Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The aim of these proposals is to make wars worth fighting for the defender, and increase the amount and availability of content in High-Sec.

1. Have player corps acquire skill points over time at a very slow rate in a narrow focus. Examples would be increase to mining yeild or increase in ME/TE. I think anything combat related would introduce balance issues though it would be awesome.
2. Corp SP stops increasing when at war, but is added proportional to ISK/Ships killed with diminishing returns to a maximum level of 2*peacetime rate.
3. Let players in NPC Corps join wars as individual mercenaries using a variant of the faction war militia system, with merc kills counting for half the value of a corp member for SP gain. In the corp window transfer ISK into a “merc division” and set the payout scale as a % of ISK Killed and make this visible to mercs so they know they will get paid/is worth their time.

Thoughts?

The biggest reason that most Highsec wardecs are not "defended" is because often it is a PvP Corp wardecing an Industrial Corp, and frankly the industrial corp being completely out of their comfort zone as to what is happening what to do, so they just turtle up(dock up/pull down structures that could be destroyed and wait it out), industrialists normally have a higher patience than the PvPers :)

Frankly there is no good reason to undock and fight because nothing is really at risk.

1. Remove station services that provide benefits for industry, refinement of minerals can stay.
2. POS holds all requirements for building items, deccer can start the battle but the defender sets the rules such as time it starts (cause we all know the attacker would set it for their time zone anyway but the defender doesn't really have anything else to do but stay in their system). POS also cannot be taken down once the attacker initiates, but the defender allows the war to start.
3. CCP creates tier 3 battle ships (Hyperion or Rohk for example, since it doesn't have a T2 version) which fit a couple of non-bonused XL capital guns (also has role bonus of Titans, can't really hit smaller targets) with no siege cycle (only bonus is tracking, as simply moving kills its ability to hit a target). Second suggestion is cruiser bombers with no cloak that fire citadel torpedo (hit and run tactics, also viable against lowsec caps now using gates when they are caught). Won't see these used in ganks in highsec, would cost way to much, but viable for ganks in lowsec against a convoy.
4. ???
5 Fixed. No more pointless deccing one man corps, they either dissolve or create a defensive fleet to defended the corp. Also, CCP does something about dickstars and stacking resist rules or make AFK EM damage next to useless. Hey, if everyone wants ISOboxer fleets gone, then the enemy needs to actually sit on their butt and stare at the screen for hours of wrist slitting boredom in sub caps reloading non energy turrets or train for bigger ships (the suggested ships fitting capital weapons on battleship or cruiser hulls) while the defender has limited chances to constantly jam or damp them (think of a short timer between each successful hit, like jump fatigue before the next jam or damp works again)

You can't make people fight, but you can make it in their interests to fight. For example, corp-owned deployables (like POCOs) that provide a significant bonus to mining, industry or missioning, that are expensive to build, but have to be defended if the corp wants to maintain the bonus. This would make it in the financial interest of a corporation who built them to defend them or lose their investment and the bonus it gives.

As to these suggestions:

1) is fine as it gives some "value" to a corporation although perhaps it would be better tied to the combined efforts of a corp rather than just a passive accumulation of points. It would also have to be tied to some penalty/limit for "corp-hopping" to prevent players from just dodging the dec, to an alt corp or the like.

2) can be gamed and isn't a good idea. As I said making players want to defend their valuable in-space assets is a better motivation than free corp skill points.

3) isn't really fair. If players want to support wardecced corps they should just form their own merc corp and use the existing mechanism.