Good FC knows his fleet's capabilities.

How to fight with your fleet against an enemy who has a stronger fleet.

How to fight on his own terms.

Weaknesses of the enemy fleet format and composition.

Knows how to position his fleet correctly.

Knows the key ships in his fleet, and gives them clear commands.

Must not panic and give instructions clearly, reading the situation during the battle.

Know when to withdraw from the battle in time with minimal losses.

Pirates are red, friends are blue,

I camping on gate, and waiting for you.

Station is brown, sun is yellow,

Your loot is so good, sorry my fella.

Star is white, space is grey,

My guns one-shot you, GF, hooray!

Moon is silver, Brutix is green,

I pull your wreck with my tractor beam.

Tornado is rusty, my ship skin is khaki,

All loot burned, in this V Day I'm unlucky.

That was back in 2011. Back then I was in the Gypsy Band Alliance, and we lived in the Curse. We often had fun dropping Red Alliance capitals through Titan. One evening we were grouped up as usual and waiting for the jump command. As our cyno lit up, our FC yelled ‘Amen! Portal!’, but there was no portal. Then he yelled even louder AMENNNNN PORTAAAAL!!! and again nothing happened. There was a total silence in TeamSpeak, and FC just kept screaming and screaming. In the end nothing we could catch the caps, and titan pilot spoke after half an hour and said he fell asleep while we waited.