A Terribly Repaired Silver Paint Job with a Dead Stem Rose on the Dashboard

Mostly I'm creating a post in this increasingly erratic blog for the very slight amusement of the date today.

However we do have some news, and by we I mean CCP.

Fanfest has been cancelled.  Not a shocker considering the pace of the corona virus, and the raft of other events that have already been cancelled, I expect the 2020 Olympics will be next.

Oh, and if you're viewing this somehow in a dystopian future, after the virus has wiped out a fair portion of humanity and society has broken down.  Good on you for having a working computer and inexplicable access to the internet.  Well done!  You're a survivor!

In other news the 32 bit client has finally been killed off.  This has made some people unhappy, but it's the internet so that was pretty much guaranteed.

Seriously.  If you're still running a 32 bit only machine in 2020, you've got your moneys worth out of that thing.  Let it retire, it needs some sun on its face, some sand beneath the toes.  Let it live a little, before it's recycled into butt plugs or something.

Russia 2020 is coming up!

Remember that corona virus?  Yeah, expect this event to be cancelled also.

About the only other thing I care about will be the frigates spawning, chestburster style, from the wreck of your battleship.  Now that is cool.

I fully expect something critical will be broken by that patch.

How exciting!

Little War Decs

A while back CCP changed the way war decs worked.  More or less, if you don't own structures as a corp or alliance you cannot be war decced, and cannot war dec others.

This was a good change.

The metrics at the time quite clearly showed most defenders were only so on paper, they rarely managed to destroy an attacking ship, and it was driving away players.

However...

We now have the rise of the locust.  The corps, and sometimes alliances, that own no structures, so they can travel through high security space with relative impunity stripping the resources of others, and moving onto the next fertile field to repeat the process.

I propose the little war dec, the name needs some work, we will workshop it later on. ¹

Essentially a corp or alliance can be war decced, even if they own no structures, but only for a limited time, say 24 or 48 hours, and then afterwards they have a cooldown of double the war decced time, and an increase in the war dec cost for an equal amount of time to the cooldown.

So if I wanted to war dec, as an example a corp called LOCUST, for 24 hours, it would cost my corp 200M ISK.  Then after 24 hours they would be immune from further war decs from anyone for 48 hours, and for the 48 hours after that the war dec cost would be 400M for another 24 hour war dec, or 800M for a 48 hour one.

The war decs do not roll over, they finish after the chosen amount of time, with a maximum possible of 48 hours, but they might have a short pending time of 4 hours per 24 hours.

Targets with structures would/could be invalid for this type of war dec, but the current war dec system would cover  them.

You could then target specific corps or alliances for your own tactical or strategic reasons.

But what if we went further?

Imagine, if you will, a war dec system that allows you to target a specific type of enemy asset.

Either using the existing war dec system, or my revolutionary (BSI²) little war dec system above.

For a reduced cost, or time, or something, you would only be able to attack their mining barges, or just the Orca's, or maybe the Orca and freighters?

Or for giggles just war dec target their Deimos's to frustrate that one guy who uses his as private high sec transport between his home systems.

Chaos.


¹ You know we're not changing that name.
² Bat Shit Insane