Lupe Meza
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.08.30 13:02:00 -
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Don't have a dog in this fight but have been lurking a while. FW seemed the most consistent place to get some PvP and make some ISK. Particularly if you can't be logged in for 4 hours, 3 hours and 59 minutes to find a good fight, 1 minute for the actual fight.
I lurked around these forums for a few months to get a feel for what the scene was like here, to see which militia I'd have the best time in, not necessarily make the most ISK in, as I gauge my enjoyment of EvE not by ISK/Hr but by Fun/Hr. Of course you need ISK to stay in ships, but as long as I can come out ahead I'm good, I pay my sub cash.
Preface out of the way, and really not trying to take sides, but I'd like to point out there were numerous back and forth arguments when TEST joined CalMil a few months back. Test would wag their e-peens around, crowing about how they where winning the occupancy war, to which GalMil, some of the same in this very thread, said that occupancy and sov was irrelevant in FW, it was all about the kills and PvP.
Now fast forward to a sweep and occupation of the system and now CalMil is essentially being taunted with the same occupancy bravado TEST would use, by the same folks that argued so passionately that such metrics were meaningless. Is this to try to provoke a response to get more fights which have no doubt dried up? Or is it just hypocrisy?
I'm only asking because more and more in the waning months of my sub to this game I was drawn to because of the "sandbox" play and player driven content; I'm seeing more and more examples of the "sandbox" boiling down to kids hitting each other over the head with pails rather than making sand castles and flinging their poo at the walls and calling it content. "Look what I made! Content!'
Anyway, just so I understand the situation clearly. GalMil has completely taken over the CalGal zone and have now started in on deplexing the Amarr zone. With the influx of Cal defectors inflating the numbers, I've read that folks are now bleeding into Amarr space.
What happens if theoretically Amarr and CalMil have no systems? Aside from mass chest bumping off course. I mean when the smoke clears, and everyone is GalMil or Minny and cruising around raking in their LP, does FW now become a mini-"Blue Donut"? Or PvP is now just Null Alt Pirate Corps in Low rolling you with HAC/Guardian gangs or hot dropping you and you thanking them for it because that was the only fight you got that night? Why? Because the "enemy" is now either in your faction or just plain quit FW?
I fully believe that if you can't defend or fight for something in this game, you don't "deserve" to have it. If you can't be bothered to mount a counter offensive or defensive action you deserve to lose. However my one major gripe with FW is there is no motivation for sticking it out with a militia when things go bad outside of hubris. And yes, while EvE is this sandbox of infinite possibilities and poo flinging surface area, it is also a game. And a game usually needs at least some basic balancing mechanics. I never understood why time in a militia is not rewarded. It seems like you get rewarded for running missions after folks do the heavy lifting just fine.
You get rewarded for jumping on the bandwagon just fine. But actually sitting in that foxhole getting shelled for months when you can just put on the uniform is not. In fact, it is actually more pragmatic to do so outside of ego or pride. It would be nice if there was some "loyalty" mechanic to go with these loyalty points to offset sitting in T1 for a while based on your time actually fighting for a militia. And not just calendar time, I mean time spent fighting(even if you lose), plexing, missioning; some multiplier that increases as you do these things over time and then gradually over days resets when you stop.
But granted I'm just one of those annoying Non-FW that sits in the occasional plex and my knowledge of FW dynamics is nonexistent, so I don't know if things like this have been attempted before. From what I'm gleaning from the forum this could be headed in a bad direction for everyone so matter how elated some may feel in the moment. When the wolves eat all the sheep, what happens? |