For the minimatar who claim that the goon intervention didn't help them and OMG WE HOLD 56 SYSTEMS BECAUSE WE ARE SOOOO GOOOOD, you don't think that the influx of plexing alts helped? I know that a HUGE number of amarr pilots even had plexing alts, working against their own side, because the rewards were too much to resist. Also, an IN slicer for plexing or PVP is very pricey for an Amarr pilot on LP, a SFI costs you less than a frigate for us. Do you think that this had NOTHING to do with your ability to control systems?
I have spent the past month plexing up systems, defensive plexing (for 0 reward) and PVPing to help the amarr side. It felt like CRAP to plex all day, yet still see you guys at tier 4 or 5 the next morning. It felt even worse to discover that there was a reason for this beyond the broken mechanics of the plexing system, the clearly unfair NPC balance, and the disorganization on the Amarr side. I went out to plex last night, then decided "screw it, it's not worth working against this stupid mechanic any more."
We don't need a system reset. However, I feel like every amarr pilot needs to petition EVERY LOST SHIP for the last month, since we lost them fighting against a broken mechanic that we had no chance of winning against.
If you Minimatar think that this whole thing was OK, and that the "whole thing will balance out in the end" SCREW YOU. You should be just as pissed as we are about a stupid game mechanic favoring one side. I was very excited by the changes, those first few days after the patch were AWESOME, getting fights, making ISK, and enjoying the prospect of a new warzone. Since then it has been a demoralizing slog through stupid plex after stupid plex, and the fact that we had no chance of ever making progress or bumping up a tier just proves how broken this system is.