The wardec system needs to be looked at, yesterday.

*Especially what is and isn't allowed in hi-sec.
*Dec shields need addressing one way or the other, the recent sudden change in policy set a lot of bad blood with mercs, hi-sec dec corps and yes griefers.
*CCP Needs to take a clear stance on where they want to go with PvP mechanics in hi-sec.

Nullsec industry. Namely the fact that mining and building stuff localy is orders of magnitude slower, more expensive, time-consuming and less efficient than simply importing everything from Jita. The efficienty, speed, and scaleability of 0.0 industry needs to be multiplied many times to be able to compete with the thousands of industrialists in highsec. Until that happens, there will be very little reasons to do any industry at all in 0.0, other than "because I like it".

(Disclaimer: I live in Pure Blind. If the situation is different on the furthest edges of the universe, then I don't know much about it.)

In my opinion this is right now amongst the biggest gaping chest wounds of EVE.

I agree that the wardec system should be looked at with a critical eye.

• I agree that paying your way out of a wardec should be the harder/more expensive option than fighting.
• However, this does not address the reason the "dec shield" originally came to be: junk wardecs. Pre-"dec shield", Eve Uni received numerous wardecs where the aggressing party (the one that initiated the wardec) refused to come out and fight, instead staying docked up. This issue should be addressed explicitly (perhaps an ISK penalty to the aggressors if they refuse to engage in combat?).
• With this, other wardec evasion tactics should be illegal. Being able to operate with basically minimal risk in hisec (your ship is not cost-effective to suicide gank) yet still get good, no, great (as in top-end or nearly so) rewards from L4s and Incursions is not what this game is about.

As a possible system, I'd suggest making the declaring party put up a sum of ISK (with a set minimum value) that either:

1. Will be refunded to them at the end of the campaign (if combat takes place)
2. Is paid by the targeted party to end the wardec (danegeld, basically)
3. Or is charged to the declaring party (as a penalty) if no combat (kills and/or losses) results.

If a corp can pay to start a war, the opposing corp should be able to pay to avoid the war, but that cost should be expensive. It should be expensive to avoid shoot-em ups (since this is primarily a shoot-em-up game). If it costs X amount to start a war, it should cost triple the amount to end it. Once bribed, the corp cannot be wardecced again by the same corp for two (or more) days.

Just a simple set of rules are all that are required. Simple rules are harder to game and exploit.

Gates - Get rid of them

Yeah thats gonna happen.

Corp A is a 100-strong PvP corp with median of 50M SP. They can fly most T2/T3 cruisers very well. They have an established industry alt corp providing them with near limitless ISK. They play for about 5 hours day, and most of that is flying ships in PvP combat.

Corp B is a 20-strong industrial corp with median of 10M SP. They mine in ospreys and retrievers. One of the corp is training to fly an Orca. They play for about 2 hours a day, a few more on the weekend. Most of their time is spent mining GÇö shooting the breeze. They occasionally get their RvB alts out, where they will fly a few Rifters into combat during their weekly 3 hour PvP op.

How is it in any way "fun" for Corp B to be perpetually wardecced by Corp A? Do you believe that a simple fixed-cost unavoidable wardec system will not immediately to a plethora of corps griefing other players out of the game? Do you even understand the circumstances that lead to CONCORD being introduced and wardecs having escalating costs based on number of decs active?

Who knows. Three years ago, no one would have ever said "Game console players on Eve planets? ROFL, what ya smokin doood!"

We're still saying that.

The wardec system needs a revamp.

It needs to be simplified. A flat fee cost for wardeccing. There should be no need for decshields. There should be no accommodation for avoiding decs by jumping a corp to another alliance. A corp jumps to another alliance, the wardec follows it (and pulls in its new alliance free-of-charge.) (Players are still free to leave corp.)

Wardeccing alliances cannot have other corps enter their alliance for the duration of their wardec.

Accommodation for ISK warfare. If a corp can pay to start a war, the opposing corp should be able to pay to avoid the war, but that cost should be expensive. It should be expensive to avoid shoot-em ups (since this is primarily a shoot-em-up game). If it costs X amount to start a war, it should cost triple the amount to end it. Once bribed, the corp cannot be wardecced again by the same corp for two (or more) days.

Just a simple set of rules are all that are required. Simple rules are harder to game and exploit.

Nullsec industry. Namely the fact that mining and building stuff localy is orders of magnitude slower, more expensive, time-consuming and less efficient than simply importing everything from Jita. The efficienty, speed, and scaleability of 0.0 industry needs to be multiplied many times to be able to compete with the thousands of industrialists in highsec. Until that happens, there will be very little reasons to do any industry at all in 0.0, other than "because I like it".

(Disclaimer: I live in Pure Blind. If the situation is different on the furthest edges of the universe, then I don't know much about it.)

In my opinion this is right now amongst the biggest gaping chest wounds of EVE.

Incursions at the moment destabilize the economy.

Null is not safe as High-sec and the consequence is not being able to produce as much as hi-sec.

And the consequence of that is that people who only want to do mining or industry and not get involved in combat (whatever their reasons are) do not have a place in 0.0. An entire area of the game is obsoleted because even a corporation of industrialists can't utilize the resources well enough to compete with one person with a (jump) freighter. This is bad design. Contrary to popular belief, 0.0 should not just be a supercap PvP arena. Nullsec should be a place to build empires.