Hiram Alexander
Capital Enrichment Services
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Posted - 2011.09.25 23:31:00 -
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CCP Zulu wrote:Out of interest, for those saying they want to try Factional Warfare: What is it that you're looking for? The roleplay? the storyline involvement? The "casual" PVP? Which experience are you looking at the Factional Warfare system to fulfill?
FW is one of the few things in EVE that I still haven't made a point of getting really involved in; other than flying hulls larger than BS's - I'd like to own a carrier at some point, just to have had that experience, but as far as FW goes, the closest I ever came was a month or two with Minnie FW a couple of years back, but didn't really know what I was doing in those days and found it difficult to get fleet invites.
What was I looking for? Well, I'm actually a huge fan of the EVE 'lore' and wanted to experience the 'involvement' that I imagined FW would bring. Small gang pvp that had a 'real' consequences; that would actually impact the lives of the empire pilots outside of FW itself, for example.
Oops.
Conceptually, I think FW should be a far more important part of EVE, but outside of the pvp fun and the friendships it builds, it's actually a pretty big disappointment. Your personal choice of faction could 'win' at FW for a year or even ten, and no one outside of it would ever be any the wiser.
Ironically perhaps, this character - which I consider to be my 'main' - has nowhere near the amount of SP that I have on one of my other accounts - and that's a character I'd created (over three years ago?) specifically for joining Gallente FW, and never did. I'd heard it was doubly pointless/dead.
As a fan of the lore, I'd hoped live events would interest me too, but "God-modding" RP'ers made my skin crawl a bit.
So now, I live in WH's and go roaming for the occasional ganks and lulz while I remind myself to keep logging in...
I never got to try the other CQ's either (ahem) - some people still care about that, and will probably never get to shootslaughter high five the guy who put the pod at the bottom of that bloody ladder...
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