Pinaculus
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.13 12:19:00 -
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Akirei Scytale wrote:Jr Instructorcon wrote:
3. Fleet fights are boring, lagtastic, and require no skill or tactics.
Mostly false. Good FCs are worth their weight in gold out here. Large scale fleet engagement tactics and overarching strategy are much more complicated than small scale PvP, requiring the coordination of hundreds of players, advanced knowledge of the game mechanics, and the charisma to settle disputes and herd your legion of cats into the enemy. Fleet fights are a huge adrenaline rush, the teamwork, the comms, the **** linked in fleet chat, all of it leads to a pretty fun experience. Unless you are on a structure shoot. Then you play World of Tanks/Transformice/League of Legends with your fleet mates while your ship unloads for an hour or two on a tower. Lagtastic is generally true, but you get used to it, and learn to fight with it. The time dilation stuff coming should help with that.
TL;DR OP is a idiot who knows nothing of nullsec, and good alliances.
Anyone who has ever seen a Mr Vee fleet (from either end of the guns) understands that large scale PvP is unbelievably deep in terms of strategy and tactics involved. I don't think you can dismiss null fleet battles offhand after seeing a fleet of half a thousand individuals move like a school of fish, warping between on-grid perches multiple times a minute, locking people up and popping them then relocating before they could react properly, and generally being a cohesive ball of coordinated death.
I think we've just found the reason people don't move to null.
If you need friends in null to be successful in null, and you've never been to null before and have no friends there, then doesn't that mean you get to lose ships repeatedly until you somehow magically make friends in null?
And if you don't end up making friends in null, then do you just quit the game? Keep dying until you go broke and have to crawl back to level 4s? AFK cloak?
This sounds rather un-fun. If I "win" I get to blob the crap out of people. If I "lose" I get blobbed until I leave. Why should I move to null again? |