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A New Day

The Amarr and Minmatar may have had a temporary truce Sat. night for their escapades against Noir., but you couldn't tell the next day as Amarr and Minmatar fleets clashed in one of the biggest militia capital fights of this year.

Fleets on both sides numbered in the 70s, and it seemed like all of militia was leaking out of the woodwork for a weekend brawl.

The Amarr held nothing back, bringing 10 Guardians and a sizeable battleship fleet, complete with Bhaalgorns. The Minmatar had a significant number of sub cap logistics as well, along with an anti-tackle contingent brought by Minmatar newcomers -EM- Alliance.

Amarr and Minmatar join Forces to Kill Noir.

OOOH Shiny

It started off as a shiny Noir. Navy Megathron sitting on the low-sec entrance to the militia warzone. You could sense the ripple of anticipation that went through our very bored fleet. Hans Jagerblitzen wasn't joking when he said that "most of us that fight in lowsec are like roaming packs of dogs." We were practically drooling.

Suddenly, people were alt-tabbing back to game to see what was going on, and pausing from their mind numbing shooting of random POCO's in system.

"They haven't jumped yet." our neutral scout said.

Our loosely assembled and mostly afk fleet started to wake up, and we were quick to get people on the gate to get points in the event they jumped in. However, our neutral scout reported that more Noir. were showing up.

A lot more.

Introducing "The Late Night News"

After months of silence, Sneaky Noob is back and will be kicking off a new Faction War news blog named "The Late Night News." 

Some may remember his previous publication, The Icy Hawt, which contained a nice mixture of humorously told battle accounts, intel, stories, interviews and other bits of Faction War fun. 

I began reading Icy Hawt more than a year ago while I was in Amarr militia. It was a much different time then, as Sneaky Noob's corporation at the time (Ice Fire Warriors) and my own (Locus Industries) were on opposite ends of the war. Now, we are both members of Ka Pow Pow, and the Late Night Alliance. It is fun to go read earlier editions just to see how much has changed since then.

We are all glad that Sneaky Noob has jumped back into writing again, and will be eagerly looking forward to further installments of The Late Night News.

Other Faction War Blogs and News Sources:

Sovereignty Wars  by Shalee Lianne

Random Posts from Auga by Kuan Yida

Sand, Cider, and Spaceships by Drackarn

A Candid Look at Faction War and Small-Gang PVP

Unlike a lot of current FW pilots, I have not been in FW my entire EVE career, nor have I always flown in Empire.

In fact, the first years of my career were mostly spent in null-sec. First, with a few 'pet' alliances over near the old TCF space, and then in EXE when they were big BOB allies, (I even witnessed a few of the old-time BOB titan congas during one of their 'campaigns') and fainlly Aggression. Alliance which ended up collapsing aftering being betrayed by their allies, Atlas.

Faction War was a last resort for me. A 'I'm going to try this one thing I haven't tried and if it isn't fun I'm going to quit the game.'  I joined a small group named Locus Industries who were part of the Amarr Empire, and within an hour of my application being accepted, I was in a fleet killing things --having a ball. I stayed in Locus and the Amarr for over a year -- longer than I had ever been with any previous null-sec corporation I had been a part of. (Most of my corp hops are due to corporations disbanding officially or unofficially)

The North and South of PVP

Many people split pvp in EVE into two types. Some categorize by the size of your fleet, claiming that there is a 'small-gang' mentality and a 'large-fleet' mentality. Some split it by region, sometimes in the same breath -- the "null-sec pvpers" vs the "empire pvpers."

The truth of the matter is, there are two primary sets of motivations that drive pvpers in EVE, and these dictate where they fly, how they fly, how large their gang is, their strategies, and the size of their gangs.
These motivations, simply put, can be broken into "goal-driven pvpers" and "pvp-driven pvpers."