Fourteen Maken
24th Imperial Crusade Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.04.24 22:08:51 -
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I understand the disappointment, it sounds like you've been dealing with pubby fleets militia chat and sprot, but this is not caldari millitia, you were never in caldari militia you just thought you were. The coalitions and alliances have their own doctrines and pilots who know how to fly them but you won't get many of those people in your fleets until they get to know you, and they can't just let everyone tag along on their ops either.
pubby fleets can be fun, and even effective if you know how to get the most out of low skilled pilots in sht fits, if you do a good job you might even be able to recruit them and get them to train into doctrines later, but don't expect to scrape a hac doctrine straight out of caldari militia chat, in fact don't expect to get any kind of doctrine out of militia chat. Expect to get a group of over enthusiastic newbro's and bitter drunks flying kitchen sinks looking for a good fight before they log off.
Your typical caldari pubby fleet is comprised of noobs in ab merlins who may or may not have the right guns fitted, there will be punishers, condors, kestrels, various tristans, rifters, and atrons, sometimes a t1 fitted cuiser or battlecruiser and there's always at least one guy in a garmur orbiting at 40km hoping to pick off a few wt's in the confusion. It must be distressing for wannabe fleet commanders when they call a primary and they're still the only ones putting damage on it 30 seconds later, but it's not because the fleet is ignoring you (except the garmur dude, he's totally ignoring you and he's probably got coms muted) but the rest are either still scrolling through the wrecks and asteroid belts and structures on their overview trying to find the name you called, or they're scared and confused, drifting away into outer space with their prop mod on and no clue where they are in relation to the battle or why they cant seem to lock anything.
If you want to be more effective it's up to you to fit up cheap t1 frigates and destroyers with simple tactics that even day old players can follow, you need to bring them into/close to the warzone yourself and have a stockpile of them ready to sell/give out or your fleet ends up spending most of the time flying back and forward to reship all over low sec. A blob of cheap derptrons is about as good as it gets, but we always get swaggering blowhards trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and it never works. keep it simple stupid. |