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No. CCP is just clueless.
Check the Q/A of the wardec presentation if you dont trust me. The CCP Dev was surprised when someone asked about the alt paddings. He didnt see it coming.

2 weeks later. Not one.

Pretty sure that the only way wardec changes are going to turn out to be not totally ****** is if CCP Soundwave spends the next month trying to run a highsec wardec corp.

It's not as simple as people think it is.

I watched the War system Keynote from Fanfest. I can confirm this^^. Not to mention he was extremely nervous presenting the new proposed system like a Lamb speaking in a room full of Lions. More than nervous just speaking, like he knew the system was heavily favored to Alliances and large Corps yet was still trying to cram the crap down our throats. Hmmm, wonder what type of character he plays in Eve... If he even does play.

You mean: Just as happens on a daily basis currently? sheesh.

Can you get it through your head that there is no such thing as a non-combat corp in EVE. Period?
The Entitlementalists may have created the Myth of Safety, but it's nothing more than that.. a Myth.

I think the message CCP is sending (but doesn't seem to realize it) is if you don't want to fight in hisec you can't have POSes, and you can't be in a player corp. The first message is fine, the second is kind of silly. Either people want to fight or they don't. If they don't want to fight you can't force them. Leave hisec for ganking and allow a separate mechanic for POS sieges. The whole idea of unsafe safe space and authorized griefing is strange.

The more i think about it, the more im inclined to think that wars should only be allowed to be mutual. POS sieges should be handled separately, or wars should only allow to attack structures (until the corp engages in defense with ships, and even then it should be treated as normal non-permanent aggression). People will evade wardecs by having haulers/miners/other alts and there will be no targets just as before. Ultimately CCP can't allow to grief people anywhere anytime for a fee (wardec individuals), so the whole exercise is moot. People are now forced into an inconvenience - dropping into an NPC corp. Wardec is inherently asymmetric warfare (people who like to grief effectively always have an advantage because presumably they don't mind wasting their time chasing war targets whereas war targets generally don't want to engage), so it's griefing. I don't see a reason why people should be allowed to grief others. This will create an explosion in hauler alts and allow hisec POS removal, nothing else functionally. It will also annoy a ton of people who don't want to engage in wars and make them quit corps. It will not create more engagements, just more irritation. Why defend when you don't want to and you can drop out? Otherwise do mutual only wars. Why have a hisec pos when you can have a losec one? What's the advantage? Any number of people can join the aggressor corp at any time, so effectively there's no heads up on attacker's strength. The only way it would make sense if a restriction was also placed on people joining the aggressor corp for a week.

Actually i think this should definitely be considered - disallow joining the aggressor corp/alliance for a week or have a 5-10% new member cap per week, so at least there's some sort of advance warning of the size of the aggressor, otherwise there's really no advantage in having hisec poses. If the size of aggressor grows over the marging, the war is automatically cancelled and they have to re-declare.

Also i think the fee should be based on max or better yet, a sum of member counts of either aggressor or defender so that big corps would think twice before engaging much smaller targets.

Also quoting from SonicLover's blog:


I think it's clear that CCP is kind of asking the right questions and does realize that it's a bit silly to put people in player corps at an inherent disadvantage. Quoting again for clarity here:



Why?? I think CCP either needs to formulate different objectives before enacting this change (because it doesn't change anything but add annoyance and allow removal of hisec poses). The removal of hisec poses is fine and good. Annoyance is not. So I think for now, at least until the goals of this change are better formulated, CCP should explicitly stick to only allowing hisec pos removal or mutual wars. The enforced annoyance/griefing part of this change is useless since it can be evaded.

You're trolling right?

The proponents of wardec/grief whoever i want are far more vocal than thousands of hisec dwellers who don't even read this stuff so the feedback you are getting here is very disproportionate and is skewed towards hardcore players. This doesn't fit with the general direction of CCP trying to make the game more friendly for new players. Presumably there will be an influx of new players with the release of DUST514.

There's only one NOIR and there's thousands of people in hisec who don't want to have anything to do with it/will evade it just as before by dropping to NPC. My point is not that griefing is bad, it's that either don't allow griefing or allow it, rather than make it avoidable.

I disagree. The 'hardcore' players are the ones int he game right now blowing ships up, camping gates/stations, taking out PoSes, can flipping, or other griefing/war/PvP this very moment. It is the more 'casual' people like yourself who are being camped into a station 'unable' to leave who are logging onto the forum to voice you words of hate towards these systems while everyone else is in the game learning how to use the system and actually ... well ... playing the game. Therefore, people of your opinion are disproportionate and skewed on these forums.

People will prove it to CCP when this is released.

People will not change their gameplay stile.
If they like peace and can not get it - CCP will feel it on their wallet.