and you can get as many of your allies to war dec your target as you want so you as well have unlimited allies

Currently wardecced by several groups....never see them. Except that one guy who sits in an insta lock legion on our station blapping the folks who wont use the insta undock.

In my experience Wardecs are essentially synonymous with "We want to hunt new players, for easy frags, without risking any of our own ****"

I think in my 5 years of playing I have seen one actual War in HS, where people brawled....usually just small groups of folks looking to pad that KB.

I say just remove it from the game, pretty useless mechanic. Make players instead pay fees to Concord if they want "protection" (which is a lie and is only repercussion any way.) This way everyone is engageable. Price for Concord is essentially Wardec price based on size of the corp...if you don't pay you don't get to see the 5-0 show up and blap fools.

Because lets be honest, the only reason to wardec folks, is easy frags...we are all adults here no reason to lie to each other.

You mean besides the free allies? Or the part where they get 24 freaking hours of advance notice before being attacked? Or maybe the part where they can make it mutual if they're winning?

I don't think this is the main reason why


more so to avoid you never having to deal with concord again

I suspect your idea here is a part of it. In general timers in game with regards to destruction of things have been about a crude way of trying to balance the time zone issues.

One example of this time zone problem can be seen in Planetside 2.
One time zone logs in and takes large areas of territory, only to loose it a few hours later when they log off and another time zone reaches it's peak play time. This constant change over of territorial control in Planterside is not a big deal as there is no in game currency lost when you loose a territory and there are no structures that you have to buy that can be lost. In EvE where there can be significant in game currency required to purchase these structures giving time for all players in all time zones a chance to determine how to protect or remove these assets is with out doubt a primary goal of the timers.

As a note to mutual war part. An Attacker can actually stop the war from being mutual in a 24-hour grace period after the mutual war has been declared. So even if the attacker is being trashed and the defended call Mutual. The attack has the option to end the war before it becomes permanent.

Why should the attacker have the option for a mutual war?

Didn't say it would. I said that the defender has every option available to the attacker and then some. The war mechanic gives much more advantages to the defender.

Which is usually necessary to compete with the meta and organizational advantages conferred by being the deccing corp, as unless the dec corp is unusually stupid, they can pick on industrial corps who may or may not have PVP friends.

Unless you find a moderately unusual highsec corp, none of these resource or organizational assets can be even close to matched, and so having 24 hours to get PVP ships, mods, etc. if one is interested in fighting, or to try to find help if they aren't is fairly reasonable.