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Name a ship outgunned by a retriever. Then we'll talk.

The awoxer carries no risk, because he knows exactly what he is dealing with, and free to choose an appropriate ship and appropriate moment to completely nullify risk.

Neutral logi is just a pathetic excuse in most awox scenarios I can imagine. The only scenario it is really needed in is when you get to fight a fleet, which in hisec is an incursion-only business, in which case there are actual designated fleet logi, and newb awoxer isn't going to achieve much against them. Awoxing a single mission boat is easily done solo. Awoxing a mining op is easily done solo. But the gankbears are probably the most risk-averse chickens we have in eve, so they will bring neutral logi just to have even less risk than none, and will chicken out of the manly solo attempt without neutral logi, hence the neutral logi excuse we keep hearing about - because without it, awox seems oh-so-risky-only-99%-chance-to-win and oh-so-scary-I-might-lose-my-10-hours-of-alt-training - this makes them actually convinced that removing neutral logi, which lowers 100% chance to 99% chance to win, would balance the issue. No, it won't. Glad CCP doesn't listen to them.

Now don't take me wrong. I completely agree that creative AWOX is content. Even corp theft can be done creatively. Most AWOXes, however, aren't creative. Most corp thefts... check the eve uni stories on that topic, you'll get the picture. Those are not content, just plain abuse of either new players, or 5% least bright ones, which is not worth 5 cents a dozen, since even my dog could probably do it.

So stop being sore and start being creative. Volunteer to be a watchman and convince a shiny mission boat owner he can take that lowsec L4 or stotyline. Create a Red Freight Frog corp and start "delivering". Go blap yourself in a wh and ask you victim to go in a sturdy ship (cuz sleepers still there) and pick up your loot. It's a golden opportunity for creative AWOX, because let's face it, corp entry process will get a lot easier with this.

AWOX even my dog can do is not worth keeping, and CCP is right in removing it, there is no need to even bring a topic of player retention or imaginary bad corps in it, here's your reason why.

concord protection service should cost something. Make it a 5% NPC bounties tax. There should be a reason why you would NOT enable it. Remember, good gameplay choices etc. Don't do something like clone upgrades again.

Nope, it should be the other way around. It costs money to shoot people in a different corp (war dec), it should cost to shoot people in your own corp.
You want targets? Pay for it.

Is any thought being given to giving Friendly Fire protection a little malus, or giving corps that do not use the protection a little bonus?

You know, risk versus reward, offering people the opportunity to do riskier things for more profit, that kind of stuff.

Chat channels, mailing lists and fleets are all fine social tools. Corporations need to offer more than this, and for highsec pve players they really don't. That's why players choose to stay in npc corps or make one man corporations rather than expose themselves to war. This isn't the fix you're looking for.

They already get some: It becomes hard to have a spontaneous corp free-for-all, you need to do duels for tank testing, you need to do duels for web-slinging. as you already noted.

There are enough min-maxers in the game that yes, any tax will have an effect.

I thought mechanics where there is only one clear choice were bad? Like how medical clones/skill point loss, etc were removed? If the only sane option is to set FF to illegal, wheres the choice? Where the balance? Wheres the risk vs reward?

Thank you for this stealth tear post contribution to my bucket.
Use your safety setting properly, there will be no OOPS. There is nothing wrong with setting it to green/yellow while in hisec, it doesn't disturb any of the normal leet peeveepee activities, while helping you to avoid getting concordokken by mistake.
FF turned off saves from dumbmode awoxing, because it won't be awoxing, it'll be just your average suicide ****, done by a person you have invited in your corp. The only potential benefit compared to average suicide **** is possibility of being in a fleet with target, giving you a way to warp directly to target, which isn't hard to achieve in average suicide wanking either.
Turning FF off does create a safer corp. While I am not among CEOs who think too highly of hisec safety (I consider having to pass Uedama a certain death scenario, knowing for a fact that the only thing saving me is gankbears being lazy risk-averse bad at eve players who do it only because it's super easy), I know for sure it removes the self-wardec every newcomer in your corp has on you, which does increase safety pretty considerably to never turn FF on again.
Awoxing would still happen of course, however I am extremely satisfied that the creepiest variety of it, known as "spam apps till accepts, kill peeps till kick", is going into "good riddance" case of eve history locker.

That hasn't been a thing since 2008.

disgusting innovation