Crime & Punishment

Meh. The majority of highsec wardeccers I know aren't merc corps.

Honestly, I am somewhat surprised to see your viewpoint on corp rollers. I was thinking merc outfits like yours would be quite hateful of being blueballed... But then again I have never been a merc.

It bothers me how easily consequence is avoided in this game, especially being the recipient of a BAW asskicking myself at the start of my EVE life.

Edit: I'm a idiot... Aren't there already rules on repeat wardecs? Like a week downtime before you can Dec the same corp again?

I am nobody's punk, and I give no ***** if anyone has noticed anything. If we want the game to be fun, and not just a noob slaughterfest, it needs to be balanced... In BOTH ways.

I'm black ******* legion. Don't like what I have to say? Come get me.

(For the record, I give it about a 75% chance Lucas IS Veers, which is why I made the comparison, however I have no idea who YOU are, so pipe down, unknown.)

Just be more careful about who you dec, it's meant to be a scalpel, not an axe.

It doesn't always or even usually have risk or consequences proportional to the gains. It's all over the place.

Player owned customs offices and research in a starbase are two examples where the system works fine. You cannot tear down a POCO and research jobs are typically lengthy enough that tearing down your POS has a clear consequence.

The adjustable tax, offices, hangars and starbases used for non-research purposes are examples where the system does not work fine. Mission runners spend mere minutes reforming their corp and get the benefits of no tax. Hangars and starbases can be setup again in just an hour or less if you know what you're doing. What is it again, -25% manufacturing time and -2% material cost when assembling items in a starbase? Most jobs complete in under a day too. The only thing you're risking is 1 hour of your time once every few months someone wastes their time wardeccing you.

The problem isn't that a 1-man corp is not attackable. The problem is that a person in a 1-man corp is gaining significant benefits without any associated risk or significant cost. It's just simple risk-reward. You want the better rewards - lower tax, starbase, etc. - you have to take some risk.

1v1 at the sun irl NOW

I recently left a corp that had been ragedec'd by a guy. Said player had been canbaiting in Apanake, using a Vexor to grab the can, then having the toon that dropped the can "aggress" him. I pointed out that he was an imbecile for doing it that way, as anyone paying the least bit attention would have realized the trick. I was wrong, though...he was simply an imbecile. You want to see the chat log with him?



That was all. Just telling him he was an imbecile praying on stupid people was enough to trigger a ragedec, one in which he'd been made aware in local that he wouldn't get kills on, because I already had plans to leave my then-current corporation, and that corporation lived in a wormhole, with out-of-corp haulers doing the logistics. He didn't believe me.

He was rather upset when I left said corporation. Of course, he never actually undocked to fight me, and he knew I was in a Rook, ready to fight. He was unwilling to engage solo, or even with two of his buddies in Dodixie, ready to help him. I sat outside M20 station, waiting. Hell, I went AFK for ten minutes. Came back and he'd logged. I was ready to fight and have a bit of fun, he was looking for an easy kill.

Maybe it's not fair to say ragedecs are more common now. Maybe it's more proper to say that there's a growing trend of players in high sec to band together and declare war on missioners. I don't know, I've just never seen the appeal of deccing carebears. Yeah, you see the shiny ships, but those ships will either stay docked, or be in another corp by the time the war starts going. I don't know, it's just never been my cup of tea. I love the fight, and the adrenaline rush associated with it. Ask NetheranE, or SureShot001, or anyone else who has flown with me in high-sec: I want fights, not a slaughter.

That is a really dumb way to suspect bait. He should just have a random alt alt drop a depot in a safe off grid safe and use that to get his timer. Then he can have his alt shoot him all day without any interruption to his suspect timer.

Using cans for anything is archaic.

But you can shoot them. Cowboy up and let Concord shoot you back as intended in high sec. Or move to low/null/WHs and do some real fighting.

I swear, reading things like this makes me see HS wardeccers kind of like carebears. They want easy kills for no risk.

why should you get money back for making a bad decision and picking a worthless corp to wardec? you sound like one of the entitled carebears who think they should have things because they threw a bit of isk at it.

Because the cost is justified as "paying for targets" if I get no targets I should not be paying.

Alternatively CCP could drop the pretense that you are paying for targets when you declare a war (because you really aren't) and admit that the entire purpose of cost scaling was specifically to benefit e-uni.

Basically I have a really old grudge against a really transparent and dishonest explanation given for a particular mechanic and feel that CCP have been really hypocritical about other mechanics that should logically be affected by the same principle.

I think I might have been playing eve too long.

Because POCO contracts are decent way to make isk. Because a lot of people fly stupidly blinged **** in highsec and when you get a faction fitted drake it pays well. Because it content creation, Because it fun. Because Highsec isn't ment to be safe, Because paid wardecs are profitable.


I could go on, but you get the point.

Oh and BAW does go into lowsec all the bleeding time.