Assembly Hall

Corporations declare war. Individuals declare Vendetta!
I hope to get a discussion on the possibility of ending war evasion by having Concord allow us to declare Vendetta on individuals.
This would allow privateers to legally shoot botters and carebears hiding in npc corps.

Mechanics would be similar to the existing war dec system:

1. Aggressor pays a fee to concord to be able to engage in hostilities within a 24 hour wait period.

2. Only applies to individuals outside a player corporation.

3. A war decced individual who joins a corp transfers the war dec to the corp. (Just as a corp joining an alliance would transfer the dec to the alliance).

4. The war decced individual who joins the corp should still be war decced himself.

5. Corp members leaving a corp during a war will not carry the war dec with them unless they are individually war decced.

EDIT:

A noob-exception clause could be added:

6. A character younger than 1 month cannot be war decced. (Just as you get to close rookie-chat after 1 month)

Everyone else should have no reason to be able to escape conflict. They keep telling me in the ads that this was a cold dark place, and that's why I subscribed.

EDIT:
7. Individuals in a corp cannot wardec others without proper privileges. To wage a personal war without the corp's permission, the individual must leave the corp/form his own corp.

Justifications:

1. War-Dec evasion is an exploit.
2. This allows players to kill players who hide in npc corps.
3. Encourages more team play, and possibly revitalizes low and null-sec industry.
4. Brings back the old industrialist, who takes risks and ventures into dangerous regions for high profits. Discourages and effectively ends "risk-free" gameplay.

Possible consequences:
1. To escape high-sec griefing, players will have to band together, join alliances, move into low and null-sec, where rule of law is player-enforced.
2. Anti-social players who refuse to have anything to do with others will be eliminated.
3. Better organisation of high-sec piracy and counter-piracy.

I'd like the community's thoughts on this, and I hope to refine this into a proper proposal over time. No anti-carebear swearing please.

Do you envisage any kind of limit on how many times or for how long a single individual can be "wardecced" in this way?

It's a promising idea which would help alleviate the issue of players hiding in NPC corps to evade consequences.

However you need to build in something to avoid it being abused or else it will be used for simple harassment of players rather than true vendetta. (also see Malcanis's post above)

I personally do not condone griefing players out of the game. That is all this mechanic would truly be used for. If you want to shoot someone so badly, go find someone who is willing to fight, or unwilling in Null / Low Sec.

Yeah, this wouldn't be abused at all. No siree.

I'm less concerned about NPC wardec immunity than I am about how cheap it is. For instance a player corp may have (say) a tax rate of 5% but for a measly further 6% you get total safety, which puts player corps at quite a disadvantage.

I would say a a NPC Corp tax rate of around 40% - 50% would be more in order to pay for wardec immunity and maintain a reasonable differential between NPC and player corps.

If you were to apply the tax to all transactions, missions and mining yields that would also address some of the imbalances between high, low and null.