Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sorry Arden, I still think you're approaching this from the wrong angle.

High Sec defenders don't fight for two major reasons, in order of importance:

a) They don't want to fight.

b) They only stand to lose.


Not much we can do about a). These people simply don't want to fight others.

As for b), giving them more stuff to lose is only going to make things worse.

And the complicating factor is balance. Giving purchasable/conquerable advantages to high seccers means buffing high sec income. I don't think anyone wants to go down that path. The alternative is to balance it out by reducing the high sec income baseline. Malcanis' Law dictates that then, only the old and rich will hold these advantages because they have the overwhelming power to defend them.

If anything is to be done about high sec wardecs (and "let it be" still strikes me as the best idea I've heard so far) it needs to be something that provides a gain for the defender rather than merely a mitigation of loss. Better yet, it needs to provide an incentive for others to fight on the defender's behalf. One might, for example, put that war dec fee to use as a bounty on the attackers, to be paid out only to the defender and his official allies.