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Fongg
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Posted - 2009.10.29 22:13:00 -
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For example, if my name begins with a number, or an A, will I be more likely to get primed first in a fleet engagement?
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Omara Otawan
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Posted - 2009.10.29 22:45:00 -
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Edited by: Omara Otawan on 29/10/2009 22:46:49
Sometimes yes, depends on how the FC likes to call his targets. (Note: numbers-for-letters are not getting called that much if at the beginning of overview as its confusing, say someone has chosen "4ndy" instead of "Andy")
But also depends on the ship you are flying, i.e. nobody will primary your interceptor in a battleship slugfest.
And then, you can always exploit that habit if you know the hostile FC, i.e. tank your ship up as much as possible without damage mods.
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PMolkenthin
League Of Shadows.
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Posted - 2009.10.30 07:42:00 -
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Some FC's call A-Z, some call Z-A, and some call targets by ship types. You're gonna get primaried sooner or later so it don't matter tbh.
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Sahriah BloodStone
Caldari
No.Mercy
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Posted - 2009.10.30 07:44:00 -
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Seriously?
No proper FC calls targets in alphabetical order wtf. Your name means nothing unless your in a group pf 5 vs 30 and they just shoot whoever they target first, even then its never A-Z.
Proper Fc's call by shiptype/Range/If theres a known FC in the group they sometiems try to kill them. Your name means NOTHING.
Hell im still training as an FC and even i know that
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No.Mercy
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Teogull
Amarr
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
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Posted - 2009.10.30 08:11:00 -
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Mostly is by shiptype/range .....but belive it or not, characters not startin with A (do actually live longer).
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Rashmika Clavain
Gallente
Shadows Of The Federation
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Posted - 2009.10.30 09:35:00 -
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It's fine to order your overview alphabetically to find the target that's been designated primary, but no I don't think FC's call targets aplhabetically 
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Suas
Perkone
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Posted - 2009.10.30 11:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Sahriah BloodStone
Seriously?
No proper FC calls targets in alphabetical order wtf. Your name means nothing unless your in a group pf 5 vs 30 and they just shoot whoever they target first, even then its never A-Z.
Proper Fc's call by shiptype/Range/If theres a known FC in the group they sometiems try to kill them. Your name means NOTHING.
Hell im still training as an FC and even i know that
Not true, it's still done often. You have no idea what you are talking about.
It's not always the best course of action though.
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Marko Riva
Adamant Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.30 15:54:00 -
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qft on the above poster, ideally your name shouldn't matter but in reality, more often than not, people tend to 'default' to something easy to understand like the first letter of your name. It just happens so when choosing a name try to avoid anything "below" F or thereabouts.
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Matharos
The Perfect Storm
Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2009.10.30 18:02:00 -
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Well the fc doesn't call the targets alphabetically, his overview will be sorted that way as should the whole fleets. This is epically true in larger fights
So if your name starts with 'A' you will be at the top of his overview, and if your flying a juicy target it makes you much more likely to be primary.
You don't want to be scrolling through your overview in a laggin fleet fight....
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Gibbo3771
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Posted - 2009.10.30 21:09:00 -
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Basically what everyone is sayin, dont fly a scorp, falcon, rook, blackbird, rapier, arazu, huggin, lachesis, curse, pilgrim lol
Top of the list in one of those ships, you gonna get called primary, FC's dont like hostile E-war and it is easily removed with a quick volley from everyone.
I dont know any FC's that call there targets by there name in alphabetical order, they tend to adapt to the gang....
E.g sniper gangs most primary targets would be ECM and Arazu/lachesis.
Inty gangs the heavy drone boats normally get called first or completely ignored and take out other inties/recons then leave.
There is lots of ways, it goes on forever depending on gang and Fc style
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Hemmo Paskiainen
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.10.30 23:45:00 -
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Better pick a name that starts with an H and ends with a unspeakable last name in english. It does help soo much. And if u want to be sure u dont want to be called primary/die u fly a mega and are always alighned. The H works exelent vs the the french people under us. You know for sure that your never going to be primary if the fc is french  .
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dtyk
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Posted - 2009.10.31 00:17:00 -
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And if the FC is Finnish they will just primary you for being Dude Bastard. (Sorry, hard one to translate.)
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Aaronm100
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Posted - 2009.10.31 11:00:00 -
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I can answer this post from experience :P
When i come up against fairly bad FC's or ones where the fleet is not varied like an RRBS fleet with 5 megas and 5 apocs i find that i get primaried alot of the time.
Also if i'm ganking someone in a fleet it's quite often that they shoot at me before they die too but maybe that's just because i'm usually 500m away from them.
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Anonymous Jailbait
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Posted - 2009.10.31 12:09:00 -
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Oh ****... |
Grekken
Caldari
Reaper Industries
Eternal Rapture
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Posted - 2009.10.31 14:45:00 -
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LOL if your name begins with A and your in a raven guess what ? *UBERPOWNED* Yeah from what Ive seen its all about ship type.
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Admiral Goberius
Amarr
eXceed Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.01 22:14:00 -
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Most of the people who replied to you here are talking out of their ass tbh.
If you are in small gangs your name doesnt matter, if you fly in large battleship or capital fleets then you *will* be primaried alot if your name starts with A or Z because people generally sort BS/cap only overview and work primaries alphabetically.
Serves me well for naming my char admiral :(
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Siwopo
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2009.11.01 23:24:00 -
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Originally by: Sahriah BloodStone
Seriously?
No proper FC calls targets in alphabetical order wtf. Your name means nothing unless your in a group pf 5 vs 30 and they just shoot whoever they target first, even then its never A-Z.
Proper Fc's call by shiptype/Range/If theres a known FC in the group they sometiems try to kill them. Your name means NOTHING.
Hell im still training as an FC and even i know that
If you would EVER been in 0.0, you would know why they use alphabetical order...
After you have 400 enemy in your overview, you seriously DO NOT call targets by range and type...
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Daquaris
I.M.M
Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2009.11.01 23:27:00 -
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Originally by: Admiral Goberius
Most of the people who replied to you here are talking out of their ass tbh.
If you are in small gangs your name doesnt matter, if you fly in large battleship or capital fleets then you *will* be primaried alot if your name starts with A or Z because people generally sort BS/cap only overview and work primaries alphabetically.
Serves me well for naming my char admiral :(
- Gob
Spot on.
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Jojo Jackson
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Posted - 2009.11.02 00:27:00 -
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Name does matter. The bigger the fleets the more it matter.
Noone want's to lose the time scrolling for "Kraxel Vyraxel" when facing a 150 man fleet ;).
And if you see easy names like "Adam" you are sure everyone in your fleet will understand this name and find it fast. "Ajoraxsable" for sure will noone understand if you try to say it *g* (like "Ferrofulerit Fulleroferogel" (funny game, tell your corp members to say the T3 gas products in TS/VENT *g*)).
But even with big fleets some ship-types are "more primary" then others are. But this most FCs handel different.
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Cpt Branko
The Scope
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Posted - 2009.11.02 02:26:00 -
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If you fly ECM or logistics or such, then name does not matter for you.
If you fly a BS in a BS gang, then you will be primary much much sooner if your name begins with a A, from my experience at least. Particularly as gang size goes up a bit.
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
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Posted - 2009.11.02 07:28:00 -
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Or if your a famous person then your going to get primaried. At this one time in gate camp I was abaddon and I was primaried because everyone knowns I'm the biggest badass amarr dude in our home system! 
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Lugalzagezi666
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Posted - 2009.11.02 09:01:00 -
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From my experience you dont want to be Aaron in Armageddon in rr bs gang .
So yes, it actualy has some impact on your life expectancy in fleets.
Also names like caldari citizen 895894 in all "caldari citizen" fleet will cause alot of confusion heh. Numbers in names, random letters etc. work too, as well as words that are hard to pronounce - not all fcs are english speakers.
Alot of possibilities to confuse enemies with your name...
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Kanuo Ashkeron
Wormhole supervisory and Investigation team
Blanket Men
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Posted - 2009.11.02 09:49:00 -
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Originally by: Sahriah BloodStone
Proper Fc's call by shiptype/Range/If theres a known FC in the group they sometiems try to kill them. Your name means NOTHING.
Unless you are a known FC 
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Guillieme Lohran
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Posted - 2009.11.02 13:57:00 -
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Originally by: Si***o
Originally by: Sahriah BloodStone
Seriously?
No proper FC calls targets in alphabetical order wtf. Your name means nothing unless your in a group pf 5 vs 30 and they just shoot whoever they target first, even then its never A-Z.
Proper Fc's call by shiptype/Range/If theres a known FC in the group they sometiems try to kill them. Your name means NOTHING.
Hell im still training as an FC and even i know that
If you would EVER been in 0.0, you would know why they use alphabetical order...
After you have 400 enemy in your overview, you seriously DO NOT call targets by range and type...
QFT. When the lag fairy shows up and kicks your butt all subtleties go right out the window.
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Larez Lightblade
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Posted - 2009.11.03 20:56:00 -
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Ive heard stories of people naming their characters the most offensive thing they can think of with the reasoning that no one will want to repeat it in channel and therefore they wont be named as primary. Have any FCs experienced this, wanted to call someone as primary but didnt want to repeat it over comms? |
GavinGoodrich
State Protectorate
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Posted - 2009.11.04 00:14:00 -
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Edited by: GavinGoodrich on 04/11/2009 00:15:42
G is definately not at the top of the alphabet.
But hey...
I feel sorry for *A*dmiral. In his Loverly *A*baddon which typically isn't loltanked, right there at the top of our flashy orange stuff, known FC...
FC's can get day jobs as auctioneers, the way we spout out crap that's not even pronouncable.
We primaried a guy named "Gay 4tw" the other day, and everyone shut up for like a half second and laughed. Totally awesome character name.
It's like the name calls out to you. You almost feel guilty going after the scorpions first.
Almost.
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gpfault
Divine Retribution
Sons of Tangra
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Posted - 2009.11.04 03:52:00 -
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Edited by: gpfault on 04/11/2009 03:51:55
Originally by: Larez Lightblade
Ive heard stories of people naming their characters the most offensive thing they can think of with the reasoning that no one will want to repeat it in channel and therefore they wont be named as primary. Have any FCs experienced this, wanted to call someone as primary but didnt want to repeat it over comms?
Generally people with offensive names get petitoned and renamed by GMs. Pronunciation tanking might work though.
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aak0000
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Posted - 2009.11.04 09:15:00 -
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Damn i'm in trouble
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Asuka Smith
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.11.04 10:43:00 -
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A-Z target calling happens in a 100+ vs 100+ fights, in a small gang it is ALL about shiptype and range.
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yani dumyat
Minmatar
Black Storm Cartel
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Posted - 2009.11.04 11:53:00 -
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The biggest advantage of having a name that starts with Y is lurking at the bottom of local :)
Originally by: Lugalzagezi666
Also names like caldari citizen 895894 in all "caldari citizen" fleet will cause alot of confusion heh.
QFT, i also like the cheek of whoever called themselves 'My Ship'
On a related note my other main toon has a more friendly avatar and easily pronounceable name. I've noticed that FC's and gang members can interact more easily with that toon than this one, on one occasion a player took an instant dislike to this toon and started mouthing off about it in a private convo with my alt
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