Shad0wsFury
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2011.10.24 20:46:00 -
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And people think a few jaded bittervets unsubbing and shooting the JIta monument made a splash, just imagine the EPIC TEARS this would generate from the "EVE is too dangerous" crowd.
I totally agree, however, that there SHOULD be better game mechanics to handle wars. It's not so much I agree with what the OP said, which I sorta do, it's more about the ISK.
I would guess that most of the EVE veterans out there make isk through some sort of alt, or alt corp/alliance. That makes it difficult to attack their infrastructure directly, unless you can gain some inside information. Say, for example, that I did or said something to REALLY make someone mad. Mad enough to wardec me and (lol) Pandemic Legion. Not only would I find this marvelously hilarious, it's also pretty useless and probably more than borderline self destructive. If you don't know why, maybe you should move on to another poast. But hey, even if I wasn't in PL, there is very little you can accomplish with an empire war if your opponents refuse to undock or fight. Either way, what you accomplish with said war is pretty much nothing, except wasting your isk on a wardec in the first place.
If someone REALLY wanted to hurt me, they would have to figure out how to discover who my alts are, what corp(s) they're in, which ones are there to make lots and lots of isk, and where those assets are so that they can attack them. They would then have to wardec my ALT CORP and go after my alt's assets, and even then, it's very likely I could just dodge the attack anyway.
That's a long, convoluted process just to achieve the objective of "getting back" at me for something I did.
Long story short, nothing short of adding some sort of mechanic where people can't hid behind their alts is going to change much. This would also be a pretty unpopular move, because to make sure nobody could hide behind their alts, some sort of IP address matching would probably need to take place, and WELP there go all the spies in EVE which drive most of the actual PvP now. Not to mention CCP would probably have to address shared accounts. Oh wait, nobody shares accounts, nevermind, it never happens anyway :rolleyes:. Prolly not very realistic to hope for this change.
Also, since someone is gonna bring it up, if we're talking about people who don't have alts set up to make isk for them, there's a good chance they're empire pubbies and who really cares about them anyway l0l |