CONCORD Details
CONCORD are the police of New Eden. They will respond to criminal activity in Hi-Sec (1.0 - 0.5) space. If you commit a crime where CONCORD is on duty, they will find you and they will destroy your ship.
Allowed Actions
CONCORD will not respond to the following list of player activities.
- Locking onto a player
- Cargo scanning a player
- Remote repairing a player (Note: If the player becomes a criminal while you are repping them, your remote repair modules will deactivate. Before Crucible, they would kill you instead.)
- Shooting at asteroids
- Shooting players against whom you have Kill Rights or other legal War Targets
- Damaging or committing an act of aggression against another Corporation member. (Does not apply to NPC corporations.)
- Damaging or committing an act of aggression against the Faction Navies. (However this may be met with resistance from the faction themselves.)
- Having low security status and jumping into a Hi-Sec System NOT in the Sanctum Constellation.
Prohibited Actions
CONCORD will respond to the following list of player activities.
- Aggressing a player who is not a legal target in highsec. (See crimewatch for details.)
- Remote repairing NPC Ships
- Remote repairing Criminal Players
- Attacking CONCORD vessels
- Having a criminal flag and jumping into Hi-Sec Space
- Having low security status and jumping into a Hi-Sec System in the Sanctum Constellation
CONCORD Response
If a player performs one of the prohibited actions, as above: two CONCORD cruisers and a CONCORD battleship will warp to the location. The two cruisers have a lock time of about 2 seconds. Both Cruisers will warp-scramble, web, jam, reduce the drone bandwith to zero, and neut the offender completely every 5 seconds. That means from there on the only damage the offender can do is smartbombs, but only when cap injected. They will also shoot at the offender and each will deal about 1.000 damage every volley. 15 seconds after CONCORD has warped in, the Battleship will lock the offender and immediately destroy it unless the cruisers have done so already.
CONCORD Response Times
The CONCORD response time depends on the displayed security status (not the real sec) of the system and the status of CONCORD presence in the system. It's possible CONCORD still has to spawn in the system, has already spawned elsewhere in the system, or is present on grid.
It seems the lock time of the CONCORD ships does not depend on the signature radius of the offender's ship. The following table gives the time in seconds between the offending action and the first felt action of a CONCORD ship when CONCORD has just spawned in a system.
- 0.5: Roughly 19 seconds
- 0.6: Roughly 14 seconds
- 0.7 : Roughly 10 seconds
- 0.8 : Roughly 7 seconds
- 0.9 and 1.0: Roughly 6 seconds
When CONCORD is already on grid, the response time is severely reduced. There are no hard numbers on that yet but it looks like as if the response time drops to 2 seconds in 1.0 to about 8 seconds in 0.6 and 9 seconds in 0.5.
When CONCORD has already spawned elsewhere in the system but isn't on grid, the response time is significantly increased. In this case it will take about 22 seconds them to arrive and start firing in a 0.6 system.
A Thrasher has a cycle time of 7 seconds, and does about 1000 damage per volley. So for a ship that costs less than a 1 million ISK you can be suicide ganked for 1000-2000 EHP in a 0.5 security system where CONCORD still has to spawn. The same setup in 0.9 would only do 1000 EHP of damage.
If CONCORD has already spawned in the system and is not on grid, it's possible the Thrasher can do 3000 EHP damage in a 0.6 system.
