Allna
On Your Own
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Posted - 2014.01.30 16:15:00 -
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We're small fish, so we don't really do capital fights, but we'll take most fights we can get unless its just ridiculously uneven numbers. We're not a big organization so if we're out with 5 dudes and run into a 20-man T3/logi fleet, we're not going to engage, but if numbers are not skewed dramatically we'll throw down. |
Allna
On Your Own
SWAG Co
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Posted - 2014.02.04 15:14:00 -
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Senn Denroth wrote:I don't think the thread is titled in a manner that it will answer the overarching question of: are you in it for fun, or are you in it to win?
That question in it self is misleading because those that only take part in fights they think they can win or not, may only fight 33% of the time. In my books that's not a win because it would mean you are sitting in a POS not taking part in the game.
In WH space I've noticed that there are two groups of players.
Group A -
* Are in the game to have fun, but also have common sense and tactics.
* They do not pass up on a fight even if they're outnumbered 2:1 (something about the triple 3 fleet: 3 Loki, 3 Guardians, 3 Tengu, and 1 Moros with massive gonads)
* Will jump capital ships in to a mass reduced hole to secure a fight. Even in to someones home where they could be out escalated 10 fold on capital numbers.
* When are killed type GF in local
Group B -
* POS up straight away when they notice a new sig or ship on scan.
* Reduce mass or close wormholes to avoid fights that they think they might lose. May make excuses such as, not our prime time or, you took too long to bring a fight so we closed it.
* POS up when unable to roll the connection safely.
* Will not fight unless they have 3:1 odds.
* Farmers.
* May sometimes pose to be a corp/alliance that comes under Group A, but just so they don't get evicted or invaded and just get left alone to go back to farming.
Thankfully and proudly I know what group I sit under, I pay for this game to play it and contribute not sit around and ship spin.
P.S. Confirming that Sky Fighters seem to have balls the likes of which that horses roam around with.
I honestly think this is a little black-and-white (though fairly accurate description of a lot of entities we've encountered!).. I like to think of ourselves as not being in group B, basically because we never do most of the things you list there, but, we also rarely take fights that are an obvious loss for us (I suppose 2:1 we'd take depending on the fleet comps and if ECM/Logi are involved), but 3:1 and such we will avoid and look for other fights that are more 'our size'..
For our organization, our behavior comes from simply a lack of cash (and we're pretty small, typical night is 5-6 dudes). We haven't shot red plus's or harvested anything in... several months as most of us seem to not enjoy NPCing, so we really don't have any stable income where we live, and based on our habits, we tend to form up around the same time, and the status quo is to go forth and build a chain in the mapper and look for content in the way of PVP.
Our static is pretty much only ever used as a means to get to another system where there's someone to engage. We don't take fights that are an obvious "we will for sure get murdered", simply because we don't have the funds to mass-replace losses, and would be back in k-space before long if we took fights that would end that way. Perhaps that's our problem, we need to 'farm' more so we can afford to take bigger risks, but .. nobody wants to farm, so we don't, and instead we roam.
Perhaps that's free intel, but it is what it is, and its a game so vOv. |