EVE General Discussion

This above all else is the major reason why people don't go to low-sec, just remove the sec loss and lets see what happens, it could be that this simple little fix is all that is needed to buff low-sec.

Now multiply that by +5 implants and you will unlock a whole new world of fear & paranoia. I fast-tracked to L5 cybernetics and +5 implants very early on. Precisely because of this I rarely ventured anywhere near lowsec until I managed to grind up enough standings for my first jump clone. While that helped, it hasn't solved the problem because with the 24 hour turnaround I still have to ask myself "Do I really want to waste an entire day just so I can (whatever) in losec for an hour or two?"

I can't speak for others, but for me losing a ship is not the big deal (I build ships for a living after all) - it might cost me anywhere from 10 to 50mil ISK to replace, and even that's assuming that I don't build a new one myself. But replacing all my implants would cost me half a billion ISK. In other words, on any given day my pod is probably worth ten times whatever ship it happens to be crammed inside of.

Are there rewards in losec worth risking a 10mil ship over? Plenty! Worth risking a 50mil ship over? Quite likely. Worth risking 500mil worth of implants over? HA HA HA HA NO.

A very simple solution that CCP could do to help out people like me who suffer from "Implant Phobia" is simple: First, lower standings requirements for Jump Clones from 8.0 to 4.0 (or anything more reasonable) - that will get more people into them faster. One should not have to go through all the baka of grinding out L4 missions for days to be jump clone eligible. Second they need to get rid of the stupid 24 hour wait time on clone transfer. Drop it to an hour. Drop it to an hour and people like me can say "Hmmm, I'm bored, maybe I'll go do some losec stuff for excitement and if I don't like it I can just pop right back into my normal clone and go back to doing other stuff. The most I'll lose is a few dozen bonus SP, no big deal."

I play in high, low and null. I don't know what all that whining is about, anyway. And low is certainly the area where you have the most freedom, without those pesky bubbles and sov alliance monkeys who won't let me dock.

At this point I'm not doing anything that would warrant the 24 hour training drop a jump clone would cause.

Well then don't ***** about it

If you are switched on and know how to pick the correct ship for whatever you want to do in low sec at the time the only dangers remain:


Lag & other internet derps

Computer fail

User input fail

1: Entering low sec through popular choke points
2: Not using the intel channel named local once in low sec
3: Scanner? What is it?

Dirty gates (good luck with that mwd + cloak trick)


Most often self important people cannot comprehend the possibility of their own failure and blame everything and everyone else.

I've flown though low sec alot. I got caught by a gate camp ONCE. 8 vs 1, they won. Wasn't fair, eight of them, one of me.
I'll still go in low sec.

It could also be looked at as an island full of potential targets too. As long as your gang doesn't overstay its welcome or try to camp a major chokepoint most null alliances usually wont form up more than a small gang to deal with roamers.

its a trap

Get ppl secure with the idea low sec is "safe"
set up a gatecamp
???????
Profit

The only place you should lose a pod is in null. With lowsec and highsec you should be spamming the warp button right before your ship explodes. The only exception to this is if you run into a smartbombing pilot. In the ~6 years I've played Eve I think I only lost a pod once in lowsec, and that was because I was newbie and autopiloted afk into lowsec on accident.