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Greetings Capsuleers,

As mentioned in our Coming to EVE in Tiamat blog, we are introducing the option for corporations to have CONCORD intervene in internal conflicts, also know as:

Friendly Fire!

Friendly Fire (FF) allows corporation members to engage in aggressive acts with each other without fear of repercussion from CONCORD. Until now, all corporations have had this Enabled automatically, but with Tiamat we're putting the power in the hands of the corporation. With FF disabled, attacking corpmates will have all the effects that you would expect if they were a neutral (Depending on the sec status this could be a criminal timer or a good old Concor'dokken or nothing at all). Safety settings will reflect this, so having safety set to green will still avoid any accidental explosions. Existing corps will find that FF is enabled by default on patch day (Nothing will change in other words). New corps will have it set to disabled unless they specify otherwise (There's a check box in the Create Corporation window).

A CEO or director can Enable/Disable friendly fire using the Enable/Disable toggle button found in the Corporation Window in the Home -> Details tab. Doing this is always subject to a warm-up/cool-down timer of 24 hours (Currently set at 10minutes on Sisi for testing purposes). A notification will be sent to all members of the corporation at the start and end of this timer.

The FF status of a corp will be displayed in the following places:

1. Corporation Window -> Home -> Details tab.
2. Corporation Ads (Not yet implemented)
3. Join Corporation Window
4. Corp Show Info Window -> Attributes tab

Additionally, when browsing Corporation Adverts you will be able to exclude corporations that have this setting enabled.

The Friendly Fire feature can now be found on Singularity & as always, any feedback is welcome, as well as bug reports on any issues found.

Current Known Issues
• Reducing the width of the show info window can cause clipping issues with 'Enabled in X' text.
• Notifications are not yet implemented.

Thanks in advance for all your testing and feedback,

Will this be enabled by default?

How will sec status be affected by friendly fire when a corp has it disabled, if at all?

From the looks of it; if Friendly Fire is disabled then all inter-corp shootings are the same as shooting random people (affected by security status/suspect status etc)

Cool.

Also a good question! Initially nothing will happen. If you were to disable and re-enable your weapons, you safety level will stop you. If your safety was turned off re-aggressing would trigger a concord response.

Ah, I get it. The game only checks if a CONCORD response is needed when I turn the weapon on. It does not check each weapon cycle.

I doubt it, as right now many corps have a different coward mode enabled: applications by invitation only.

Exactly the same as if you were repping someone who picks up a criminal flag - on the next cycle your safety will kick in and deactivate the module, with no legal penalty to yourself.

EDIT after scrolling down some more...

The safety is evaluated and enforced each time the module cycles.

An yet wars, conflict that does not require a concord response and hence reduces their personnel requirements, cost money.

The way I see it is CONCORD's systems are automatic, and respond to conflict the same way, always. But if the conflict involves a war, extra checks cut in the stop the automatic response. Thus it takes more effort to not respond, and hence costs more money.

So any corp with FF disabled should pay a fee to CONCORD, just as if they did a war dec.

But wait! A mutual war is free. Turning on FF is sort of like having a mutual war with yourself, so it should be free.