This is the misconception, you aren't powerless at all and a few simple tactics will make them go away. Train electronic warfare and get into griffins then back those up with some cheap destroyers. Its enough damage to kill them and support to make it really hard for them to do much to your destroyers. Neither is high skill either, it just takes a little bit of thinking and the motivation to do something about your situation. The miners could never figure out how to tank their ship to the point CCP buffed them all so those two might be in short supply for your average highsec person.

Attacking WT's should give you a suspect flag and sec status hit without Concord intervention in high sec. Right now, war decs are the only mechanic where you can kill soft targets without aggression penalties and without exposing yourself to external threats (bubbles, hot drops, fleets from other corps, etc).

Blaming customers for their expectations, and losing them as a result, is bad for business.

If I was CCP, I would attempt to protect those players a bit more effectively than they currently are.

Edit: War is declared rarely in real life? Ever heard of the USA?

If you're in a newbie corp and get wardecced, you just have to be patient. The wardec will go away someday. Sure, being almost powerless against more experienced, shinier-shipped wardeccers is kind of frustrating and humiliating. But on the other hand, the challenge is really interesting. I can remember some excellent war room strategy discussions among my newb corp members. Much more interesting than discussing ship fits, L4 missions tactics, etc. In the end dealing with the wardec made the corp leadership smarter and made us tighter overall as a team. And the guys who were just in it for themselves left the corp. That was an added bonus.

You want to use the biggest warmongers on the planet as 'typical'?

You want to use the biggest warmongers on the planet as 'typical'?

If the ISK is increased for wardecs then its been a worthwhile effort IMO.

I don't think CCP would like to see a mechanic that drives people to play another game, at least they won't want that to be an easy option in their game.

But like I said, war IS a necessary part of Eve and those who play accept that. Just it must be made harder to dec so many at any given time.

USA? Actually, our last declared war was Korea. Granted, the ONLY reason we haven't declared war since then is because there was never an armistice signed. We are actually STILL officially at war with North Korea, and NATO won't let us officially declare any other wars until we officially end that one..... which will likely never happen.

(so, yes.... that DOES mean North Korea is the victim of the worst perma-dec, in history... and we are the highsec griefers)

We have all sorts of Freedom here in the US... Thermobaric Freedom, 5.56mm Freedom, Wire-guided Freedom, Laser-guided Freedom, Unmanned Aerial Freedom, and of course Nuclear Freedom.... so much it's just hard not to share it. Honestly I'm somewhat surprised the rest of the world hasn't collectively turned on us in self-defense yet...
In EVE, however, I'm still on the fence about wardecs. I sorta see the point of those who are intimidated by them, yet I'm also not terribly comfortable with npc corps serving as refuges for players who can't manage to act in an adult manner and face the consequences of their own actions. I know not everyone who stays in these corps does so for these reasons, but there are those who do.

I'm in an NPC corp for that very reason. I get numerous offers to join player-run Corps but I decline as I know the hassle. If I wanted to fight wars then I'd join a player-run Corp. The reason I'm not fighting wars is to get ISK to be able to afford losing ships fighting them later.

So player-run Corps suffer from membership which is not what CCP intended.

A great idea IMO and a far more worthwhile post than some of the replies I've read on here.

OK, so the "hard-core" want Eve to stay the way it is, REGARDLESS of whether it drives people away. Meanwhile CCP make a pittance for such a high quality MMO as say World Of Warcraft makers Blizzard, who DO pander to all their customers.

In a few years to come, will this marketing strategy leave Eve with a handful of dedicated followers, wardeccing as many corps as they please, or will a "re-balancing" occur which will greatly allow EVERYONE to enjoy this sci-fi simulator?

I think saying, "If you wanna leave then you aren't cut out for Eve" is a narrow perspective - there IS room for improvement which will not affect the many who enjoy the risks and danger of Eve, while allowing more players to avoid that part within reason, and within the general concept of privateers always being at large.

Is every dowinload a lost sale? No but some pecentage. And item on the shelf is a false analogy because the person walking by the item doesnt take it home and keep it. A closer analogy along those lines is shop lifting, the difference being in shop lifting there is tangible loss to the marketer other than the loss of sale. Because there is no direct analogy in conventional direct sales is where the grey area term comes into play.

All true advice here. The real problem is not that fighting back is too hard/impossible but that a **** ton of people don't know WTF they are doing. Without someone telling you the right stuff, it's easy to get lost in the vastness of possibility the game has to offer.

Knowledge of the game will let you do lots of neat things even with the low SP level of a newbie.
High SP with poor knowledge of the game will make you a big fat target.

CCP has always touted EVE as a dystopian universe ... nowhere in any of the ads or trailers (or news articles about "bad things" happening to people) have they even hinted at the possibility of being safe anywhere. *snip*

In this game, if things do not get blown-up, that breaks the circle of "life". You need to be able to build and you need to be able to destroy, the two are tied together.

Fixed that for ya. The principle is viable in the real world, not just in EvE. Wars have been used to prop up real economics since the beginning of time and are still used for that today.

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EvE is a GAME about a dystopian universe. CCP is a business. Part of being in business is attempting to attract, and retain, paying customers. Ads are about painting a picture for a potential customer to draw them in. It is not a contract, nor an all-inclusive description.

Money belonging to dumb people spends just as well as money belonging to smart people. Again, meeting customer expectations is part of being in business. Some of their customers want it one way, some want it another. Making both groups happy is the goal.

...Large Hardon Collider.

What... what game is this? Details, please, you got my hopes up and everything.

Essentially if you organise your corp to fight in a high sec war all you are doing is asking them to log into Eve and do nothing.