Missions & Complexes

Ok some of you may or may not remeaber me from the level 5's in high sec debats.

I just would like to take this time to just ask one ?

Why did CCP bother taking level 5's out of high sec and then put Incursions in? Now dont get me wrong I love Incursions even more then I loved High sec level 5's. I fought hard to keep them.

It looks stupid to me at least to remove High sec level 5's in the face of High sec Incursions.

Now dont get me wrong here I no longer care about high sec level 5's and would not bother doing them. At least not with Incursions happening.

I'm just wondering how many other people think the remove of High sec level 5's in the face of handing us High sec Incursions that are even better then level 5's was kind of I dont know stupid? A needless effort? Looks something like No kid smoking tabbaco is bad for you here is a 10 ring hitter and some weed this is much better for you kind of deal?

I totally agree, look a bit odd and i would like to see high sec lvl 5s again.

Im not a fan of incursions, done them a few times but would like to see some challanges i can do solo without having to worrie about getting ganked and spamming D-Scan for probes every 2 sec.

Yeah because greater reward should come with the same amount of risk as less reward right?

How about you join a corp that has a low sec presence and then do the missions? Or is that too much effort for a solo mission runner?

Test server is that way

I don't really understand fully what you're attempting to say here but regardless:

the point is if you want "higher end content" you have to leave high sec. That's the way it works in Eve. Outside of high sec there is a lot more game content. You need only to leave high sec to access it.

EDIT: I will say that new, complex/difficult/twisted missions should definitely be added. The epic arcs were a nice start and some of the new missions I've heard of. I haven't missioned in ages but the addition of level 4 missions that require frigate use (T2/faction necessary) or other weird elements like that is long over due. Also, more epic arcs. Missions definitely need work, but not in the sense that the OP is proposing, i.e. missions with greater rewards.

Is that why power blocks are abandoning their sovs in droves and coming back to highsec?

What we need is move moogoo to highsec.

Exactly. Incurisons are "higher end content" than L5s and on top of that don't even get standings loss as L5s are mostly faction missions as well.

It's a bit like L4 and L6 missions are in highsec - but L5s are only in lowsec.
What's the use?

One of these activities require teamwork, the other can easily be farmed in a single passive tanked rattler.

You want excitement, wait for those probes to finish scanning you down and see who comes to visit. More excitement to be had there than in any mission or incursion.

edit: before you go off about how I'm some pirate trying to make you play my way, understand that I was and still am a wormhole explorer. Those tense moments of avoiding ganks in w-space were FAR more exciting than PVE could ever hope to offer.

There is maybe 2-3 missions you can solo in a reasonable amount of time in a solo rattler.

Takes me 10mins to finish Sansha Acquisition (need to pop a 280k hp structure and clear some tackle) with 3k dps including rage torps (tengu, machariel + torp cnr).
Will take 40mins+ with solo rattlers ~600dps.

You'd make more soloing lvl4s for one of those r&d type corps who have a good lp store (not the crummy navy ones we have to put up with for lvl5s).