In my view, there is already a ViceRegal system in highsec. It’s CONCORD and they kick in when any illegal aggression is performed.
Of course, wardecs provide a way to facilitate legal fighting in highsec and that is an absolutely necessary system for:
- destruction of sructures (POCOs, Upwell strucutres and less so now POS)
- removal of economic rivals (though large ice mining multibox fleets for example are often all in NPC Corps, so the mechanics can be gamed both ways to both use wars against rivals and to avoid them all together)
- because EVE is fundamentally a pvp game
On point 3, while I perosnally think a lot of PVE has no real PVP in it (or isn’t conducted with the intent of really competing with anyone), as a community the general view is that everything is PVP. Market trading, missioning can be, mining certainly can be, industry, etc.
So if there are non-shooting ways to affect each other, shooting ways of doing so are just as important. Not more or less, just the same. If the preference then is to further limit the shooting forms of pvp in an easy way, then there also needs to be a way to similarly affect the non-shooting forms, since the entire system involves both creation and destruction.
They are inter-dependent elements of the game. Too much of one or the other affects prices, volumes of turnover, ISK velocity, etc. across the game; and that includes affects on both pvp focused players and pve focused players (ie. if pvp players can’t destroy as much, there is less need to replace loss and pve players don’t sell as much).
In the specific case of highsec, the often quoted figure is 75% of characters live there. If the ability to destroy things in highsec is reduced (by only introducing ways to limit wardeccers, without balancing that change with a benefit for them as well), then that has potentially significant impact on the overall game.
And that is my fundamental argument against a lot of suggestions. They only propose ways to affect the large wardec groups, while not considering the impact on smaller wardec groups and hunters, nor proposing any benefit for them that offsets the impost proposals want to put on them.
Just my 0.02 - destruction is good for us all and we should encourage it as much as we should encourage PVE, in all regions of space.