Delilah Wild
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Posted - 2010.06.22 16:58:00 -
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Hi Maxizinian.
You've raised an important question for many empire corps, and the responses you've received contain many insights. Allow me to systematize these a tad, emphasizing four options.
1. Fight the war. You can do this on your own, or hire others. The advice shared in this column is very helpful in this regard. I'd add requiring all your members to have an out of corp hauling alt to help supply themselves. I'd also suggest you look at the war-fighting rules of Eve University. They've developed a tried and true method of reducing the impact of wars that demotivates your enemies.
2. Sidestep the war. You can stay docked for a week or two, but that isn't much fun. Instead, require your members to train up their hauling alt in a complementary production activity. This way, if they are not mining, they can be actively engaged in some other aspect of production. Do not allow anyone in corp to speak to these pirates except the diplomat. Make sure he or she is someone who is level headed and can ignore the tween trash talk that pirates and other curs like to indulge in. Never, ever pay a ransom. It simply rewards bad behaviour, and puts you on a list for a return engagement.
3. Shield yourselves from wars. Create and or join an alliance. Alliances make an initial or renewed wardec costly enough to deter casual griefers. Develop and recruit a set of pvp characters. When war comes, send your production characters out to pasture in npc corps, and fight with the pvp characters. You can create in-game channels and use voice comms to keep everyone in contact.
Please note that serially jumping your entire group from one corp to the other is regarded as an exploit. Doing so occasionally is not, nor is sending your non-pvpers out to pasture for a tad.
4. Get political. Eve is as much a political game, as it is a pvp or production game. So speak up and give your support to proposals, discussions and CSM candidates who want to rebalance the relationship between pirates and anti-pirates. Assign one of your well-spoken members the role of political adviser with the responsibility to voice your corps concerns and positions in the forums on an ongoing basis.
Pvp is an indispensable part, but not the only part, of Eve. Personally, its my favourite activity. The broken war mechanics, a failed bounty system, the lack of a treaty system for collective security, and so on hamper the ability of anti-pirates to help protect high sec and the near reaches of low sec through pvp. So too does the lack of organization on the part of many high sec corps. This makes it open season for griefers in empire. Don't let a lack of planning or engagement make you their victims. You want to be proactive, not reactive.
Delilah
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