EVE General Discussion

So, I am at war with this corp. I have their high sec POS in low shields, and they are scrambling to kill my BS's and doing a decent job at harrassing me. It's pretty much an even fight, and good fun.

My inbox goes blinky, and I am told that my corp is now at war with Dec Shield Alliance. 'Alright' I think to my self, 'I have another 24 hours to duke it out with these guys before the cavalry gets here.'

But NOPE!!
I arrive at their POS again a few minutes later, and press F1, but then I am asked whether I want to proceed with this dangerous act, and CONCORD will kill me if I do.... WHAT??

Checking the evemail, I discover that where it used to read:
"Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.", it now reads "Fighting can legally occur between those involved." - in other words, "from right now!". I had no prior warning about this my evemail.

So effectively, the corp I am at war with can instantly get out of the war, protect its POS's, and have anyone in Dec Shield attack me with no delay. For all I know some of them could be cloaked up in T3 cruisers right next to me, waiting for the corp to join the alliance and gank the crap out of me. Are you kidding me?

What the hell happened?? Is this CCP's idea of an improved War Dec mechanics? Because this will completely kill small scale wars even faster than the old Dec Shield mechanic!
I am just gobsmacked as to why CCP would kill this part of the game....

This is the old/current mechanic. The new one hasn't been implemented yet.

That can't possibly be true. You used to get 24 hours before the alliance could also fight you, AND you'd get an evemail to that effect.

Now you have ZERO seconds, and no email!

Would this perhaps be for that 200m pos-removal contract the RvB guy in C&P was offering?

But yeah the wardec shield alliance is the carebear CCP-approved exploit for making high-sec pos 100% undestroyable. The POS owner will just keep swapping back and forth so he's always either protected by the 24 hour transition period or the reinforced timer.

I've been following the upcoming wardec changes quite closely but I can't exactly remember what CCP's solution is going to be against this tactic. I don't remember them saying that much about transition timers, only about possible war-shedding (which still keeps high POS safe, if you keep joining and dropping a dec-shield alliance).

Calling OP an idiot or a troll, probably both.

This was announced like 6 months ago, so welcome to 1999 if you just got up to date and still have more to let sink in once you get to 2012. Also, being that wardecs are required for highsec only then yes you should have to deal with the annoyances the enemy corp can bring to bear...or GTFO of highsec and avoid it all together . Really, who the hell wants to bash a POS beside some miner wannabe PVPer who just AFK a laser boat just as much as his hulk

Erh - No.
Trust me. I know my high sec wars......
It has not always been like this.

And read the f*cking post properly. I even pasted the two different CONCORD emails. Duh!

That's lame. Not sure if it's suppose to work that way, maybe petition it although at this point it won't matter. It's not like they're going to blow up the POS for you.

They are revamping the whole war dec system as many ppl have already stated. I'd chalk it up to ****** game mechanics that are hopefully being improved soon.

sounds like soon as you war decced them they joined the dec shield... they were accepted when u got the final mail... i suggest you stop griefing instead.