Warfare & Tactics

The OP does have a point, this sort of thing hurts new player retention. It is short sighted of the high sec PVP crowd to go after them for easy kills. This is not to say the OP or newbies should get any special protections, anyone can go NPC corp any time they want and avoid war.

PVP for tears is lame, go club some baby seals instead.

Not really being up on hisec mechanics....how so? Won't concord butt **** a griffin that activates ECM on a neut? Will they last long enough for the rest to **** the target?

Yes, killing baby seals in a visceral fashion is much better than blowing up your pretend internet spaceship.

I am perfectly aware that non-consensual pvp is part of the game, but I am sick and tired of the fact that there is never any real relief from it. My alt corp has just had three weeks of war during which we lost more new members to the fact that they had nothing to do for a week but sit in dock. Now five days later we have yet another war dec by a one-man jita war dec corp who will cause the same problem. We've been at war with him before. Tons of RR alts. If we don't go to Jita he will catch one of our newbies who has undocked to mine in the middle of a war dec, or someone else who gets careless.

The new war dec rules are not going to change this in essence though they will help us make this kind of corp pay more. Continual wars have ruined our ability to recruit new players and keep them in the game. The myth that the new player can fit a warp scrambler onto a rifter and be of any help in a fleet is just that, a myth. Combat in Eve evolved beyond that a long time ago.

If we go to fight this guy he will dock up if our fleet is big enough to kill him. If we fight him in small groups his RR alts will enable him to kill us.

I don't have any problem with war decs in general but there should be a limit as to how many of these nuisance decs a corp should have to endure. How are we supposed to grow new players if all we can tell them is go away and do something else for a week?

Do wars have to last for a week?

Can't a corp that has already had a certain number of weeks of war get an equal amount of relief from new war decs?

Isn't there something that can be done to keep the war dec mechanic but make it livable for corps that try to attract and retain new players?:

Don't worry, whoever in CCP who was stopping the kiddies from committing UO suicide has stopped trying.

Now the kiddies have decided to wreck everything in sight. Most MMO games say "we provide new content every year".

Eve says "Null Bear no like Missioners! Null Bear say make mission running suck! Null Bear say LESS CONTENT EVERY YEAR GOOD! ME SMART! ME REDUCE EVE CONTENT! ME SMART! NULL BEAR SAY!"

After fully reviewing the monumental folly of the proposed changes, I know exactly what is going to happen.

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That is CCP removing content.

Well, their nerfing ship bounties, mission drops, and deliberately creating massive inflation(as the Null Bears have admitted in other posts I have made). Tags and other idiocy has already nerfed LP. The massive inflation has already nerfed, and will continue to nerf the value of ISK earned from missions. Almost all Null Bear have displayed an actual hatred of ISK sinks... see the demented whining on my refining threat..... so they want this nerfing of ISK value to continue.

Mission rewards have plummeted and continue to plummet. When content becomes pointless to do, it might as well not exist.

That is CCP removing content.

nerfing ship bounties, mission drops, and deliberately creating massive inflation

You have no idea what an insta-warp bookmark is, do you?

Actually, I don't do any PVE content. I mainly fund myself with PLEX because I find the PVE content to be so terrible. Yes, I spend money, sometimes monthly to avoid ANY PVE content. What is your argument now?