In order to declare an aggressive war, the attacking side must now designate a specific Upwell Structure that they own somewhere in highsec space as the “War Headquarters” for that war.
So how does this work for alliances? An alliance of 3 corps for example only has one structure owned by Corp A. Can Corp B or C start an Aggressive war or do all the corps in the alliance need to each own a station if they want to wardec separately?
What a f&*king mess…
Oh and thanks for doubling the price too CCP…way to make things even safer in HS…FFS what a joke.
The Alliance in that case is a single entity, so if one corp declares a war (and selects a structure they own for HQ) then whole alliance enters that war with that structure as HQ. At least thats how i understand it.
I don’t understand your question. Have corps in an alliance ever been able to wardec separately? I’m no expert on these matters, but AFAIK it’s the alliance as a whole that wardecs or not and it doesn’t matter which corp in the alliance owns the War HQ…
Yes, a corp (not main) in an alliance could WarDec before. In game you can look at, for example, The Conference Elite’s finished wars and you will see a whole wack of wars declared by them.
Not sure what you mean. If you check The Conference Elite’s alliance history and the dates of those wardecs, you’ll see they have only been at war when they were not in CODE or any other alliance…
So then your suggestion that only the Executor Corp would make sense…that line member corp would request the WarDec on behalf of the alliance…and thus the Executor Corp would assign the HQ to that war.
I guess the Executor Corp would be able to select a station from all alliance corps…? Not sure as again, never been there.
I would like to know the answer to the above. My intuition tells me the executor corporation would need to own the structure it selects as a war HQ, but I don’t see a source that makes it clear either way.
I don’t know the procedure to do it, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter which corp in the alliance owns the War HQ, just that it has to be a structure owned by any of the corps in the alliance.
If the corporation that owns the War HQ leaves their alliance, the war involving the alliance will enter the 24 hour cooldown and the new war spawned between the leaving corporation and the target will continue to be valid.
This provision would be necessary even if external selections can’t be made because the executor corporation can change at any downtime. Each member corporation declares support for a corporation, and whoever has the requisite support becomes the executor. A corporation can change its declaration at any time. This is why you will sometimes see alliances with similarly named numbered members. They are creating alt corps enough that the actual members can not wrest control.
The executor corporation could still have been the executor corporation when the war was declared, allowing that HQ to be selected, and later lost their position, but the war wouldn’t be invalidated, continuing on with the structure the then executor corporation selected. I still don’t see something that conclusively proves an alliance executor can (or can’t) select structures they do not personally own. We can only speculate until an alliance actually goes through the motions to see if it is possible.
OK, thanks for the detailed explanation. From a logical point of view seems it doesn’t make sense to require the War HQ be in the executor corp, but I guess you mean the user interface may currently not provide the means to choose a structure in a corp other than the executor.
