Missions & Complexes

I think it's also conceivable that, given an organization with a hierarchical command structure as I'm sure the Angels have, that they would keep the less important (ie, lower level) complexes in higher security space where a) they know more capsuleers are wandering around in looking for kills, and b) where they would lose less manpower and cost of materials.

Moving higher level complexes into high sec would lead to the same kind of shameless farming that we're seeing in hihg sec Incursions.

There are already 1/10 to 4/10 in low sec. Are they planning on removing them or something?

No there aren't. Low is strictly 4/10, 5/10, and 6/10.

I actually agree with OP

CCP remember your null sec fixing board ???
PVE available for all ship sizes !!!!!

It will, for sure, no little doubt about at all

I was in Nullsec for the last week for exploration reasons, mainly to get experience about frequency of respawns in different systems. I wanted to find out for certain regions, how many activities of pirates, how they influence your work, how often do my desired spawns, how far i have to travel between the systems, how risky that is etc

I found out that at least in the SOV regions even those systems with very few activity by players have a very high number of anomalies, and nearly guaranteed 1 mag, 1 rad, 1 or 2 plexes and at least 1 or 2 wormholes
Systems with nearly no activity but developed status (indicating a bit activity) have also at least 3 to 6 sites of any kind - depends on what you are after
Non SOV systems have apparantly very low to no activity. While 7 days under surveillance the system deliverd 1 rad site, 3 anomalies, 2 wormholes. There was like no respawn of solved sites within 4 days

While developed systems deliver a wide range of different sites undeveloped non sov systems deliver nothing but the opportunity to go for belt rats - boring

As i am setup more for highsec and lowsec with my configuration i have to admit, that most plexes and several anomalies in nullsec are too hard or too risky (amount of time to spend in there and pirates going for you) for a HAC/LOGI combo fleet. Most of them might be solved, though, it is too risky, at least for me. Once you have understood this, you will become picky, and then the profit starts to sink.

There are LOTS of explorers in nullsec. Competition is higher than in high/lowsec borders, treasures are not that much bigger. Putting lower sites to there is not in any matter of sense. The only problem solved for those demanding this change is the comfort not to have to travel too much, or even worse, travel like 10 or 20 systems to low/hisec to be able to have not so time intense plexes at hand. I understand that travelling is the most dangerous activity in nullsec, but just because you dont want to take the risk of travelling through gates and still want to have small plexes, this can not be solved by bringing sources of hisec to you in nullsec

I can understand the problem, i am sure. But if u dont want to go for plexes - go for belt rats. Having small plexes with chance for highly valuable loot with nearly no effort would simply cause most big plexes to become uninteresting. Solving your comfort issues on the back of hisecs is also not acceptable

Cheer

Then what does the Industry index do?

Because CCP sets the values, amirite?

Good god, reading comprehension is hard.

The only type of signature that is guaranteed to have more with higher level of indices is ore sites, and thats only if you install the ore prospecting array. The survey network upgrade, wormhole upgrade and entrapment array (only affects DED spawns) only increase chance, and since results based on stats are extremely hard to prove, these aren't considered too great of investments. The pirate detection array increases number of anomalies in system with each level but these aren't the exploration sites were talking about.

Back to the point:



This is silly honestly. Index levels don't really have an effect other than "increasing chance in systems with the respective upgrades" meaning that respawns would theoretically be more inclined to happen in these systems. Otherwise, they will just continue to respawn elsewhere in the faction's regions, thus being no different than low/high sec.

The disparity, if any, would be a result of less explorers, not lower index levels. Less explorers = sites aren't respawning = sites get stuck in systems that don't get checked enough, thus giving a perception of "there's no sites here."