Why oh why, do so many good players and good corps play for Gallente?

Is proto stomping random players, mostly noobs in basic gear that exciting? Do you get a thrill from redlining the map and then tripping over either each other for kills while camping the one hostile uplink/CRU?

I was on a map earlier when 4 red tanks and a red squad had 4 squid players pinned in a bunker building. The rest of the map was red and we were the only four dudes doing ANYTHING for Caldari. And the Frogs were damn near killing each other to get in that building.

I want an honest answer. LP is not worth enough to play a boring game, that has no risk, no challenge. I have played on the frog side several times and it is as boring as a dead map on oceanic.

Please explain how killing noobs in basic gear, often stuck in the red line, is fun for full proto squads. Is K/D padding that important or are there other reasons?

Because some of the clones stick to racial conflicts. Matari fighters and their corporations will always fight for Matari... etc etc.
If you want to play outside your race, because that is how you play... then setup a q-sync of decent squads, use the Factional channel to gain air support, and arrr play FW like it should be... the fact that this needs to be explained is not surprising.

I understand this concept.

However, only a portion of players could call themselves loyalists. And lets pretend for a second all the masses playing for the Frogs are loyalists, which is not true. This is still a game. A game we play for fun. One side **** stomping the other side is NOT fun. It is boring, lopsided and simple. Yet all these high skilled players and corps continue playing for the same side when the outcome is already known.

I don't understand how that is fun. So there must be another reason other than "long live the federation."

i fought for caldari for the first time tonight, guess what? we won, probably because we didn't have half the team snipin like scrubs

Why oh why, do so many good players and good corps play for Gallente?

Is proto stomping random players, mostly noobs in basic gear that exciting? Do you get a thrill from redlining the map and then tripping over each other for kills while camping the one hostile uplink/CRU?

I was on a map earlier when 4 red tanks and a red squad had 4 squid players pinned in a bunker building. The rest of the map was red and we were the only four dudes doing ANYTHING for Caldari. And the Frogs were damn near killing each other to get in that building.

I want an honest answer. LP is not worth enough to play a boring game, that has no risk, no challenge. I have played on the frog side several times and it is as boring as a dead map on oceanic.

Please explain how killing noobs in basic gear, often stuck in the red line, is fun for full proto squads. Is K/D padding that important or are there other reasons?

Why oh why, do so many good players and good corps play for Gallente?

Is proto stomping random players, mostly noobs in basic gear that exciting? Do you get a thrill from redlining the map and then tripping over each other for kills while camping the one hostile uplink/CRU?

I was on a map earlier when 4 red tanks and a red squad had 4 squid players pinned in a bunker building. The rest of the map was red and we were the only four dudes doing ANYTHING for Caldari. And the Frogs were damn near killing each other to get in that building.

I want an honest answer. LP is not worth enough to play a boring game, that has no risk, no challenge. I have played on the frog side several times and it is as boring as a dead map on oceanic.

Please explain how killing noobs in basic gear, often stuck in the red line, is fun for full proto squads. Is K/D padding that important or are there other reasons?

Because fighting to protect my drugs makes sense. Those money whores would try and burn it all if they got to that part of losec.

I understand this concept.

However, only a portion of players could call themselves loyalists. And lets pretend for a second all the masses playing for the Frogs are loyalists, which is not true. This is still a game. A game we play for fun. One side **** stomping the other side is NOT fun. It is boring, lopsided and simple. Yet all these high skilled players and corps continue playing for the same side when the outcome is already known.

I don't understand how that is fun. So there must be another reason other than "long live the federation."

I admit that is a problem. Caldari is full of scrubs because most of the good players play for the same two sides. Even Amarr has more players than Caldari.

But that is the point of this post. There are so many scubs on Caldari because so many good players play for the Gal/min side. A few go Amarr and Caldari gets what left plus a bulk of the random blueberries.

And Frag brought up a point of the Gallente logi suit, which is a nice prize for fighting for Gallente. But the Caldari offers decent stuff also. Proto rail rifle, 100% needle, proto swarms.

And most importantly, a vast majority of the players I am curious about already have full proto suits and gear. So they don't need most of the LP items. I'm talking top players from Outer.Haven, Sver true blood, Ancient Exiles, Nyan San, Science for Death, Rainbow Effect, Dem Durty Boy's, OSG Planetary, Un holy Legion of Dark Star, and Dark Legion to name a few.

And there are more I can't even remember. Top players, top corps, all on the same side. It makes sense why the Caldari side is so awful right now.

What dosen't make sense is how these top players on the frog side are not bored out of their minds yet.

A lot of decent players only play FW for specialist weapons and equipment. They are only interested in those that give them a slight edge in PC.

For instance, I have proficiency 5 in ARs, and they still work well enough in CQC, so that's what I use in PC. How am I going to get a specialist Duvolle without playing for Gallente?

The other point to remember is that FW is generally a bad FPS experience due to it being laggier than pubs. If I'm not getting Gallente LP I'd sooner be in a pub, where performance is much more acceptable.

Thank you Ryme. Would you say most people playing for the Frogs, or FW in general, are doing it to achieve a goal like gain LP? When playing fw they don't care about gud fights or challenges, as long as they get LP?

Most of the good players play for Gallente/Minmatar because they know they will win if they do, and they win because most good players play for Minmatar/Gallente. The play because they win, and they win because they play. Its a stupid cycle.

I understand this concept.

However, only a portion of players could call themselves loyalists. And lets pretend for a second all the masses playing for the Frogs are loyalists, which is not true. This is still a game. A game we play for fun. One side **** stomping the other side is NOT fun. It is boring, lopsided and simple. Yet all these high skilled players and corps continue playing for the same side when the outcome is already known.

I don't understand how that is fun. So there must be another reason other than "long live the federation."