bored, juvenile players who just can't be bothered to play the deeper game offered by EVE's design. .

pirates don't like to fight they want an easy kill so if you try to fight them they just dock.

Add war deck corp with red standing and watch local, don't mine AFK and if you see them dock.

Watch opposing corp kill board and see if they are close to where you are, if you have standing use locator agents for same purpose.

Well, the entity that declares the war spends some money to create the war dec. Would only be fair for the other party to be able to pay the wardec fee (to the NPCs) to abort the war dec, don't you think?

Would also be just about the biggest ISK sink... pay for safety.

To avoid the "it's on, no it's not, it's on, no it's not" spam, CCP should change it so the entity that declares war has the option to pay the base fee + whatever extra amount they want, with the defenders having to match the total to cancel the wardec.

Even bigger ISK sink.

Actually something like locators no longer working on offline players would probably be enough.

The issue clearly was that CCP didn't hit them hard enough with the correct solution. Again as I've said above, 2 million or 50 million, the point is that it's a joke of a cost. One player can easily sustain that, barely playing at all. Not to mention running missions and profiting from war which easily pays for itself.

Nothing you said really counters the fact that increasing the cost of war declaration is a viable solution. Going by the logic of "they'll band together to mitigate costs" is faulty; until what point can they merge? When the entire player base is one corp?

by all means roam through lowsec and null. Plenty of people to pvp with. And unlike those highsec carebears, you will find those in null will undock to pvp.

I cringe whenever I see this, I work with kids.

Still better than chasing ghosts,
point being though its both :effort: , not free or instant and actually gives more safety to you when your offline,
with this I would have to see where you log to know where you are but wouldn't have to waste half my night just to find someone not playing eve at all.

It's the bear minimum to diffuse the situation and actually quite a compromise on our part.

A half dozen static targets spread all over Empire space that the defender gets the warp to/bookmark locations too. Once engaged by the defender the notification goes out to the attacking corp/alliance and a bookmark is given to ALL aggressing members. You can defend your war dec or as soon as the defending objective is destroyed half the war dec fee goes into the defenders wallet and the wardec drops immediately.


Half dozen is enough targets and separating them all over high sec space makes it that you either choose what to defend, defend them all with smaller numbers or let it drop. Constellation wide, like entosis, is too easy to defend by a centralized enemy, even region is too close to rapid force respond.

A corp that decs a lot will and can be guerrilla warfared by quite a few corps that are smart and DESIRE to defend. The isk gain will again appeal to pvers. Youre now just doing a "mission" to end your war dec.

By allowing the defenders to know the location BEFORE the attackers means they gain the advantage of defending. Timer style notifications means that the attacker now knows there are active targets in space and their exact location that are actively trying to stop the war dec. Who wins? You decide!!

Off the top of my drunk head.... You all FLAME AWAY!!

Useful allies do exist and people do ally into wars for free. Please check your ignorance.

Practice what you preach. The wardec mechanic needs to force some risk or commitment on part of the aggressor.

i say anyone that is involved in a wardec be allowed to anchor bubbles in highsec and drop Bombs.

No concord intervention is what you paid for.

No concord intervention is what you should get.

This "middle ground" is bad

If you think that CCP gave you wardec feature to hunt what it looks like Bot Corp you must be playing the wrong game.

(god forbid these high-sec pirates fight someone with weapons on their ships).

the way it is often times used is garbage.

add a multiplier to the cost of the war dec that is derived from the distance between two home stations.

there should be a mechanic that penalizes alliance for having too many wars going on at once, and I don't mean monetarily. Any bureaucracy would notice an alliance is not just extremely blood-thirsty, but also using the writ of a war-dec to bypass CONCORD's laws. At the very least the bureaucracy would frown upon this group, and at the worst would banish them from their space. So, why not make it so. Have a stacking penalty timer like the one used for jump fatigue. If you declare too many war-decs too fast, the 4 factions of high sec, and even CONCORD, would start placing sanctions upon the alliance. From a warning to start all the way to faction ships at gates attacking the corp/alliance members and stations either refusing entry or firing upon these players.

if I were the person in charge of running the 4-4 station in Jita, I would consider bands of roaming pirates sitting outside my station as a severe problem. They would be reducing the generation of isk as their presence cuts into my taxes and possible business opportunities to make more taxes. The above mechanic would take this into account and apply consequences to the actions of players.

its all about killboard padding and epeen! nothing more.

So in this sandbox game, you are saying we need some sort of big stick to force people to play a certain way?