hydraSlav
Synergy Evolved Strength in Numbers.
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Posted - 2009.01.07 00:25:00 -
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Originally by: Spurty A simple scenario is how do 'space holding' alliances defend against a pos bowling roaming gang of say 100-400 people ?
They can't see em coming or going, no ability to know 100% for sure if they have another 200 people in a system next door for backup, no ability to plan a defense against what is their escape route. No ability to tell if you have won or not and to what degree especially if everyone fits a cloak (which will be primary mod fitted to every ship second this happens).
This is the first of many screw ups removing local is going to generate.
If someone can answer how exactly anyone is supposed to hold space for more than 24 hours when BOB or NC can easily mount such sized gangs, please educate us.
This is called Intelligence Gathering. It ranges from spies and infiltrators (which are plentiful in most alliances) right down to the good old scouting. You know, ships flying patrols through gates, using the scanner as they go. Most regions have single chokepoint entries. Setup patrols on the gates. Most alliances can provide coverage 23/7. There are POS scanner arrays that could tell you composition of the enemy fleet, even if they are safespotted.
And no, you won't need to waste all your time sitting bored on a gate, cause like i said, there are also spies. All major alliances have intelligence networks, so they would know approximately when the attack is coming, and that is when you send out the scouts. They can either scout the chokepoint gates, or sit clocked in the enemy's home staging system and observe the fleet movement. Just like real scouts do.
Cyno-portals? Once again, they can be tracked on the map. So can the concentration of people in a system. I've never seen big operations "get ready and leave" in less than half hour, and that is all it takes to show up as a blob on the map.
There are plenty of tools (and ships) designed specifically for intel gathering. Unfortunately, because of local, most of those other tools are underused and simply forgotten. Local was never meant to be an intel tool. CCP said so themselves. == Above comments are my personal views Oveur >Local shouldn't be a tactical tool, it's for chat
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