EVE General Discussion

That's a good question. Please share. You sound like you aren't getting enough and it has something to do with NPC corps.

I'm in an NPC corp. My pixels explode. Would you care to rephrase what you said?

As for recommending NPC corp membership, I really just recommend that people play the game THEIR way, rather than be someone else's goon. People come up with new and interesting solutions to problems when their minds are left alone to operate free of dogma and bias.
Internet space safety isn't really one of the reasons I recommend staying out of a player corp.

If it upsets you that I generally recommend NPC corp membership, maybe that is because you want to influence others with your dogma and bias and have trouble doing so in a setting like an NPC corp channel, where no one has any obligation to heed or obey your words. That must suck. :-(

Do I take the game seriously? lol, my main and only character is still in the State War Academy after over 3 years. That's a pretty serious statement about my attitude towards the game.
On the other hand, you take the game so seriously, you feel the need to create an alt to post your real opinions about the game, so let me ask again . . . why so serious?

As if there was even anything wrong with taking EVE seriously. Some people play poker during their lunchbreak and call every hand. Some people play poker as their career and win millions of dollars and write books about it and become famous for doing it. Is either of them doing it wrong?

Yeah we get wardecced occasionally because of posts I make on the forum. The most recent a couple of months back over a thread on the use of links.

But it's not the only reason wardecs happen. New industrial corps, pilots auto piloting bling ships that can't be ganked at the time, people moving product to markets, mercs hired on contract, operating in a certain area, etc. there's lots of reasons wardecs happen.

Being prepared for them is not a bad thing.

because some want to be all serious and No you are dead right, neither are doing it wrong.

Wardeccing isn't a combat mechanism, it's a strategy. If you want to explode NPC corp members in highsec then the sandbox already offers you various strategies for that. What you want is access to the easiest strategy of them all.

A bit more precision please, in non-highsec everybody can shoot everybody without noticeable consequences. In a highsec war only the involved corps can initially shoot each other without Concord involvement, which is a huge difference.

Personally I'm all against arranged fights, and wardecs are from that kind. If they wouldn't be needed today to attack corp structures in highsec, I would like to see them scrapped and replaced by a more implicit way of initiation a fight by just shooting. Shoot first, talk later - this is EvE.

Players exist within a universe where the actions of other have consequences to them but no it is not essential that everyone be taking the same risks for the same rewards. It is for the players to decide what will be out of their depth and if you had no shallow end then there would be no good or bad decision.

And that in my opinion is what Eve is all about.

Okay let me put this NPC wardec idea to bed. According to lore, you belong to a racial empire corp. This corp is sponsored by the faction, but is not an element of the faction's military. If you go to war with that corp, you are declaring war on that corp's empire. All ships and corps friendly to that NPC corp will defend itself. Therefore, unless you are willing to go up against a bunch of NPCs supporting those capsuleers, you better leave that corp alone. Last but not least, the war dec is an agreement with concord, so they really wouldn't want the empires to fight or be drawn into war with capsuleers or each other.


TL;DR:
NPC corps are relatively neutral organizations of the four empires. Wardeccing an NPC corp is wardeccing an empire faction.

I understand what you are saying but, wardec immunity /= combat immunity. There is just a consequence for taking that kinda stuff into Empire space. Don't worry, non consensual PVP still exist in the game(even in high sec) without wardecs.

And the defender can call in allies. They can invite anyone and everyone to shoot the aggressor without CONCORD. The attacker has no such capability.





We are talking about EVE, a non-consensual PVP spaceship game. We shouldn't provide a shallow end for a 5-year old player, just like we don't let 30-year olds stay in Kindergarten. I'm perfectly fine with rookies enjoying wardec immunity for a reasonable period of time. Why does a 5-year old player need this coddling?

If you wanted the shallow end hottub experience, isn't that what station spinning is for?