My personal preference would be a mixture between the current system and the previous one.

Wherein corporations are restricted in the number of wars they can declare, but pay a much lower fee to declare war. This would incentivize smaller pvp groups and remove the pay-barrier that prevents groups of newer or less experienced players from forming highsec pvp corps. Alliances would remain unrestricted but would pay as much as they do now.

I'd also like to see the ally system opened up to work both ways, allowing the aggressor to bring in an ally if the defender does. This would present a risk of escalation that would disincentivize mercs hopping on to any war where they think the aggressor is easy kills and also facilitate big spiraling conflicts that would be super cool.

Both of those things put together should help to both break up larger groups by making corps actually competitive with alliances and lower the bar to entry for highsec pvp without nerfing anything.

Conversely, I would advise every not to listen to you, since you've spent pretty much your whole posting history crying about how PvP doesn't have oppressive handcuffs and punitive mechanics attached to every aspect of it.

You're a disgrace.

It's not like I have 5+ years of experience as both an carebear defender and as a director in a highsec mercenary corp/alliance and been witness to several different iterations of the war declaration system or anything.

I wouldn't know anything about it.

Instead you should listen to people with no relevant experience who're openly disdainful of the fact that highsec PVP exists at all. Those are the people whose input about highsec PVP mechanics is valuable.

You're welcome to come to Nourvukaiken and 1v1 me whenever you want.

Well that's why you increase the wardec fee for a corp with no assets in space or possibly make a social corp class which is much more expensive to wardec.

In nature, an object follows the path of least resistance. If given the choice of having to spend 1bln + to declare war on a bunch of guys with only mining barges to their names, or taking the contract on the war where the guy has already said he's going to be going after X tower in Y system during Z week, I'll take the second offer as there's a better chance of a fight.

Of course, if you're in a social group and have decided to talk smack against a larger entity, then the larger entity should be able to suck up the cost to lay the smack down, or just go out and gank you.

Ahh, so: "Just one more nerf and it will be balanced."?

But what you're proposing isn't a correction. It's an additional limitation where none previously existed.

Prior to inferno alliances had no limitation on he number of wars they could declare, after inferno they still have no limitation, but for some reason now they declare a lot more wars.

You should try and identify the reason why that has happened and seek to address the actual cause, rather than crying for another nerf because the last set of nerfs didn't work.

You called me names multiple times in this thread and also said things like "You have no right to do anything" and you constantly insist on telling me to leave the game.

If this is your way of having a discussion or disagreeing with someone then you are the one that doesn't belong here on the forums.

I'm not fragile, but that doesn't mean that you're not being abusive. There is a good chance you acted this way against people who were fragile perhaps and that this is your "style" of discussion. I also highly doubt you behave the same IRL hence the need for the online aggression.

Just about everything has already been said in this thread, but OP on this bit, your assumption isn't necessarily correct.

The devblog from the 2012 changes to wardecs:



So providing a viable career path for dedicated mercenary corps was exactly one of the key guidelines CCP used when designing the current system.

Those Corps are quite successful and if they have a lot of wars, it's as much because they are good at what they do (and so get hired a lot) as it is anything else.

Quite likely a bit of overlap there. Also quite likely several nullsec and lowsec groups being included so that the mercs can freely shoot members of those groups in highsec, I.E. Marmites long war with the Imperium.

Even if you take those numbers collectively, and assuming each is a seperate highsec corp, that's a mere drop in the bucket compared to the sheer number of highsec corps. Your small sample size does not provide any evidence at all to back up your assumptions that there is a problem with wardecs.

Now, if you bother to do a modicum of research, you'll actually find guides on how to maintain your playstyle while under wardec. It's really not that hard. Coming to the forums and asking for yet another nerf to highsec PvP is not the way to do it, though. Learn what instas are, learn to watch local, learn to not fly blingy **** around L4 mission hubs, and life in EvE gets much easier.