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Posted - 2008.02.15 08:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Amarauya
We are currently in a non-consensual war with a griefer corp. They gate camp stations when they have an advantage, dock when they don't. They only have 8 members. We have about 100 members, most of whom are miners and industrialists. We have enough isk on hand to last almost indefinitely. Their mains belong to an industrial corp in 0.0. They seem to have infinite isk to replace lost tech 2 ships. Currently, we have:
1. Made considerable improvements our ability to fight.
2. Hired 2 mercenary corps
3. Begun negotiations to join an alliance
CCP needs to make more tools available to deal with an endless, non-consensual war like this. We don't get the boundless joy of podding them in an open fight. And, we cannot continue our normal high sec operations. Some items for consideration might be:
1. Not allowing enemy ships to dock in a station, where you have an office, within 5 minutes combat initiated by either side. This would move the war into a more high intensity conflict.
2. Being able to discover all of the alts created by an account, during a war. This could be part of a new counter-intelligence skill.
3. Reduce the cost for mercenaries to war dec in a non-consensual war.
There may be other solutions too.
You simply can't avoid corps declaring war on you. It just happens and you have to accept it.
If you're having problems with 100 members against 8, you seriously need to look at the condition of your corp. If they dock then let em dock and bore themselves to death - or lay a juicy trap for them. This is quite frankly the everyday life in 0.0 - if you're outnumbered and outgunned, you don't want to fight and then the other side complains because they don't get the fight they would have wanted. To get that fight you simply have to set up a trap or the weaker side will not engage. I'd say mercs wouldn't even bother to go against a small corp like that, it would be a waste of time and extremely boring for them. Mercs are a huge waste of ISK in this case in my opinion.
No changes to the mechanics are required, however thinking in these situations is. Simply because you can't easily find a solution doesn't mean that rules suddenly have to be changed.
As a side note, the small corps doing this stuff are usually combined from people with perhaps some PvP background and an industrial backbone. One of their characters is probably a high sec industrialist just like you, funding the PvP character that is in the PvP corp. Then they do PvP for fun and when they can't fight, they just do stuff with their industrial character... so it's usually hard to actually bore them to death.
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