EVE General Discussion

So anyone can attack and destroy a citadel without declaring war on the entity (not in normal space)? Whats the main purpose for war declaration, is it only a high-security mechanic?

Yes. War decs are meaningless in null and low sec. Most areas (except provi) treat you as an enemy on contact unless you specifically get set "blue". This is why we laugh when people complain about high sec wars. War is the base state when you leave high sec.

Those are two seperate questions, really. Why CONCORD exists in high-sec should be self-explanatory. As for wardecs, this is the only way to remove POCOs, POS, Citadels and Engineering Complexes in high-sec.

Nullsec corporations are wardecced all the time. People tend to forget about the war because it really isn't relevant as long as you stay in nullsec but it is relevant if you make a shopping trip to Jita - people get caught all the time!

War decs are a way for people specced for PvP to fight the unprepared in highsec. Once activated you can kill war targets with no concord interrruption.

Being on either side can be very tedious

Normally wardeccers look for mining corps, social corps or Mission runner corps otherwise known as easy prey/noobs/cancer that is killing Eve


Once engaged they may be lucky to pick off a nooby who does not understand what is going on.

normally the defending corp either hides, dies in a fire or switches to another character outside of the corp.

The attacking corp camps the home station of the corp trying to bait them to come out.


Occasionally two PvP corps meet in highsec But this is very rare and normally "GF" in local is to be found. If one side is curbstompted then above rules apply

War decs allow PvP players to engage PvE players, which has fantastic benefits.

1. It allows the destruction of property, which then has to be rebuilt, keeping players treadmilling to achieve goals.
2. It creates emotions. Fear of loss, anger at loss, and happiness at destruction.
3. It gets players creating alt accounts to avoid the war, which creates another strand to entwine players to EVE.

Sure, some few crazy people may argue that wardecs encourage blobs, in that bigger groups wardec smaller blobs, rather than the other way around. And that this would discourage new groups forming and that discouraging new groups is a good way to not grow.

Some lunatics might argue that since war decs might be lop sided it would encourage the smaller group to stop playing while the war is on, and that this would stop people playing EVE. But you can still train while offline, and alts can be fun if you try really hard.

The important thing is that war decs allow players to interact with others that don't want to interact.