Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Since starting up in EVE i've been in more than one Corporation that has been ruined due to PVP Corporations looking for easy targets... So my idea is Could Corporations that enjoy the basics of EVE for Example Mining and Industry etc be allowed to purchase Concorde Protection much like we do renting a station but we'd pay a monthly sum to concord that would stop PVP Corps War Deccing those players that are here just to enjoy the game? Obviously there would have to be restrictions (would only work in High Sec) as other Corps would abuse this. I believe alot more players would return to EVE knowing they can enjoy this game without fear of been War Dec'd as alot of Great Corp communitys are ripped apart as a result of War Decs....

It's not a case of been an 'easy target' when other players think that systems there's so they attack any Corp in that system....

Yeah i agree, there would of course have to be a point were you cut off the protection, like you say people would abuse that protection for there own gains

Inb4 Ironbank sends mercs to knock over all the POSes in hisec and replaces them with unwardeccable small sticks.

Buy protection from players instead. Concord shouldn't put mercs out of business.

this is why we should be able to move between npc corps.

That IS why it's there.

You are war decced because they want you out of the system, game working as intended.

In high sec the best defense against war decs is to learn the mechanic and then use it to your advantage.

If you are casual players in the game for fun then being in an NPC corp is one option. Having alt characters (not accounts true alt characters) in several corps is another option. NPC Cannot be war decced and with alts in other areas of EvE the chances of all of them being war decced at the same time are well let's just say it has never happened to me and I have been playing since 2009.

If you are more serious then understanding the war dec mechanic from both sides will allow you to set up an organization that is virtually war dec proof. By that I do not mean that one or more portions of it cannot be war decced, but with it set up correctly you simply trade / contract materials etc to alts in NPC or other corps and keep right on doing what you have always done and there is nothing the war dec players can do about it. Well they can start war deccing every corp in the area in hopes that they get your alts but that would be expensive.

What many / most war dec players want is easy targets, do not give it to them.
If you undock to fight make sure you kill more ISK in ships than you lose otherwise you simply invite more war decs.
Or take the turtle route, simple dock up the character or characters that are under war dec and play on other characters.
Or you can use a CEO alt to hold the corp and the rest of you bail to an NPC and keep playing.

This is actually a very fair and sensible idea, considering the current war mechanics.

If corporations can pay CONCORD to let them attack other capsuleers regardless of whether or not they have a good reason (like paying the police to say it's okay for you to steal someone's car) then corporations should also be allowed to pay CONCORD to be protected against such nonsense.

The RISK in that case is that the corp would have to pay for a 'protection' period where possibly nobody would want to declare war on them, effectively wasting their ISK. Of course they would still be vulnerable to suicide ganking.


While everyone likes to say that PvP and hisec wars are entirely content creation, for many quiet people it's also content destruction. There's still lots of players who just like building and hauling, and either before or after they lose a ship to the war their mentality becomes "well, I guess I'm not playing EVE for a week or two"

Regardless of what we think about such fragile players they are still paying customers to the game, and in some way they're contributing to the EVE universe with their activities. When those people feel like they're bullied too much and leave the game, then EVE player count declines and activity is reduced and CCP business suffers and thus EVE development suffers.

So, I really think this would be a positive addition to the game. Not everybody will buy CONCORD war protection all the time, so merc corps and hunters can easily just find another target like they do anyway. It would be a small loss for war corps but a massive boon to some industrial corps, while also providing another ISK sink to the game. Then, if 'too many' people use the protection feature, then CCP can just increase the cost of protection to reduce its use to a level they're okay with.

'but paying customers' isn't a good argument when the players you're talking about are more likely to quit from boredom than getting decced. Where as players that get shot at stay longer.

Like it or not, wardecs are content. This idea is purely content denial.

If you are a 'quiet person' you can play on the test server. No non-consentual pvp there.