Emperor D'Hoffryn
No Quarter.
Vae Victis.
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Posted - 2007.05.07 22:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Tista
think what you like, but when it is 5 vs 5 and it's looking pretty even then 15 more jump in from the other side things go pear shaped.
Yes for us older players eve has become boring especialy since most of the time it is 10 vs 2... or an extreme ratio.. and in eve it's very rare to find a good fight.
Most of the time i'm not even logged in.. i log in for maybe 30 minutes to an hour.. purley because when i do log in i'm either surrounded by more pilots than i can handle.. or i can't be assed to undock just to lose my ships.
Eve is imba in the favour of multiple ships.. and ccp keep pushing it this way.. it's said in all their blogs.
" we want more and more fleet warefare"
But when you're not in a giant 20-50 man fleet things are just retarded.
I used to pilot a pilgrim alot.. i gave it up because i wanted to pilot something alot bigger.
But why should i have to resort to hiding to get a half decent fight.
And as for the complaint about me being a gate camper... in actualy fact i camp gates alone most of the time if i do camp.. but today our local jumped up by 5 so we warped to the gate.. and engaged to have a good battle.
There are no good battles anymore.
they baited you. you took the bait. They used a valid tactic, after which you complained there are no tactics in EVE.
/me shrug. Not sure what you want. If you engage on a gate without a scout on the other side, the only side lacking tactics is your side.
Originally by: Snuggly
It's just so great to have an actual reason to not die, incentive is fantastic!
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Emperor D'Hoffryn
No Quarter.
Vae Victis.
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Posted - 2007.05.07 22:55:00 -
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I understand the desire for fun fights, but what you what is just not realistic.
NOQ is not as big as it used to be, and most members have families and full time jobs. Every now and then we get a good night, with lots on, and with most having a few hours to commit to an op.
I announce the op, and tell people to 'X' up if they want in.
lets say, 20 people 'X' up.
do I tell them, sorry, only half/quarter can come, else we either wont get kills (everyone runs when we come into system) or we have to bait, and thats not fair? No, we form up all that want to come. We split the gang for baiting, scouting purposes if we have the numbers, we send in 1 person to scout ahead, and scan down ratters before piling the gang in. We might camp a gate or two on the way, we dont stay there long.
and often we get out numbered as well. When you run in 0.0, you are running with the big fish, and when you come across the big fish, you either have to be prepared, or you die. When you come across a fish bigger then you, hes not gonna let you go.
It really has very little to do with bullying, at least for the common, roaming gang. Im sure some of the alliance warfare is like that tho, but we were not talking about that.
You have to be prepared for anything that might come along. You cant warp to the gate with battleships with no assistance or scouts, they are slow and vulnerable, as you found out. When you send in bait, it has to be believable. If one BS came in, and actively started trying to engage you, would you engage? I wouldn't, its fairly obvious. The enemy did a good bait job, they prolly had some intel, knew your numbers, and baited you with a reasonable force that could be expected to not be bait. Either you were in their space, and they wanted you out, or you were in your space, and they wanted it. Or they don't like you.
So whats the problem?
Originally by: Snuggly
It's just so great to have an actual reason to not die, incentive is fantastic!
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