Crime & Punishment

So, I was remembering the days when dropping corp to avoid wardecs was considered an exploit.

Ah, memories.

As most of the posters in C&P are aware, it's easy.....too easy....to avoid wardecs.

Not to mention the outright silliness of being immune from hisec wardecs by staying in an NPC corp.

So...I began drinking heavily, and then it came to me in a flash.

What if you could wardec individuals, regardless of what corp they are in?

A new form of wardec, called Vendetta?

Proposal: Anyone can 'Declare a vendetta' vs anyone else for 50 million ISK per week. Both parties in a Vendetta can attack each other anywhere in hisec. Their corpmates (if any) are NOT included in the Vendetta. Dropping/joining corps does NOT shed a Vendetta.

This would include players in NPC corps.

This would be in addition to normal wardecs. IE, someone wardecs my corp, I drop corp, they can't attack me (without getting CONCORDed anyway). If someone also declared a Vendetta against me, that person could attack me (and vice versa) regardless of my corp status.

CAVEAT: Trial accounts cannot declare a Vendetta nor can they be Vendetta'd.

IMO this would add a further element of risk to hisec, and help deal with the whole wardec avoidance exploit (and yes IMO its an exploit).

End of proposal.


*turns on hardeners and gets thermal resist to 99%*

That's a pretty cool idea. I suspect CCP would prefer to coddle their new members for longer than you are proposing, and I am willing to bet that 0.0 logistics teams will hate this idea (goon npc freighters, I'm looking at you).

It is a pretty cool idea though.

Being able to go after a single individual would be pretty awesome, but imo it would still end up with the ol' "well I guess I just don't undock for 7 days."

This (or something similar) combined with a reason to actually fight in wars would be a good combination.

I may get flamed for this seeing as this is C&P, but my god this is a terrible idea. I'm all for making it harder to escape wardecs and providing incentives to fight back, but the only purpose of this is to target a specific player for any reason you can dream of. This is insanely abusable, and strongly favors veterans over newer players. Finally, this completely breaks security on any sort of high sec operations due to the ability to single out specific players in a fleets while not beign threatened by the rest of the corp. Consider dropping this sort of targeted wardec being levied against the logis in an incurison fleet. They would bring danger to the entire fleet and have to defend themselves solo in a logisitcs ship. You could use this to shut down player's access to their primary profession.

I sincerely hope you are trolling.

not a goon here.

however i would use this feature like there is no tomorrow....

With such game system there should not even need of High-Sec in fact; it's faster, and more logical in this case to transform all high-sec systems into low-sec ones than to have something that can follow a player until no end or until he/she unsub.

Eh, I really don't like sp totals or age as a restriction. I was thinking making it ONLY target-able at characters in NPC corps. When they join a corp the vendetta would be turned into a wardec for the remaining period. If a player drops corp during nay wardec, they would have a vendetta for the remaining period of the dec. If this happened I would like to see an increase in corp wardec costs to make it actually be safer to be in a corp than solo. Obviously there needs to be a minimum character age before being targeted by such a mechanic.

Make your vendetta be the penalty for dropping corp during a wardec. You leave corp you are stuck in a vendetta for 7 days with the aggressors corp.

Just a thought.

Unfortunately there are no penalties for dodging decs anymore, CCP no longer considers it an exploit.






That's a pretty good idea too.

This is a good idea.

Why don't you just move to low/nullsec?