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HTC damn mobile auto corrtect eve terminology

Autocorrect can't explain the remainder of the incoherent post.

Now that you've corrected, it is somwhat readable.

emphasis added.

You are safer in highsec.

YES. Got in before a CODE agent chimed in.

Seriously though OP. Let me take you down your own train of thought and try to help you understand why the security mechanic is fine the way it is.

You are sitting in highsec. You no longer have to worry about gankers. If someone commits a criminal act in hisec their victim only receives 1 hp of damage and the ganker's ship explodes. Life is good. You laugh and scoff at the fools that join corps. Fools want to risk loses ships in a wardec? That is fine by you. You have a decent PvE battleship and can make enough isk to sub your account with little problems.

So, what is next for you? Join a Corp? No, you have already decided that risking PvP in hisec is foolish. You can handle it in a controlled environment where you can pick and choose when you are at risk but no need to subject yourself to it. What to do? As you look over you r prospective opportunities one thing becomes blatantly clear, there is no nitch market. Everyone has a leg up on you no matter what you do. In fact, those fools in corps have access to manufacturing and reprocessing facilities that allow them to make and products at a price that would force you to take a loss on whatever you make. You consider trading but there are huge capital investment requirements before you can start making decent isk. Hauling but with hisec clear of gankers, you are again a small fish in a big pond. The profit margin very slim. That battleship was fun for the first week but some of the missions take you into lowsec and you have already had a few close calls.

It is at this point you say to yourself "I wish there was a way to get better at PvP. Something with some risk but not too much. Just enough to learn the basics.

That is when you reach your moment of complete clarity and realize the very thing you needed, even now want, you demanded they take away from you.


My advice is to pause your skill training for a week or two, create a second toon and train it, and fall headlong into PvP/ corps/risk and see what you are missing. At the very least you will get insight into how the other half lives.

There are others that think the opposite.


I think high-sec is a mess of forced tactics due to it trying to cater for everyone.

The OP seems to be labouring under the misconception that High Security=Total Security; it does not.

Highsec is only as safe as you make it for yourself. Concord aren't there to to protect you, they are there to punish those who commit the only punishable offence in highsec, which is unsanctioned aggression.

An analogy would be a game park.

• Concord are the wardens, they allow the inhabitants to become fat and juicy targets, to form their own herds if they desire, and they punish poachers.
• Concord sell the rights to kill the inhabitants of the game park, specifically those that have formed herds, to hunters on safari; in this analogy herds are player corps and wardec corps are the hunters.
• Gankers are analogous to poachers, they kill what they can catch without paying their dues and, unless they can engineer a situation where a kill is "legal", they always get punished for it.
• Some players are more akin to natural predators, they use the environment and the ignorance of others to engineer situations where the majority of their kills are "legal" and thus Concord leaves them be for the most part. This group includes both hunters and the more cunning poachers, sometimes it includes people who would normally be considered prey.
• Faction Police are gamekeepers, their primary purpose is to discourage poachers and other undesirables.

TL;DR Highsec isn't meant to be safe, the whole crimewatch mechanic was written to reflect that, and gankers are very much working as intended.

5. Then everyone at the new game complains that it needs to be more like eve.
6. Devs at new game listen to complaints and try make the game more dangerous.
7. Return to step 1.

Hipsters got to post where it's currently hip. It's OK, someday they'll mature and know that some thoughts need more than one sentence to explain.

I lol'd politely.

Er, no - screw you, actually...there is not now, then, nor will ever be a viable or actual bank (based on EVE's mechanics as they currently stand). Your 'profession' (such as it is) is basically just a figment of someone's deranged imagination, especially if you believe that 'bankers' (as they currently operate in EVE) are somehow integral to the continued operation and success therein.