Alejandro Rebenga
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Posted - 2014.11.20 01:32:29 -
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Jean Luc Lemmont wrote:So I was. as usual surfing through dotlan looking for something to take my mind off the tedium that is my job, and I happened upon the Wars page, which I hadn't seen before. I was clicking around through there, and an immediate disparity caught my eye.
Out of the total number of active wars, the number that result in at least one loss mail is less than 5%.
According to Dotlan, there are currently 7,493 active wardecs in New Eden right now.
354 of them have resulted in someone losing something - that's 4.7 odd percent.
To put it another way, it cost 374,650,000,000 (assuming all wars used the minimum cost - the actual figure is going to be higher) ISK to start all of those wars. 357 billion of that ISK may as well have been flushed down the toilet.
This is not to call on CCP to end wardecs. This is a call to CCP to make wardecs actually useful for something besides being an enormous ISK sink for people with too much time and money on their hands. You have established a working group to take a long hard look at nullsec, and the fruits of that labor are now being realized. The time has come for you to do the same for highsec war declarations - make them a tool that's actually worth using for something besides lolz and farming kills.
Lemme introduce another thread of thought: Wardeccers have THAT much isk to throw away, cause its THAT easy to cough up the minimum. All for the possibility that on a weekend, they will catch the wartarget flying a loaded ship.
Remember that time CCP raffled off Geckos sometime last year? Where miners, manufacturers, ratters and pvpers were given 'goals'?
*short googels* Ah! This one, EVE 11 Celebration (BTW Mister CCP Webmaster part of the page is hidden at the bottom part...)
Seven point fourty four Trillion for ratters. Then we have your figure of three five seven Billion, hmm whats that five percent-ish? O wait ratters managed to reach 7.78 Trillion actually, so thats (maths dont fail me now) ~4.8%? Wardeccers that regularly rat/kill npcs sure have it easy huh? (with his hisec npc alts?)
Some of the ideas in teh other threads is to make it harder, for both parties, to deal with wardecs (shorter periods/costly declaration, wardec follows each character, etc.). Anyway, its because of us, the players having too much ISK, that we have players paying CONCORD their weekly ganking permit that number in the Billions. And its not their fault, they have so much surplus money lying around, and here is a mechanic that enables them to have hisec content!
One way to (smugly) frame that 4.7% is that out of the 7,493 parties that were involved, the other 95.3% had enough sense to avoid losing his ship for a week. We have a smart and intelligent playerbase that, yadayada canned-response et al 4.7%-gb2WoW. So once again, its us, the players.
I say it works. |