Crime & Punishment

Back when i first started playing Eve, there were no caps, there was no warp to 0, there wasn't even warp to 0 on stations. Camping low-sec entry points that lead to 0.0 could bring you in some serious isk from drops as well as ransoms. Let's also not forget that you could always make isk by performing a docking toll on stations in low-sec or in 0.0. Now it is far less profitable to be a pirate.

You nearly never get any good drops like you used to from people hauling stuff due to the implementation of capitals. The regional gates made things even worse for pirates. Something needs to be done. Something that makes it far more lucrative to live or work out of low sec. My advice to rectify this issue, take hi-sec incursions move them out of hi-sec and into low-sec. This will make things far more interesting in low-sec and add an incentive for players to dwell in low-sec thus increasing the population in low-sec areas which in turn leads to more targets. Thoughts?

Since when gate camping is considered "Piracy" ?

And people that stays in hi-sec will stay in hi-sec no matter how low their income becomes reduced, because they do not want to deal with "the dangerous "law-less" zones" that are lo and null

Corp infiltrations and liquidations: Check
Ransoming: Check
Ransoming and then killing them anyway: Check
Ganking and looting: Check
Market Manipulation (This is a stretch imho): Check
Gate Camping Freighters: Check
Hijacking/Trolling Forum Threads: Check
Stealing your girlfriend: Check
Ninja-salvaging: Check


In some form or another, they're all piracy-related. I don't think piracy is dead.


Hell, in some ways, anything you do in EVE is PvP and can be looked at as piracy. If I sell something, I fulfilled a buy order that you nolonger can.

Just because you cant adapt to changes that happened ages ago doesn't mean anyone else can't.

You're dumb.

Point #1) Keep your smartbutt comments like that to yourself. Quickest way to end a thread of anything intelligent yourself and your credibility.

Point #2) We know what you said. We can read. We're telling you that if you consider "Give me isk or I kill you and take your stuffz" the only form of piracy, or in your case getting good lootz from gate camps the only form of piracy, that's not the case. Removing content from highsec and putting it in lowsec isn't going to fix the problem. It never will. People don't want to dwell in lowsec because they either want to 'play safe' or want their very own space, as well as various other reasons that make lowsec not very popular. This has been discussed to death and revoked as valid 'fixes' for some time now. Bringing it up again with a few different words in play isn't going to change that. There's nothing original about it.

As it is, your post title is misleading to the content which you're posting. Piracy is alive, will always be alive, just in different forms than your basic "high loot gate camp" from the ages past. As long as there's two people logged into TQ, someone will have something the other person wants, whether that be stuffz, lulz, or tears, and they'll employ several different methods other than gate camping to attain it. And it will NEVER be fair. This has no correlation to lowsec population or the implication of moving things to lowsec to improve the population.

TL;DR -- Adapt.


EDIT: This doesn't even negate the fact that if you moved all incursions to lowsec, there still wouldn't be a reason to live there and run expensive ships with huge amount of loot in them. That's what jump freighters are for, and they're not going anywhere anytime soon.

I love how every lowsec topic ends with "put incursions in lowsec." It reminds me of Cato, "And I think Carthage must be destroyed."

Piracy, learn to adapt to the changes or else you will become extinct. Ohh and the the Nos Domi was nerf, figure I save you some time, and the Drake is considered useful for PVP now.

This here is trufax

as a former carebear when i wanted to try out piracy i read this blog saying to fit a cheap frig and go into lowsec and roam around until i found some noob mining or missioning, but i found out that, 1. almost no1 mines in lowsec and 2. noobie frigs vs pro lowsec missioners = u in station wondering WTF?
So then i joined a lowsec gatecamping corp, we camped busy tunnel traffic systems and got abit of loot payouts from it but it was so boring that i started to look forward to being hotdroped.
We sometimes roamed into nullsec and u can get a few random kills but this mostly ended up either in us runing from blobfleets or geting into a fight with a anti-neut fleet and then geting hotdroped.
Basically the way i see it this was more pvp as piracy is more find and kill/ransom carebears that can't fight back, so the way i see it the only real form of piracy nowadays (with lowsec only having wannabe pirates in them) that wardecing and ganking in highsec is really the most profitable form of piracy.

So am i re.tard.ed in my way of tihnking