EVE New Citizens Q&A

I searched some interesting earlier posts on the subject of seemingly continuous war decs but couldn't see the answer. Other than being awarded a white feather, are there any implications of joining another corp (at peace) in the middle of an ongoing war?

MM

The question is phrased a bit odd. I had to re-read it a couple times. To answer your question, no. There are no implications for leaving a corporation that is at war to move into another corporation at peace. This is part of the reason why ganking exists in high security space.

You can hop over from a corporation at war to another corp that is not. There is nothing more to it. No timers, no cooldowns... nothing.

Personally though... you should stay and fight. You might learn a few tricks if you are nice to your assailants. You may be able to use said tricks to then frustrate their efforts and "win" by making the war not worth their while.

Thanks to you all for the very quick replies, both amusing and factual. I now have the answer.

In my limited experience war decs don't involve much fighting but rather station sitting or haunting low sec to avoid the enemy. There is a valid point of view which says avoid trouble and you avoid the war being extended. Even without casualties, war is expensive as it slows down training (empty head in low sec), reduces trading and manufacturing, stops my PI plans, no missions or mining.

Without an alt, it would be a bit dull.

MM

Learn how to save your pod, there is no reason to have an empty head in low sec.

You should engage, but only in ships you can comfortably afford to lose, and ideally in situations where you have unexpected reinforcements.

Let's say my alliance wardecs you, and we send a force of three people into your home system to pick off anyone we can catch. A bad corporation will either dock up for a week or will fight back in a 'last stand' approach.

A better corporation will present a tempting target alone in a (very heavily tanked) battleship somewhere, with only one other war target in local. We engage, your battleship warp disrupts multiple targets, and your eight rookie pilots in tech 1 frigates, destroyers and cruisers that have been hiding in a neighbouring system (or better yet, hiding in a wormhole) jump into system and dogpile us.

You might earn a few expensive kills, and you'll definitely earn our respect.

If someone doesn't want to PVP they should play on the test server. There, their actions impact noone, and noone's actions can impact them.

If they play on the real servers, they have to accept that their actions have gamewide consequences, and some people may not like those consequences and might try to stop them. Whether they like it or not, whether they know it or not, that mission runner looting a 'Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I' and selling it is helping Goonswarm in nullsec wars. Goons might be happy with that - N3 might want to teach them a lesson.

Run anomalies in quiet low sec. Mision problem solved.
PI is also better in low sec.
There are enough -5s around so trade in some low sec areas would be possible.
I don't see a problem here.

It's for some reason wrong to tell people to play the game with an awareness that their actions have widespread consequences?

You'd rather people play the game assuming nothing they do affects anyone else? Because that's plainly and objectively false and will typically result in negative outcomes for people.

Sorry, but I do agree with Sabriz.

It is better to stand and fight then to run and hide. Not only will you learn from it, you will make great friends in that corp by fighting together through a tough situation and you will earn the respect of others (including your enemy).

And if you do not want any PvP. Don't play EVE / stay in a NPC corp. The moment you step into the world of Player corps, you know that PvP chance will sky rocket