Someone explain to me how that is not a broken mechanic.

I don't mean the meta-drama.

Goonies gonna goon. Jade is gonna tinfoil. The Mittani gonna be Space Dr. House (yeah, went there).

But I expect the company that I spend hundreds of dollars (if not thousands) a year supporting, to not punch in their responsibilities and deliver a quality product of endless possibility of entertainment.

The way I see it, a sandbox world in which mercs are a profession should be about escalation and epicness and death and destruction no matter what sec. It should be about unexpected, unscripted, unplanned, surprises. About ingenuity and cunning and creativity over math and scripts played out time and time again.

Having to pay trillions of isk to get epicness in wars is breaking that. All it promotes is defensive carebearing - sitting in stations why your alts do the work elsewhere. It denies fun to the attacker, and it denies fun to the defender. It makes for a boring game.

I am not saying there should be fairness. Quite the contrary. I am saying there should be freedom. Freedom can be unfair.

There should be the freedom to call upon dozens of corporations to engage in protracted battles of epic proportions if that is the way the involved want to take it. Attackers should be cunning and finds way to counter this (such as bribes, spies etc). There should be financial risk for both sides.

So I do not understand why would it make sense to essentially have a linear wardec fee with a cap, but then have a logarithmic merc hiring fee with no cap. I just try to find a reason. "Eve is not fair" doesn't make sense, to me, as reason.

EVE is not fair is true and should remain true.

Eve is not fun shouldn't be.

I think CCP if forgetting this is a game and not a cult formed around the vision of self-styled prophets imposing their vision of sandbox instead of actually building one.

I want tools to play in the sand. They can be hard tools to master. They can unfair tools. But make them result in fun.

Not premade castles with the same outcome every time its is played. Boooring.

That is turning wardec and mercenary roles into a boring PVE mission. That is unacceptable. So stop punching it in and start actually using your brains CCP. This sandbox is not just griefers and carebears.

Also you can be brilliant - TiDi and the new mining stuff shows you can get it right when you want to. So don't punch this one in. Really create a vibrant hisec merc role. I mean, why not introduce hisec semi-sov for merc alliances? You worry about complacent carebear, do

However, some kudos to CCP for putting the fire under the meta-drama. It beats Game of Trones in the guilty pleasure soap opera category... I see what you did there -.-

1.Goons wouldn't last a second in a real sandbox.

2.You are being a ****** by trying to reason with Goons. They know they are lying vermin. They never stop lying. Treating them like they want honest discourse is ********.

Show me on the Exhumer model where the bad Goon touched you.

Someone explain to me how that is not a broken mechanic.

Doesn't require 1 isk to defend, you can either bring in corporations into your alliance or - get this - actually defend yourselves using combat ships and stuff..
hope that helped

o7 o7

Is that supposed to be clever?

also, a real sandbox would be all about removing CONCORD
anything else is a compromise

Oh, you were mad. I'm sorry, I thought you were trying to be clever.

Oh, you were mad. I'm sorry, I thought you were trying to be clever.

Or, you can leave a docked holder and drop temporarily to another corp/npc corp.

1.Goons wouldn't last a second in a real sandbox.

2.You are being a ****** by trying to reason with Goons. They know they are lying vermin. They never stop lying. Treating them like they want honest discourse is ********.

Doesn't require 1 isk to defend, you can either bring in corporations into your alliance or - get this - actually defend yourselves using combat ships and stuff..
hope that helped

o7 o7

1.Goons wouldn't last a second in a real sandbox.

2.You are being a ****** by trying to reason with Goons. They know they are lying vermin. They never stop lying. Treating them like they want honest discourse is ********.

QFT

Attacking is cheap because the attackers are doing it by themselves. If the attackers hired mercs to attack you, it would cost them more too.

Solution, if the attackers can succeed without mercs, so can you.

Implying any nullsec group gives a damn about a bunch of highsec "pvpers".

If goons like the Jita camp, they wouldn't be crying to nerf it.

If goons are crying about Jita camping, my respect for said goons is dropping a bit. Dodging "mercenaries" and "pvpers" in Jita is as easy as neutral alt.

If goons like the Jita camp, they wouldn't be crying to nerf it.

It is banning by other means. That breaks the entire purpose of having allies. I rather go back to the old system then, this is feature is useless if one cannot play with it and push its limits.n.

Goon alt hates war

Nothing prevents you from just fighting the abovementioned people and force them into submission.

If goons like the Jita camp, they wouldn't be crying to nerf it.