Misanth
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Posted - 2012.11.23 04:55:00 -
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Kelduum Revaan wrote:Iam Widdershins wrote:...I'm saddened to see you have yet again raised the base cost of declaring war. I strongly believe we need to reduce the minimum cost of war declarations; hisec warfare is such an excellent introductory arena for aspiring PVPers, and the current costs are just so high. The "minimum" cost hasn't changed, its still 50M ISK/week, only the "cost effectiveness" of the war has changed. That said, maybe the "aspiring PvPers" could choose a smaller target, or offer their services in someone else's wardec as an ally which is entirely free? There's also LoSec if they want to PvP (with the updated killrights only on pods there, and new flagging it will hopefully be more active), and bounty hunting in HiSec should become an interesting profession now - there are plenty of places a small corp of inexperienced PvPers can go if they don't want to join an already established group. And of course, who is that short on cash they can't afford the maximum cost of 500M ISK a week between them? If they don't have at least that much, how are they going to replace their ships? Callic Veratar wrote:Why would you send the name of the person placing the bounty? This is something I raised, as its just going to result in more alts, but without it there are less repercussions. i expect to see "bounty alts" to spring up as a mini profession in the near future.
Lowsec is not very young-pilot friendly anymore. FW is a spy-infested blobfest, and piracy is the same as usual: you get overpowered on a gate by a force that has an advantage (rightly so, they put in the effort).
The best way for learning the ropes in PvP is actually highsec wardecs, or nullsec roams. Nullsec roams have nearly completely died off for everyone not in US TZ, due to a combination of reasons. One is the stupid amounts of pilots in this game now, when you do find people they are not scattered in belts like they used to either. You'll rather find stations every other system, jumpbridges, titanbridges, upgraded sovhubs, and literally seconds after you enter a system the "defender" will overpower your single ship by tens or even hundreds of pilots. It's that ridicilous.
As for wardeccing smaller entities: that makes no sense. It should be cheaper the bigger entity you wardec, as it gets more risky. The bigger entities are more appealing targets because of :numbers:, but they also have alot better potential to defend themselves. You should want smaller and younger entities to wardec them, and the professional wardeccers to go for specific targets that require more effort/skill/experience.
I would, however, say that lowsec should be the place to learn the ropes. Both for PvP and PvE. I'd personally love to see players move out there early, like we did. But FW being a carbon copy of nullsec, full of spies and blobs, the new killright system that has alot tougher effects on inexperienced criminals, no real PvE incentitives (remember when mining in lowsec used to be desireable? industrialists and combat pilots co-existed quite well back then), highsec being super-profitable and almost-completely-safe, nullsec being supereasy to defend vs roaming PvPers, WH's being time consuming and taking some time to learn.. the simple truth is that highsec wardecs is the only real entry point for younger aspiring combat pilots. At least if they want to be in a non-laggy blob-environment, that is bound to be spy-infested and be short of properly skilled pilots (so they possibly learn absolutely nothing).
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