Zaruda
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2008.06.26 19:10:00 -
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This makes me chuckle because of the irony here.
I got caught up with my original character in the Eve RP environment around late 2003 or early 2004. For years, even before there was an official 'UK', PIE and Imperial Dreams (now CVA) and others had us beat because it was rare they would fight a skirmish battle, instead bringing out their biggest and best ships in large numbers. And why not bring out the best as the risk of someone actually being able to engage you is very limited. By the time we would be able to get sufficient numbers to feel like we could make a dent (which was rare), they'd have moved on. In all my years in UK, I have yet to see more than a handful of skirmish fights out of any of the RP enemies we had. There is only one I know of (which I was fortunate enough to be a part of) that was really fun.
Now here we are 4 years later in faction warfare and the whole thing has flipped. You got Minmatar faction players outnumbering Amarr by what? nearly 2 to 1? CVA appears to be unable to really participate for two reasons: 1) Obligations they put upon themselves in Providence and 2) the mechanics of faction warfare making it difficult although this is also comes from reason 1. Also the whole way faction warfare is working also prevents them from bringing the biggest and baddest ships available too.
I am still checking out the whole faction warfare scene but I was in a fairly decent group last night and they seemed familiar with groups like PIE, VV, etc, although not all the fleet members have the history with them that I do. There was several comments about very rarely seeing any of those guys around.
However, having said all that, in faction warfare there is still hope for Amarr RPrs, you scum sucking slavers.
Fight smarter, not harder. Get those 'more is better, bigger is best' thoughts out of your head. You win 0.0 fights that way. Faction Warfare is a whole different ballgame. There are lots of cheap, simple things you can do to make your fights more effective.
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