Crime & Punishment

With Dec Shields in place my enemies found easy shelter. What's you guys sense of POS bashing activities post inferno? What tactics can be used to bring industrial operations to a stand still? How specifically will the new merc market allow payment for targeting specfic enemy objects (like POSes, rather than generic kills)? Ideas welcome. Mercs too, post inferno that is.

thx Vexx.

As one can read in the notes on the expansion it becomes easier to hire a merc corp as they can build reputations so reducing the scam risk. That's good for attackers and defenders.

ATTACKER ADVANTAGE? It also means that one can start griefing POS owners by declaring war on them, potentially forcing them to hire mercs to defend themselves. That will be at a cost probably a lot higher than the cost of wardeccing them. If then also the attacker merc puts in the occasional stab at the offending POSes, the cost of defending can run up further. Creative thoughts on this or similar mechanisms would be great.

DEFENDER ADVANTAGE? On the other hand, are there elements in the new war dec system which makes it harder to take down POSes? Definitily the ability hire defending mercs. But are there other elements to this?

There is also a good chance you will see HS coalitions starting to form for mutual defense that aren't in a formal alliance structures anymore. It will be slightly harder to do proper intel gathering on targets until combat starts.