Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Good idea, but not for suicide ganking. The destroyer buff made it far more isk-efficient to just use Thrashers.

There isn't really a good way to make hisec "safe-ish" without losing over 9000 players. Some people like safe zones so much they delude themselves into thinking hisec is 100% safe even after being told otherwise repeatedly. Then, they quit when they're proven wrong.

Anything short of "guaranteed kill CONCORD" punishments would allow gaming the system to create massive hisec rapefests.

Now, for some minor ways to make hisec more exciting, you can look at overhauling the bounty system, the wardec system, or maybe even an "aggression agreement" mechanic so you can fight someone without possibly aggressing their whole corp (by taking from their can).

And then you would be a perfect target for a few Thrashers.

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Bounty system needs a revamp, so its not all about the podkill, but rather the ship kill too.

War deccing needs to have a defined goal, rather than "we'll stop when we feel like it".

Concordoken shouldn't be near-instantaneous. The further you are from a major object in hisec (such as a station or gate), the longer the response time. Just like in RL, if you live a block from the police station, they are there insanely quick. If you live out in the boonies, 30km from the nearest town... its going to take a bit. So... ganking on the Jita undock = instant concordoken. Ganking 80 AU from the nearest gate/station = you will get 3-4 Thrasher volleys in without a problem, maybe even 5.

And finally... if you single-shot a ship (somehow), or are already aligned, you should have a *slight* chance of getting away before Concord shows up and says hello.

assho1e noob corp griefers take advantage of screwed up wardec mechanics WAY more than their targets. Any changes to wardec mechanics need to make it dangerous to declare war. Perhaps make it so if your corp has a non-cosentual wardec on anyone, all the individuals who are in the corp at any time the wardec is active (regardless if they drop corp, or drop an alliance to shed wardecs they start etc) is flashy red to everyone in EVE until the wardec drops. Implement that change, and I'd support whatever bullshit one-sided griefing mechanics incompetent griefers need make up for how much they suck at EVE (suck too much for real PVP anyway so have to farm rookie kills.)

Solution to station camps is all I can think of. 20 seconds is plenty of time to cyno in a bunch of bombers and alpha the hell out of a dumb ship playing station games.

2... alts? Takes more than that.

Trolling aside, I know it does. Now that I think of it, lore-wise covert cynos don't make much sense either. Hisec is cynojammed, period.

so you cant get enough people in fleet to spank your poorly chosen WTs so you want the ability to use blops to make up for the fact that you are the loser in the war?

welp, the way it usually works is somebody wins, and somebody loses
you lost, deal with it.

and nice attempt to bait the goons with your idea that if they can get more ganks then mittins will use his uber leet stranglehold on CCP to make it a reality.

again nice try, but waaaaay too transparent, and misguided

The best way to fix High Sec PvP is to start wtih the truth.

While you seek to berate ' carebears' for wanting a " safe-ish " high sec are you not guilty of the exact same behavior ? Are you not basicaly asking how to improve your 'safe-ish ' pvp environment to make it even easier to get risk free kills ?

"and think how much more lol-worthy Hulkageddon, and suicide-ganking in general would be if this were an option "

Case in point, this ^ is not PvP. Ganking has absolutely nothing to do with PvP. If anything ganking is the polar opposite of PvP and needs to be curbed.

The best way to fix high sec pvp is to move it to low sec where it belongs.

As for War Decks, add a couple zero's to the war deck fee, lets say 75 mil for a start. And an additional fee for each deck a corp launches in a season or year over a certain number, say 25 per year and the fee + 25 mil for each additional. This should start to bring some intelligence back to war decking. It will be used as it was truely intended, as an economic tool not an excuse for risk averse whiners to grief defenceless targets.

Allow podding for GCC regardless of the players or systems sec status. You do the crime you do the time. Also no docking up and hiding till your timer is up.

I agree high sec needs to be less safe. I'd just like to see that danger spread around a bit more evenly.

Edit: Inappropriate part removed, CCP Phantom.

Confirming I fire using my warp core.

That sounds interesting, but some considerations:

1. You'd be making the Augoror useful. That's unacceptable.
2. Artillery doesn't use cap, and has the highest alpha, so it would just start being used more for ganks.
3. Autocannons don't use cap either.
4. Cap boosters would become a necessary fitting consideration for gankers, causing less variety in fittings.

In other words, the idea needs work, or it becomes a stealth Winmatar buff. We really don't need more of those.

EVE is not about consensual duelling, it never was, and the very idea is anathaema to the entire core ethos of the game.

Next.

And it's not just newbie-griefers who make use of war-decs, either. Far from it, actually.