Lucas Kell
JSR1 AND GOLDEN GUARDIAN PRODUCTIONS
SpaceMonkey's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.06.27 16:02:00 -
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Vol Arm'OOO wrote:War decs are broken and have been for as long as I have played eve. If folk want to avoid a dec they will - even if they couldnt leave their corp - all they will do is dock up for the duration and play their alts or not log in at all. To fix war decs, ccp has to give them a purpose - there must be something important/valuable that is at stake beyond just the pvp - unless the defending players feel that they have something to lose then they have no stake in the dec and will rightly come to the conclusion that why should they engage you merely to give you entertainment. Edit: I should add that the addition of POCOs was a small step in the direction of meaningful decs. It's funny how that never falls the other way, that the declaring party needs to put more on the line. A lot of wardecs you see in this game are just combat capable pilots paying a small sum of isk to be able to attack smaller, newer or non-combat oriented groups. A lot of the complaints are "make wardecs unavoidable! They must fight!" but what will that really do? All it will do is give a lot of people yet another reason to quit or to get pushed into big blue blocks in null, since staying in highsec would be suicide unless you were intending to get involved in empire PVP.
It's generally a good game design to have an area where people can start and can feel safe, so at the very worst they have a safe haven to fall back on. If NPC corps got nuked and wardecs became more severe and less avoidable (like most wardeccers seem to ask for), that safe haven would be gone, so if people lost most of their stuff they can look forward to going to a place they can lose the rest.
At the end of the day all it would create is EVE with less players. I'd rather have people floating around highsec shooting red crosses and occasionally getting involved in one thing or another than have the population cut down by an utter intolerance of people who want to just play in safety. It's not like a highsec PVE carebear affects my ability to play in any way, so why not just leave them be?
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