atm since the FW "alliances" are among the best in kills and isk destroyed in the game lately. Seriously guys, there's more action in FW than anywherre else in this game.

w.r.t. Draco. 22nd should have never left it's FW niche. You'd be one of the strongest corps in the entire game right now. Instead, you guys thought the real action was somewhere else. My guess is that you guys got bored fighting infererior forces at a slower pace and then eventually dissolved - like most former FW corps. The pace in FW may seem slow to us in FW, but it's 10x as fast as in 0.0.