Veshta Yoshida wrote:X Gallentius wrote:Anyways, 4-5x increase in kills is a bit too much to ignore. ...
True enough .. but how about ratios? Is it "attackers" trying to plex in systems with no possibility of docking, defenders being blobbed or somewhere in the middle?
Numbers without details can be and often are deceiving, in this case they might well mean that permanent lock-out (see the FW Iteration SoonGäó thread in F&I for alternatives that are vastly superior to CCPs implementation) resulted in a FW spasms followed by death.
I can give my personal experience:
Pre-inferno, the vast majority of my kills came from pirating. Caldari basically did not exist in my timezone. It go so bad that I moved off to Dudreda to fight eve uni for a while.
Now, I have nights with lots of kills, and *none of them* are due to pirating (I think my last pirate kill was a thorax that was helping a caldari gang in a plex in Eha). Most of those kills occur in plexes, since I can go to an upgraded caldari system with lots of caldari docked, and they give a damn that I'm in a plex (either because I'm taking their LP, or because they don't want to lose the system, or maybe this patch has enough people excited about plexing that there's just more people around), so they usually come out and fight. Or they'll be in a plex trying to get LP, and if the oods look good, they'll often stay and fight.
As for ratios, I'd say it's 50-50 offensive defensive plexes. Last few plex fights I can remember were:
a) 3-5 dessies (depending on who reshipped) vs 8 caldari dessies in Kedama
b) 2 dessies vs caldari: 2x merlin, griffin and thrasher
c) 3 destroyers and a caracal navy issue vs 3 battlecruisers, cruiser, kestrel
There's also been a few bigger fleet fights against caldari...
a) Weekend fight, about a 15 man caldari cruiser gang with t1 logi and bb's in a medium plex, against a larger kitchen sink t1
cruiser gallente force (think about 20)
b) Just last night, 23 destroyers running around nenna vs about 15 destroyers on our side, no plex though.
That's some recent fighting I can think of not going back further than Monday IIRC. This patch has brought a ton of people out of the woodwork into plexing and pvp, and it's fantastic.