Forum Joe
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Posted - 2008.02.21 18:43:00 -
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I wondered for some time if "stealing" a system or two from an alliance would be possible. From what I saw : it is not. Several reasons :
- "What for?" : Most 0.0 systems are just full of... nothing. Not even worth losing 1 Billion for.
- "The Hammer effect !" : When you are the weakest, the amount of loss you take and damage you make to your ennemy is exponentialy related to the ratio of power. You have 50% their strenght? You will lose 4 times more, thus inflicting 1/4th of what you lose. 10% their strenght? You will lose 100 times more, thus inflicting 1/100th of what you lose. 0.01% their strenght? Wich is the case with "Alliance Of Alliances of Allied Allies" : The damage you take will be 100% of whatever you have in space, and the only damage you will inflict on your ennemy is the cost of the ammo they will use to slaugther you.
- "Saturday night fever !" : You *may* achieve local superiority in a system or two during most of the time of the week. You *may* be able to operate normally in this system 50% of the time. But don't fool yourself. Don't try to build anything to claim it as yours, because, on saturday evening everything will be destroyed by a fleet.
- "MY PRECIOUS!" : In order to claim a system as yours, you will have to fight, to damage your opponents. The reasoning is that, at some point, your opponents will compare the loss they take, and the value of what you have taken, and may decide it isn't worth it, and sign peace. Well : no. Take a 5 (you) versus 7(them) fight : you lose 5, they lose 3. But you will give your opponents something they consider as the most valuable item in EvE : killmails. If you fight like mad, accepting a higher loss ratio, you will not deter your ennemys from coming at you, you will become the new "Disneyland Of Killmails - come get yours!".
- "EvE real Doomsday Weapon" : The only way to win such a war is to use the "L33t" weapon of EvE : Boredom. Park alts in your POS not moving one inch. Never give your ennemy a target to lock on. Fill their systems with perma cloacked alts. Force them to camp gates the most you can, giving them a few velators per day to grind their teeth on. On saturday morning, unanchor and vanish your assets in logged off characters. Don't give the allied grunts any reason to hate you. As a rule, the basic allied grunt will give up fighting for a system if all that means is boredom for him. Most important : DO NOT TALK -NEVER- to the grunts ! If you can manage this one month, you will then be able to start your next offensive :
- "EvE is PvP! Pityfull versus Punks!" Forums are your friends. Think of it, in what kind of mood will a grunt camping you without ever being able to get a lock on you be? Use this against them. You cannot beat them on the battlefield, beat them on the forums. Remember that in EvE an alliance is all about numbers, not quality. A lot of your ennemies are grunts, fighting against people they don't know for reasons they don't care about, under orders of people they often never chatted with personnaly. Manipulate them. Convince them that this fight is not worth it. At one point, not seeing any action, and seeing their worst grunts covering their own alliance of s**t on the forums, the alliance leaders *may* decice to give up and not actively fight you anymore. "So we win?". Sadly : no, because...
- "WE WON SERVER!" When you force players to band together because of game mechanism, when those force players to the "If you are not with us, you are against us" mentality, then you create a scenario where, one day or another, a group will become large enought to crush any opponent, and will have, de facto, won the server. If your intention is to get yourself a system to call yours, you will automatically end up as "red" for hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands of other players.
What is left if don't have a grunt mentality?
PvE:
- Player versus environment. - Player versus "Everyone else that lives out there" (player pirates)
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