Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Combine NPC corps with faction warfare. NPC corps should just be the militia and vice versa.

Nah, NPC corps are a necessity for new players and casual players. There are a lot of players who abuse NPC corps for risk free logistics and such. I'd support more taxes and more things taxable (like market orders, refining, LP) on characters that choose to stay in NPC corps for a long time. I know people will just make one man corps but it's the best we can do unless you remake a lot of core game mechanics.

tl;dr You're welcome to fight station guns. 'Safe' NPC corps give casuals a place to play. Your boredom is not their fault. They do give things up for it.

Assuming you leave the noob corps out of it, and only implement such a change for the NPC corp that folks get dumped in after they leave a player corp (because everyone 'has' to be in a corp).

So you wardec, say, Sebiestor Tribe, the one I was in. You now have hundreds or thousands of targets. All of these 'safe' people you couldn't freely shoot before. Have you forgotten that those NPC corps are part of the infrastructure of the empires? Do you think the NPC's would just let you sit on the undock and blow away their tribesmen because you paid a few million for a war-dec? No. As soon as you declared war on them, every Sebiestor run station would be given orders to fire upon you if you came within range. So, I mean sure, make that change. Those 'safe' people would still have station guns working for them. They'd be a little less safe out in the systems at large, but they'd still have safe spots to go to. All those industrialists you're worried are ruining the economy sitting in their CQ's would still be able to do business. All this gains you is the ability to hunt down missioners who aren't PvP fit, which I'm sure gives you a 'he should have been fit better even though PvE and PvP fits are completely at odds, so really it's his fault' boner.

And this is all leaving aside the fact that not everyone who plays the game has the time or inclination to fly in a world where they are always under threat of war-dec (which they would be) or suicide gank (which they are), and can't play the game in any kind of leisure time manner because you want more targets. If your corp is that boring, go fight someone who wants to fight. Someone who chose the PvP life and lives in an area that encourages it. Change the status quo in your area. Go play the game you have full right and access to play, and let everyone else do the same.

Lastly, concerning 'they give up nothing to be in an NPC corp': bull. They give up a huge chunk of the game. Sov, serious POS's, all of the empire building mechanics and capital ship construction. That's a lot of content they'll never see. But where else can a casual go that requires no more of his time than he is willing to spend? Maybe he lucks out and finds a 'whatever man' lo or null corp (I don't know any). The only way those organizations get to the things I just mentioned is by concerted effort. Going to war requires him to be there for battles. Et cetera. All things he may not have time for, or be able to get his schedule to coincide with. So NPC corps is the way to go. If he strikes out on his own and just makes a personal corp, he'll never get the resources together to field a station, defend it when he's away, refuel it, etc. The systems are built so that he needs back up.

And that's all fine, that it's built that way. But that means it doesn't work for everyone. And catering a part of the game to casual players expands your base, and guarantees that if the time ever comes that they want to try those other aspects, they've already got the groundwork for it, and the cash to try it. They may like it, they may not, but they have the option. Like the option to be in an un-deccable corp.

Since we are on absurd demands: why not get rid of high sec all together?
That way new players can get their face shot in from day one and enjoy people in massive ships harassing them.

How exactly are they punished?

I think it wouldn't be bad if the starter corp was immune to wars but characters in that corp were kicked out after 30 days into a different npc corp that can be involved in wars.

I smell yet another high sec wardec'er without the bawls to go to low or null. Why is it these types are the loudest whiners on GD?

By moving much of the high-yield targets outside the purvue of a wardec, it's the newbies who don't know how to evade wardecs that eat the brunt of highsec PVP. By making all players equally wardecable, the pressure on ganking newbies is decreased, while the pressure on ganking cargo-laden freighters and pimpfit ratters once under NPC corp protection is increased.

The problem is a lot of those high sec players avoiding wars are null sec players.

You mean that these players don't actually enjoy PvP constantly????

Surely you are joking.