Warfare & Tactics

It is also strange that he does not even mention an actual problem with the war dec mechanics - i.e. the complete lack of downside to corp hopping and reforming to evade wars with virtually no cost or downsides at all.

Any mechanic will be abused by alts. War decs are necessary to take down high sec POS. Otherwise, the "entrenched" players will forever have yet another advantage over younger characters (like the original T2 BPOs).

Really, a flat fee is fair to all, and it should be on a corporation by corporation basis since corporations are the foundation entity in Eve.

Alliances should be player constructs used to make cooperation between corporations easier. CONCORD should not care about whether or not a corporation is in an alliance.

No.

By that statement, you're making all of Eve how you wanna play. I'm OK with letting the carebears carebear, the gankers gank, and the 0.0 dwellers do their uber large fleets. I'm just gonna keep playing how I wanna play and only force that on people who come at me (bro).

Yeah. I never said to make hi sec/null safer. Eve isn't about constant PvP.

You say nerf a lot without mentioning the buff's.

HS wars in general are a mechanic beyond repair, it can never be totally fixed without breaking apart the whole game and starting again.

The issue, I think, comes from some of the fundamental aspects of EVE's game mechanics. Outside of starbases systems, there's literally nothing solid in hi-sec that you can actually lose, and disregarding customs offices, the same applies to low-sec. You can certainly lose profit opportunities if you're denied the ability to mine or mission in these places, but if you're unlikely to soundly beat those fighting you with little monetary loss, there's certainly no compelling reason not to just wait out your aggressor. A hi-sec starbase can be death-starred up to the point where the sheer number of ships and scale of co-ordinated effort it would take to get rid of it is beyond the capacity of many smaller corporations.

The problem is, with the current way in which EVE Online works, making there be a downside to staying docked up and ignoring a wardec beyond "not undocking" does push the game in a direction I would genuinely consider "pay to grief" - "hey, small industrial corporation which cannot possibly have enough PvP-competent members to defend itself from us! Either you undock straight into our guns or CONCORD fines you!" Not a comforting thought, frankly. Likewise, having a downside to declaring a wardec would allow the defender to grief in the opposite way - by staying docked and not offering a reasonable method by which the aggressor can achieve their objectives.

The entire wardec system is kind of broken and there isn't really an easy way to fix it without seriously rethinking some fundamental aspects of EVE's gameplay.