Warfare & Tactics

@OP : I'm a peaceful player who doesn't like to agress oher players.
That said, i accept and enjoy EVE as it is, and even if my main activity is to pve, i have learned to at least survive in hostile environment as well. It's fully part of the game, as much as raising your skills or wallet. There are plenty of solutions (a lot of good advices already posted), but you don't seem to wish to make the effort to learn them. Then stay in your station and cry.

Did you continue the war or let it expire? Unfortunately for many Industrial corps the reason they don't fight back is to deny the aggressor "content" so to speak. You don't want to have too much fun for everyone or it may never end.

I feel this game is neither PVP or PVE based but both. Many (factoring out miners and folks who want to get into industry full time) begin by learning PVE prior to wetting their whistle in PVP while other heartier folk jump right into PVP with no intent on carebearing. Carebears need combatants and combatants need carebears, it's a symbiotic relationship with the market place being the element that defines both sectors as parts of the whole. So in short, play this game any way you please just be aware of the other parts of the machine and how to best deal with them.

High sec repeat war deccs and the alliances that do them are actually good for the game when you really think about it.

New Eden is a harsh climate to call home, ganks, awox's, thieves, and wars abound, and thats just high security space. with the rise of these alliances you get something you really never had before. Incentive to leave high sec, even if only for 7 days to avoid these mercs. Sure you can sit in station and cry all day about it, but thats just weeding out the weak from the strong or the common from the crafty. You need to be more than average to really thrive in Eve. You cant just sit in station the second danger appears and then cry at it to go away, and theres a difference between that and tactically docking when a massive fleet tries to jump you.

90% or maybe a bit less percent wise, of merc corps will NOT cross the .4 line because they lose the ability to use meta-gaming in their fights. In low or null there is no neutral untouchable logi or ewar, no out of corp bump ship you cant touch because anyone can be shot freely with minimal consequences. And you can bring friends in without the CONCORD intervention or assistance declarations.

They also destroy ships and stop market stagnation, especially in the barge and hauler markets where the supply is high and the demand COULD remain low if they didn't die ( afterall most people dont buy more than 2 of the same type of hauler / barge if they use it regularly, they need to die to force them to buy another ). Gankers provide this same service and teach the valuable lesson of protecting your assets from others, something you need to know how to do in low or null.

On top of that high sec wars teach you ( or are supposed to ) to watch Local, Scout, Stay aligned, and use the watchlist. All valuable skills in the long run.

Ending the wall of text here i say this

The rise of the Mercenary Corps was one of the greatest changes to high sec CCP has made in a while, it helped give people reason to go to lowsec and beyond or even just try it there rather than sit in the chicken coup of high sec hoping a wolf doesn't steal one away in the night. And when you do finally leave that pen:

Welcome to The Real Eve

Cool another rl combat veteran...

Since you are a vet and I am a vet then you should know that numbers do count so on the 1 and 2 man corps drop the mining lasers and go shoot that one guy. So two or 3 of you get your war deccer camped and the rest of you go mining. I learned that tactic in boot camp.

ALL WRONG!! ALL SO WRONG.
THe Only thing that works is fightign back. Is the only solution that will have a gain on the long term. The only solution that might give you more fun, teach you to enjoy the game and make you become less of a sitting duck on the future.


ANyone that does as this guy I quoted says, is doomed to be a failure in this game and to be stepped over forever.

Couple of easy steps for fighting low numbers of High Skilled toons.

1. Spend a day training ECM skills.
2. Undock everyone in cheap and cheerful ECM and drone frigates.
3. Learn to keep your distance out of scram range.
4. Jam and Tracking Disrupt while drones peck to death.

You may get a kill, you may get killed, but it will be a laugh either way and won't cost much. All you need is a few corpmates.

Have fun.

True but extremely frustrating for the Uber War Deccers and good fun for the indie/decced corp. It's all about the fun, otherwise why log in.

An option that hasn't been named...

There is an under-appreciated and somewhat controversial (but also sort of wonderful) alternative for small corps/corps that don't mind a quick disbanding:

Dissolve your corporation. Reform it seconds later with the same name (etc.). It costs 50m ISK to declare war. It costs 1.6m ISK to form a corporation (+ whatever for renting an HQ, posting a recruiting ad , etc). If you don't mind the 20 minute hassle of re-establishing your corporation, it's a lovely and troll-y response to try-hards attempting to inflate their killboards.

The ISK piece of it is sort of icing anyway, right? The guys dec'ing highsec mining corps don't care really about the cost of the dec. They also don't care really about making carebears better players. Carebears who don't want to fight and aren't skilled to fight, thus, have this little disappearing-reappearing trick as an option...for now.

EVE is a sandbox, which means you are subject to non-consensual player interactions every time you undock. You wanting to play your game does not override them wanting to play the game their way. They take steps to play the game the way they want to - you can do the same.