After the changes to war mechanics, small corps have it harder to wage war on large alliances, an activity that could prove very lucrative if done right.

However, today I'm here to cry and whine about good ole' corp hopping. Yes. Again.

We're currently in the middle of a tiny and friendly war with AAA pilots, and we're finding it quite frustrating to see how fond of corp hopping they are.

AAA pilots LOG OFF, get kicked out of corp on demand, relog, and bypass fleets and camps in NPC corps.

How come this hasn't still been addressed as an EXPLOIT?

It was suggested, some time ago, that whoever wanted to quit a corp before a war should do it before hostilities have started.

It was suggested that something similar to an aggro timer should be implemented, so that corp hoppers find themselves to be fair game for a certain period after quitting a corp/alliance in the middle of a war. Make it 48 or even 24 hours, but make it happen.

Is there any reason to explain why this hasn't been dealt with? I don't think corp-hopping was what they had in mind when they set up the corp recruitment/quitting rules.

Yes, I know. High Sec wars are for useless fools who fail at life and EvE, and yes, we should all come to deep 0.0 where your Titans and Drake/AHAC/Alpha BS fleets will pwn the everloving crap out of us, and we should all quit the game and send our stuff to the nearest AAA office...but, could we please discuss about the topic at hand?

Corp hopping is essentially WRONG, and AAA pilots keep doing this, when there are perfectly feasible, quick and fussless solutions suggested by the playerbase.

Well we're currently playing a game where the largest alliance in space is currently protected from a hisec coalition 1/20th of its size by a 20 Trillion ISK ($300,000 dollar) wardec ally shield. The game designers have told us that war is not supposed to be fair. Compared to that obscenity of game design one might consider that a bit of wardec evasion by individuals slithering through the gaps is pretty small beer in the grand scheme of things.

For once this guy has an excellent point. Create new alliance, join up, dec for cheap.

Well the alliance issue is always that you need to have as many alt-controlled pretend corps (for executor voting) as you do real corps - (otherwise you'll lose the alliance to a Band of Brothers disband thing) Basically each corp in the alliance gets to declare "support" secretly and you need to ensure you have a majority to keep your alliance. So practically - to maintain our 52 allies we'd need 52 alt corps each of which needs an active subscribing member (or roughly 18 accounts worth of alts) paying for this with plex brings the admin cost of the whole structure to somewhere around 8.2 billion isk per month. Which is still some way in advance of the price the Goons pay for their wardec (50m isk).

As for the corp hopping ally alt fandango - I'm not really sure how all that works.

Surely a better option would just doing something sensible for wardec ally costs in the first place?

You appear to have completely ignored the point that the goons need to pay 50m isk to declare a war that I'd need to pay 8.2b (per month) to defend with 1/20th the number.

As I said in my initial post - with the mechanics so completely skewed in favour of large alliances I'm honestly not surprised that most people choose corp hopping wardec evasion rather than playing with a fixed deck where the dealer controls all the cards.

Read again. (harder this time).