EVE General Discussion

Find a pocket that is out of the way so you are less of a target. Have toons in npc corp you can mission/haul with. They can't wardec you that way. You just keep one toon in the corp and wait for the dec to end then back to business. They will stop issuing war decs if they have no targets.

If you fly in and out of major hubs in blingy ships, your going to attract some war decs. Then when you lose some nice ships the other groups will dec you to get in on the action.

There's a dirty little secret about wars the mercs don't want you to know: you don't have to fight them. You can drop to an NPC corp or move to a sister corp, and suddenly the war doesn't help them kill you.

The game also doesn't really give you any reason to fight them. If they decide you're an actual threat, they'll just dock up whenever you muster a fleet. They don't have to leave any assets in space for you to bash (unless you find their holding corp and wardec that, which has happened).

Dying to wardecs in highsec means that you're not paying attention and your overview is default (read: useless).
Here, read this: Feyd's Bumfinger Execution and Prevention Pack: Surviving Wardecs

The only thing that's dated is the part about watchlisting. Now no one knows if you're online or not unless they're in system with you.

This is not the answer.
Hisec wars can be avoided, you sub again and you do your thing and you avoid the big, eat the little.
Soon you will shed your tail, grow legs and emerge from hisec as a mighty belching frog.

If you are a group of vets, you should know how to manage wars. It isn't difficult to remain active.

Fairly sure this is a troll. But on the offchance it's not, OP wardecs are easy to avoid even for a new player. Try a few solutions before you give up.

Sorry to hear you unsubbed. I hope one day the game environment will be better for you. Hang in there.

Just try and find a nice place for your main character(s) where they can play. Some nice high sec area. Have 1 or 2 alts on other places set up with minimal skills for missioning and adventuring.

Now if for some reason you or one fo your friends TRIGGERS your closeby ganksquad and you get a unilateral wardec, ccp on purpose does not explain your enemy has to pay a weekly fee for it. Thus time is your advantage. So, make sure they don't get a kill in, you have 24 hours after the declaration to log onto your alts and play with them. As long as you avoid them they will be forced to stop the war of attrition you just won. They have no loot, no killboard to brag about, no nothing. You can even use those alts to troll them and do just like they do as this is what high sec PVP is all about.

99.99% of the EVE Online PVP is abusing game mechanics and CCP promotes this. Also stay subbed, the new system has to be successfull for CCP to sell the IP.

Since the changes to the watchlist mechanics, I have noticed much more that we get wardecced whenever someone from our corp visits a trade hub in an industrial.

With a high frequency, if someone goes to a trade hub in a T1 hauler or freighter, a wardec comes a few minutes later.

So, in addition to the suggestion of DMC above, it's also worth looking at using a alt in NPC Corps to visit trade hubs anytime you need and then use courier contracts to have stuff delivered to you. That way, there is no link to you from your alt and no Corp to wardec because the alt is in an NPC corp.

However, we don't mission or do any PVE in highsec at all. So I am not sure that approach would work well if you run missions from popular mission agents.

Dropping to the NPC is the intended solution for you to exit a war you to not want to participate in. Just do so and you can carry on playing the game as you choose.

I just don't get the petulant attitude here. If you don't want to deal with wars, stay in the NPC corp. Why do you act like this is a big deal or a personal affront to you? If you are unable or unwilling to defend your corp, you should not have one. What possible use can a corporation have for you and two people? Are you just upset over a trifling amount of tax? Just set up a shared chat channel with your friends and play the game war-free, or if you really must have your tax-evasion shell corp, hop back and forth as the wars come and go.

Corporations are the competitive unit of this game and are intended to mean something. I do think there should be a non-competitive alternative corporation or social structure, but this weekly whining from players who don't even need the corporation structure to play the game in highsec solo or with a few friends is tiresome. CCP has always provided a way for wars to go away, or to not even happen in the first place and it works just fine: the NPC corp.

There is a line in the sand here. Be part of a player corporation who is in direct competition with all the other corporations in New Eden with all the benefits and responsibilities that entails, or sit out of this competition in the NPC corp and do your thing in more safety, but with slightly less reward. You have to choose. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

This game is about tradeoffs. Please stop complaining that you have to make choices.

I have been in my 13 year old corp which has RL friends who come back from time to time. This has not been a problem before. We had one spate of random war decs from the Marmite Collective and others in June last year. Now in one month I get two.

How many people have you come across that are in their corp after 13 years? I need to leave now because some alliance wants to randomly wardec me every time they feel bored and need new targets (all 2 of us)?

I see no fun in a mechanic which allows full alliances to war dec small corps.

http://imgur.com/a/KaVqC

This is the first time I have "whined" about this issue. This corp was created 13 years ago for friends to stay in touch whenever they came back to the game. Like you note, it is high time CCP gave us a non-competitive structure which facilitates us staying in touch with our friends without having to sit in a structure which leaves us open to being war decced against our will when some other group of players feels bored.

Apologies for being "petulant" after 13 years in my corp. I have been quite happy with my cake until now.