I would suggest that, so long as wars are completely voluntary due to the dec dodge exploit, that wars do not need to be made any weaker.

Capitals in high-sec would probably equate to the disease that plagues the test server.

You want to test out the new marauder? Nope, Blap dread.

You want to fly the new destroyer? Nope, Archon puts 10 warriors on you.

The only real positive that I see coming from dreads in high-sec would be to take out poco's and pos's. CCP is already one step ahead of us though by replacing pos's entirely. #Entosis #JoveWand

Generally the "Leader" of a "Newbie Corporation" and yes, both of those terms require quotations, aren't actually new themselves and are aware of the game mechanics.

The problem with carebears facing war is timeless. They're paranoid, don't trust anyone and have no connections that aren't other carebears. If they want help and aren't the pets of a highsec PVP corp they're probably going to have to pay for their allies, against a group like BAW your options are limited, expensive and questionably effective. Not to mention that they hate to negotiate, don't like spending money and are intensely distrustful of everyone. 90% of the time generic carebear corp/alliance is going to be alone and going for the full duration because of their own nature.

Can we juse replace guns and RR with entosis links already? Want a ship killed? Entosis it, it goes into reinforced mode for 5 minutes, when it comes out there is a entosis tug of war between the two fleets, if the hostile fleet wins the ship is destroyed.

Much easier than all this "shooting guns at the thing you want to blow up" nonsense.

I agree and I'm open to discussing this as well.

I feel like the current mechanic too heavily favors defenders who don't want to fight, but some of the proposals I've read I think are too harsh. I still think you should be able to, just not as easily and consequence-free as you can now.

EDIT: Say, for sake of argument, make it so that after a war is declared, corp members gain a mandatory 48 hour cooldown in order to leave corp. This would be based on when the player first attempts to leave corp (rather like a director or someone with roles), not when the war starts. This would guarantee aggressors at least 24 hours of corp membership while still leaving players able to leave the corp if they choose. Directors or those with roles could drop them immediately upon wardec notification, but wouldn't be able to leave until both the 24 hour role cooldown and the 48 hour war cooldown have passed.

My perspective on the matter remains unchanged.

Well said Kaarous. It's almost hard to believe this insight came from code...lol