EVE New Citizens Q&A

just hire mercs to counter dec them and hire mercs to assist your war?

but that means waiting out the wardecs and hopefully getting some decent kills

Maybe you could enlighten us.

Upon looking up the definition of exploit it seems it means to make use of or derive benefit from. I think people often use exploit with a negative connotation so people get a knee-jerk reaction to the word and start attaching goodness or badness to it's use when to my understanding it is not part of the definition.

I think the context from which we are getting confused is if there is a game mechanic that brings about a result unintended and undesired by the game designers and someone make use of that game mechanic or somehow derives benefit from it and someone else refers to them exploiting the mechanic. The "illegal" part of that action is in deriving benefit from something that you could be expected to reasonably understand to be unintended and instead of bringing it to the attention of the devs you sneak around and make use of it to your own benefit hoping no one finds out. So in that case the badness is not from the exploit it's self but in the knowing that you are not supposed to be doing what you are doing and still doing it anyway.

1. CCP does not allow the use of creating/joining alliances to avoid wardecs (which is what you seem to want to do)
2. You cant join Alliance and need to sort out the wardec first. Pay off the offending corp, hire mercs to do it for you, or do it yourself.

Working as intended. If you want to avoid a wardec there is an existing way in place. Join NPC corp. This is obviously not the ideal answer, but if you want to benefit from avoiding the wardec, then there should be a price you pay (increased taxes and not being in your corp).