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lmao good one bro...

Just have a link to a merc alliance's yelp page for reviews.

Its nice to see all these changes going into the war system and I hope the idea behind some of the restrictions is to reduce the amount of pure griefing war decs that are put onto newbie corps and chases away all the new players from the game.

It causes the agressor to think about the cost and retaliation capabilities of their opponent before they put in the dec.

The defender can still go turtle on them and wait it out or with this new system bring in some hired hands which could quite easily cost more to defend yourself than the agressors pay on the dec itself.

Just a thought on ally payment system though - I assume that they are paid as soon as the defender accepts the offer? What happens if I run a one man band and act as an ally, take the money and walk off with it? What happens if my corp does a poor job and don't deserve the money paid for my 'services'?

Maybe the payment system should be changed so that when the war dec ends the defender is abliged to pay for services rendered. If the ally did a good job you could throw in a bonus.

If they sucked you don't pay them at all.

If you want to screw them over you don't pay them either but at least they could dec you back and reclaim their lost earning! :P

Defenders could also provide feedback (yeah, like a ebay seller) to rate them on how well they did so that other defenders can see their ratings and either look for a particular good rated corp for their services or keep away from offers of bad corps.

Yes it could make new merc corps difficult to break into the market but if they reduce their asking price they'll take on a few deals at a loss but build up the required rep to take on higher paying contracts.

i hope you monitor how many people unsubs after being wardecced for weeks by every last griefer in game, without a chance to avoid nor escape nor win nor do shlt about it.

Greyscale mentioned in a post somewhere in GD I thought. I'll poke around and try to find it.

Great so what you're telling us is that you're going to release obviously incomplete, poorly thought out content and then wait to see how broken it is after you've released it.

Didn't I hear soundwave talking about releasing content when it's finished rather than rushing towards expansion deadlines with unfinished garbage at some point? Oh I guess that was before crucible came out and CCP was still pretending to be apologetic about incarna and hadn't gotten back to the standard practice of releasing unfinished crap.

Not necessarily. I'm sure high sec war deccing entities have made a lot of enemies over time. Corps may *want* to combine forces to enable payback. The new ally system lets it happen.

Here's another scenario: a nullsec alliance like TEST decides to dec someone. Don't you think upon hearing of this little gem that Privateers, Moar Tears and every other highsec deccing entity would clamor for the chance to join the fray? Hell, the deccee might find itself offered piles of isk for the privilege of doing just that.

Speaking of which, Devs why does the ally system only have a spot for demanding isk? Can this number be negative? Why can't corps be offered isk for the opportunity to join their war?

The payment is all up front. It's a basic one lump some right now, we didn't want to implement a more elaborate payment scheme in the first iteration (like automatic reimbursement fund, etc.) - people can continue to negotiate that informally as they've done in the past. The main thinking here is to allow mercenary corporation to build up reputation over time. The public war history is the first step in that direction, allowing prospective patrons to check out the war history of an offering merc corp. Later on we want to expand the information given here to allow defenders to more easily see the 'worthiness' of a merc corp before deciding whether to hire them. A rating or ranking system of some sorts, maybe in EVE Gate, is also a possibility.

Absolutely no gaping holes in this mechanic, no sir, it's totally ready for rollout.