Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2017.02.26 16:09:45 -
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Like all game mechanics, the objective of war decs is to have fun.
Is this happening in high sec? Most of the time, no. The receiver of the war dec will most likely stay docked for the duration. The players will leave corp, or play alts, or play a different game. This leaves the attacker with no targets, which is hardly any fun. This was summed up by CCP in some CSM minutes a few years ago:
"Solomon noted that they were looking specifically into cases where one corp wardecced another corp, and no losses occurred. Usually this means that a larger more powerful entity has wardecced a smaller entity that wants nothing to do with the conflict and therefore does everything in its power to avoid being caught or killed. Solomon wagered that this was the case in 70-80% of wars.
Solomon: The strong prey on the weak, but the weak arenGÇÖt responding, and nobodyGÇÖs getting particularly fun or nourishing gameplay out of this. Is that a failure? "
The only thing I can see to help the issue: Limit war decs to those groups of players who enjoy that style of game play. One way to do this: A corp can declare itself neutral. Doing so means it cannot be in a war, not as an attacker, defender, or ally. For balance it also means it cannot be in an alliance, or have any in-space structures (POS, citadel, complex, etc.)
Another option for doing this: A corp is automatically neutral, unless and until it puts up a structure in space.
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Vincent Athena
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Posted - 2017.02.26 18:53:24 -
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Shae Tadaruwa wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:Like all game mechanics, the objective of war decs is to have fun. Where is this coming from? I've never seen CCP define this as an objective of the wardec mechanics.
"CCP Solomon: The strong prey on the weak, but the weak arenGÇÖt responding, and nobodyGÇÖs getting particularly fun or nourishing gameplay out of this. Is that a failure? "
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