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War Decs: It's time for them to go away.

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Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#61 - 2015-08-04 04:39:39 UTC
I was wardecced once. Some dude was butthurt that I stole his 150 MILLION ISK loot. Our battle during my suspect timer ended in a stalemate, so he went crying to his buddies. Apparently I had stolen from someone in an elite hisec merc corp. And I would be made to pay for my offense. Oh dear. His corp decced me and began to camp on gates in groups of HACs and T3s.

I switched over to one of my other characters with a nearly identical skillset during the wardec, and carried on as usual.

Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#62 - 2015-08-04 05:06:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Yozul wrote:
I think that the real problem is that corps that don't center around violence don't really have any good violence free ways of defending themselves.
The best defence is a good offence. Wardecs allow for corps that aren't centred around spaceship violence to involve corps that are centred around it via the ally mechanic; just one option of many that you can use to deal with wardecs.

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If a corp wants to declare wars on every industrial group in the universe simultaneously they should be committing economic suicide, but the game as it is now doesn't really allow for that.
The tools for industry are universally available to all, if existing industrial corps are driven into liquidation then others will rise to take their place. Eve is a game of alts where little is as it seems and ulterior motives commonplace; I know that if I was in the business of targeting miners or other industrialists I'd have an alt ready to profit from the losses of my opponents, and I know that I'm not alone in this.

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I don't know off the top of my head any good way to prevent people from getting around that kind of thing with a 0 skill point purchasing alt, but can't help but feel like maybe that's a good direction to look anyway.
There's another one of those options for dealing with a wardec, another would be using a 3rd party to move the stuff you bought on that alt to where you need it for your main.

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Mag's
Azn Empire
#63 - 2015-08-04 05:43:47 UTC
Utara Ataru wrote:
The universally accepted definition of PvP involves direct combat with ships in EVE or avatars in other games.
Oh dear, you really have no clue.

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#64 - 2015-08-04 06:36:28 UTC
Wardecs are fine. We just need "peacedecs" so the non-PvP types can force PvP types to play in a different way for as long as the "peacedec" lasts. Cool

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Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#65 - 2015-08-04 06:41:56 UTC
Oh look, some guy comes from WOW and thinks he has to change EVE because he was a level 42 panda which makes him a legendary game designer.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#66 - 2015-08-04 07:11:58 UTC
Ima Wreckyou wrote:
Oh look, some guy comes from WOW and thinks he has to change EVE because he was a level 42 panda which makes him a legendary game designer.
ZOMG, LEVEL 42!?!?!?! Didn't even know it was possible to get so elite!

But no, wardecs do suck though. Not so much gone, but they are due for a serious rethink.

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Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#67 - 2015-08-04 07:24:46 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Wardecs are fine. We just need "peacedecs" so the non-PvP types can force PvP types to play in a different way for as long as the "peacedec" lasts. Cool

Like, killing enough of their ships to make them go to PvE/market/something else to get new ones? P

Eh... It was a long while since I've last seen this kind of threads. Oh the memories of 2013.
NightmareX
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#68 - 2015-08-04 07:57:36 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
But no, wardecs do suck though. Not so much gone, but they are due for a serious rethink.

War decs doesn't sucks. But they need some little tweaks here and there to be a little better. Because you know, there is always room for improvements.

Here is a list of my current EVE / PVP videos:

1: Asteroid Madness

2: Clash of the Empires

3: Suddenly Spaceships fighting in Tama

Joel Vaille
State War Academy
Caldari State
#69 - 2015-08-04 08:38:05 UTC
While I do think its stupid how there are people whose soul purpose in the game is to gatecamp just to try to ruin someones day, there is a lot of counter play to this. If you cant gather up all your members to kill them pay someone who can. If u have to work with other alliances that are at war with them it would help. Gate camping ships are usually not the best for real pvp. You could avoid the system, transfer stuff with contracts or alts, etc. I know the gate camping corp my fw alliance was at war with didn't have much fun with us. Killed a few of my rookie ships as I laughed at them getting away with my pod. If u don't give them anything to kill they will go away. There's a solution to everything if u think it through.
Desert Frog
Doomheim
#70 - 2015-08-04 08:38:21 UTC
Gully Alex Foyle wrote:
Utara Ataru wrote:
HS indy players who love to mine and craft and who list most of the stuff sold in the major markets.


Move stuff --> Red Frog


I fully endorse this suggestion. Cool

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Bedreddin
UNINSTALL THE GAME
#71 - 2015-08-04 09:05:29 UTC
Adaption has to be in every corps mentality. If your corp is folding, docking up, losing members, you were doomed anyway. Maybe not today, but soon. As has been mentioned, the options open are endless. Hell, pay mercs to war dec back, move operations, alts, change tack for a period. The fact that a war dec can end your game play is a sad indictment on play styles, possibility, and corp mentality
tiberiusric
Comply Or Die
Pandemic Horde
#72 - 2015-08-04 09:08:07 UTC
I kind of agree with the OP. I have played this game since 2003 and I am a pure pvper, been in all the wars, done piracy, done the highsec war thing which was fun, but its fun for the people doing the killing. Why because its actually easy kills. Yes Eve is a PvP game at its core, but eve is supposed to be a sandbox, where you can do or be anything, therefore there are a lot of people that simply do not want to PVP.
Without the miners and builders, you wouldnt have any ships or mods to fly with so pvpers need them as much as they need you. So for people slagging off the people that do this, perhaps sit back on think a little, and just because you dont like mining doesnt mean someone else shouldnt. You need these people more than you think.

Anyway back to war decs. Ive come to realise wardecs are for pvpers who are completely useless at pvp, simple as. The prey on people that simple cannot fight back or dont want to. Otherwise why are you not in low sec or WH or Null where 'real' pvp happens?

Also I have noticed in the game ccp gives with one hand and takes from the other, or puts something in place to protect something and then adds a counter to reduce that. Make your mind up ffs.

Look if you want to PVP you have low sec, FW, WH, Nullsec, NPC Nullsec. High sec is supposed to be not a pvp arena per say (god tippia please dont respond im not interested, because i know what youre going to say its too predictable) , so why put another mechanic in place that allows people to make this into a pvp arena. Either do or dont.

Its easy for me to just assist many many corps in wardecs for free! yes for free! but on the other hand you make the actual wardeccer pay alot the more they add to the list. So it doesnt really stop the issue that it was meant to.

So may say well you can only assist the defender well i dont care, i just want targets, therefore ill just go through 100s of wardecs and offer free assistance. Ta-Da you have suddenly created a huge battleground for every corp that wants to in high sec for free.

Let high sec be high sec, let miners mine, let buiilders build its only going to benefit you as a pvper, ccp in growing numbers in the end. This lets kill everything anywhere was cool 10 years ago, but now people are leaving because of it and its killing the game, and me as a vet have probably invested £1000s into this game, i really dont want my character to be lost because of a few vets crying about nothing and ccp closes down. Eve numbers are getting worse every month

And by what i have seen over many years that actually carebears are in nullsec, farming anoms, passive income on moongold, pass income on renting and thats billions and billions of easy ISK. Not like the high sec guys who mine crappy ores and make a small amout of profit. So really just leave them alone to do something they like and play your own game, because quite frankly they are not bothering you, nor do they really affect your game, youre all just being asses for the sake of being asses.
If you want easy kills then hey eve is not easy, go learn to pvp with people that will shoot back.
It reminds of the scene in Bloodsport where van damme smashes the bricks and the guys says great thats cool but bricks dont hit back. Same here...

high sec has got police to cope with bad boys, remove wardecs and let the pvp happen where it should, which is pretty much a huge area.

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NightmareX
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#73 - 2015-08-04 09:14:31 UTC
tiberiusric wrote:
Anyway back to war decs. Ive come to realise wardecs are for pvpers who are completely useless at pvp, simple as. The prey on people that simple cannot fight back or dont want to. Otherwise why are you not in low sec or WH or Null where 'real' pvp happens?

I think you should have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-_61zfTE8

And this one aswell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58srJMfrfM

War decs are fine. Simple as.

Here is a list of my current EVE / PVP videos:

1: Asteroid Madness

2: Clash of the Empires

3: Suddenly Spaceships fighting in Tama

Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#74 - 2015-08-04 09:27:54 UTC
tiberiusric wrote:
Look if you want to PVP you have low sec, FW, WH, Nullsec, NPC Nullsec. High sec is supposed to be not a pvp arena per say (god tippia please dont respond im not interested, because i know what youre going to say its too predictable) , so why put another mechanic in place that allows people to make this into a pvp arena. Either do or dont.


New Eden is a PVP arena. The whole game. If PVP was not intended in high sec, we'd be unable to target one another, or there would be some other mechanic preventing it. Instead, we can target and even shoot each other freely, albeit with a swift reaction by CONCORD in high sec if the engagement is considered illegal. If you've been here so long, you have no excuse for failing to grasp the PVP nature of EVE Online, none at all, and everything you just posted is little more than ignorance of that nature. EVE is a PVP game, no matter where you are, and the sooner you accept that, the better you'll do at the game.

For the record, I've PVP'd in all 'secs', and it's no more or less 'real' in any one of them than it is in another. Different tactics and strategies are required in each, as well as different sets of skills, but I can assure you the PVP is just as real in high as it is in low, nul, and wh. Pretending that some form of PVP is not as 'real' as the one you do is nothing more than elitism, and maybe you can fool yourself with that, but good luck putting that bullcrap line past me.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#75 - 2015-08-04 09:31:51 UTC
NightmareX wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
But no, wardecs do suck though. Not so much gone, but they are due for a serious rethink.

War decs doesn't sucks. But they need some little tweaks here and there to be a little better. Because you know, there is always room for improvements.
They might not suck for the handful of groups that abuse the ever living **** out of them, but objectively they suck as a mechanic. They prevent corps other that wardec focused corps from existing at even a moderate size in highsec (while having no effect in any other space) so they discourage social behaviour and they reward more for less challenging opponents.

Of course when they change the people harvesting industrial corps in hundreds of wardecs are going to cry, but they definitely need to change and I think CCP knows this. I reckon they are next.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#76 - 2015-08-04 09:38:13 UTC
Remiel Pollard wrote:
New Eden is a PVP arena. The whole game.
But PvP involves more than "pew pew" and what wardecs currently do is allow one group to force their style of PvP on another. They are mass abused by groups wanting to farm easy kills. All they do is add arbitrary limits on the size and playstyle choice of highsec corporations who aren't specifically designed around wars. That's why groups like red-frog operate though NPC alts. It's incredibly stupid that being in a group would offer so much of a disadvantage in a game with such strong social aspects.

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NightmareX
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#77 - 2015-08-04 09:40:24 UTC  |  Edited by: NightmareX
Lucas Kell wrote:
NightmareX wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
But no, wardecs do suck though. Not so much gone, but they are due for a serious rethink.

War decs doesn't sucks. But they need some little tweaks here and there to be a little better. Because you know, there is always room for improvements.
They might not suck for the handful of groups that abuse the ever living **** out of them, but objectively they suck as a mechanic. They prevent corps other that wardec focused corps from existing at even a moderate size in highsec (while having no effect in any other space) so they discourage social behaviour and they reward more for less challenging opponents.

Of course when they change the people harvesting industrial corps in hundreds of wardecs are going to cry, but they definitely need to change and I think CCP knows this. I reckon they are next.

Well, i can't really say that we abused the war dec system and did see the war dec system as bad after what my 2 videos over shows. We used the war dec system like it should and it was good.

Here is a list of my current EVE / PVP videos:

1: Asteroid Madness

2: Clash of the Empires

3: Suddenly Spaceships fighting in Tama

Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#78 - 2015-08-04 09:47:39 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Remiel Pollard wrote:
New Eden is a PVP arena. The whole game.
But PvP involves more than "pew pew" and what wardecs currently do is allow one group to force their style of PvP on another. They are mass abused by groups wanting to farm easy kills. All they do is add arbitrary limits on the size and playstyle choice of highsec corporations who aren't specifically designed around wars. That's why groups like red-frog operate though NPC alts. It's incredibly stupid that being in a group would offer so much of a disadvantage in a game with such strong social aspects.


Until corp-rolling to avoid wardecs is solved, I have no sympathy for people that feel like a playstyle is being forced on them. None whatsoever, whether that claim is true or false, and your argument here does nothing to alter the bottom-line fact that people signing up to a PVP arena should do so expecting PVP.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104

Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#79 - 2015-08-04 10:13:59 UTC
NightmareX wrote:
Well, i can't really say that we abused the war dec system and did see the war dec system as bad after what my 2 videos over shows. We used the war dec system like it should and it was good.
I'm sure your terribly amateur videos show a lot of things, but people still don't want to watch them. Go back to shooting up industrial ships. There's absolutely no point talking to most wardec abusers about the wardec system since all you guys want is an easy ride.

Remiel Pollard wrote:
Until corp-rolling to avoid wardecs is solved, I have no sympathy for people that feel like a playstyle is being forced on them. None whatsoever, whether that claim is true or false, and your argument here does nothing to alter the bottom-line fact that people signing up to a PVP arena should do so expecting PVP.
It is solved. Corp rolling only works for tiny corps with no shared assets. The moment you have a POS or a POCO or even market orders it becomes far less appealing. The reason it exists is because wardecs are so badly designed that groups of PvP players go after the easiest possible targets. You're effectively crying here because one-man corps and corps full of alts can get out of a wardec.

And your "bottom-line fact" is oversimplified. PvP does not mean "pew pew" so everybody from the miner to the WH pirate is already participating in PvP. The problem with wardecs isn't that the force PvP, it's that they force one groups particular style of PvP on another and that they discourage social activity. People laugh about the idea of peace-decs because they're such an absurd idea, yet they are exactly what wardecs are doing.

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NightmareX
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#80 - 2015-08-04 10:25:31 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
I'm sure your terribly amateur videos show a lot of things, but people still don't want to watch them. Go back to shooting up industrial ships. There's absolutely no point talking to most wardec abusers about the wardec system since all you guys want is an easy ride.

Angry much?

I bet i hit the nail in your head with such a response Blink

Here is a list of my current EVE / PVP videos:

1: Asteroid Madness

2: Clash of the Empires

3: Suddenly Spaceships fighting in Tama