Warfare & Tactics

Heres what i would do.

1, contact people they were previously at war with and see what they can tell you, find out if they were after a ransom and what tactics and ships they used.
( the reason they may be offline is they probably watch with a alt and log in only when they can quickly gank etc so you feel safe.)

2, look through their kill board history and try to pin point friends and alts that they have worked with and war dec them. (make sure their friends know the reason is because of the people that deced you.

3, watch to see if they dec anyone else, they may just be decing you to prove a point and have bigger fish to fry, if possible fly blackbird a rr ships if you can team up with others, you being a pain in the ass increases the chances your not worth the effort.


4, if all else fails join an alliance for a little bit or just go play in in low sec till it blows over.

5, forget about thoughts of griefing, complaing to ccp and play the game.

Strange things happen in highsec wars. Sometimes people who only play on weekends declare war during the week so the target is good and complacent by the time they log in at the weekend. Other people declare war on folks with inactive shell corps specifically to try and get them to take down POS towers without a fight. There's also a lot of mercenary scamming going on at the moment (which is why you should use the MERC Contracts channel) where someone will pay money to a corp to declare a war, they declare a war and then don't do anything.

Or they may just be in a different timezone to you.

Look at their war history and see how many other active and finished wars they have and if those wars have kills in them, that might shed some light on what they are actually doing.

Depending on the size of the tower. A few guns and ECM will definitely deter them, it is much harder to kill a High Sec POS. With 11 people they would have a very hard time fighting it.

Many people are looking to get more targets, so they will offer assistance. But I believe after a certain point you have to pay something like 10 mil to get more allies on top. I would not pay anyone for assistance though, just accept people who are looking for targets.

A while back a guy war decced an indy corp my friend is apart of. Only reason he did so was because they had allowed the POS to run out of fuel. This guy spend hours with a stealth bomber slowly killing POS's to pad his killboard. Once guns and the shield were put on, he dropped the war dec.

Ah well, I guess I know what to do with those 2 x 3 run small Dark Blood laser doobries that I have gathering dust in my station hanger

I choose toplay where I want, and no you are wrong. This is probably the most hypocritical argument you see in Eve. Yes it's OK to screw over AFK miners/and ice miners, but you are not allowed to spoil my AFK PvP Meta gaming, such as this, or AFK cloaking.

As I say, I am not worried about the fight and the wardeck. That is Eve, what I am annoyed about is that

(a) My character training has been slowed because I am not going to risk the best part of 2 bils worth on implants
(b) My industrial game is hampered because I cannot do all that I want o do at my POS

It has nothing to do with where I am based, and all to do with **** poor hypocracy

Don't like 90% of wars in eve go on with 0 killz by both sides? Its just how it is. Maybe try living in a C1 wh for your pos with a static HS?

if you lose your pod in high sec you're doing something wrong

As i already said you cant get killed by people not playing.

Imagine this, instead of them not being online they live in an unknown wormhole system, and don't come out during the dec so you cant follow them in some how. how is this different to them not being online to you. You still would of removed clone and took down tower, you still cant get at them. That is my point, its your play style and views on whats happening not what the war targets are doing.


edit - think your post got edited there as i was writing mine but ill leave it that. best of luck with how you deal with it. o/

No, the point is, even if they are hiding in a worm hole system, there is always that million to one chance that I get a direct link to them, and as anybody who has read Terry Pratchett knows, a million to one chance always succeeds.

But seriously, I can get my head around that. While my POS may be high sec based, I ninja gas and minerals out of WH/Null sec systems regularly. It is actually quite conceivable that some WH bod, mentions to his mates. "Say, remember that *Insert expletive of your choice* Godsnottlingson guy who was 'Pigging' us off the other day, well I have found a tower of his in High Sec, lets at least annoy the little s**t.

Again, that is Eve, I understand that. It’s the level of meta gaming, that means you can effect another player at no risk to yourself that is what is spoiling things for me. And this is the one thing, which to me at least, is becoming more prevalent in Eve and will probably in the end kill it for me.

Actually I have got a better 'counter' to your argument. As I say, I am old and it takes time for the old grey matter to tick over.

We obviously disagree with me, so say for example; rather then reply here you think "This Godsnottlingson guy is an idiot who needs a lesson taught him." So then you promptly wardeck me from your worm hole before getting on with what you do.

Ok, I get the war deck notification. Think "Oh Poop!" and get on getting ready. Part of getting ready is trolling all of the kill boards trying to get as much info on you and your Corp, adding you to my 'watch list' and generally doing what I can do to get ready for some PvP.

Then today comes. All of my PI is brimming to overflowing, I realy need to get out and get them all emptied so I can set up fresh runs, but I see, you are on-line. OK, you are doing your thing in a WH. I don't know that, for all I know you could be lurking in a near by system in some insta locking snort guzzling gank machine that will kill my ship, kill my pod and probably take down half of the city that I live in too. I don't know, all I know is that you are on-line.

So, I jump in my Impel, throw on a couple of extra WCS for good luck then undock with heart in mouth, and having to put up with said heart missing a beat every time I have to jump through a gate. Or I ask a mate to run scout for me. I may be in a solo Corp, but having played Eve for many years now I do actually know a few people who will help me and who I help when the need arises.

Which ever way, I eventually dock up with a smug feeling of satisfaction at being able to 'do what I need' even while in a war state. So, the big difference is, you have actually added to my game play experience, (First by adding a lot of tension to what is frankly a routine game job, and next giving that feeling of satisfaction). You provided all of that, even if there was never an actual threat because you were busy in your WH and had no intentions of following up on the wardeck.

And that is the difference between if you war decked me and what this bunch of idiots have done, because, that is exactly what I did last night, and I didn't even bother throwing on any extra WCS because, yet again, nobody was on-line nor came on-line while I was active.