That's really annoying I agree..

But you know, I think it's only if the team who attacks that no show that the defenders should get their clones. Some corporations sometimes get attacked 3-4 times in 30min and they can't defend all battles. They might lose a district that way so it's already an important loss.

So many people in this thread seem to be forgetting that this is new Eden we are fighting in. This is a place where anything goes (within the bounds of game mechanics). Can you imagine the riots there would be if CCP decided to apply the same logic being presented in this thread to EVE Sov wafare? All of High Sec would burn and the summer of rage back in 2011 would seem like a minor disagreement compared to what would happen.

Forcing an opponent to chose which timer to defend has been a valid tactic since the beginning of time. And in EVE we have a better name for the tactic of denying fights: Blueballing.

Welcome to warefare in the harshest cluster of stars known to man. Welcome to New Eden. Buckle in and Harden the **** Up

/facepalm

Just because you say that they have no end game doesn't mean that they have no end game. It means that you want to paint them as mission grinders who simply want to waste your time and have no long term strategic goals (i.e no long drawn out meta) which will be accomplished by training you to ignore their attacks.

How do you know that they don't have a long drawn out meta? Are you really the alt of some small corp scrub who really has no real PC plans?

You're also wrong about there being no risk for the no-show attackers. What if the District is attacked and seized by some other corp? They've effectively lost their opportunity to weaponize boredom against you since you've lost the District before they've had the chance to take it from you with their real attack. Now they'd need to go through the whole process again with the second corp; again risking that they will lose the opportunity to another corp.

It is the long gamble, not my fault you're unable to see that.

Not nearly the same. You can always do FW or pub matches which, while screwy at the moment, will at least guarantee you a fight.

PC is different. It is a competitive environment where unorthodox tactics may, at times, thrive and where things will not always go as you expect or how you want them to.

The current system is great. It allows for the smaller corps to coordinate real and false attacks to scatter the larger corps into a position of not being able to defend their holdings. The bigger corps should fear the masses of smaller pirate corps. That is the way it should be.

In the last month I've seen more varied fights in PC than I ever have. More new names on the ground, more corps in the fray. It's no longer the monotony of one corp's A-team versus another corp's A-team over and over. The same tactics, the same fights, all while the greedy pigs of power sit back on their haunches and collect piles of ISK on the shoulders of the best 16 players in their corp.



Feels good.

DDB and OP just learned that we aren't joking.

6 man raid paid out 887 with an avg 40k loss.


G'luck in your struggles chummer.

Edit: so they threw 5.3 mil, plus the cost of ringers, at a six man raid, and we ran crap suits. (Except me, but spare no expense)

In my book that is epic.

Oh, and we got together 5 mins before match.

CBJ isn't on the forums trying to convince people that no showing battles is good. He's launching plenty of no shows, but at least he's self respecting enough to not brag about it.

I think the answer to the no shows should be no showing. If you take the district, you can't launch anymore free attacks.

One thing is for certain, the people that do this constantly will never be allowed to hold land, ever.

Sad truth is we all know about pc macros, throttling, web tethers, equipment spam, suit changing constantly, explosion spam, general nastiness.

The ability to pay for ringers, bribes, eve support, unlimited ads/HAV, etc.

All time zones covered.


Even with an A game, nobody can compete...


I'll bet alot of these no shows are from farm corps, probably people you know and don't very much care for. Some would say it was asked for.


After years of blue donut style control, what do you expect?
Already gathering to discuss changes to a system put in place to wear you down...

I'll be done with this game.

The fact that pc corps stomped any new blood out for years that managed to scrape up the isk; Simply because they got there first. Makes this priceless.

Any and all complaints were met with "hue hue, gitgud, htfu, QQ, etc"


One month of torture on the reverse and its "plsfix" time.

Lol

Do I no show? Nope.

Do I think it's hilarious?

Hell yeah!

So weaponized boredom got you to stop logging in for PC.

Op success.

That is the whole point of sending no shows, demoralize the enemy so they don't fight back.

Brought nine against OP, those guys are toxic.

The fanmail was real.

Lost again, had a blast again, profited again.


However, in an interesting development; my troops wanted to bulk to 16 and re-attack

I have access to enough rockstars we could actually take a district. I have fc in pc wins in the past. I just honestly don't want land.

I'm torn here, the troops are having fun ATM. If I make it serious, the fun will dry up. But the general tone is "lets get crazy and win a few"

No I don't need ringers, just advice. What does a captain do in this situation?


(Still happy the no shows drive men mad lol)

That's The Attorney General.

He doesn't PC much anymore, but he was no doubt a legendary tanker for PC back in his time.

I remember when him, legend, and Ken would literally sh*t on any vehicle presence when they were rolling their tanks. The terrible trio were fearsome indeed.