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So if nobody has time for a 24 hour timer to be able to shoot at somebody, why is the timer for a war to start after it has been declared remaining 24 hours?

Remember that an ally joining a war is functionally identical to them declaring war on the corp that declared that war. Except it's totally free and now near-instant.

Don't get me wrong, shortening the times involved in wars is great, and this will only stand to benefit me as a merc, but it's dumb and makes war a less attractive tool for the average highsec joe to constantly stack the ally system to advantage the defender. It's yet another "If you declare war on someone you have to deal with this BS." feature.

"Ain't nobody got time fo dat!"

LOFL

Congratulations! We'll miss you.

And uhm... nice blog, but that's it? Was hoping for more little things

Well, I found on e-bay a nice one red button. seller tells that it's from old soviet nuclear base but I not tested it yet.
I will do this however if you will not take look at:

- drone UI window
- fitting panel - replacing tech3 subsystems is bugged, "added slots" remain hilighted if you hover over susbsystems in your items hangar.
I guess that it's simple to fix, guessed is that drawing loop goes over actual, actual+new slots then again over actual missing drawed "new" one. It could loop over all slots I guess there is some hard limit for them, and for not present ones just clear highlights.

- trade UI - ISK offer should be locked same way as it is done for items, trade should be two step 1 - both sides make an offer, items/cahce is locked then 2 - both sides hit "accept" or "finalize trade" button and trade is performed if both accepted.

- colouring missions in "Active missions" panel on neocom, green - objective complete, yelow - destination set, white all others.

Other suggestion of UI changes can come, but I believe for these (POS, Corp management, Industry) I'm affraid a single red button is not enough. I plan some aliance with cannibals tribe :) to convince CCP that changes are worth time ;). Seriously speaking - these I know are subject for bigger project and require a lot more effort to implement.

Cheers.

Edit: I forgot to say - thanks for actual efforts, improvement is always welcome.

Congratulations on the new addition. Enjoy.

I've done a quick search of the forums and can't find any other mention of this so I thought I'd post it here as an annoying 'little thing'.

Why is it that when I click 'Align to', e.g. to a station so that I can warp out in a hurry if I need to, my ship not only aligns to that object, but then proceeds to fly towards it at maximum (non-warp) speed? That doesn't make sense to me! My ship should align and then just stop. It should be a case of 'manoeuvring thrusters only', not my ship's main engines.

While fixing war dec problems.... can you PLEASE PLEASE fix this issue with corps letting a war dec drop, just to immediately redec at a reduced price.

This is beyond an exploit and has been used against a few corps I'm in. It doesn't make sense. If you wanna have a perma war, pay for it. If you want to let the war dec drop, let it drop.

Maybe force a CD after a war dec drops for at least 1 week? Or force the previous price increase to remain in effect for a period of time? Something else? But please fix it.

Right now it is only used as a means to grief players on the cheap, something I doubt CCP had in mind.

I do have some questions similar to yours on the whole reinforce for free aspect -- but not on the time to join. And even my question about cost of allies bends toward reduced costs for allies both attackers and defenders -- just not sure how reduced.

But to be honest denying allies would continue to artificially favor the attackers since they choose the size of target and the initial timing. 20 hours delay of allies however doesn't seem worth arguing over. You must be great mercs if you can win most wars in 24 hours! Seriously what corp can't afford to hole up for 20 hours?

If you are going to fight for delay in time of allies...I'd say fight for an entire weeks delay for allies coming in at greatest reduced costs.

But given that allies have always had the option to declare a separate wardec immediately, there should always be cost reduction proportional to entry delay. Maybe you want to fight for reduction in costs to come at price of declaring intent hours or days before actual entry -- though really CCP isn't going to favor something which tends to just extend the no action time as outclassed corp wait in station and stalls.




Otherwise the CCP objective is clear -- bigger wars and bigger fleets -- more excitement (good marketing and player retention idea). CCP does not care who wins....except that maybe that the outcome of the war is not fixed by the aggressors choice of target.

A really good full service merc corp needs a diplomatic/political dimension too. CCP encourages some background diplomatic drama too. If such hotair antics are not your cup of tea...try teaming up with someone with patience to spy out informal allies and friends before you declare war. Actually you can mine some of that data by just bothering to look for past allies and former alliance corps. Allies do not have to be total surprise. And if allies are not surprise, well then you are asking for something that is not going to be guaranteed anymore...

LOL - the ideal wardec aggressor situation is obviously CONCORD enforcement of 1 wardec involvement per corp/alliance and no allies and no target surrender except via target players leaving corp. Select a much smaller corp then bludgeon them to death while CONCORD ensures everyone else is just spectator. Not very good for EVE player retention when growing from small corp/alliance option is supposed to be part of the appeal. If that is the only way you can have fun, seek another game and professional help in RL before you make the evening news in a bad way.

Depends on the type of aggressor. Most aggressors are out to build bad-ass wardec reputation for specific corop or alliance --- bragging rights that all can see. So they are unlikely to switch corp shells very much as a unit. True some individual players might if no other wardecs are going on. But you won't face the whole group or major portion as a unit again until peaces is over.

However, pure pirates funding other toons and game spoilers/vengeful types whose only fun is to drive selected players from game - will do whatever it takes to milk your ISK and destroy your assets. There is no mechanic that can stop this. If they can't swap corp they will bring in alts. These players tend to dump lots of PLEX to get started and then become extremely skill at PVP ambushes and rule bending -- quickly achieving multiple PLEX paid high skill accounts and maintain multitude of trial accounts for dirty deeds.

...and they are probably the BEST feature of EVE filling that niche between predictable NPC rats and inescapable CONCORD in hi sec. Without such evil minded players EVE would become static and boring. Spoilers and pirates force perfectly viable corps and alliances to break up and new ones to form in different locations. Get targeted by a relentless player pirate and get an opportunity to make new friends in a new corp far far away.

PS Defenders have the same option -- form new corp and change area of operation. If a few of your more prominent easy targets temporarily (3-4 days) operate in yet a different location as NPC corp members in hi sec...most pirates will lose track of or interest in your group. Faster than 2 week peace if you are not too attached to corp name or location.

Nice changes. I appreciate the work you do.

I don't want to get all negative nancy but why does it take so long to get small changes like this through? I mean you seem to have a big enough team and I know you can make changes people want to see...but what else is there behind the scenes that make such simple changes so few? Are UI changes pretty hard at this stage in the game? Is there a process to get these approved? Are you all on several teams working on higher priority items?

Again, I'm not trying to belittle what you do. I just see changes that happen and some that have been requested for awhile (and have suggested numerous times) never get implemented. Is there a process? Is there a list of priority items to change? I tend to get a bit frustrated making the same requests in the same threads asking for "little things" and see them never mentioned. I see a lot of good ideas by others in those threads too that never seem to get done but seem very simple to do. I also never see a hey, these are our plans for UI changes...or a list of the top requested items (although somewhat mentioned in the blogs later).

Can you shed some light on the process? Thanks again.