EVE General Discussion

This forum has an game attached ?? Wow i have to check it out..

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Logged in b/c someone sound WoW on this thread

I can see this turning out to be what is largely the removal of the wardec mechanic. The only legitimate use of the mechanic is RvB anyway. Unused towers (or rather, moons) should be up for grabs (like secure cans, after 30 days). I think it's also perfectly reasonable to assume the wardec mechanic is responsible for a relative lower retention rate under younger players.

It makes sense, and CCP can do what they like, those nullbears just shrug and continue moaning about JB's.

You need 1000 pilots with perfect skills (and a rather expensive ship) to alpha the weakest, smallest tower in the game (without any hardeners ofc).
70b for a 50m tower and a bigger coordination than the biggest blob in 00 ?
No thanks.

You have no clue about highsec PS warfare. Please do not post anymore.

+1.
NPC manufacturing slots should be a lot more expensive (to reward people using POS in highsec, which is a risk -well unless the GMs messed with it-).
Roids/Ice should become depleted a lot more (forcing the miners to fight/hire someone to kick the other miners out of "their" system).
Etc.

Or change tower mechanics that you have to keep it fueled to stay anchored - but it only consumes 1/2/4 blocks per hour.

Slighty digressing with this post, but I have to agree. Hi-sec pvpers are pathetic at the best of times; you want to pvp, then grow a pair and find a system with a security status something less then 0.5.

Wow, all respect I had for you as a professional just evaporated. It CAN, and MUST be denied that it is used for behavior that is called griefing. EVE is a game where the world is harsh, and the people harsher. This is the main attraction of the game and the reason I play. "Griefers" are merely playing the game as intended. The fact you as a senior GM, and thus, a senior representative of CCP in the eyes of us players, can say something like this publicly and admit that this is how you see things shows us that CCP have still not figured out their own game.

The fact of the matter is, when a player joins a player corporation, they have volunteered themselves to the possibility of PVP and wars. If they do not want it, they may leave the corporation. That was a cheap, and easy way to avoid the consequences of joining a corporation. That was balance. Now, the balance is heavily against an aggressor, regardless of the circumstances (which, by the way, are irrelevant).

As a professional, you must look at the situation and determine that a player is violating the purpose of a mechanic. In this instance, that answer is CLEARLY yes, and the person using the dec shield is in violation. The aggressors picked a valid target (any corporation or alliance. Remember, they signed up for this upon joining), paid the fees, accepted the risk of combat and opened the war. The defenders used a quirk in the mechanic to end the war prematurely, and unintentionally.

The only professional answer you can give is that the dec shield is exploiting the mechanic, yet the answer I see is essentially you picking and choosing winners with your opinion. I find it a shame that the GM group has devolved to this point, and even more so that CCP has allowed this to happen. The dec mechanics were fine, are fine, and will remain fine as-is. The game has thrived on the theme of harshness, and many, many customers were attracted to it through the tales of war, even in highsec (and in some cases, especially in highsec).

You have to hold off. My world was too heavily rocked by the expertly reworked sov mechanics and the multiplayer Incarna experiences from the Crucible expansion

Oh...

And here i thought there is no such thing as PvP or PvE areas, I must have missed some disclaimer.

Anyway i actually met quite a few high sec "merc" "grief" "whatever" corps members, and they are quite fun people. Most of the times they would beat the **** out of null sec players if not ridiculously over-numbered.
To add not all of nullsec players, i met quite a few which are very capable. But i met thousands which are just an numbers, me included.

You seem to have missed the announcement 4 or 5 months ago when they said they don't care about wardec dodging mechanics anymore. It's too much time and money to deal with people whining about it, so they decided to stop trying to "regulate" it.