Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Maybe. But then they'd have to address some of the reasons players choose to stay in them.

The War Dec mechanic is my biggest problem. I used to be in EVE University which I loved (they are a great community), but they are constantly under War Dec now, and it gets tiresome having to look over your shoulder every instance you're undocked. It's bad enough keeping an eye out for being ganked.

The E-Uni enjoys having the occasional War Dec. It's good training. But to rarely if ever have a let up from it, kinda sucks. Yet they have (somewhat) deep pockets (which would be much deeper if they raised the taxes above 0.1% ), so they ought to be able to buy some protection from War Decs for a period of time. If that were the case I'd still be there. It was more enjoyable when you had War Dec time and the rules which go along with that, and peaceful times and the less restrictive rules for that. Now that it's constant War Decs they had to eliminate those more restrictive rules (which are good training for being War Decced) because otherwise corp members would be continually under them.

If you actually want to discourage long term NPC corp membership you'd be better off adding incentives for players to be and remain in corporations.

If you want to add penalties to NPC corps it's not reasonable to be that heavy handed. Making the tax slightly larger and increasing its applicability would be a more palatable approach, time limiting membership of starter corps and having penalties not apply to those corps is also something you might want to consider.

Eve is a sandbox...if I choose to stay in a NPC corp its none of your business.

Your whole idea of being able to counter-bribe Concord is simply bad. I'm willing to bet I make more isk with two of my alts than a lot of highsec mining corps do, so tell me what would keep me from outbidding them for Concord to ignore me shooting them. Your idea is nothing more than he who has the biggest wallet wins.

I can tell you've never been in CAS.

Kicking you from corp in your vacation so when you come back you can't fly t3's anymore. Would be priceless.

There is a carrot . . . it is called the tax rate.

There is a stick to convince folks not to leave npc corps, it is called wardecs.

Forcing players to play in the road so you can run them over is not an idea I support. I was about to add that forcing players to leave their own play styles behind is also bad but I realized that I have done that (I support the end of intercorp aggression mechanics aka awoxing)



I want to encourage the social actions of the players, encourage the growth of communication and groupings. But not this way.

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Trust is #1 biggest factor in EVE.

Both AWOX and NPC corp are causing big crying scenes over who is right.

1 is fixing the issue, not preventing AWOX whilst making it harder for the AWOX.

Second isn't really changing anything, cause NPC corp are not really doing anything to the game like CODE wanking permit protection.

Aside from that, as someone said you haven't been to CAS which goes back to trust. If you participated in a CAS Combat Day (CCD) which is basically a roaming fleet they hold every couple months they actually just wander out in null and blow crap up (they just had one a few days ago). Which is about trust, cause most people bring the bare minimum and not a gank target while some others supply the ships to newbie pilots.

tl;dr ; most people don't trust, AWOX like to exploit that, currently whine is AWOXers whining it will be harder to exploit trust over sudden invites but you can still fire with CONCORD showing up if that change goes live, NPC corps don't really care about trust as they bring what they want to lose to a fight, and for an NPC individual its just a loose collection of individuals with a chat channel < --- > like an alliance in null with an intel channel.

On the flip side, nothing stops you from pulling the trigger on an individual in an NPC corp, while in highsec, so you can destroy their ship, cause Wardecs are not required, you just need bigger balls. You don't really need more corps, they don't provide or offer what an NPC corp individual has aside from 11% tax and this imaginary fear that causes a lot of people not in an NPC corp that CONCORD is too powerful thus a higher tax is needed to get them out to attack them with wardec fee, which isn't needed BTW . Maybe if more individuals tried to be social instead of playing Counter Strike, you wouldn't have a problem you helped create in the first place

I'm not a fan of reducing player choice. This would also have negative repercussions on players, who for whatever reason, be it alliance sabotage, getting kicked from corp due to inactivity, would be unable to fly their ships. This would also simply increase the number of one man corps, as well as potentially trap some players in sov null.

Also, not all t2/faction ships remain the same. A stealth bomber is a far cry from a hulk or tengu.

It is up to us as the player base to ensure new players get a positive outlook on corporation life.

*cough*
Why yes, of course I agree. Plus the extra tax, EHP reduction and we should also include the Pink Thorax with the purple veins.
I'd like to fit the 'He looked at me funny' module on that Thorax, if that's OK?