What if ? A scenario with many variations
After lots of pressure and hot posting, CCP introduces the requirement: no structure = no alliance. A structure comes with war eligibility as usual.
In the most likely scenario, the ganker alliance disbands officially, assembles pvp section in one single corporation. Other sections cooperate “unofficially”, sharing same oog comms, same leadership via alts etc, effectively a status quo. Life goes on.
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Alliance acquires structure and becomes war eligible, because why not, and “let’s teach these hisec guys a lesson they won’t forget” or some such.
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The disgruntled anti-gankers start to realize that, if they want to “strike back at gankers” they too have to be in an alliance and have to set up a structure in HISEC. They do so.
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Shocker: After a while the AG alliance gets wardec’d by at least one of the hisec wardec’ing groups - pick one. The (inexperienced) AG alliance either paralyzes (likely) or loses its structure (very likely) or somehow wins by killing the agressor’s war HQ in HISEC (highly unlikely), somehow having mustered sufficient fire power and pilots to take down a structure over several timers in HISEC.
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The AG community somehow manages to attract enough people into their (now war eligible) alliance for the purpose of going to war. They can finally declare war against their ganker targets who stayed in their alliance. They do so. Cheers all around. Mucho chest beating too.
Now for some options:
a. Ganker alliance (defenders) attracts assisting allies, increasing their numbers with experienced combat pilots or
b. Ganker alliance pays mercenary group to hound the aggressors - goals may vary and
c. Both Ganker and Anti-Ganker alliances attract attention via social platforms, funny posts, propaganda, video reports, battle reports, and reel in some more support.
And thus … with no big wars ongoing, pvp’ers from non-HISEC are looking for action. Perhaps some of them have ganker friends or alts. Maybe they think the new rule just sucks and since they can’t “Burn Jita” they come to do the next best thing: make a mess in HISEC. They decide to join in on the fun in HISEC and kill some hisec’ers. Some drop alts in the ganker’s alliance just for that purpose.
Now it gets funnier.
- After this round of unpopular changes to the rules, a sleepy beast stirs in the murky depths of New Eden. The first nullsec alliance declares war on the anti-ganking alliance, comes in force, removes war HQ.
- Not wanting to see their eternal foes in HISEC having all the fun for themselves, another nullsec alliance declares war against the first nullsec alliance and starts to offer cooperation to the anti-ganking alliance. Wars are entangled affairs now. More groups join in to stir up some more ■■■■ in HISEC and fill up the killboards. More mercs are hired, business is good. Wardecs fly everywhere. Fun is had by most, except the hisec’ers.
- Structures are attacked, left and right, but the nullsec alliances tire quickly - they do not like HISEC rules, and killing structures is never “fun”, even if they get the core. HISEC for them is mostly like a desert: there’s nothing really worthwile in there to fight over.
- Wardec’ing anti-ganker alliance is left exhausted, likely sitting on a pile of rubble, and the remainder of their pilots who were finally acquainted with the TiDi phenomenon and the alarm clock fights.
Meanwhile…
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ganking continues, by pilots who have no official player organization - they just form purple fleets, laughing on comms. New complaints emerge about heavy TiDi in HISEC because of these “pick inappropriate adjective” wars that attract too many combat pilots and alliances from outside of hisec, etc etc
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CCP pulls the new requirement as it proved a complete waste of resources and silently admits that hisec ganking is part of EvE Online. “Nerf HISEC ganking” threads appear as before.
My projection ? They wouldn’t get to point #4. (You see, they never got to point #4 against wardec’ing alliances with structure)