Player Features and Ideas Discussion

That's a very compelling argument. I've personally never seen it only heard of it.
Anecdotal evidence everywhere

I made a long post about dynamic resource allocation and setting a mineral ceiling for the game a fair while ago now. By starving highsec of it's "safe" mineral minjng by necessity a new profession is found. Whether that becomes fighting/missions/ganking/exploring or what isn't nearly as important as the introduction of a more valanced and believable mineral source. Taking hints from the real world is the best way to balance a game that so closely mimics reality

ps life is what you make it. I haven't done the blob fight yet and hope I never *have* to. I much prefer guerilla fighting in the enemy's turf

It was your first experience? And it made you become a space emo? I'd recommend moving to some new space breathing some freah air

But both of those are legitimate game mechanics, not griefing in any way.

And why awox a newbie when you can snag the guy in the expensive ship and make some ISK out of it? Are you sure you weren't just collateral damage?

Wardeccing as it currently exists allows veteran players (read wealthy) to completely bypass Concord for a pittance when attacking small corps. This is legitimate?

Awoxing in high sec (the only place it is currently out of whack) does not illicit any response from Concord, thereby allowing veteran players to kill new players with impunity (and said new players likely will not know such mechanics exist). This is legitimate?

Yeah sorry, I'm not seeing anything legitimate about those game mechanics as currently designed.

Separate servers? No. I already explained how wardeccing could be fixed to avoid the griefing of new players earlier in this thread, and awoxing in high sec should be changed to cause the standard response from Concord for attacking another player. It's really simple honestly.

I'd first like to see your definition of what highsec lifestyle means.

When I think of highsec - outside of wardec alliances I never saw a need to even communicate with others. Infact other people were just an irritation and got in my way.

I really fail to see how your highsec corp is getting wardecs so often. I mean we are talking about a place where there is very little incentive to even work together I the first place. in my minds eye I could see a highsec corp forming but whst would they even actually do as a group? Isn't that the whole point of this topic?

Should level 5s be returned to highsec? They're the only real fleet pve activities to do outside of incursions.

You are right Evil Incar8, its amazing how forum discussions can drift and in this case settle on Hisec wardecs and their effect. Obviously many feel that is relevant to the corp formation prospects. And I for one do not dispute its relevance. But there is a lot more to the issue of of how to realise the potential of corps in making the game more social.

One is playable content. Many MMO's rely on 'instances' or 'raids' which can be successfully cleared only with a well balanced team. Could some higher level missions be redesigned with that in mind, or maybe even a separate stream of missions at all levels targeted at groups rather than individuals?

Another issue has to do with asset management. How many of the corporations in Eve consist of only of alts of just one RL player? Why do they exist? Have you ever tried to efficiently share resources between your alts without them being directors of your own corp with a hangar at a station? And once you do go down that path you lost your ability to join a real corporation.

Finally there is that issue of trust which has been mentioned by several respondents. Eve does not encourage trust in strangers and before you join a corp they are strangers to you and you a stranger to them. Actually I would see that as a compelling reason to join a corp as soon as you can find one you like. But what is needed is a more graduated process of joining a new corp, a way to get to know each other with limited risks to either side as what maybe called a novice or apprentice, someone with limited access to the corps and also limited exposure to any wars that corp might be in.

In summary: The corporation structures and the interface is probably the weakest part of what is otherwise a great game. Get to it CCP! You can do better :)

You made your point one whole page ago now you're just rambling. I was in whores in space which was for a time the #1 wardec alliance in the game with more isk killed than all other wardec alliances combined. Please don't breathe down my neck about something you clearly have no experience with. As a policy wardecs against small corporations had to be privately funded by the interested parties ot by contract to people hiring us. The majority of our wardecs by the end were against major null alliances and pirate corps. It was actually pointed out on reddit that entering highsec especially the Jita and amarr areas during a wardec from us was a very stupid idea. There really is a lot more to the story than your shallow interpretation and noone really cares about deccing actual newbs because you can't make money from it.

As far as the rest of this thread I've said my piece and now bow out.