Assembly Hall

Redefining distinction between two roles

• EVE's Pirates - robbers (deceptive +0.0 status).
• EVE's Bandits - plunderers (obvious -0.0 status)

It was said at Fanfest that the value of your ship and its contents would be reward to the parties involved with destroying it. Is this true?
Personally, I find this logic to be a tad bit lame!


SUGGESTION - Revised game features:
(Security Status rules for High Sec)

• All is safe and normal apart from suicide gankers.
• Your low security status (≤ -5.0) neglects you from high sec. (Players can destroy your ship)
• Your low security status (≤ -9.451) banishes you from high sec. (Concord will attack your ship but not chase you)

(Security Status rules for Low Sec)

• You can still change security status in low sec.
• You lose less security status as you operate in reducing security-level systems (≤ 0.3 Systems). This excludes pod-killing! (Eases pain of losing too much security status)
• Concord operate in low-sec! (Unlike high-sec's Concord)
• Your good security status rewards you with a level of Concord's responsiveness. (≥ 1.0)
• Your neutral security status leaves you semi-vulnerable in low-sec! (-0.5- 0.9)
(Concord will protect you only if they're nearby. They don't hang around long.)

• Your bad security status leaves you vulnerable in low-sec! (≤ -0.6)
• Concord can not linger in low-sec after their protocol is achieved. (Too many criminal! D:)

(Low-sec firing Conditions)

• Non-damaging attacks are ALLOWED for +0.0 players: Jammers, Webifiers, anti-Warp, Drainers, etc.
(Contributes to Piracy)

• KEY PART OF WHOLE POST: Non-damaging attacks are DISCOURAGED for -0.0 players: {"same as above"}.
(Contributes to deception. Sub-sequently reduce Security Status)

• Any physical damage unto a good-status player will have Concord jump-in to save them (slow-to-medium response).
• Any physical damage unto a excellent-status player will have Concord jump-in to save them (medium-to-faster response).

(Protection speed in Low Sec)

Concord response in low-sec is conditional and at their own risk. They can only match the responsiveness of 0.5 High Sec providing you have ≥ 9.451 security status.

True for any single capsuleer above 0.9 security status is damaged.
True if all parties are not in a mutual corporate war.


Concord will protect those worth protecting in LOW-SEC. Those not worth it will be ignored.
Even then, Concord could be ill-effective against gangs compared to high sec with limited capabilities allowing for escape. They could be weak and die for a change! Additional things not mentioned in the post suggesting... :)

Ultimate goal is to repopulate low-sec, discourage visible criminality in low-sec, define the 'middle-ground' that is low-sec and address an identity misconception (bountied Pirates and outlawed Bandits). By changing these things brings the role of a true pirate being able to hijack a ship, take it's loot and command it to base. The whole sole purpose of being a pirate, which differentiates from a typical marauding barbaric space killer. This allows for it whilst simultaneously addressing the low-sec suggestive conceptions or propositions brought-up at Fanfest.

Ohno another urban legend about long gone pirates in low sec.

This sounds like an overly romanticized view of piracy. Blowing things up and taking what isn't yours is...blowing things up and taking what isn't yours. One may be government sanctioned with a letter of marque or one may be part of one's government's regular military...or one may be flying a jolly roger and yelling "yarr!" at anyone who will listen but not one of these instances will likely make the victim feel less victimized.

This isn't sherwood forest...every capsuleer can be king john.

Yea I can tend to Piracy. I don't play as it in-game though. :)

I had another thought that all this ship revamp and faction warfare revamp could bring about changing low-sec, too, and not just what this thread is about. Militia could blast through and while they're busy fighting, they could decide to clear enemy player-pirates of lowsec and claim bounties. This is all assuming faction warfare becomes so densely popular.