Player Features and Ideas Discussion

no it doesnt work that way

make lowsec safer or ability to make it safer--> more ppl will be there

Actually the lower the security the lower the safety .. yet null is generally accepted as being the safest place in Eve .. go figure, so there goes your whole argument down the drain. Naomi's concept of giving us tools to up the protection network is a lot more in the spirit of Eve and has a lot more going for it than your delusional ditto.

If you want to hurt high-sec mission runners (and that IS your goal, yes?) then you increase the negative system security payout modifier and/or decrease loot/salvage as security increases. Allows for casual's to keep doing their thing (albeit with lower income) and encourages use of low-sec agents .. mind you it won't be enough due to aforementioned safety concerns, without ability to improve conditions the agents will for the most part still be quite lonely.

Strangely, I'm ok with that.

Rethink missions and make it more competitive. If mission running corps are competing for the same missions it can only enrich the game. Who knows, war decs might be used besides for griefing.

Ya know, I am ok with it as well. Cause of something that I remembered...

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Now, I could of sworn it happened a few years earlier then that as I remember EQ started at 9.99 USD then went to 14.99. But back on topic, I wouldn't mind if the subscription went up cause I would of already canceled it. What happens is there will be an exodus of players leaving (like I don't know the bitching forum rebels that got 20% of CCP fired (<-- pics and it did happen bro) and super caps nerfed...I don't know but I bet it could happen) and now you are paying more to make up the difference when many people can't be bothered and couldn't care to play anymore so you can pretend to be the lone wolf to a flock of sheep. It doesn't bother me one ******* bit that your wallet will now be dinged more and the consequences of your suggestion bite you in the ass making you think...is it worth it to continue playing the game when the cost goes up? F*** yeah move them to low sec, I can hit that cancel button faster then self destruct and know your gaming experience got more expensive.

If you move lvl 4 to low sec then everyone will do incursions. The point is that it's safe not that it's a lvl 4 agent. They all ready moved/ always had lvl 5 agents in low sec and see how popular they are? I think it would be self defeating.

you could make agent payouts dynamic, pay based on how much they were farmed over the last days. make it a running 3-day average. would also favor spreading people out, away from major missioning hubs.

if you pve in null then you preferably choose a cynojammed system. having "1000km bubbles" around gates buys time to warp to safety and cloak up if someone pops up in local.
in low, this is not possible. also, if it was more populated you could not afford to stop missionioning if anyone else entered your system. purely watching the scanner also does not help - and alt might scan you down, leave, 10 minutes later his friends drop on you without scanning. the more money you can make in low would be eaten up by the time you loose taking precautions additionally to your increased ship loss ratio.

pve fits stand no chance against pvp fits. this is another very core problem. pvp fits being mostly buffer-based is a problem.

Ok move L4s to lowsec

Then move lowsec explo sites to nullsec

Remove nullsec explo sites completely along with officer spawns and we might be getting some nice balance

As of now nullsec carebears running nullsec sites in blue space with free intel in local AND intel channels is 100% reward with 0% risk

Suddenly Unsubscribing becomes popular again, that is exactly what we don't want. I agree lowsec needs to be fixed as it is a huge chunk of the game that sees little or no action, in fact it needs more attention than null at this point. There are ways of fixing lowsec, but this ain't one of them.

Oh, look, it's this thread again