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Still don't see the problem with it. War isn't supposed to be fair or balanced, long as it's unfair for them.

Float combat probes or just appear on Dscan

Too bad that the wardec mechanics don't allow aggressors to get allies.
So much for the CSM knowing anything about this feature.

******* hell.

Edit: CCP, the defender might have been too powerful, but now everything is in control of the agressor.
"Oh my, too many allies. I better opt out now."
Bullshit.

Nice green icon for ships cargo on the neocom.

Few tweeks and everyone will be happy

Cargo links to windows need to be active all times so we can use double click or right click to open the drop down menu and open all available cargo holds from there.

Where did the ship maintance and corp hanger right click menus go on the orca. They where there last build

Shift right click-open cargo hold(2) does not open a tree free menu unless you have saved a location for that cargo hold already.

Both ships are green if you open a second cargo hold using the shift right click option in a ships-station services window.

Here's to hoping that CCP sees this post, but I don’t have much hope.

In regards to CCP’s changes to wardec mechanics, the adjusted costs do not scale well, removing any benefit the ally system has. It neuters CCP's stated goal of a merc marketplace. It's just cheaper and easier to use a workaround when attacking corps figure out the loophole.

It stops dog-piles from defenders while letting attackers dog-pile on one defender. Attacker cost does not scale past 500m (not counting other outgoing wardecs ofc), while defender cost scales so badly it's infeasible for small groups.

Example:

10 groups wardec one corp. They will pay, at most, 5 bil total for the wardecs, from the capped cost of 500m per wardec. The defending corp hires 10 alliances to aid it. It costs a total of 9.2b isk for the defenders to join up on just one wardec. To defend against all 10 incoming wardecs requires 92 billion isk. Titans cost that much, and that’s just for one wardec cycle.

Whoopsie.

Now, why does this matter? Because most groups in highsec are small, even the bigger griefer/mercs. But if you throw in a big powerhouse, they can't even afford to hire the numbers they'll need. Not when the aggressing corp can maintain the wardec as long as they want for pennies when the defender needs to rehire them.

So it's really just cheaper to forget the ally mechanic entirely and just have mercs wardec the aggressor (e.g.: merc corp pays, at most, 500m per attacking group since they now don’t worry about that silly scaling nonesense). You know, just like they used to.

With some inginuity, anyone can make it impossible to defend in highsec with the ally mechanics.

Example:

A group can have 10 alt corps that each declare war at the same time on one target. Their ultimate goal is a highsec tower. They have their pvp chars ready to switch to any of the 10 corps. When they see which wardecs are defended against, the pvp chars switch to the ones that don't have allies on it. They can keep their roles off, and instajoin the corp without allies on the wardec, undock, shoot tower.

Now we come to my proposals:

If CCP insists on having some sort of fee, I'd say have cost scale off of the number of people in corp/alliance making the wardec, specifically the number of people at the time the war was declared.

Second, cap the cost for defenders at something more reasonable in case the defender needs to hire more. You’re supposed to be encouraging players to use your mechanics, not penalizing them. I don’t care what the figure is, but it should be comparable to the wardec cost

Third, possibly allow for merging wars together

Forth, allow for diminishing costs when dog-piles or multiple incoming wardecs occurs. Perhaps, for each active wardec the defender has against it, the base cost for hiring allies drops. Perhaps this, too, can scale off of number of people involved. Indeed, I would say this is preferred since it allows multiple smaller groups to defend without being forced to join one group.

You cannot hide in a wormhole and pop out when you need/want to. I've stalked many folks who went hiding in wormholes. And the new locator agent 'nerf' makes this so much easier.

Sit on your agent, and keep screaming names of the people who are online and in the wormhole. Over..and over...and over again. Until he finally relents and says 'HEY! One Here!' Go there...scan your way down into his wormhole. And then invite 9000 of your best friends to make life hell.

You do not know the depths of boredom and brute force folks are willing to use should their grudge be deep enough, or the pay high enough. (Or, they are just batty...)

This was my bug report, but in fact it is feature request, so let's hope it'll be noted...

Thing about the 'cargo' button (left side of HUD),

Assume you have splitted out Secondary window with your cargohold. Requested following behaviour: if user pressing the cargohold button (left side of HUD), said Secondary window should open.

1. Go to space with your ship with some items in cargohold
2. Open inventory, split out the cargohold with shift-click.
3. Collapse the new window, or let it stay
4. Now click the button on left side of HUD. You'll see the Primary window opens.

While in fact there should be opened Secondary cargo window, be it active. out of focus, collapsed or closed (but still memorized)

Please don't try to use the war system to enforce some artifial sense of fair play. It's a war not an e-sporting event. It has nothing to do with fair or equal sides fighting each other in honourable combat. You can use it for that, but it should never be reduced to that. If that is what you want, make 2 corps who fight in an eternal mutual war and follow a set of your own rules to keep things even. You know, something like RvB already does.

Generally speaking if a corp has a superior military wing, it should be able to leverage it to gain an advantage over the target corp. The target already has the option to hire or request help from a few sources very cheaply to even up the odds or even gain the advantage. All this comes at a somewhat balanced cost, although the cost of bringing more allies should also be capped to some reasonable level, and people shouldn't get any special treatment just because of their size.

Relying on size is also bad because the number of combat pilots varies, as does the number of people taking part in the war effort and it would allow war cost manipulation by using a properly sized alt corp to initiate the fight. For example a industry/mission running corp of 50 pilots would propably not appreciate the fact, that a corp of 50 murderous PvP veterans can get a discount when wardeccing them and as a bonus can invite rest of their friends in on the fun after the initial bill has been paid. It's much more preferable to use a simple system with as few loopholes as possible for deciding wardec costs, that doesn't try to funnel the use of wardecs to some specific usage or purpose. It's a sandbox, so the players are the ones who create the reasons and goals, so the system should be as flexible as possible, while being kept balanced by CCP with the overall gameplay in mind.

Reported these as 'bugs' on SiSi;

When launching core probes from a Helios there is no 'Launch' sound as the probe is launched into space.

Also the 'warp to position' sound only seems to sound when the probes are set to 4AU or less in area.

There is also still a small burst of static or compressed ambient sound at the end of the 'Jump' or 'Dock' sound when jumping through a gate or docking.

None of the above are game breaking, just annoying.

And got this reply;
The problem you have described is an intended game feature or function, and not a bug.
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Also from testing on SiSi;
Dragging and dropping a ship from either the 'Ship Hanger' view via the 'Tree' or from the merged 'Ships and Items' view on the 'Station services' panel does not update the 'Active Ship's cargo hold' window. That is very annoying as you have to check which hold on which ship you are actually looking at.
You also need to either, close then re-open the window to change views or double click to open a new view.

I also made the mistake of loading the wrong hold and undocked only to find the goods still in station .

Finally, from rolling a new alt;
Why is there a small green star against all my corpmates but not against my alt in chat windows?
From a new pilots point of view this looks like everyone without a star belongs to your corp and those with a star belong to another corp. I know it's been like it for years but just wondered why