Assembly Hall

Declaring War is all but useless and or pointless depending on your perspective. In high sec it is the tool for grief corps(Insert Merc where needed) to extort their own enjoyment by dominating non-combat characters while still keeping their own Indy based characters safe in some other corp to supply them from the shadows.

So they evade combat cause to fight is pointless.

Pirate groups in low sec do not bother with declaring war because they are primarily indiscriminate killers looking to get whatever meat falls into their lap, so a war dec doesn’t gain them anything and may put non-combat elements of their corp at undue risk

Finally Null sec alliances Operate outside of the reach of concord in the first place so it is utterly pointless for them to pay concord to make a declaration. And again this may risk non-combat elements operating in the blanket security of High sec space.

This all conspires to make Declaring War an Irrelevant act.

So here is My take on a revised war system to make war declarations more relevant

Declaring War is basically Bribing Concord to look the other way for a period of time, so if Legal war is based on Bribery Lets make the whole idea scalable and allow this trend of bribery to be done on the Individual, Corporate, and Alliance levels independently

Individual War: This is simply the ability to buy “Kill Rights” on a particular individual from Concord. Just like normal Kill rights concord will look the other way in high sec if you attack and kill that person. Only now they will look the other way for however many kills you have purchased. But like normal kill rights these false Kill rights have an expiration date so get the kill or not they will go away in time and they are only good for the individual who has purchased them. And of course concord will give your target a 24 hour warning for each kill right purchased against them.

Corporate War: Like Current War, however this is purely a single Corp Declaring against a single Corp regardless of Alliance ties. Alliance Leaders will be advised of any declaration against a corp in their alliance and have the option to expand the war (for a fee) to include their entire alliance in the war instead of a single Corp.

Alliance War: again this is very much like standard Alliance Vs. Alliance war declaration

Cross-level declarations: In addition to this, any of the above groups can engage and declare against any other entity. However in the case of targeting an individual the cost is multiplied across all registered members of a corp or alliance.

So for example:

You could have A Corp or an alliance purchase Kill Rights for all their members against a single Pilot
You could have an alliance declare war against a single Corp of another Alliance (though likely the opposing Alliance might upgrade it to a full on alliance war)

A single pilot could declare war against an entire corp or even an alliance(though the price would still be the same as if it were a whole corp declaring)
or a single Corp from an alliance could declare war against an entire alliance.

I totally agree that the wardec mechanism need to to be updated! I think this is a good start. I don't necessarily like the platform thing but I am not oppose to it either.