I wanted to be first

You were the first to get more likes than me on the forums...wasn't that enough :'(

Your comments link in the dev blog redirects to the dev blog....

There is a cost now associated with hiring lots of allies. You are still free to hire as many allies as you want, but there is an increasing cost in doing so. Refer to this:

GÇóAlly #1 GÇô Free!
GÇóAlly #2 GÇô 10 million
GÇóAlly #3 GÇô 20 million
GÇóAlly #4 GÇô 40 million
GÇóAlly #5 GÇô 80 million
GÇóand so onGǪ

Wow, this shifts War decs firmly back to the advantage of the aggressor, I expected some sort of rebalance in light of what's happend with Goons getting a taste of their own medicine but this seems like it's gone the other way again.... Shame

I highly disagree with this:



I think this point alone discourages smaller alliances and corporations from defending against large, generally better funded, alliances. And to be honest, this sounds too much like the Mittani's influence because of what happened between Goons and Star Fraction. Smaller alliances should have the ability to contract as many allies as they need.. without financial cost.

I think this point alone discourages smaller alliances and corporations from defending against large, generally better funded, alliances. And to be honest, this sounds too much like the Mittani's influence because of what happened between Goons and Star Fraction. Smaller alliances should have the ability to contract as many allies as they need.. without financial cost.

Limiting the number of allies is feedback we've gotten from the merc industry, I'm not sure Goons care. If they do, they haven't voiced it to us vOv.

2 weeks is to short.
By the time a contract is set up it's almost over....
4 weeks would be better.


Also why the cost increase for more alliances....why are they penalized for more people coming to help them?

Wars were getting very one sided. The aggressor would dec, then a goodly fraction of eve would join as allies, for free, just to get something to shoot at. As a result very few are willing to make a dec, the system is grinding to a halt. Not a good thing, even for someone like me who has no interest in war. I do like selling stuff to those that do.

Given the price structure, I suggest those who wish to be allies form an alliance so only one ally contract is needed to get all of you involved.

CCP, I've heard rumors that there will be some system for a war following a single member who drops corp, to be introduced in a future expansion. But no mention of that for 1.1 in the blog. Is that because there is nothing, or was it just not mentioned? Is there going to be something like this? When?

Frankly I am hella bored of reading about this tedious tinfoil hat topic.

Please ... Don't say such things ...

A cap limit for funding war and protection ? that's ridiculous. And if i'm dec, can I ally for free to PL, Goon and other big alliance ? That makes no sense.

In Eve there's big alliances and small corporation. When you create and/or enter an small corp/alliance, you know the risks and the benefits, wardec are still part of the game, and it's making perfect sense that big alliances can protect themselves easier than small ones.

The biggest issue was that being able to invite everyone and the kitchen sink to your war meant that hiring a merc became completely irrelevant. Hopefully limiting the options slightly will provide people with more incentives to hire mercs (but still let you throw a ton of money at allies).

It should be free to call in allies until the number of "defender" players equals the number of "aggressor" players. Then it can escalate.