EVE General Discussion

I go through lowsec with a bustard all the time and no one ever gives me crap about it (by crap I mean shooting at me), probably due to the +5 warp strength I have on it.

You kind of just told people how many points to put on you if they wanted to look (lock) you up.

No matter what you do the spineless will think of another reason to not leave high sec.

This comes up very often. I get that you're trying to help by proposing solutions, but did you ever consider that many of us in low sec don't actually want more people out here? It's a very different experience living out in the frontier lands where 24 people is a busy system, some of us like actually knowing your neighbours, paying attention to every new person who comes into system, and having low sec become "hi sec but you can shoot people" isn't a step in the right direction. There's a lot of things that could be improved in low sec, the population level isn't one of them.

Quoted. For truth!

Can't see how spamming d-scan is different from spamming target locks in the overview.

But yeah I'm supporting every possible method of keeping terribads in hisec, as long as they stay there they can't ruin the game for EVE players, so please keep d-scan as it is.

I don't see what you are describing as being the issue on why people don't go there. That's more an annoyance for those who are accustomed to going there regularly.

I also find it has less to do with the loss of ships over "waiting it out".

Plenty of new folks try lowsec. Many lose a ship but that doesn't necessarily deter them from going back.

What does deter them is when they actually get away then sit for an hour or more waiting for this or that camped area to clear so they then can try and do what they set out to do in that space.

This doesn't have to be common to deter people. When you do slip back out of a gate camp or manage to get into a station then are camped in or out of a system for an hour or more, that pretty much ends your desire to continue going back there.

It's also not the player's fault on this. Game mechanics dictate that you cannot stop someone if they get into warp - they are immune to everything while in warp so you have to catch them before they can initiate it (tackling) vs catching them - this means either finding them doing something (ratting, or what not) or at entrances to a system's space before they can get up to speed to warp.

So if you have a place you need to get into or out of and your path is camped, you wait it out and people don't log into a game to wait for others to leave so they can play it - thus they find other places to game.

I've seen this from newer players who decided to go to lowsec for their activities. It wasn't when they were caught there that bothered them (each lost a couple ships or more "learning") - it was when they got away from the traps and then waited out camps in those systems that stopped them from trying to run there. It just wasn't worth their gaming time waiting.

Different perspective is all.

I know a different vet who prefers bumping into camps vs being at more risk while running in a system. He doesn't like raised risks vs more safety while "doing" vs while "traveling" - I think the traveling should be less risky while doing stuff should hold more risks but having seen how newer folks find the "wait itout" so annoying yet don't seem to mind losing while doing ... Different mindsets on the topic.

You know, if it came down to it, I could write a macro script that hits that button every 5 seconds, but I don't want to (for now). Not good for "game balance" is a bad reason to shut this idea down.

Doesn't matter where you are. If you're not using D-Scan,you're doing it wrong.

What better reason could there be? Or you prefer simplicity at the cost of balance, meaning there is less reason to play in the first place?