Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You don't need to have aggressor go suspect. some of the war decs are legit big corp vs big corp of combat pilots, while the majority are for greifing, there are other ways to go about this. the big problem with empire wars is its nothing but station games.

command desies need a targeted script, so you can drag one guy (probably russian) off the undock by the scruff of his neck and bate seven shades of shite out of him

It's not hard, it's super easy to say - categorically - "It's not a violation"

If you want to fix blanket wars you need to give the wardec alliances something to help compensate for the loss of watchlists. It's really that simple. Wardecs are just a way to get content, like anything else people do in this game, from gate camping, to rage rolling, poking pocos, baiting, or just yoloing through heavily populated systems. Wardec alliances have to spam wars now because there's really no way of knowing when players are online anymore, making pipe and trade hub camping with blanket decs their only viable choice. You could overhaul dec costs or implement cooldowns etc, but you've got to give them a reason and a method to get out into space to hunt players down. Other proposals, like the OPs, will just kill highsec war alliances and snuff out another variety of gameplay.

They're not doing anything illegal. In fact, they're doing something that CONCORD has explicitly sanctioned. Why would that cause them to go suspect?

Some were true enough, namely pirat and marmite.
The removal Dramatically affected the trade hub campers, they grew.
they absorbed the smaller entities almost to a man,
had at eachother for six months and now there is one undisputed fecking big one, Vendetta.
their operations were entirely unaffected

Bringing watchlists back won't stop the camping true,
however bringing Balancing in its absence (however that might be achieved)
would at least give those of us who have no intrest in hubhumping options.

Non-existant only if you don't consider newbies getting griefed to the point of leaving the game as soon as they start being social a problem.

This is Eve. It is a non-consensual PvP sandbox where you are never safe by design. The fact that you can be attacked by other players is intended and not a problem, as is the fact that corporations are the basic unit of that competition.

There are plenty of competent corporations, both in highsec and elsewhere, that effectively mitigate the risk from wardecs to near zero. Most of them are welcoming of new players and have no problem teaching even the greenest pilot to operate in highsec under a war. Players who play badly, whether because they are new and don't know better or because they are just incompetent, are going to lose in this game just as in any other competitive game. There is nothing inherently wrong with this. You learn from your losses and get better. And besides, being in a corporation, and thus in a war, is completely optional and you can make them stop at any time with a click or two of your mouse.

I'll acknowledge that Eve could use some more space for truly social players who are not trying to compete. If you want to propose a "social corp" that is immune to wardecs has no benefits or privileges of a player corp, then I'll be on board cheering you on. But if you just want to nerf the only mechanism for competition via nuanced ship PvP and structure removal left in highsec into irrelevance because of some tired "think of the children" argument, I will just give you the old -1.

Eve Online is a PvP game at its core. In PvP, there are winners and there are losers. Please stop trying to nerf the game into boredom in some misguided attempt to make New Eden into a happy-fun-land where no one can lose to another player. We've had enough of that in recent years. If some new players can't handle getting exploded in a game literally about exploding spaceships, they are most likely playing the wrong game.