Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hiya

So as i am trying to setup a way were new corps are not taken out in the first ten days of there existence or infact long standing small corps. I am going to propse war dec cost changes

So these are the costs to war dec corps/alliances etc

10 members or less - 70mil a week
20 members or less - 120mil a week

30-50 members or less - 250mil a week

60-100 members or less - 300mil a week

110+ member corp to *whatever* numbers - 400mil a week

Alliances

200 pilots or less -400mil a week

500 pilots or less - 600mil a week

1k+ pilots to *whatever* numbers - 1.5bil a week

These changes i am suggesting would put a huge dampen on the current system of griefers and would make them *choose* targets more carefully. I also belive they would be forced to merge into corps that could potentially become null sec pvp corps instead of empire griefers.

I don't belive that 3-4mil per week for a war dec is correct, i belive that going to war is a significant decision and the cost should implement that.

Jess - Please post constructive comments

Okay so lets add a combat timer

Say once a war dec is *live* is no kills are forthcoming in 48 hours

Concord invalidates the war

Hence the cost is play per point no?

Not mostly since most of them are

*sorry ed effed up, here is the fix*

Link the dev blog ur talking about

They should make it average character age and corp size related.

Add up the amount of months a certain corps characters have been in the game ( older chars have more experience and skillpoints ) and divide that by the amount of members, to get an average character age for the corporations.

This average age is then compared to the average age of the corp or alliance that is deccing and the larger the difference, the higher the cost.

And for the character amount per corp/alliance.
Take the amount of players of the corp that is being wardecced and subtract that from the amount of characters in the corp that is deccing.
Take this and then do Cost x the result of the size comparison.

Example:
corp 1 has 10 chars, with an average age of 12 months.
corp 2 has 8 chars, with an average age of 7 months.

if corp 1 decs corp 2:
12 - 7 = 5 million.

if corp 2 decs corp 1:
7 - 12 = -5 = default value of 3 million.

Now the member count:
if corp 1 decs corp 2:
12 - 7 = 5, which amounts to a 5% increase, meaning 5 million plus 5% = 5.250.000

if corp 2 decs corp 1:
7 - 12 = -5, which amounts to a 5% DEcrease, meaning 3 million - 5% = 2.850.000

Edit: this has more then 1 effect actually.
It makes the cost to wardec much higher, if the corp is relatively new, while also making sure that corporations have extra incentive to hire new players ( since they bring the average age down ).
However, once a point has been reached, where the corp has become so big that the corp size bonus falls into the deccers favor, it will still make wardeccing worth it.