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Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2012.12.23 21:03:00 -
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Since the inception of FW and right up to the Retribution expansion, the Caldari militia has been supported by the crutch of NPC imbalance.
It is hard to understate the strategic advantage one side possesses when they can speed-tank every single one of the other side's plexes in a PvP frigate. Especially when the other side, when they try to play offense, must either destroy the rats because of missile spam and overwhelming ECM, or use PvE fits with enough tank to last.
A similar imbalance, albeit to a lesser extent, existed on the Minmatar / Amarr front. A pvp rifter could ignore the rats' laser light show; Amarrians had to contend with missile spam from the Minmatar rats.
Post-Retribution, it's equally easy for all four sides to rake in plexes with NPCs playing a minimal role in the occupancy war.
In other words, it's now up to the players. |
Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
Samurai Pizza Cats
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Posted - 2012.12.23 21:54:00 -
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Mutnin wrote:Yet you cry about old plex mechanics as if it somehow gave Caldari a advantage, all the while ignoring the great advantage you now have as if 100s of farmer alts aren't doing the work for you. At least when Caldari took all your systems it was done people that were out there to have PVP, not armies of T1 frigs that run at first site of combat.
Confirming that plexing alts never existed prior to Inferno, and that no one had ever speed-tanked Gallente and Amarrian plexes with stabbed, gun-less frigs using alts.
Never ever.
The big difference is that militia members now get paid for plexing and PvP, encouraging more people to regularly participate than that handful of die-hards (and their alts) who care a lot about dots on a map. |
Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
Samurai Pizza Cats
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Posted - 2012.12.24 04:36:00 -
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Beautiful.
For all the shortcomings and imbalances of Retribution, it consistently delivers inpopcorn-quality forum content. Thank you, CCP.
Especially you, CCP chatgris. |
Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
Samurai Pizza Cats
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Posted - 2012.12.26 18:56:00 -
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X G wrote: I think part of the LP faucet created by CCP...
What I want to know is what CCP is going to do about this FW tear faucet.
Sure it was nice when it started out, but the tears are starting to get so plentiful that they're already losing their luster. |
Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
Samurai Pizza Cats
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Posted - 2012.12.31 16:49:00 -
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Last I checked, Federation Navy Antimatter was cheaper than Caldari Navy Antimatter in Jita. Times are changing. |
Shaalira D'arc
Quantum Cats Syndicate
Samurai Pizza Cats
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Posted - 2013.01.11 07:55:00 -
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Ohishi wrote:Shaalira D'arc wrote:Last I checked, Federation Navy Antimatter was cheaper than Caldari Navy Antimatter in Jita. Times are changing. It's always been cheaper and honestly the only reason I have ever used CNAM was because of the lack of FNAM on market.
It's not always been cheaper. The opposite's usually true.
Check the year-long market history of Navy Antimatter in Jita, and that's just the last year.
ground crl wrote:I see there are now more gallente and minmatar than caldari. Anyone who denies what I posted above is just ignoring the actual data.
Current FW stats haven't updated to reflect the fact that Ev0ke just joined the Caldari militia, bringing roughly 750 more pilots into the ranks of the squids. |
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