EVE General Discussion

OP is on the right track for generating content for Low Sec space.

This is exactly what ccp was trying to do with the Tags for Sec feature. It probably hasn't had much affect but that's for a few reasons.

It is true that you will need something unique for lowsec to be anything more than just a fly-through zone. For examples you can look at WH space and Null. Null sec has the sov stuff, moon goo, abc ore, ratting and mining infrastructure and supercap production. WH space has sleepers and tech III manufacturing components. That is why the risk of these areas are outweighed by the rewards. However for lowsec everything you can do there is smothered by nullsec. Everything in lowsec can be done in null sec at much higher efficiency without increased risk.

The reason Tags for Sec hasn't exploded is because there's not a lot of demand for the tags. The player standings mechanics are not really that big of a deal unless you like to suicide gank in high sec. However there is already a demand for minerals. If they changed any one of the minerals to only be available in lowsec that would make it profitable to mine there. However we currently have the problem of rats dropping loot that can be refined into minerals. Like someone said earlier in this post, if that did happen then "gun minning" would also become much more profitable. So pve combat will keep a cap on any kind of mining in any area of space.

There are a couple things I can think of that would make low more popular.

1 go with the fly-through style that low sec already is and separate the 4 empires with it. That will give low sec a unique quality for the purpose of logistics and travel. That could be further enhanced by making racial items like, building ships, specific to that empire.

2 if you look at WH and Null space, their profit uniqueness is based around something very specific. Null is tech II and WH is tech III. What you could do is make pirate faction gear something that requires considerably more lowsec interaction to make. Maybe mining low sec unique ore or mining lowsec unique gas. Maybe even unique moon goo or pirate faction ship drops. This would take it out of the shadow of null sec activities.

There would also be some implications of a more populous low sec that u might not think about. The first thing that comes to mind for me is logistics to and from null. And also lowsec raids on null. But those might be more of a good thing anyways. :)

I know more empty high sec and 0.0 systems than empty low sec systems...

It simpyl won't work the way you imagine.

Null sec has plenty of stuff no other place has and that is lucrative, like level 5 missions, faction warfare PVE, the new belt rats that drop tags etc etc.

People don't go to low or null or owrmholes as much as they stay in high because there is risk outside of high sec, and o amount of space money is going to change that.

Putting things in low sec that aren't available elsewhere just means an existing low sec or null sec group is going to come in, camp it and drain it like a Vampire in a blood bank. It does nothing for anyone else. The only way to get more people in to low or elsewhere is for CCP to recruit more players who are not sans ball sack....

Yes. Because they are 50 jumps away from the nearest station that allows you to dock. Invalid argument imo.

*Warp through gate, gets a complimentary keg launched at your ship.*

And free bacon.....who doesn't want free beer and free bacon?

This subject has been coming up since 2004, or earlier . I've always thought that the only way to make low sec more populous is to Police it. Not with Concord, but by allowing players to become Viceroys, that is, to take and own the stations there, charging fees for various things if they want (but not controlling docking with standings).

Then there's a reason to encourage trade, which means there's a reason for players to make it safer.

Not sure 100% how it would work, but it might be worth a shot.

Yeah.. in a covops ship that is nothing more than a blueprint hauler that will spend 0.000001% of his time in actual space.

Nah, what low sec needs is bombs, let us use bombs in low sec. There you go, low sec suddenly becomes a better place to move in.

No sales tax or broker fees is what lowsec could do with, higher sales tax and broker fees for highsec, especially main hubs could also help.

Its simple really, people go where ever they can buy and sell for the most profit or best deal.