Over-simplification is one thing, but reducing all this to THIS? Please.

High sec WD's should go through a high supreme Court system so both sides can present their case with security and empire standings factored into it. Those numbers should be used a lot more for game systems.

Avoiding war targets is pretty easy for a defending corp you just have to follow few simple rules in regards to trade hubs and work as a team to gather intelligence if a war target is close.

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

It is however possible to setup traps and kill some of them but it usually does not worth the effort especially for small industrial corp.

So in order to annoy so called MERCS I'll just list the measures needed so that they have hard time finding targets and switch to low sec or null sec pvp where they will loose some ships instead of harassing defenseless targets . ;)

1. Corporation Safe spot locations in all trade hubs (Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Hek) also in home systems.
- instant warp after undock safe spot
- instant dock for trade station

2. Avoid main trade route systems like Uedama when traveling with slow ships, use frigate with propulsion upgrades for 2s warp time when you have to travel to trade hubs during war.

3. Use alts in NPC corp to transport large shipments.

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

5. 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.

What I don't get is why aren't you all deccing other war deccers all the time. You'd keep getting fights after fights since you keep saying you do it to get fights. I'm entirely willing to accept the notion you currently dec left, right and center in the hope of getting a fight at some point through sheer number of potential targets but why don't you also go with arguably safe bets?

That's a lot of tedious copy/paste.

If the locator could tell me which of my contacts was online and then let me choose the one I want to locate, they'd be a lot more useful. You'd have to hit refresh on a locator every time you wanted to update online status. I'd be okay with that.

Why does any mercenary corp / alliance need to have 200 active wardecs? The only possible reason for having so many is so you can sit in a trade hub and shoot passing carebears.

Focused activities that you want to do without concord getting involved can still be done, you just can't have every corp in eve wardecced at the same time. Having price scale with number of active wars would fix a lot of the "problems" people have with wars without ruining them for people who enjoy hunting in HS.

Why say this like it's a bad thing?

I, for one, welcome our new wardec overlords.

Old Simpsons jokes aside, this seems much ado about nothing. More players being introduced into PvP is probably better for the health of the game (if the old threadnaughts are to be believed), more isk being sunk into these wardec fees certainly doesn't hurt, and stuff will blow up which is also good for the game's economy.

But, I do have to say I noticed something that you might want to watch out for. "Be careful what you wish for" cuts both ways in this scenario. I remember when people begged for freighters to have slots, and that got them nerfed (although I do think overall the change was a positive one). And that line was trotted out in reference to the people asking for freighter slots. But I also remember when ganking got nerfed, and gankers upped their game to prove a point, ganking got nerfed again. And this latest thing with the DCU was aimed specifically at increasing freighter EHP to counteract some of the increased ganking, including ganking of empty freighters.

So, you can up your wardec count if you like, and I'm all for it. But this type of protest (I'll do MORE of it!) seems to get the exact opposite effect you're looking for, from CCP. I certainly hope wardecs get strengthened sometime soon, or corps made more important to keep than disband, but I also wouldn't be surprised if CCP trotted out another nerf to wardecs because of the increased whine from the carebears. You can again say you'll up your game to compensate, but about how many times do you want CCP to beat you with a stick? Judging by CCP's comments in the DCU thread, in regards to freighters, they seem to have an idea in their head about healthy levels of stuff in the game. They want some, not too little, not too much. If wardecs start falling into an extreme, they'll make a change to either side to put it back in line to where they want it to be.

In the meantime, I do look forward to highsec looking more like the "riot mode" from GTA: San Andreas. Anybody here ever use that cheat code? THAT was fun stuff just to watch.

Is this actually an increase in wars? It matches the number of wars I remember them having rolling for ages....
I.E. Business as usual since they mainly camped trade hubs anyway I don't believe these changes have really affected them in any way and this is just a drama lama thread.

Such as what? CCP just removed one of the staples of a wardec corps toolbox.

I confess to being a low sec player, so I might be off mark here, but I believe there is a clear attempt by the 'I want watch lists back' crowd to hijack this thread for their own agenda.

I'm late to this thread and have only recently looked at the details of wardec, but one thing I read was that by making a wardec mutual, allies are excluded on both sides. Of course, that's only applicable where the defender wants to fight.

Regarding locator agents, I'm guessing they only work for k-space. What do they give as a response if the target is in w-space?
(I'll be checking for myself after work)

I'd wager the percentage of highsec mining corps under a wardec at any one time is quite low. Also it is not the game mechanics fault if you decide to mine with war targets in system.