Expanding on the idea a little, you could do some interesting things. Perhaps the War Hub could be put into GÇ£BattlefieldGÇ¥ mode, which would allow 3 warfare links to be installed, giving its war members in system bonuses when they are engaged with war targets. When in battlefield mode its resistances would go up to 98% (2,500,000 EHP), but its location would be broadcast to the opposing corporation.

homefield advantage?

When a war is declared the aggressor deploys an object in space, we will call it the GÇ£War Hub.GÇ¥ No anchoring skills or standings required; it can be deployed anywhere in any system and remains for the durration of the war. It would be small enough to carry with any ship and would not require a module to deploy. Once deployed it becomes invisible and invulnerable to all natural parties and cannot be moved.

I re-read this.

No. No cloaked hub, no no anchor skill, and no anchored anywhere.

uncloaked, big as a POCO but less ehp, anchored at celestials/moons, and destructible, also should be allowed for both parties if you want it to provide boosts.

Having served in the military and been in real wars the last thing you want to do is make eve war more 'real'

Eve is full of timers and structures to manage anyways why add another one.

Currently is a 3 man corp can shut down a 100 man corp then the 100 man corp is doing it wrong.

Afterall is a galaxy that is controlled by mega corps and fanatical empire goverments why wouldn't a war dec between small private corperation be anything other than a bride to the authorities to allow them to attack one another.

Within the context of the game world the current war mechanics are prossible the most logical outcome. No to more structure crap.

In null and low you are right, the big corps are able to hold their own because the game mechanics work in their favor. In high sec, yes a 3 person corp can shutdown a 100 person corp. All it takes are some cloaked T3 ships and a few trial account scouts in neut corps they can pretty much pick and choose their fights at will. Pick off mission running ships, mining ships, low skill point members all they want. When they see a fleet or a high skill point player they just stay cloaked.

Someone who is good at flying a cloaky T3, has the patience to scout around and only starts fights he knows he can win will cause a lot of trouble to a mid-sized high-sec corp. I am not saying the dec'ers will never lose a ship, but they will probably kill a lot more than they lose. Meanwhile defending corp members are not able to do anything but chase cloaked ships who don't want to fight them. It becomes this stupid standoff that you as the defender can't control. It is extra frustrating when you know that you are so over powered that you could smash the space dust out of them if they would just engage. After a while you start to see people getting bored and not logging in as much.

I just feel like if you have a fleet, you want to fight, and you are at war, there should be something to shoot at. If the players involved chose to stay docked because they know they can't beet you, then you should be able to end the war.

nah. If a 100 man corp is shut down by a 3 man corp then they need to learn how to operate under a dec.

If they aren't pvp types and have no interest in fighting other players there is no need to give then a structure to shoot?! They leave a 'caretaker' toon in the corp and all drop to npc for the duration of the dec. The attacking corp then just gets blueballed. If a corp want to fight the war then a 3 man corp can do some damage but the addition of structures to HS wars just plays more into the null corp hands and wont help HS carebear corps at all.

I never said they didn't want to fight. Lets say they do. But the dec'ers avoid any combat that isn't a sure win for them. This happened to me not too long ago. Night after night we went around looking for a fight, they stayed docked or cloaked for hours just watching us with neut alts. As soon as someone said "screw it, I am going to do something else," they would get picked off. How does that make any sense at all? To suggest they should leave the corp and avoid the fight...where is the fun in that??? What if we want to fight??? Why should we have to run and hide when we are the more powerful corp?

In null and low you are right, the big corps are able to hold their own because the game mechanics work in their favor. In high sec, yes a 3 person corp can shutdown a 100 person corp. All it takes are some cloaked T3 ships and a few trial account scouts in neut corps they can pretty much pick and choose their fights at will. Pick off mission running ships, mining ships, low skill point members all they want. When they see a fleet or a high skill point player they just stay cloaked.

LetGÇÖs face it, the current war mechanics could be improved. I think they are well-intended, but fall short in some areas. Right now wars canGÇÖt be won or lost; they are nothing more than a bribe so Concord will look the other way. A small 3 person corp using cloaked T3 ships can shutdown operations for a much larger corp while avoiding all fights but easy kills. It would be nice if wars encouraged fleet warfare and had an obtainable end goal.

I never said they didn't want to fight. Lets say they do. But the dec'ers avoid any combat that isn't a sure win for them. This happened to me not too long ago. Night after night we went around looking for a fight, they stayed docked or cloaked for hours just watching us with neut alts. As soon as someone said "screw it, I am going to do something else," they would get picked off. How does that make any sense at all? To suggest they should leave the corp and avoid the fight...where is the fun in that??? What if we want to fight??? Why should we have to run and hide when we are the more powerful corp?

I was unaware they got rid of acceleration gates for high-sec missions. Apparently D-Scan doesn't work in high-sec either?

Wars in High sec!

I mean c'mon people! The empire governments and concord aren't going to allow a full on war! The only thing that is feasible is a bride to concord to look the other way while you smack around some immortal pod pilot....

War in eve is null sov. and maybe just a little of FW.

War Decs are just a bribe. Take it as that and get over it!

I like this idea, but I don't think you should be able to anchor in NS or LS. The war mechanism is all about HS, and why give the Goons, Test and the like even more of an advantage in wars? A far as why this is needed is that the current war mechanism fails to provide interesting content. I've been in a number of wars, 95% of the time we'd form up a fleet, the opposing side would station up and talk smack, and only come out when the numbers were x2-4 in their favour. The only fights were station games, and the occasion us vs them vs x2 neutral logi. (Thankfully that's gone.) The result was we'd kick our hauler alts out of corp, and wait the war out in our wormhole, and occasional around in cloakies or standard LS travel fits. If I had any fun at all it was getting the other side to chase my BS/BC 6-10 hops before they gave up in disgust. The funny thing is in all the wars I never got them to follow me into LS or a wormhole.

I hear what you are saying about the War Hub location, I honestly debated that before posting. I went the way I did because I think more powerful corps should have some kind of an advantage. What if someone complained that wars are dumb because the hub gets popped too easily? The answer to that is, put up a POS and deploy the hub there. Meaning the corp with more power and resources has a better ability to keep the war going. Seems more realistic. I donGÇÖt think the War Hub should be able to be deployed inside a control towerGÇÖs shields, but right outside in range of the defenses, sure.

Yes, War Decs are just a bribe, does that mean it can't be any better? People have the option to move to Null or join FW. But it should still be possible to have a high-sec war. I am trying to suggest options to make the war a little more interesting for both sides. Wars as they stand now suck, the sad truth is that high-sec players end up staying docked up and logged off during a war, I don't think that is good. I would like to give them something better to do during that time, something that will bring them into combat zones.