Warfare & Tactics

Best advice, also learn to fly like your in low sec, be paranoid, , always know there are pud smackers in V8 underwear with a hotpocket (or some other microwavable food item), sitting at their keyboard doing all they can to get attention and feel good about their fantasy toon living vicariously through them.

Also cloaky ships help alot.

This idea is a bad meme.

It would do exactly the opposite of what you want it to do, it would incentivize mercenary alliances to be as large as possible so that they can defend their magical object against anyone who might plausibly attack it. It would also allow those groups to totally monopolize the ability to declare wars as they deny any group smaller than them the ability to declare wars by allying in and destroying their magic object.

The end result would be bigger groups of people who declare war en-masse and camp trade hubs.

Also station games exist in every type of space that had stations in it. They are not a highsec specific thing.

Also, declaring war doesn't get you isk, it costs you isk, unless someone is magically printing isk out of thin air they're already working to maintain their wars because they have to pay bills.

I'm not sure if you actually thought about your post before you made it, but if I had to guess I'd go with no and assume to just found your ideas on reddit.

Having to continuously defend structures creates a need for manpower. In the scenario you propose declaring a large number of wars (which is the optimal way for mercenary groups to function currently) would mean you require a large amount of manpower. Moreover the system you propose would enable any large group to trivially eliminate any competition by allying in to their wars (which is free and near-instant) and leveraging their manpower advantage destroying their magic structures, totally denying them all of their gameplay.

Currently there's already an issue where anyone attempts to start a new highsec PVP group finds themselves in a situation where they're always at war with other large, well established groups like VMG, Marmite or Archetype. who ally into their wars, often for free and make it extremely difficult for them to function. This is also true for non-PVP focused corps that declare war on someone over some dispute, they get dogpiled by mercs who use the ally system to get free wars. What you're suggesting would just amplify that further by making it so in addition to getting shot at by every merc in highsec, you're also not able to even have wars at all if they decide you don't.

Also, now we've establish that mercenaries get paid by people, It's pertinent to point out that mercenaries charge more and guarantee less results the more difficult or annoying a contract is, with what you're suggesting you'd get more expensive merc contracts with very likely worse results. If you want mercs to work for their money (which they obviously are already otherwise they wouldn't be getting paid) wouldn't you want their increased work to actually result in more client satisfaction, not less?

I also stopped playing EVE because there's no real alternative to trade hub camping anymore and have literally never camped a trade hub, so not really sure where you're pulling your accusations from.

We could all hold hands