Crime & Punishment

Make concord deploy a 'realistic' fleet composition to a crime depending on the number/ship types of the crimainal(s). The fleet comps can be based upon accepted practices etc to allow the criminal to 'fight back'. they should bring fast tackle, ewar, brawlers and support with DPS ships as well to cover all bases. After all they are here to ruin your day.

Lock the system down so the criminals cannot leave the system and have concord call in backup as time goes on. just like a real poilice force.

Concord shouldn't be 'all powerful' and strike you down from mount olympus with bolts of lightning but should deploy 'overwhelming force' when needed to bring a criminal to 'justice'

Yes it should. The fact that the offender knows he will 100% certainly lose his ship is the only thing keeping them in check and still some high sec ganks happen every day.

Removing or softening concord would only bring more chaos and disgruntled players. The joy of the griefers and gankers would soon turn into tears as the sheep would disappear in a matter of months and they would be back into killing each others and the occasional sheep wandering into their territory.

In effect, you would make all of EVE low-sec/null-sec and turn it into a PvP game only. The result would be a huge win for all PvP fans, but a net loss to CCP as they would lose a lot of players.

Which is when the NPC militia (which would of course be improved) rocks up to smack them (which it should be able to do unless they're pretty organized), they take serious faction standing hits, and get booted from the faction militia if they're in it and violating the law in their faction's space.

While I don't live in high sec, I know what casual gamers are. They don't want to be put to too much bother to enjoy their free time and they happen to comprise the majority income for any game.

High sec will continue to be protected and buffed to protect high sec again and again because ccp wants to stay in business. They have become too successful now because of those casual gamers. If they had such a massive hit to their income, you will then be complaining to empty forums about the lack of people to have loser pvp with in high sec.

You will be doing what many other dying games are doing, flapping your gums about dem olden days and wishing you have people left to shoot and wondering why a new patch/content has not been introduced in over a year.

Nice thing is, eve has only 1 server, so you would not have to worry about servers gradually closing down, you would only have to worry as they extend DT's then try to go F2P

Take it for what its worth, casual gamers = more content and more profit for ccp = longer game life.

Drunk dev talk =/= things that will happen in eve.

The first thing the gankers learn is to light a false flag at some distant corner of the system and then commit the real crime while the police players are busy warping to the false alarm site. By the time they arrive to the site of the real crime the gankers are already gone and left only a smoking wreck of their victims.

This could probably be somewhat helped by putting a "CALL THE POLICE" button in the UI, which anyone who have been illegally aggressed could push. Again it could be misused, but at least the player misusing it could be punished.

Again, it sounds cool in theory, but history has shown it just won't work, unless there is a huge payout for acting as a police. And if there was, someone would find a way to exploit it.

As stated, removing CONCORD from the game would cause carebear tears, and a massive drop in subs.

I do like the idea of players helping CONCORD deal with criminal offenders.

what about some form of timer on CONCORD dps/reinforcments?

for example, a ganker nukes a little Badger MKII that someone forgot to tank, a single CONCORD ship arrives, locks down (scram, web, and some ECM (but not the total permajam lockdown that occurs now)) the criminal and starts shooting, this starts a timer, where local players can come help out the lone CONCORD ship but after a period of time more CONCORD ships arrive if the target isn't dead yet, steadily ramping up the dps untill either players arrive and help kill the target (or get killed) or enough CONCORD ships arrive to finish off the offender.

CONCORDs own brand of justice will still be served, just slower than it happens now, giving players a chance to join in, maybe have some kind of 'Deputising' mechanic, where you can join CONCORD FW which makes Criminal Beacons show up in the overview allowing you to warp to them.

CONCORD could give out LP based on the ship loss, and the better your CONCORD standing, the further away you can find out about criminal acts (maybe even from 2 or 3 jumps away, if your standing is good enough)

Obviously needs fleshing out a little, but it keeps CONCORD in the game to appease the carebears, and allows the players who like hunting pirates more oppertunities to do so

The trouble with EVE is the Sandbox Paradox.

You can't have everyone playing their own way because some people just want to be left alone to play without interaction in any meaningful way with other users and others want to kill anything that takes their fancy, such as the aformention people of a less social nature.

The Sandbox is a Lie, in effect and by removing CONCORD you only highlight that even more.

I am, however, for CONCORD being in-universe in such a way that meshes with both the player-driven side of things as well as being simply implemented and sensible.

What purpose would this serve? Give highsec dwellers free kills as the offender will be killed eventually, anyway, and cannot escape?

If on the other hand they would have a chance to escape justice, I come back to my previous statement - highsec ganks would boom into unbelieveable amounts and the carebears would leave EVE in masses.

Again, the only thing that keeps the gankers (mostly) in check is the fact that they KNOW they will lose their ship. Change that knowledge into uncertainty and you will have chaos.

The thing you guys fail to realise is that the moment concord is absent , th big 0.0 entities will just move in and run empire space like nullsec.