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Dodging Wardecs

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Valkin Mordirc
#641 - 2014-09-13 11:33:21 UTC
Mara Rinn wrote:


Well if you're not risk-averse, stop complaining about the risk of wardecs not leading to successful extortion. Pick your targets carefully, and don't be surprised when a single-person corp simply closes up shop.

In the meantime, make sure you're familiar with the term "harassment". Your desire to lock people in one-person corps and take away their freedom of choice is and indicator that what you are doing is crossing the line from "villainy" into "bullying". You even said that much yourself.

Perhaps you need to find something else to do?




Oh jezz, I was wondering when I would catch this, I haven't been paying to much attention to the thread as both of the ones on GD have exploded making impossible to keep up, for me at least, but.


Since when did EVE-Online become Carebear-Hugz-Forever-And-Dancing-Around-Singing-Kumbaya-Online?


In EVE it is encourage to be a villain, which is open to interpretation of course.

But if you think; "Hey Imma Wardec and you blow up your internet space ship for giggles' And 'Hey you joined a player corp, welcome to the real part of Highsec, Here's a Wardec and a Free Insta-lock Legion free of charge'

Is harassment.

Compared to, "Hey, Imma Dox you, find where you live, post it online, call your phone, leave messages at your door of your family, drop your phone number on 4chan, call your place of work, and make your life a living hell.


You are over sensitive, and need more mental help then the people you are calling the bullies.



Also what's with everyone saying, "Pick your targets more carefully?" It's popping up in this thread and I haven't heard that particular, daft, and idiotic reason as of yet.

It's like saying,

"HEY PICK YOUR PIZZA CAREFULLY, IT MIGHT SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR ON YOU!"

I paid for my goddamned pizza and I want it the way I ordered it. If I happen to pick a pizza that is too spicy or has a topping I dislike then it is my fault. However my Pizza shouldn't be taken away from concerning to the pizza own will.
#DeleteTheWeak
Seneca Auran
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#642 - 2014-09-13 11:43:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Seneca Auran
Valkin Mordirc wrote:


It's like saying,

"HEY PICK YOUR PIZZA CAREFULLY, IT MIGHT SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR ON YOU!"

I paid for my goddamned pizza and I want it the way I ordered it. If I happen to pick a pizza that is too spicy or has a topping I dislike then it is my fault. However my Pizza shouldn't be taken away from concerning to the pizza own will.


Incorrect. It's more like you pay the police to look the other way while you beat up and rob the pizza delivery guy, and then complain that it's unfair that he's allowed to just quit his job instead of showing up at your door.

When you should be paying the police to look the other way while you rob and burn down the pizza joint, because the owner actually has a vested interest in stopping you.
Mackenzie Nolen
Doomheim
#643 - 2014-09-13 11:46:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Mackenzie Nolen
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Are you aware that there still exists at least one way to avoid CONCORD? They haven't declared it an exploit, I imagine because I have not shared the trick with anyone else, nor repeated it after discovering it accidentally.


Not sure how this misinformation managed to make it uncontested for 10+ pages.

CCP have blanket declared ANY method of evading CONCORD as a bannable exploit. The specific mechanics don't matter. EDIT: For the lazy, here is one of those very clear red posts on the matter, though there have been other statements made to the same effect.

In contrast, regarding your demand for proof that dec-dodging is not an exploit, CCP have NOT declared dec-dodging an exploit nor banned anyone for doing it in the several years it's been a viable and trivial mechanic for avoiding wars when you have no in-space assets to protect.

At this point, the burden of proof is on you.

Further, if you *really* think it's an exploit, a forum post is the incorrect way to bring attention to it. There are specific channels and guidelines for reporting suspected exploits to CCP that I advise you to use. I suggest this solely for your benefit so as to avoid a lock or more severe GM reprisal for improperly and publicly describing a potential exploit. The fact that these channels are out of sight and off the forum and would thus spare us having to listen to your prattle are, I assure you, merely incidental and in no way motivate my suggestion that you follow the correct and official guidelines for reporting exploits.

EDIT: Though since proof is so important to you, here is the proof for my counterclaim that you are, at best, very badly misinformed and therefore not fit to be discussing these mechanics or, at worst, merely here to troll GD (see #3, #4, #6, and #7 specifically).
Valkin Mordirc
#644 - 2014-09-13 11:46:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Valkin Mordirc
Seneca Auran wrote:
Valkin Mordirc wrote:


It's like saying,

"HEY PICK YOUR PIZZA CAREFULLY, IT MIGHT SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR ON YOU!"

I paid for my goddamned pizza and I want it the way I ordered it. If I happen to pick a pizza that is too spicy or has a topping I dislike then it is my fault. However my Pizza shouldn't be taken away from concerning to the pizza own will.


Incorrect. It's more like you pay the police to look the other way while you beat up and rob the pizza guy, and then complain that it's unfair that he isn't forced to show up at your door when he knows what you want.



CONCORD is not the Police.


Why do people think that CONCORD is there to protect? It's not there for that. It's there to punish. That's it.


Concord doesn't give a damn if you lost a ship, only that the ship that blew it up is dead. Weather or not you survived or not. If Concord was there to Protect, then we'd have CONCORD NAVY EMT SUPER LOGI TRIAGE Cruiser. and such


EDIT: Also isn't sort of a 'thing' for the villains to pay off the police or governing bodies for a blind eye?
#DeleteTheWeak
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#645 - 2014-09-13 12:08:25 UTC
Mackenzie Nolen wrote:

CCP have blanket declared ANY method of evading CONCORD as a bannable exploit.


So? The rules are very clearly subject to change based on which GM you get. They declared any external way of bumping people out of POS shields an exploit too, and N3 still does it publicly and unapologetically.

And they are not punished.

If the rules do not apply equally, they don't really apply at all.

Quote:

In contrast, regarding your demand for proof that dec-dodging is not an exploit, CCP have NOT declared dec-dodging an exploit nor banned anyone for doing it in the several years it's been a viable and trivial mechanic for avoiding wars when you have no in-space assets to protect.


Nor did they declare killboard padding using the bounty MTU trick an exploit either. Until they did.


Quote:

Further, if you *really* think it's an exploit, a forum post is the incorrect way to bring attention to it. There are specific channels and guidelines for reporting suspected exploits to CCP that I advise you to use. I suggest this solely for your benefit so as to avoid a lock or more severe GM reprisal for improperly and publicly describing a potential exploit.


I did none of those things. I said that one exists, that's all.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.

Mackenzie Nolen
Doomheim
#646 - 2014-09-13 12:25:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Mackenzie Nolen
malcovas Henderson wrote:
Hang on. Did you just say..........

You are willing to tell people to run and hide....... Then go on to tell someone else to HTFU?

Double standards at it's absolute finest.


The game mechanics stand "as-is", right now. They might change in the future, but that is the future. HTFU means that, in order to accomplish the goal you wish to accomplish, you should go into the game, the sandbox, the mechanics as they are today, and find a way to accomplish that goal. If you have come to the forums to whine about how you cannot accomplish your goal within the sandbox as it lives and breathes today, then you have failed to HTFU. That's all there is to it. If you think HTFU means something else, you are simply wrong.

HTFU means "stop expecting other people to play the way you WANT them to play and instead adapt to the situation you have with the tools at hand to get what you want".

There is no other definition. Certain folks in this thread would LIKE HTFU to be a gun-centric "stand and fight" e-bushido spaceship honor thing, but it does not and never has held that meaning.

If you have an IDEA for how the sandbox ITSELF might be improved for the future, then go to the F&I forum where that discussion can be had. Otherwise, HTFU is a perfectly legitimate and appropriate retort to many of the tears herein.
Mackenzie Nolen
Doomheim
#647 - 2014-09-13 13:02:14 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
I did none of those things. I said that one exists, that's all.


You've spelled out the details clearly for this corp cycling, dec dodging mechanic you claim is an exploit. So are you saying that you *do* think this is an exploit and you are wilfully violating CCP's rules on how to properly report exploits to CCP? Or are you saying you don't actually think it's an exploit and you've been violating CCP's forum rules on flamebait and troll posting for the last dozen pages? Or are you merely claiming that you like to toss out scary words like "exploit" in grandiose and inaccurate fashion in order to trump up the rhetoric surrounding your otherwise flimsy arguments?

Just, you know... seeking clarification there.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#648 - 2014-09-13 13:14:40 UTC
Mackenzie Nolen wrote:

You've spelled out the details clearly for this corp cycling, dec dodging mechanic you claim is an exploit.


You suck at reading comprehension. My statement was that I did not describe the means to evade CONCORD in any way, and thus am not in violation of the forum rules.

Now, as to dec dodging, I call it an exploit because I would like CCP to classify it as one. I think that it shares every characteristic in common with one, and remains legal only as a result of pro carebear bias.

An alternative is to punish use of it, if it's existence cannot be avoided. There have been more than a few excellent suggestions in this thread thus far.

Quote:

Just, you know... seeking clarification there.


Then I suggest post secondary education.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.

count boom
No Trespassing
#649 - 2014-09-13 14:45:47 UTC
Remiel Pollard wrote:
First, I was going to just troll this, because it has been discussed before and usually turns into a big flamewar anyway. Then, I was going to write a long list of things that could happen, but I just thought of something really simple. It was like an epiphany and for me, as epiphanies go, it was quite enlightening.

Folding a corp, closing it completely, could cost a measure of isk equal to the cost of deccing the corp. Creating a corp should be a commitment, especially if you're taking on a position of leadership. And if it's just a one-man corp, aside from the fact that there's no point wardeccing one dude to begin with, there's really no point to the corp itself either (testifying from a one-man corp myself - whatever, I do what I want).

As for quitting a corp that's been decced, one idea I saw posted once was that the quitting member, instead of escaping the war, gets flagged for the duration. I can agree with this but for the whiners who won't like it, I will suggest a compromise: quitters get a CONCORD notification that their involvement in the war has been declared invalid and will end in 24 hours. They then continue to be flagged for the remaining 24 hours, and if they join a different corp, that corp inherits the war much like a wardecced corp joining an alliance causes the alliance to inherit the war.



And while your flagging everyone, why not extend the time for global criminal flags to 24 hours. Then you wouldn't care about single one man corps.
Commentus Nolen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#650 - 2014-09-13 15:33:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Commentus Nolen
Well to get back on topic:

You could request CCP instate a condition that if you (a member, or an officer) leave a Corp during a Wardec an entry is made in your record that you abandoned a Corp during a Wardec. In addition impose a 10% tax penalty when conducting any transactions with any NCP Corp. The tax penalty to last 1 week the first time and escalating up to one month for repeat transgressions.

As per the new Corp I believe even if the Corp is recreated under a new name it or its officers would still have to do business with NCP Corps if they are a small Corp.

Just my 2isk.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#651 - 2014-09-13 15:51:27 UTC
I have removed a rule breaking post and those quoting it.

The Rules:
10. Posting of private CCP communication is prohibited.

The posting of private communication between the Game Masters, EVE Team members, Moderators, Administrators of the forums and forum users is prohibited. CCP respect the right of our players to privacy and as such you are not permitted to publicize private correspondence (including support ticket responses and emails) received from any member of CCP staff.aforementioned parties.

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Josef Djugashvilis
#652 - 2014-09-13 17:01:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Josef Djugashvilis
I think it is disgraceful that some players use CCP allowed mechanics to avoid padding aggressors' kill-boards.

Jeez, what next, null-sec corp's using NPC alts to move stuff in and out of Jita?

It must stop, stop I say!

This is not a signature.

thatonepersone
Black Jack 0-1
#653 - 2014-09-13 17:32:48 UTC
I think there should be a 50m corp start up cost. That way players can still avoid npc taxs and war decs, but it will cost them just as much as the agressors if they do stuff to **** people off.
Drago Shouna
Doomheim
#654 - 2014-09-13 22:06:59 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Mackenzie Nolen wrote:

You've spelled out the details clearly for this corp cycling, dec dodging mechanic you claim is an exploit.


You suck at reading comprehension. My statement was that I did not describe the means to evade CONCORD in any way, and thus am not in violation of the forum rules.

Now, as to dec dodging, I call it an exploit because I would like CCP to classify it as one. I think that it shares every characteristic in common with one, and remains legal only as a result of pro carebear bias.

An alternative is to punish use of it, if it's existence cannot be avoided. There have been more than a few excellent suggestions in this thread thus far.

Quote:

Just, you know... seeking clarification there.


Then I suggest post secondary education.


You really need to learn to read and digest.

It's not an exploit..just accept and stop trolling.


I did what you couldn't be arsed to do..petitioned them. Got an answer as well
.

Solecist Project...." They refuse to play by the rules and laws of the game and use it as excuse ..." " They don't care about how you play as long as they get to play how they want."

Welcome to EVE.

Drago Shouna
Doomheim
#655 - 2014-09-13 22:14:13 UTC
Post 586 guys..

Solecist Project...." They refuse to play by the rules and laws of the game and use it as excuse ..." " They don't care about how you play as long as they get to play how they want."

Welcome to EVE.

Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#656 - 2014-09-14 07:01:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
I have thought of a different problem with the ease of which players can drop and roll corps.

Suppose you wardec someone. Doesn't matter who, or why, pretend they're perfectly matched to your ability. A 'fair fight', one might say.

Then, someone assists them. In response, you hire mercs to interrupt the assistance.

And the players all drop the assisting corp, create a new one, and throw up a new assist, undeterred.

If you can't see what's wrong with this, I am at a loss.

And no, I'm not crying about this actually happening, this is an entirely possible hypothetical situation, one I thought of just now as I was preparing an assistance of my own and thinking of redundancy plans if mercs interfere. This is, indeed, an option entirely open to me, as a one man corporation that would cost those mercs 50-mil to dec each time. All I have to do is roll a new corp and throw in a new assist.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104

Cancel Align NOW
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#657 - 2014-09-14 07:57:28 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:

If the rules do not apply equally, they don't really apply at all.


I have often found myself aligned in viewpoint with you Kaarous, however I completely disagree here. Rules are applied as CCP see fit - I would strongly recommend that pilots do not attempt to evade Concord's retribution.
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#658 - 2014-09-14 08:06:50 UTC
Mackenzie Nolen wrote:


EDIT: Though since proof is so important to you, here is the proof for my counterclaim that you are, at best, very badly misinformed and therefore not fit to be discussing these mechanics or, at worst, merely here to troll GD (see #3, #4, #6, and #7 specifically).



Sometimes I wonder why this sort of information is totally buried in the forums. The topic title of that thread is very telling, and very troubling..

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.

Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries
VOID Intergalactic Forces
#659 - 2014-09-14 18:17:15 UTC
1 advantage I see the ability to get back at incursion runner that sit on their high horse will be kicked in the face

"Sarcasm is the Recourse of a weak mind." -Dr. Smith

Veers Belvar
Swordmasters of New Eden
#660 - 2014-09-14 18:23:57 UTC
Agondray wrote:
1 advantage I see the ability to get back at incursion runner that sit on their high horse will be kicked in the face


Sure...for the 7 seconds until they drop into an NPC corp or switch to playing on an alt.