EVE General Discussion

This has been discussed for years. Yes, your points are valid, and you're not the only one who thinks this.

I think FW was supposed to help lowsec, and to some extent it worked. Lowsec incursions are the only ones that drop the supper BPC, trying to boost lowsec. And yet it's still lacking: null is better isk 90% of the time, and safer 90% as well. There are some people who enjoy lowsec, but it's a niche part of a niche game.

I don't have any solutions, but the problem with lowsec that I see is it was designed to let players from both sides ease in to the other, but players have adapted into something CCP probably didn't quite intend.

Mainly the gate guns were probably designed to keep camps off the gate but instead the players now camp the gates in battlecruisers or battleships with a broadsword for tackle so now its just a massive gate camp at all times.

Low sec contains opportunities for those with the will to risk themselves, but without the organization or connections to thrive in null. And while gate guns aren't really the protection they were supposed to be back in the day, the fact that you can't bubble in low is an important distinction from null to those who travel there.

Sadly, most high sec carebears' first impression of low sec is running straight into a meatgrinder perma-gate camp like Ammamake and assuming that every system in low is like that.

Let me just clear up this misunderstanding: You can warp a fleet in low-sec, just as you can anywhere else.

Here's a couple of things that you can only do in 0.0 but not in low-sec or high-sec.

You can use warp-interdiction spheres or warp interdiction bubbles. Both prevent warping while you are within their range.

You can launch bombs from your stealthbomber.

You can deploy jump-bridges to move ships without using gates.

You can build your own stations.

(The two last points are also linked to having sovereignty over a number of systems.)



The fact that low-sec forces you to use different tactics when fighting, mostly because you can't use the modules listed above, gives small skirmish fleets are good chance to find a similar fleet to fight against.
Faction Warfare was already mentioned. It's awesome, because you can have fights in frigates or in cruisers or in battleships ...

I found 0.0 rather dull and empty, but then again I was living in a system with low traffic.

Low-sec is awesome:
-Get some skilled, like-minded pilots together.
-Pick a system to base out of (preferably a pipe system).
-Join a militia.
-Make some allies in the neighboring systems, leave some as enemies.
-Set up a POS or two in your home system.
-Purge random POSes for some good fights.
-Pirate when opposing militia isn't bringing good fights.
-Do 4, 5, and 6/10s for easy ISK.

Take a look at the number of ships lost per capita within low-sec and you'll see what it's good for. FW keeps certain pockets very active, while non-station systems and systems off the primary thoroughfares remain fairly quiet. I really like low sec, the primary problem is finding PvP oriented means to making money. Thankfully the new FW changes are sort of addressing this, though there is still a considerable amount of room for improvement.

As far as traveling is concerned low sec is quite safe compared to null; no need to check is theres a bubble or even a frigate at the gate just jump from gate to gate with no care in the world.

Low sec aside from gates and sovereignty doesn't differ that much from npc-null sec, your stations can still be camped and you still die just the same when you get tackled at the belt.
It's just that people have this horrible hang up about dying and losing their pods that makes them think that 0.0 is somehow always more dangerous then low sec.

Null sec in many ways is a more profitable, empty version of HS that supports pvp. Oddly 80-90% of lowsec I've been through has maybe 1 person enter every 20 or so minutes and that's just passing by. The only dangerous part of ls is near major HS areas.

Hehe, that is utterly hilarious and soooo spot on.

It's EVE in a nutshell

Tanking gateguns like a bawss Erryday.

In reality CCP does not love its pirates as much as a cuddly bunch of yarrs deserves.

We should at least get better sec gains considering all the gcc we soak up.