EVE General Discussion

EDIT: 29/03/17

Almost ready to go live, please review our proposal document NPC Hi-Sec Community Proposal

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I've been looking into starting a blue community within hi sec for the sole purpose of getting people together and enjoying the game and making friends. It is difficult for new, solo players and smaller corps to operate within hi sec due to the way in which the war dec mechanic is used so I wanted to create something that will give people a break from war decs.

Some general guidelines, ideas and features I've thought of are as follows;

- must be in an NPC corp to be part of the community

- TS3/Voice comms will be provided

- Key people organising missions or low sec pvp ops, people giving advice on how to play Eve

- Chat Channels/ Mailing list for communication

Generally I'd like to keep this cool and stress free without the usual problems that arise from being in a corp or alliance. I'm interested in working with like minded people who are interested in helping to bring back the fun in hi sec. It should be lots of fun.

Please feel free to discuss ideas here and maybe in a few weeks we can get something going.

There are many of these already. They are organized by chat channels. But they are hard to find due to the lack of in-game methods of finding or advertising chat channels. The result is many, many players have started such communities. There are dozens of them, and each is so small that they are not much of a community. Players thus don't pay attention to them, and remove the channel from their list to reduce clutter. The channel sprouts up, tried to grow, then dies due to lack of players.

CCP: We need a way for players with common interests to find each other in game. A way for chat channels to be advertised so like-minded players can find each other. Something like the corp finder.

OP: Consider including people who are in corps, but their corp does not have a history of making war decs, or ganking. That way, when said corps do get a dec, the players can drop corp and still be part of a community.

Sorry I'm off on a bit of a ramble.

I think the issue with the current wardec mechanic is the way we perceive it. If lots of people left their corps and went NPC this might not be a bad thing.

I will be taking fleets out to low sec for PVP, it will be promoted to the community and I would promote other FC's to do the same thing. If we can get lots of groups going to low sec for pvp then the hi sec corp who war decs 200 corps concurrently will have to comply and come to low sec for pvp. I know this is long winded, I'm just trying to think outside of the box and analyse mechanics that we can use to our advantage.

the 11% npc corp tax makes that seem like a silly rule to me, 1 man tax evasion corps ftw!

This is gonna be good. I thoroughly enjoyed the topics here on your Blue Null sec attempt. I put a fiver on Dracvlad screwing you over within 5 pages from now.

Drac won't be part of this.

I think it's a pretty good idea, especially for new players to learn how to work together in a fleet.

I suggest advertising in and or around the new player systems, start up a small fleet and run a few missions or exploration sites first to get them sorta familiar with working together in a fleet.

Then maybe do some 1v1 Duel action in high sec with some PvP mods fitted and explain basic encounter tactics, followed with a few 'exercises' of tactical withdraw.

They should also have their Overview set up correctly, practice making / using Safe Spots along with D-scan before actually going to low sec.

Anyway, just something to consider. Hope you have good luck and much success.



DMC

A community needs a purpose, a common goal / interest to work. Just a "blue highsec group" is not enough of a program. There are so many channels to hang out and chat, I don't need another one. Convince me to join your group ...

I hear you. My Fc'ing will have a careful approach where at first I would only request cheap frigs and cruisers, I'd generally be looking for regular faces within my fleet and help them to grow and understand whats going on within a pvp environment.

I can be quite tricky myself. a small example of the PVP I do: I was in an arbitraitor docked and there was about 7 hostiles in local with one of them (a Cerberus pilot) who kept trying to bait me to undock. I played a little dumb to keep his interest while logging on my second account in a fleet stabber.

My Arbitritor fit was minimal DPS and all tank, I knew he was obviously trying to bait me. I undock in my arbitraitor and wait for him to fire, he fires and I spring into action he is pointed and dual webbed I set my drones on him, small lasers and neut. 5 of his friends undock in frigate and destroyer sized ships and start shooting at me, I undock my 2nd account in a fleet stabber and primary the Cerberus and destroy it quickly. I lost both ships with a value of 80m and the cerberus pilot lost 243m.

I won the isk war and felt reasonably happy. Other fleets will have to be careful of me taking advantage of their bait and losing the isk war.