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Anonymous Wardecs - intended behavior for new war system, or bug?

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Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#21 - 2012-05-30 21:11:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Hans Jagerblitzen
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
In a game that is supposedly all about having consequences for your choices, being able to do stuff anonymously with no consequences just seems against the spirit of the game. That includes offgrid boosting, neutral logi, swiping everything from corp, and now declaring war. I'm fine with these all existing, but they need to have real consequences and risks.


QFT and thanks for saving me a second post saying the same thing :)

I mean, with the new war reports and such, we're headed in the direction of MORE information available all around, not less. I think naming those that declare war is consistent with this.

I'm sure in most cases a CEO asking their directors who did it isn't really an issue, I think the greater consideration is that if a wardec is made in the absence of other directors or the CEO, at least the corp members themselves could get some instant notice so they know who to talk to about it.

To those that say this isn't a big deal, I agree it's not a "crisis" currently or anything we want to pull CCP away from something important to fix, but if its a quick coding tweak, than sure, why the hell not? Like I said, the least I can do is at least inquire as to whether this was intentional or not.

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#22 - 2012-05-30 21:15:42 UTC
Morganta wrote:
so you cant chat with your execs and see who did it?

this is the issue, if you cant be arsed to talk to a couple of people who you trust to make decisions like that why should CCP do something about it?

That is the simple solution if it was indeed just a spur of the moment thing where he simply decided to not consult anyone before doing it. As you are likely well aware, though, people in Eve do not always tell the truth. Out of embarassment (or even gasp malice) the guy who issued the wardec can simply say "I have no clue wtf happened! I want to find the **** who did this and **** his ******** all the way through his ******* and out his eye."

This applies to any leadership actions that can be taken anonymously. There is simply not enough record-keeping of leadership actions, and thus not enough accountability. For other things directors can do, there can be varying degrees of protection via the CEO's existence, alt holding corps/characters for valuable assets, etc. For this wardec thing, there is no protection.

I could rant all day, but it boils down to this: "are anonymous actions with zero consequences and accountability in the spirit of Eve, and was it intended behavior that one more thing was added to the list of such actions?"

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