Crime & Punishment

As much as i agree, you can also agree with me that that's stupid from CCP's side aye?
It's plain lazyness not willing themselves to look at this forum and see some legitimate posts going on.

Anyway - back on topic (thanks for your input though ♥ )

+1 OP!

I agree with everything said.
How can CCP not know that this would happen? I think they knew all along...

It certainly is p bad.

DISCLAIMER: Former member of Malum Crusis, so I'll just "ib4" the whole "ur mad we kicked you" posts.



When I was in MC, both EP and yourself said, in no uncertain terms, "When these changes hit, we're declaring war against all of EVE." You, in particular, were ecstatic about the fact that you would have plenty of people to shoot at. You welcomed the "alliance" system.

With this change, it made it harder for smaller corps to be ganked and killed off by more skilled or aware players. Missioning corporations and alliances now had a way to fight back, even if they weren't fighting.

To see you start off a post with, "Waaaah, the whole ally system is stupid!" borders on the asinine.



Corporations and alliances are out there getting kills, and they're taking losses. All this did was force people to play a bit smarter. No longer can you simply go one jump out to check for reds. Now, you have to go out a bit more. Now you have to get scouting instead of camping in targets all day. if you are not getting kills, then it's because you're staying on one station undock too long instead of out roaming, like PvP should be.



Then become an ally to every war you can. I told you before that the concept of "proactive mercenary work" was gone. I told you that the way we would get wars now was to become an ally in as many wars as humanly possible and get a lot of reds. Once again, your response was, "No, we're deccing everyone in EVE." You were only charging for the war dec anyways, according to your post in C&P. So how does becoming an ally ruin what you were doing?



Your opinion is just that: your opinion. Furthermore, it is based on absolutely nothing substantative. I would argue that high sec wars are as fun now as they have been, if not more-so. The fact any war you declare can see more targets added, and you don't have to pay to shoot those additional targets, makes this concept much more appealing to those wanting legitimate wars. Warfare is not friendly, it is not something you can predict perfectly. Try as you might, there will always be variables you can not predict.

So get the hell out of Niyabainen, and start roaming. It's what I've been doing, and many others like me have. Start going away from the trade hubs and start looking at pipes. Once you find the targets and gather intelligence, you'll get kills. Trust me.

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It does.
There only needs to be an Ally flag next to the dec and viola, in a day or two, the ally list will be more than your corpwindow can handle in a single scroll.

And how is that the problem of the entire expansion? They removed the limit on wars that a single corporation could have. Sure, everyone could dec everyone else, and we could (theoretically) turn high sec into null sec (minus the few odd people who decide to remain permanently in NPC corporations).

That is not a problem with the expansion. This expansion made wars a bit more fun, in my honest opinion. Since joining a corporation looking to fight, I have found plenty of targets to fight. Not missioners for free and easy kills, but people looking to legitimately undock and slug it out.

I figure many people looking to fight are getting it. Many people looking for free ganks aren't.

Looking from the outside in (as im in w-space). it seems that a lot of people are just mad because the easy kills aren't so easy anymore.

That's not what i said.
I said that each has his own preference.
Some enjoy wormholes - like you, others piracy, then others null NPC- or sov space (where there are alot of large scale fights) and those that prefer Empire.

And as for your argument about empire: this thread concerns all Empire warrers.
Griefers, Mercs and any other group that wants to fight there.

And if you think Empire wars are weak, that's fine - again, to each his own.
That doesn't take away the fact that in it's current state, Empire wars, it's mercs, it's griefers - everyone is taking a large and unnecessary hit which will eventually lead to highsec becoming the ultimate safety zone for carebears.

Not many will like to stick around for what used to be a very nice Guerilla warfare playground.

on the one hand you say that starting wars is more risky than ever
on the other hand you claim that the whole mercenary game is dead.

who in their right mind would not outsource offensive wars to mercenaries given the incalculable risks that you outline in your post?

sure, mercenaries have a much harder time finding well paying defensive contracts - but at the same time there is a much stronger incentive to hire professionals for any kind of aggression.

(edit: now, from my point of view most "mercenaries" are anything but professionals and would probably fail just as hard as your average pvp player when outnumbered but that's a different topic entirely)

Pretty much what I'm saying.