Fear…, I will elaborate, when I said something similar in the war dec discord the war deckers realised that they would have to defend their right to do war decs and that a nullsec alliance could come in and kick over their sand castle and they did not like it.
People like Arrendis are wittering on about these people not existing, I find that laughable…
That you have to find competent defenders? Marmite or Riot regularly allies with defenders of our wars but they do not do anything to help the defender. The thing they are after are cheap wars to farm attackers elsewhere.
They currently dont have a way out, and to fight together, to win the war, rather than attrition as long as the wardec lasts.
If the wardecs of a Cop/Alliance are hinged through a singly structure, ALL those wardecced via it, can join together to destroy it, to end ALL their wars, as defenders.
Lets say I am CEO of a 20 man Corp, and get wardecced.
I have about ~5 combat (badly) capable members,
I then check who else is wardecced by the same Corp/Alliance, and find its not just my Corp, its hundreds upon hundreds of players in other Corp/Alliances. Perhaps even thousands.
We negotiate and decide we are tired of getting wardecced by this source, and join together, fly together, and blow the ■■■■ out of the structure that is the lynchpin of their wardecs, plus with mercs, and tell them never again to bother us.
Don’t forget a number of nullsec alliances who are now able to impact the war deckers, hell they should start forming hisec combat groups for this very reason and of course when they are bored. I think it is much better to police the blanket war deckers with players.
And here is why, blanket war deckers rely on passing trade for their players, they need to war dec enough people to get a percentage of dumb people for their members to shoot, but if that dries up because nullsec alliances deliver consequences and they have to do it to hisec only then they will start to fall apart in terms of numbers and ability. And any that stand up will get content, the type that is a challenge.
The players will change the game. The example is the Perimeter wars over the trade Forts, PH won! And that is where a certain corp I mentioned comes into it as they owned one of the Forts that got taken down, a Fort that was defended by PIRAT and VMG among others…
One important thing to add, the structures have to be in hisec.
I’m not sure if 1 structure for all wars or a limited number per structure would work but if we say 1 for all wars… if you war dec 100+ corps from the structure there will be 100+ corps that want to kill it.
it would mean the end of war dec spam and more careful war target selection.
Everything else is always vulnerable now so why would these be different?
Not sure anyone suggested that but the details couls still be worked out I guess
Would not be worth it. The money you’d have to pay someone to spend that much time being bored out of their skulls as PIRAT/Marmite hid away would be astronomical. Trust me. Mercs are here to play and have fun in this game too, and there’s no fun to be had in suppressing highsec hub campers.
There are quite a lot of egos clashing within the hisec merc groups, there are quite a few war dec / mercs who really do not like PIRAT. I think that will not be an issue.
Missing the entire point of it, you are not going after the hub campers, but the thing that enables them to be hub campers… doh!
Still no fun. Even most of the highsec “merc” alliances have now stopped taking bash contracts, because they’re just too boring even with the paychecks. It would still be too boring to be something people could be arsed with.
Again you are missing the point, it is not so much the structure that will interest them but the war deckers that try to defend it. Because if the war decs drop that is a lot of lost ISK. It has real value
I don’t understand why they think people won’t do it, what better way to kick out your competing mercs then blapping their war dec structures.
Are you suggesting that they will try to defend it with ships that they use for hub and pipe camping.? I doubt it…
It gives defenders a chance, instead of logging out, to attack the declarer, and end the wars, in great numbers + mercs, if they can pull off organization and overcome the fleet of the wardeccer defending their structure, or access to get to destroying it.
If they can kill it, all the wardecs end in favor of defender, and the wardeccer lost all investment in the structure, its defense and in wardec costs.