I disagree tbh mate, the FC can only herd so much to get people in the right ships for the job he wants them to do.

A lot of the time when we form stuff and for eg its and armour fleet and someone brings something "unsuitable" he will either be given a ship to use by one of us in fleet, or be laughed at and cos we know he will die first and miss all the kills, usually they swap ships pretty quickly.

Also, alot of the time with people who fly together frequently if there isnt a "experienced" fc running things it still works pretty well on our side as the quality of the pilots behind you makes a hell of a difference.

Its very very rare if one our fc's derps he gets any stick tbh, experience or not as most people are happy at the fact that they have someone pointing them in the right direction as opposed to counting station spins. A lot of the time the FC is only as good as the fleet behind him..... "ffs shoot the effing primary"

There is nothing wrong with basing in higsec, draketrain used to have base in Villore back in time we were in Caldari militia.

I put the problem down to lack of decent plexing corps in the caldari.
Back in my time in the 22nd Blackrise we would top the plexing charts often and we had alot of fun doing it.
A group of newish players we learnt how to exist in low sec we learnt how to fight for plexes and we became very good at what we did in the end.
The restrictions on what ships could enter a plex made a level playing field that we exploited to our advantage.
Anyone who understands when and where to plex will understand how easy it is to get a fight in one.
Only those who have no understanding of what systems are the most contested and are closest to flipping will tell you plexing is boring because as well know if you go to a random system and plex it will be boring.

People tell you it is pointless but for me forming a large blob and flying from Nourv through tama down to old man star every day is even more pointless.
You could say everything in eve is infact pointless as its only a game. Personaly I like to play a game where my actions atleast have some consequence even it is simply a mark on the sov map.

I thought about returning a few times but the thought of that mindless Tama too OMS routine is enough to put me off.
Should a well orgainesd corp or two attempt to revive the old Caldari spirit I or atleast some of my alts would indeed be tempted.

4 days in the militia and I think I can comment now.

Oh dear, bad is not the word!

First of all, everyone is in 2-5 man corps, including me! Mostly the feeling is there is not good corps out there.

Hidden I wouldn't follow you if you paid me, not cause your a bad pilot, not cause you fit crappy fittings, it cause you have and are open about no honour. You've always said 1v1's is an excuse to gank people, and thats something most of us vets would never fly under.

I had assume when I joined there would be some corps who were like what WOLFY was, "stuck up their own arse doing their own thing!" But there really isn't. 4 Horse Men of the Apoc look the best on the killboard, but they try to get militia fleets together, and help people. Which is really nice!

The 3rd top killer this month in Militia is State Pro!

Damar is the best pilot in Caldari and he's moved down to Amarr space cause of the crap he gets in Militia - People abuse him for I'm not sure what, so the guy has done the right thing, he has ****** off and left you guys on your own! Hows that working out for ya?

You have, what I would class as leet players, Celes Apoc, 4Horse, and a few others desperate to get fleets together. But that desperation invites anyone to join and they happy to take them.

I've seen fights where small skirmishes have seen the caldari sitting on a gate, gallente warp in, in what could have gone either way, only for some caldari to jump, some caldari to warp away and some to fight. So the fair fight becomes a slaughter!

Yet I never seen any fall outs, and I later seen the same people in what looked like the same fleet!

Let me tell you a story, about WOLFY and the Gallente.

We HATED the militia. We looked at most of them with anger! They were based in high sec, would get raped by pirates as soon as they entered low sec, encouraged anyone and anything to join their fleets the when they got owned.

We lived in low sec, we roamed around in correct ships, with pilots who trusted their FC. We knew if someone F'ed up we would crucify them! I died once, ran back to station to come out again, grabbed the first fighting ship I seen, died again only to see a STAB on it! The abuse I got, I never made that mistake of not checking fitting before undock!

We knew we were not jolly little snowflakes, and we LEARNED!

And corps asked to fly with us, and we told them to feck off and die!

Then corps changed, QCATS, SOTF knew that to stop the abuse we gave them they had to step up. They may not agree and say it was simple progresion. But a long while later they even moved into the system we lived in.

We even asked for their help, some of our pilots started flying with them, and reports came back these guys were good. They formed a pack and started getting more kills than us! They controlled the pipes, so for us to get more kills we had to Tama and then the draw of beomcing pirates was just much! And thats where the story turned blinky red!

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What I see in the Caldari is EVERYONE is a snowflake! No one can criticize without being called ASS. Damar tells them straight, without him they are nothing, yet he is abused so he fecks off, and he was right, without him they are nothing.

The "good" corps are desperate for fleet members and take anyone, only for them all to die. Thus the good pilots get fecked off and wither don't join or just become inactive.

So I say this to the corps in the Caldari Militia.

"Say you are leet, don't train the noobs by taking them out! Let them catch up to you! Become arses, tell people what they are doing wrong, its better to have 3-5 guys who know what they are doing rather than 10 who don't"

"1 Corp to take the lead, don't say you are, just do! Get enough members of your own corp and roam, and do stuff, let the other corps come up to that level rather than you come down to theirs.. Build a corp of brothers! Stop flying with the 3-5 man corps, tell them join you or tell them to do their own thing. I am a corp of 3. As soon as I see a corp doing it right you will have my sword and my application, but they don't exist just now. Final thing timezone, if you are a 20 man corp, you can only operate in one timezone! Having 20 members with 5 on EU prime, 5 on US prime, and 10 come an go, you'll have a long death!".

Now these are my humble thoughts. I aim to help, but if you don't see it that way, then tell me where I'm wrong!

Caldari need leaders... A Leader not to follow but to aspire to!

Okay I won't join you either.. As your not very good!

Your a divisive figure, as am I. It needs a FG or a new corp to join !

I don't think I saw anyone slagging Wolfsbrigade, and they certainly know how to run a fleet.It's also obvious the 4 horsemen are the only ones willing to fight right now and if not for them militia would be doing nothing at all.

When draketrain was in militia it was boring, those 100+ corporations did not bring any fights, if they did, they hugged station with carriers without having any possibility kill anything, or something similar.

You know he basically treats his own militia the way he treats the Gallente, and the only reason he's actually treating you with dignity and respect is because he wants a good PvPer in the Caldari militia to make himself feel better?

As soon as you stop being novel and useful he'll start treating you exactly the same way he treats everyone else.

I ain't leaving or left. My standing is so bad I must leave my corp before DT everyday. Its a pain.

But Plan B is now in operation. Bringing another 3 man corp into the militia was a mistake. Adding more fuel to the fire.

Plan B is slightly different.

But I still am now Caldari through and through and won't be leaving until the killboard looks good. Or I die trying!

I know alot of Caldari won't trust me yet... But that will come, I'm sure after trust will come love, then adoration, then we head to VICTORY!

My personal objective of 200 kills for the month was fulfilled. Now I'm attempting to get NAERY to be top killer in caldari militia this month. Two days to go and we are 14 kills behind 4horse. May the best corp win

Yes, I'm having fun...

Hating Damar and dissing him in everywhere is old gallente tactic to make no one helps him, because plexing is not pvp etc goes for same mantra.

Sad part is that it has never worked because Damar has balls to be what he want to be, not to please others to get internet "friends", Damar can be also polite to those who really earns his respect.

want to know the reason why i started hating on damar? its rather simple. damar started hating on me because i told him i did not have time to plex right before and after dt due to real life (4 kids can keep you busy). when he asked why people dont plex to get fights, i stated its because most people in calmil dont want to sit on a button for 30 minutes in the hopes of getting a fight.
the result = damar hates on me because i dont play fw the way he wanted me to and i put my wife and kids before eve online. so as you can see, damar started the hating on me and im all too happy to continue extracting his tears and emorages

In medium plexes caracal is one the best t1 cruisers, with light missiles it has about 50m range, it can chase away or kill tacklers and it can stay out of enemy range mostly and it has decent tank.

So it is always on optimal when you go in plex.

Also Caldari militia could built drake fleet on no time by using same method than draketrain did. experienced pilots who have skills fly scimitars, lachesis, rapier and command ship boost, newer players fly drakes. Then you use nano tactics to stay away from enemy tackle and dps. MWD for all, even for scimitars who try to be as far as possible from enemy , still able to remote rep ofc.

By keeping range you do not have to usually tank so much dps, ofc this is always dependable what enemy flies, Drake fleet has it counters.

Caldari isnt a mitlia, its a missioning coaltion, Damar/Bad deliveryman can confirm

If they did that our Militia chat would be just as quiet as Amarr's.

You are doing it wrong, you are not supposed to kill gallente, you should just die.

I came back to Gallente Militia for the 2nd time around after being gone for months. Aside from an occasional mission running bomber, it is tough to find Caldari war targets. No wonder half of Qcats has gone pirate; they have to resort to shooting neutrals in order to pew.

I'm really hoping more people join and help Caldari. Otherwise, I may need to join the Minmatar side and see how that works out.

PS- I play late US EST TZ from 10pm -1am.

Caldari covards?

They are just using same gallente tactics that gallente has used years.

No fights so enemy gets bored and leaves.

Sometimes people should just look at mirror.

Our corp have taken on as many as we can, but it's a hell of a lot of work to train new guys and can be very frustrating at times as well. Most corps are are too tied up with their KB to take on a lot of new players that trash their l33t KB stats. I know ours is absolutely horrible looking at this point, even though I know lots of new guys are going to lose tons of ships and not kill much in return it's still very frustrating, so I can't blame corps not wanting to recruit a lot of newer guys TBH.