EVE General Discussion

I've been playing for a while now, since 2007, and have logged I have no idea how many hours playing ( yes, I know, there's place to find out, but frankly I think it would depress me to suicide! LOL! )

I've spent plenty of time in Hi-Sec, Lo-Sec and null, been a part of small corps and large ones, huge alliances and small ones, tried just about every sub-capital "role" in the game except maybe pirate, mined, played inventor, manufacturer, T2 producer, POS farmer, mission grinder, gatecamp monkey, cyno slave, explorer, scout, FC and who knows what all else, and I thought I was getting a fair grip on the things of New Eden..............

EXCEPT

Lo-Sec.

It vexes me.

Yes, as I said, I've spent plenty of time there, between various locations in Minnie and Gallente space, both in and out of faction warfare, yet still, it vexes me.

I've never been able to properly sort out the purpose for it.

At first, I thought it was just a buffer region between Hi and null, but then I found direct Hi-to-null gates, so there went that theory.

Then I thought it was "to keep the bad guys out of Hi-Sec". (Silly rookie pilots will believe anything they are told.)
But Hi-sec players get "ganked" ( is that even a fair term? ) daily, and often, by so-called "bad guys", so that idea was shot.

As I grew in the game, I came to surmise that Lo-sec must be a sort-of null-sec on training wheels. Then I learned to fly bombers, heavy dictors and cloaky warships that simply cannot function correctly, at full potential, in Lo-sec, so there went another theory in the bin.

I could go on for a boring wall of text all of the things I thought Lo-Sec was supposed to be, and every idea ended up just so much fail and wrong.

So, here I sit, completely vexed and at the end of my logic rope.

What *IS* the point of Lo-Sec? I'm not politicking for anything to change, I'm simply looking for an answer to help me understand a fairly big section of the EvE Universe that defies my every attempt at understanding.

hahahaha we had anti hisec threads anti incursion and nullsec threads
You just found a new one!!!!

Just kidding ,maybe CCP or some veterans could answer that

It used to be the realm of the swashbuckling pirate earlier in EVE's time.

Then the pirates stopped being pirates, and most just became gankers or left altogether.

So lowsec is really just an abandoned child of CCP in its current form.

because whatever little honor there was died

pirates used to be able to make a living ransoming ships, then dishonorable sorts defiled the ransom system and nobody trusted the word of an honorable pirate anymore.

then it became all about the payout of the killmail, since now all you had to show for your good work was boasting rights.

now everyone ganks for cargo or tears or crashes random fleets into each other in null
the art of piracy is dead in eve

While you can get ganked in high-sec, it doesn't happen often, and it mostly happens to a specific group of players. Statistically speaking, high-sec is safe. You're not immune to being targeted but you're one of a large group and there are likely more profitable targets in your area.

Alternatively, low-sec is very dangerous. You could argue it's the most dangerous area in the game. It lacks the stability of CONCORD intervention or of large alliances.

"Lowsec, while only consisting of ~8% of the player population and a similar number of known systems in the universe, accounts for over a quarter of all PVP kills. Talk about fighting above your weight class." - Low Sec by the Numbers.

The art of piracy is dead in EvE ,nice one

Well ,we all wanted EvE to be a cold harsh world.
Think before you wish ,i say

Low sec is there for people who have the will to tolerate higher risk/rewards but may not have the numbers or organizational skills or character skills to operate in 0.0 or wormholes.

It is also home to small-gang pvpers who take no pleasure in null sec blob warfare or high sec suicide ganks.


But most of all, the fact that low is so nebulous and unpredictable is a draw for some players who grow bored when a status quo is maintained too long.

Yeah, but why the train tracks? It's almost always the train track s that divide the city. If you're walking on one side, you can expect sunshine and lollipops, on the other side, you can expect to get robbed, shot, and then beaten to death.... and after that terrifying ordeal is over you can probably score some good shtuff to calm your nerves.

To revitalize and distinguish low sec a proper ransom game mechanic would be cool, shows up just like KMs but with a "ransom paid" something or other on the mail, perhaps different color *insert here* to distinguish it on killboards. Could make piracy a legitimate career; pirates will go for big ransoms, people get to keep their ships, and pirates still get a "killmail". Pair this with ISK payment for killing negative sec status players to attract pirate hunters, etc etc.

Note: This idea was formed in 3 seconds and in no way has been thought out (such as, how do we stop the pirate from blowing up the ship after ransom paid...)

FLAME ON

Low sec is where the Faction War is.