EVE General Discussion

I live out in the boonies where you get shot at just for passing though (and I have been shot at for passing though), and I like it out there.

High sec is a nice place to do business, though. Now, nowhere in EvE is 100% safe, but it is significantly easier to prepare logistics to get you ready for combat when you aren't actively engaged in combat. Of course if you aren't a noob corp sissie, there's a wrench in that sometimes. My own alliance is currently under a war dec, in fact.

Well, if you read the post without a chip on your shoulder about your age, you'd see I'm conveying I've played games to win, rabid competition, longer than you've been ALIVE. Some of us out here just aren't that into cracking open other people's skulls for the scoreboard anymore. When you reach MY age, you'll see what I'm saying.

The point you apparently MISSED was...so why do PvP-ers think they can railroad me out of what other things this sandbox has to offer just because they do what they do the way THEY do it?

No need to thank me for the clarification.

High sec exists for one reason:

People will kill everything that moves if they can (in a game of course) and that includes EVERYTHING.

Even the noobs.


Ever get corpsed camped by a max level rogue in a starter zone in WoW, on a PVP server? Heck at least in this game the people who got you the first time have to wait 15 minutes before they can do it again.

When did that happen?

lol @ Goons controlling your game

They do control the propaganda war.

Highsec should be a starting area and a recreation area (hotels, shopping mall etc.) but by no means an ISK fountain themepark area as it is right now.

The major problems with highsec are the false sense of security and it's incentive to stay combined with it's themepark modeling.
Many new players get the sense that highsec in EVE is the same environment as in any other themepark MMO with a sprinkle of danger. You can try to get rid of that false sense of security with warnings and game mechanic but it won't change the attitude/feeling of many players as there is still the themepark modeling.

There is only one way, get rid of the ISK fountain themepark area in highsec. Just reduce the possible ISK income to a degree that absolute new players can progress the ~ first month with ease but then have to think about new ISK sources.

That means of course the reward in the dangerous areas of EVE like lowsec and 0.0 should be high enough that you can afford to loose some stuff occasionally. At best the reward in lowsec and 0.0 will be dynamic like highest rewards in the most dangerous areas defined by the worth of destroyed player stuff in that area over a period of time. So to say if you PvE (be it missions, mining, industry etc.) in the backyard or an alliance controlled system where less player stuff has been destroyed the reward will be great but if you want the absolute best reward in game you have to go a very high risk system with lots of player stuff destroyed.
To define the risk in a system just use a dynamic security level for any 0.0 and lowsec system, the lower the security level the more dangerous it is but the higher the PvE reward will be.

CCP can implented that easy as the changes in UI and FW already have the basics to calculate the ISK worth of stuff. CCP needs to implement a dynamic security system for any 0.0 and lowsec system.


Examples:
A system with a mission agent but zero destroyed player stuff over a period of time will have a security level of 0.5. Small reward and less dangerous.
A system with a mission agent but some destroyed player stuff over a period of time will have a security level of 0.25. Medium reward and more dangerous
A system with a mission agent but lots of destroyed player stuff over a period of time will have a security level of 0. High reward and really dangerous.

In a system with 0.5 security status the belt rats will give a small bounty.
In a system with 0.25 security status the belt rats will give a medium bounty.
In a system with 0 security status the belt rats will give a high bounty.

You can adress the whole system to any PvE activity even to industry, like if you build ships in a 0 security system, the build time and costs are reduced, more industry and research slots etc.

I agree with both posters above, especially Jori has good points.

I'd like to see NPCs podding players. Rats would pod in < -0.5, CONCORD and Navies would pod outlaws in > 0.5, and negative sec status pilots in > 0.9.

Hisec shouldn't be harder just for the bears.

Troll or idiot.

2 numbers:

10 years

-/+ 45k (up to 61 and rabbles when everyone logs all alts or creates some new ones just because numbers are cool)


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