Our desire for wardec improvement does not come from wanting to be immune to PvP, it comes from war in Empire space being pointless and terrible, as well as our being consistently wardecced for the majority of a year by people who have no intention of fighting.

The Op has made it clear the the GM's say it is not an exploit, or am I wrong ?

These non-fighting enemies do not force you to remain docked. Your own rules force you to do that. Don't blame the war mechanics because of your own WSOP. Your rules are your own worst enemy. And then you use those rules that you inflict upon yourselves as a reason for CCP to develop more rules to satisfy your needs.

But the WSOP has nothing to do with why we don't like the current wardec mechanics. We can scrap the WSOP whenever we like so it's hardly "inflicted" upon us, we choose to operate it. We can't do anything about the mechanics besides ask CCP to look at them, which is all we've been doing for years now.

If somebody decs us and doesn't turn up at all then we don't use the WSOP.

The WSOP has everything to do with all of the whining about faildecs coming from the University. Why would you even care about faildecs if it wasn't for your overly restrictive WSOP?

Why are you complaining about something that has no impact on your gameplay, unless you're one of the corps who wardecs the Uni simply to grief them by having them hoist themselves on their own WSOP petard?

If you can't afford the half-billion ISK a week to maintain a warded on the Uni, find someone else to warded. Is it really that hard?

What a load of complete BS. Have you taken over as Propaganda Minister from that tool Irdalth? (You are better at it then he is. You should consider switching Director roles with him.)

You use the WSOP for every wardec (minus this last month). If a wardec turns into a faildec, you simply use a slightly less restrictive version of the WSOP known as the R-WSOP. But it's still pretty restrictive.

Also please stop insulting Irdalth, it's making you look even worse than you normally do. Irdalth is one of the nicest people in this game, not to mention one of the hardest working, and anybody who has spoken to him will tell you the same. That you somehow managed to fall out with him really speaks volumes.

Furthermore, we're in the process of making more changes to the way we deploy the WSOP ... that should see even less use of the WSOP in future.

@Poetic

Dude. Your tweet bio is still showing "A student at EVE University, plying my trades in New Eden and learning as much as I can before I move on to other pastures."

I shall. Made changes elsewhere. Forgot the Twitters.

For the record, I was following Helmar and saw you "lobbying".... Followed the link.

Word of professional advice if I would be so bold: CEO's don't usually get involved nor seek to reverse staff decisions without making the staff look rather poorly.

Per usual, it'll need a lot of abuse of this mechanic (previously called exploit) and a lot of whining before this gets turned around by CCP. So all this posting and shouting is a GOOD thing. The more we shout about it, the more people reply to it how it's "not at all a bad thing" the more coverage it gets and the more people start to use it.

And once corporations start mass using this mechanic (previously called exploit) then finally CCP, the lumbering hulk that it is, will wake up, give it 2 seconds of attention and nerf it into the ground. So please, do keep posting, shouting and replying in threads like this and please, PLEASE, every corp should start using this mechanic (previously called exploit). That's the fastest way to get it taken care of.

That's hilarious. You don't need to change the way you deploy the WSOP so that there's less need for the WSOP. CCP did that for you. That's why you have 19 corporations decshielding you. And I'm sure there's a contingency to alliance hop if necessary. Since the University will never be involved in a non-consensual war again, there's no need to tinker with the WSOP. That's a thing of the past. For the University Museum.

There are two CSMs in this game.

The one that the players voted for. And EVE University.

The recent wardec policy changes are proof of EVE University, via Kelduum Revaan, being the other de facto CSM. CCP caters to their needs, without any oversight by the players. They've become a carebear haven. They are now effectively impossible to wardec. CCP gave them, in essence, a PvP flag. They can turn it on or off at their whim. Their decshield is 19 corporations strong, and they've been allowed to use an exploit to avoid the CONCORD costs of that decshield.

The only single danger left for them is the suicide gank. Any other method of PvP against them is fruitless.

On a side note, could someone pelase elaborate what this Mechanic entails?

They are avoiding 72 billion ISK per month in CONCORD fees running their 19 corp decshield. That "exploit" is not commonly known... The exploit was given to them by CCP...

On a side note: Goons and Test are big teaching corps? For some reason I never thought of Test and Goons as teaching new players. Maybe they do, but I think +¡t's a very small part of what they really do and not their main focus.

So basically you are flaming that it costs now a lot of money to be able to shoot noobs.... instead of going out and engaging somebody of your size....

Damn them for using a game mechanic cleverly to achieve a result...

Damn them for using a game mechanic cleverly to achieve a result...

Poetic, please understand, we can never be together, we're too different. I know you still love me, but please, start taking the medication again... for me?