EVE General Discussion

So what you're saying is that there will also be a valid economic reason for mercenaries to exist.

What if the tower got locked down when the war dec starts because the tower is specifically named as the target. Industrialist if he hires people to defend him for a specific amount of time gets x amount of time that that tower cant be targeted again.

My corp was at war for a whole week in its existence prior to joining pblrd, which occurred whilst I was unsubbed to shoot the labs off the tower that ran out of fuel whilst I was unsubbed.

It has averaged 9 wars simultaneously since, and the only time I've ever risked being interdicted was being decced as a large entity. ie you have the actual behavior of wardecs all backwards. The only way a small corp gets decced is if it has someone that draws ingame attention to themselves (shiny ship, terrible attitude on local etc).



Who cares what they rep with, a dickstar doesn't need to shoot them.



You are supposed to fight for stuff, and if you must have a 3 man corp in an MMO, you have to accept that its going to be bad at holding public assets, no matter what method is given to allow aggression to occur. I really can't see where your point is attempting to run to.

There are more moons in highsec than there are anchored towers in the game.

Then the industrialist will choose not to have the tower in the first place. Either way, mercs and hisce war decs wont change much in either their impact or raison d'etre.

Sure, the small scale hisec industrialist should fight for what he has. Standard eve adage blah blah blah. But in the end he'll simply choose to put what he has where other people won't be able to to touch it. That's reality.

Thus, mercs and war decs won't change one iota (my original point).

I generally find Dinsdale to be a chicken little, but in this case he may be on to something. If a POS is going to improve the performance of labs and assembly arrays something huge is going to have to offset the cost of actually running a POS. Either NPC station lines are going to be hugely expensive or fuel block requirements are going to dramatically fall. Either way someone is going to have to take a huge hit to make this thing balance out.

Then it's about time we make corp flipping a bannable exploit, if you ask me.

A lot longer than a decade but off-shoring is more about tax and regulation avoidance for multi-national companies than labor savings.

I have a US based textile company where I can subcontract cut and sew operations for less than 10% difference of what it would cost in SE Asia - while improving time to manufacture and quality control. The problem is sourcing fabrics in the US. China is full of brand new 9001 factories while US manufacturers haven't made capital improvements of US facilities in decades.

Here are a couple of articles:
Forbes: How does Apple avoid taxes ,
Huffington:18 large tax avoiders

I agree with you. My area of contention was Malcanis's point that this would add purpose to wardec for the defender and the attacker. It won't. Likewise, I disagreed with his assertion that industrialists might higher mercs as a result. I laid out my thoughts on why they wouldn't.

Overall, this change may or may not be good, we'll see.

It does add purpose, though. It incentivizes the use of more POS setups in highsec, and provides for it. Those are assets, they are at risk during war, and provide potential targets when otherwise they would just be docked up.

Now, whether the mechanics actually make it purposeful or not is a different discussion. As you have pointed out, there are a few obvious ways to mitigate the entire thing, and as I pointed out, that is because wardecs are brokenly easy to avoid.

Which is pretty much the entire sub-discussion.

I still don't get this mindset.

In a game where you chose the means to get to your goals why is evasion of people trying to actively hinder you frowned upon?