The War Dec system as it stands now is pretty terrible and for the attacker, flies in the face of EvE’s mantra of Risk vs. Reward since the overwhelming majority of those are declared against corps that have no reasonable means of defending themselves. They’re used to grief, troll, or otherwise make the game very unfun for new players and small corporations.
It’s a small wonder why this game has such a hard time retaining new players (which it needs desperately at this point) due the allowance of corps without any real appetite for true PvP to wardec miners and industrialists infinitely. This whole thing needs to change.
Look HiSec is already dangerous enough without the constant stupidity of WarDecs with suicide gankers (who at least risk something in their endeavors). Getting rid of wardecs or at least making it very unattractive to be used to bully the smaller corporations/new players would be the right step in retaining players and rebuilding a healthier community.
The typical war avoidance strategies only highlight how broken the wardec system actually is. They are not solutions, just workarounds to slip an otherwise population decimating system.
Limitations. Only allow corps that consent to a war dec fight it out. This is allows two corps with a real appetite for true PvP to duke it out with real risk.
Constantly declaring war against small corps of miners and industrialist I argue is not valid gameplay; it is cowardice.
So you’d rather see the outflow of players eclipse the influx of new players? There are reasons that this game has dwindled to 25k average players and this is one of them.
War Decs are already contrary to another rone of Eve’s major Pinciples; Risk vs. Reward. Why should corps of “elite pvp” wardec miners for no risk?
Consent cant be a requirement. It just cant.
The current system equals that anyways, as a Corp that does not consent, opts out with NPC Corps or re-forming the Corp in a new name.
As to limitations, I made an extensive suggestion I thought was feasible, but forgot to bookmark it.
Again, not a solution or even any kind of rebuttal to why wardecs are a bad thing. I get it, you want to continue to get free kills from industrialist and small corps who can’t really fight back. It doesn’t matter to you if the game suffers as a result. It’s far better to look at the big picture; keep newer players sticking around.
Options:
-Fight back.
-Negotiate.
-Hire/arrange escorts.
-Join alliance.
-Go NPC for logistics.
-Reform Corp as a new one.
-Move Corp elsewhere.
This character, my main and my first, has never, ever been wardecced, cos it never even left the starter Corp. Doesnt need to. Idgaf I lose on tax, its worth it for the wardec immunity. My activities on this character are not based on isk, but on loot, which is not taxed.
I handle everything else through cover Corps, NPC Corp characters, contracts, flying smart etc.
If any of that were really true, you wouldn’t care if War Decs were restricted to remain very unattractive to declare one against small/newer player corps in some reasonable way. None of Savlos suggestions are very feasible for new players for a number of obvious reasons either.
