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I hear most bugs are normal gameplay features and are easily explained.

Green around active ship nice

It really won't work that way.

What these changes will do is give people who have been wardecced by large alliances a limited commodity that can be resold to trade hub camping outfits so they get a discount on their normal business. Our wardec from goons for example is worth 500m - (whatever the ally escalation cost multiplier is x number of allies) and that means we could offer a service to Privateers, Orphanage etc to allow them to gain access to cheap 2 week cycle wardecs by paying us the concord escalator rather than wardeccing directly.

There will be no choosing of "serious mercs" because its literally impossible to win a serious empire war against a bunch of people whose income is not based in hisec anyway.



Unfortunately it'll be as described above. We'll sell slots to people who want a wardec discount and completely ignore it because the system CCP have foisted on us makes it fiscally impractical to add enough allies to make a difference. Nobody with any sense will throw money at concord to bring people into a war of this kind.



Now it won't be given away for free - it'll be sold to you as a discount option.



See the thing is this kind of wardec has no objective, no purpose, no win conditions and now no surrender penalty for the attacker. Because its a pointless vapid waste-of-time the only people who would ever be interested will be those whose interest is in trade hub ganking and only because allying will give the possibility of a discount access to a wardec.

War and PVP in an MMO built to be a huge open War PVP simulator is a "waste of time"?

Oh, christ.

No, just no so many times.

Well, war to a purpose. Thats a different matter.
War to destroy a control tower, to take an outpost, to blow up a customs office, to drive a corp/alliance from their home, to grief them to non existence etc etc - all these things have a dynamic of their own and make the war interesting. Its why Faction Warfare is so good right now - there is a reason to fight, something to lose, something to win and it drives the narrative of the combat game.

Now random wardec for the sake of it in highsec by a huge alliance who can't really be bothered to fight and will never be impacted by the opposition because the mechanics ensure its impossible to assemble a force large enough to actually hurt them. There is no real narrative or drive to that war. End of the day the only sensible thing to do is to outsource ganking opportunities to hisec trade hub campers and ignore it.

Thats the difference.

This isn't the fix I would have chosen. Once again, the CSM is not in charge of what CCP does. Our feedback (which you will see when the summit minutes come out), was that unlimited free allies was dumb, and locking people into being allies forever was also dumb. Our role isn't to do game design, so it is up to CCP how they want to fix those issues.

Well, we're still waiting on what these new FW items are.

Would be nice if you guys could fix the lag when you get blown up by a fleet of ships the delay it takes between actually allowing yourself to control your ship again to warp off before podded. Several times I find myself frozen after a ship kill and by the time i have control back on my computer, i'm back in my med clone with no chance to get out. Either enable an auto warp feature for your pod to engage after a 5 second delay if no actions are received or fix graphics, cuz I always turn down graphics to a minimum during fights but even with that it doesn't help much.

Question from my last read through on the wardec cost system:
Currently is only the defender's size considered for the war dec cost and not the attacker's?

If so may I recommend the formula instead being (attacker pilot count + defender pilot count)/2 being the new way to determine weekly wardec price.

So what you're saying is, being on the CSM you have no real power...why bother being a CSM then? What's the real point of it if they don't listen to you? Aren't you supposed to listen to us, and tell them what we say so we have a voice THROUGH you to the developers? Seems to me the CSM is rather pointless to have if they won't listen to the CSM. It's either that or the CSM isn't doing their part but is now saying this just because it's what we want to hear. Just my two cents on that. Not saying you guys are doing a bad job, but this just sounds like a cop out to me.