Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi there,

I've been a low-sec residence for a long time now, I always viewed low-sec as an outlaw hub full of pirates, and criminals of all sorts. Where small gang and solo fights occur, sure not always. However, it is widely known since ever that pvp is a non-profitable occupation. Actually, most people do it for fun.

My idea to revive low-sec and bring that outlaw vibe would be to simply change the drop rate from the items fallen by a destroyed ship. Actually, make pvp in low-sec a bit more profitable and therefore, bring more people there looking for profit and fame.

Another reason is the PVP in low sec has always have the most drastic penalties compared to all regions. You lose your security status and eventually you're unable to enter in high-sec without the cops shooting at you. At the same time, there are not pros to it.

Here's an example:

• High-sec drop rate = 20%
• Low-sec drop rate = 65%
• Null-sec drop rate = 50%

This would make low-sec unique and give people a reason to go there more often. If you are reading this post, you might not enjoy pvp or even think pirates are scum, who deserve to die in the fires of hell. However, low sec is meant to be the wild west where everyone is trying to kill one another.

Thanks for reading, please share your comments below ;)

This kills the HS suicide ganker.

Well, the drop rate at the moment is already about 20% and people still suicide gank, it only give more incentive for people to go to more "dangerous" regions of EVE. Well, probably high sec is the most dangerous one at the moment. Long Live CODE.

Lowsec is fine. It's probably the most balanced space we have in the game and I go pirating there regularly. Just the other day, caught a ruppy running a 3/10 escalation in what I consider my pocket, killed him and took all the shinies myself. Fun times.

If you want more people going nuts doing silly **** in lowsec, its simple. Remove standing loss, remove gate / station guns. Basically get rid of the crap that gets in the way of free form PvP there. You can keep the ban on bubbles and bombs to differentiate it from nullsec if you really care, but those things are fun.

For a quick fix of low sec in general, CCP could simply put the W back in FW.

It needs to be Faction Warfare again rather than Find Wealth.

Mr Epeen

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If it were to, it would be a good thing. HS is way too interesting at the moment for combat spectators and in terms of action. I get more interesting local babbling, combat engagement and thrill from running ships through Niarja or Uedama than from sitting around in Low sec or Null sec. If more of these gankers would actually leave High sec and populate Low and Null sec more, a lot of things would change for High sec as well. No, not just more safety, it would become more boring and make people look for action elsewhere; people would buy stuff elsewhere diminishing the importance of the Big 4 hubs and potentially foster local production; people would fight where it's too quiet at the moment despite the space being predestined for combat, etc.

How higher loot percentages would kill High sec ganking, however, is beyond me. It's called High sec ganking for a reason: You cannot get it elsewhere, regardless of drop percentage or other things.

And in the process allow PvP to naturally happen anywhere rather than in predictable, predefined locations only when the stars are aligning in a particular way. Being more like null is better than being more like freaking highsec.

The whole point is that impediments are annoying. Lowsec is chock full of them. It's why most people just fly through it.