Alliance warfare has always been a huge part of EVE Online's endgame PvP, with alliances fighting over resources, expanding their borders or just settling age-old political grudges. The Dominion expansion made sweeping changes to alliance warfare and the transition hasn't been easy on all the alliances. Since Dominion went live, it's been difficult to judge just how effective the expansion has been at revitalising territorial warfare or how alliances are using the new system. EVE Blogger Wensley has been involved in the recent war against CVA in Providence region and he's been posting some of the valuable insights he's gleaned on territorial warfare over at his blog Rifter Drifter.
In part 1 of his series "Catch 22" on the most recent parts of the war, he details the reasoning behind CVA's territorial expansion from Providence into the Catch region. In part 2, Wensley describes the details of the actual war so far and provides some useful insights into the mechanics of territorial warfare. He suggests that since alliances now get to choose the rough time their systems are fought over by way of the new reinforcement timers, they should have picked a time zone that would be inconvenient for their enemies. Instead, they had set their reinforcement timer to their enemy's peak play time, allowing them to easily amass huge fleets for the attack. He goes on to blame CVA's poor performance on a lack of preparedness, suggesting that if they had gotten their fleet together and into the threatened system first, any lag occuring when enemy players jump in would have been in their favour. If you're following the war in Providence region or just interested in how territorial warfare is fought now in EVE, Rifter Drifter's on-going Catch 22 series is definitely worth a read.
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Posted: Feb 16th 2010 3:56PM Mode7James said
Sounds like basic common sense tactics to me.... Then again, this is exactly why I left my corp (and thus leaving LFA). I may be wrong and it seems CVA is more at fault here, but the whole campaign of "eat more systems than we can chew" didn't seem very well planned. I'm just a lowly "casual" player who works too much though, so the only times I saw any PVP was right before being podded. I would've probably been more supportive had they thought these types of things through before attempting large takeovers of land. Also having funds available to fund a war, instead of making everyone fund their own losses seems a little short-sighted to me.
I guess this is the kind of stuff that makes the game so enjoyable though. :)
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I guess this is the kind of stuff that makes the game so enjoyable though. :)
Posted: Feb 16th 2010 5:07PM (Unverified) said
Wensley writes a wicked blog! It has been nice to read up on the turbulent political changes in EVE since Dominion hit. Rifter Drifter is one of the most insightful.
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Posted: Feb 16th 2010 7:26PM Brendan Drain said
I have to say of all the independent EVE blogs, Rifter Drifter's always been my favourite. He has a good writing style, writes about relevant, interesting and insightful topics and updates regularly. Definitely worth reading.
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