Jita Park Speakers Corner

Why again is wardec in empire good/necessary/wanted/liked?

Because with-out it there is no reason not to have a group of carebear alts that can be rediculously bloated with isk.
With gaining isk and resources becoming closer and closer to 0 risk you reach a point where the only cost to industry is the time investment and as long as more and more bots can do the tedious for you then the net effect is deflation to the point where everyone has so much isk that even the most expensive ships in the game are 'cheap' in terms relative to a players net worth.
A huge part of the draw to eve is it's the only MMO with total risk PvP. When you undock a ship you do so with the full knowlage that it might be destroyed and there is no going back to your last save game.

If I rat in a carrier in 0.0 I need to have scouts in surrounding systems and I need to keep an eye out for wormholes and other ways that someone is going to drop on my carrier. It's common sense that I use alts or my corp in order to minimise my risks.
If you mine or mission run in highsec then there are inteligent ways to minimise your risks.
If you're part of an indi corp with towers all over the place and freighters constantly plowing the space lanes then you're a basically a big pinyata that someone somewhere will want to take a swing at. Instead of crying about being 'unable' to defend yourself against hardened PvP'ers learn to use your industrial base to defend yourself. The hardened 'griefers' attacking you have to pay for their ships too. They obviously found a way to do so.
Personally I don't think the war dec system has gone far enough.
You should not be able to run a corp with-out a 'home base'... a pos or command center somewhere that is your 'home'.
Corp/alliance standings with NPC corps SHOULD play a part. 'friendship' with NPC corps would mean something if you could call on someone you have high standings with to deny station access to your enemies.
Complete noobs are always safe from war-decs in the starter corps... they pay a tax for that safety...
As far as crying over 'noob' corps being griefed by 'merc' or 'griefer' corps... That's EVE !... if someone is a target, because they're bloated with isk and have no protection, because they're full of easy kills to pad a killboard, beacause their CEO is a mouth in local and someone got annoyed enough to shut him up or just because they happened to cross the path of a roleplayer that took offence to their toons name, then they're obviously doing something wrong. Find a corp that can offer you protection and inteligent ideas about how to safely play the way you want to enjoy the game. There are always options, find them.

Love them or hate them, personally I hate the bastards (in game... long time reader of SA actually), goonswarm proved that a pack of complete noobs could band together and become the most powerful entity in the game. If YOU can't emulate that example then it's about time you realised that it's not a limitation of the game mechanics but one of your own abilities and dedication.

Well, EVE mechanics concerning the consequences of PvP are completely broken. Wardecs are broken, and bounty hunting is broken too.

Thankfully we didn't have to play wardec games with BoB. After they dropped alliance that first time...

uh wait, that's when they got the button pushed on them, it wasn't decshielding, or was that an exploit at the time?

Funny thing that... every time any FIGL pilot joins an incursion channel it goes mad with warnings not to fleet with us.... aparently we're all terribad logi pilots too :-(

On a more serious note is there anything you can tell us about proposed changes to the bounty hunting system that CCP is actually considering or is it just one of the issues that might eventually get raised in the future ?

I know you lot are keen to have POS's revamped as a top priority but I've not seen any specifics on anything else other then the usual political answer of 'yes this is important to me' almost every time someone asks about something.

When Indahmawar Fazmarai and Darius III both agree that a mechanic is broken.....

make wardecs next to free and completely unavoidable by getting rid of decshields and npc corps, noob stomping will go away while the highsec wardec corps go after the real isk pinatas.

problem solved

Yup it's all the arbitrary rules and opt outs that make the whole thing so convoluted in the first place. The cost of war ought to be in waging it, the idea of having ISK payments as a barrier to declaring war is pretty absurd, so too is the limitation on number of wars. ..And yes NPC corps create way more problems than benefits. Unless CCP is really going to integrate meaningful lore and NPC politics/wars into NPC corps I really don't see any point in keeping them.

Unfortunately I already did that.

So what they're saying is that we should include a way to force defenders to be logged in. TO THE CSM FORUMS!