EVE New Citizens Q&A

If someone attacks you in hisec without you being flagged in some way they can't avoid the wrath of Concord, it's mechanically impossible because they lose the ability to warp; and to do so is considered an exploit.

Concord don't get involved if you're flagged in some way (as below), they'll consume doughnuts and drink coffee while you burn

Your opponent can kill you if you're flagged for a limited engagement, if you're flagged as a suspect or criminal you can be shot at freely by anybody, if your corp is the target of a wardec, you can be shot at by the people who declared war on your corp.

Once upon a time you could tank Concord, more recently you could bounce around killing in multiple locations before Concord caught up to you, now they instascram you from off grid, neut you dry in seconds, jam you to hell and wtfbbq-instagib you.

Pop on over to the Crime and Punishment subforum if you want the ins and outs of how Concord and/or Crimewatch work, those guys know the mechanics inside out.

They "beat" the mechanic by knowing they will lose the ships they are using in the attack. A swarm of 2-10mil isk destroyers will easily kill pretty much anything in highsec. That said for the sake of efficiency on high value ganks some will use ~100m talos, or ~30m stealth bombers, Fewer people involved means less people to share the profits with.

If it were possible to avoid concord, well what would be the point of highsec or concord?

Second question; will CONCORD defend a citadel if someone attacks it who isn't wardec'd with it?

I assume it's the same with Engineering Platforms or whatever they're called?

Just bear in mind that CONCORD doesn't 'defend' anything. They won't come to your aid or rescue, and in many instances by the time they do arrive you're often in a pod or a floating corpse.

They do, just not from your own idiocy. As I said somewhere, CONCORD ain't your mother.

No, because then people in fast ships aggress Concord on purpose and run away, kiting Concord away from the area. And, again, there's a difference between how fast Concord spawns AT a location vs. how fast Concord warps TO a location from elsewhere.

We've exploited pretty much all possibilities.

Server ticks are 1 second.

Concord responds (supposedly) within:
1.0: 6 seconds
0.9: 6 seconds
0.8: 7 seconds
0.7: 10 seconds
0.6: 14 seconds
0.5: 19 seconds

1 extra second (because the server responded 1 cycle later due to extra load) or 3 extra seconds (because Concord is warping across 56 AU from killing a player on the other side of the solar system) make a HUGE difference to the victim, and to the attackers. 16% - 50% bonus to "damage done before Concord arrives" is a huge boost to suicide ganking, and isn't a change that's "as simple as that".

That makes sense. People would probs just warp disrupt CONCORD if the above were the case, assuming they were in a zippy little ship, allowing their buddies to get away.