CCP Goliath, who is your goon main?

Despite the general forum hurly-burly the reality is that the goonswarm rank and file is not the goonswarm leadership. I can quite imagine the common goons quite enjoying the wardecs - but the planners and leadership see the danger and thus start whining for a nerf.

If you have to ask you are obviously in no position to know.

While everyone is having a field day with Jade's tinfoil hat, I've got another question about the wardec system:

Is the director/CEO who declares a war still anonymous? Eliminating the voting period for wars was a good thing, but it had the effect of also making any director/CEO be able to declare war against his corp/alliance's wishes without any real personal consequences (since it's impossible to know it was really him). More details here.

Oh, so the last six years of Privaters and Orphanage killing thousands of you in high sec are all fake kill mails?

These changes are so bad they make one think in terms of political manipulations and dodgy disproportionate advantage. It doesn't help of course that we've been listening to Goonswarm boasting about their influence over developers for years now and then we get a significant nerfing of the Inferno alliance system to the clear advantage of one particular alliance that currently is decced by 70 defensive allies - well, it does look a bit dodgy.

I'm glad to hear that Alekseyev - thanks for your comment. I mean when/if this thing does go live it will create some ridiculous situations. I mean Seleene can froth at me all he likes saying "how dare you accuse CCP of being unbalanced in favour of goons" but thats exactly how its going to look when the goons can wardec at target for 50m isk and it takes potentially unlimited ISK to count the dec through the allied system.

So Elise - since you find these allies so utterly laughable and irrelevant why should I have to pay concord a premium for them as long as the total size of my alliance and these corps is less than the total size of the entity making the incoming wardec?

Riddle me that.

And the solution I proposed was that these wardec allies should only be "free" if the defender + coalition allies is smaller than the attacker. This resolves the problem you highlight right?

Nothing unfair about it. Nothing unfair about bringing in 5000 of your bestest buds either... Wardec'ing Bloggers because they posted things about mittens during the election?

Still don't see the problem with it. War isn't supposed to be fair or balanced, long as it's unfair for them.

Just reposting this.

Why does the defender get screwed over like this?

So there is more fighting more ship loss more economic activity and more fun now!

Who gives a flying fukc about the 'merc' business! mercs are hired by word of mouth for completing specific objectives the new 'merc' market is a redundant 'feature' designed to pander to role players.

i am sure that you know, that neutral or no neutral you still get ganked on a freighter in jita provided you cargohold is worth it.
This does not change orphanage. They will continue doing what they do. I am talking about the non neuts.

doesnt mean it wont happen.

besides i have stated before in other threads that i do believe that using NPC charaters to pilot a freighter is an exploits same as all the other war mechanics exploits that avoid war.

You should be in corp period if you want to pilot a freightr in highsec. This in turn forces contracting to a 3rd party or creation of alt corp which fuels espionage and conflict. This is the basic hot pot of eve!

what kind of troll is this? limit the accounts to 1? rofl

what are you talking about?
its simple and it does not limit people to one corp. Everybody still uses alts npc corp or not. They are not JUST used for freightering stuff! Stop talking nonsence
I see the "mighty" goons are afraid of not been able to take their techtonium to jita with none npc character! Pathetic.