EVE General Discussion

low sec is fine it just needs to hire a better PR firm.

The thing is though, most of these players aren't "carebears", they actively PvP in lots of other videogames.

The reason why they don't enter lowsec much is because they think it's simply not worth it or viable.

Which is why, imo, it might be a good idea to increase the profitability of low security space, to balance the risk.

Its amazing but you are entirely wrong. Moon goo drove 0.0 combat for 5 years, the fact one conglomorate has finally won doesn't mean resources don't drive conflict. Buffing an area doesn't have to add more isk into game, quite the opposite in fact, just look at FW, isk removed from game, lots of rich happy people.

Personally i think they should buff lo sec by adding cruiser/bc hull officers with medium x-type equiv loot.

There is a bag of cash dropped on the highway... You have no clones, how much money would it take for you to actually risk your life and fetch that bag from the middle of the deadly traffic?

Low sec should be more of financial risk of making no income as of unforseen events and bad planning, not a lethal risk of blowing most of your stuff.

Low sec has too much lethal risks, the reward is like a 10 bucks note...


Risk and Reward of Low Sec is not balanced. Risk is immense.

Reward is 15% higher than high sec.

think about the rationality of low sec activities

It may give free kills, what is the value of such kills?

Newbies have no expensive stuff, experienced players watch kill/pod statistics, freighters should use scouts.

Overtime, the value of kills will diminish.

Explain more of what you see.

Hm, highsec mining, mission running and incursioning.

the main problem is: such kills produce some number used to compare different corporations inside some of 0.0 alliances. Who has more kills - winner. At least alliances i've been to used this numbers as metric of 'pvp-activity' of their members.

So yes. I hated this activity but i needed to take participation to help to my corp.
It's one of the reasons why i returned to high-sec.

But every so often you find one that doesn't, or you find that guy who loads up a frigate with deadspace mods, or tries to carry BPOs in a shuttle, or hit the wrong gate, or forget to reset his autopilot for highsec only and it validates the whole thing----think of that t3 killed in Rancer carrying 90 PLEX (none of which dropped btw).

What would "fix" low sec is to add some actual security. As it is now, low sec is just null without bubbles.

3 suggestions:

1. NPC police spawns at gates and on stations.
2. More gate guns, better gate guns, different kinds of gate guns (ewar or capacitor warfare).
3 Player police. Not everyone wants to be a villain and not everyone wants to be a partisan in faction warfare. Let us join CONCORD.

I'll elaborate.

It is ridiculous to think that on one side of a gate is the all-powerful CONCORD and one mousclick away is lawless space. Low sec is supposed to be LOW security space, not NO security space. If there is a CONCORD or faction navy station IN the system, why the hell wouldn't there be CONCORD or faction navy NPCs there? Or, how about some Ishukone security ships or The Scope security . . . at their own stations? The Angel Cartel apparently has enough ships and personnel to patrol every single asteroid and ice belt from here to Insmother, but the most powerful empires in the galaxy can't even afford to put 1 ship on their own station? Give me a break. I don't advocate instant death for outlaws, but there could definitely be more game mechanisms to disrupt their activities, like there are for miners. (Miners don't like rats.)

Gate guns as a deterrent to piracy is an interesting idea, but they just don't do enough against players whose sole focus is combat, and whose ship-fittings and fleet compositions are designed for the singular purpose of gate camping. They just haven't kept pace. If even just one more gun was added or an ewar or neuting battery, it would change the complexion of many of the clashes that occur on gates and at stations. As it is now, anyone trying to run through a low sec system who gets jumped is probably fighting in enemy territory as it is, and with warp scrambling, ECM, remote repairing, fleet boosting etc. that give compounding advantage to increasingly large groups of players, if you aren't fully equipped, prepared, and lucky, you aren't going to survive walking into low sec, letalone living there. If you can't defend yourself just walking through the door, you aren't going to be there.

The last suggestion is my favorite, and I'll start the elaboration off with a quote from one of my favorite historical figures: "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak . . ."
It doesn't matter how many do-gooders there are if the do-badders are more organized. Like it or not, the bad guys have won in EVE to this point. Most major alliances live to beat up on you, exploit you, take your stuff, and generally **** on your gaming experience, unless you are one of them or blue to them. And, they don't do it just with ship combat. They do it with propoganda. With trade. With politics. With whatever they can. If I want to pirate, gank, blob, rob and cheat, there are plenty of places to go. If I want to kiss the rings of a mega-CEO in order to mine HIS ore or rat HIS complexes or patrol HIS systems, I could find a corp in 5 minutes. But, if I want to resist, I have virtually no option but to play solo. Make CONCORD a joinable NPC corp and I think you will see flights of CONCORD even roaming into null security space . . . or admit that chaos and lawlesness is the ultimate, unstated goal of EVE Online.

Ummm.... I think there are already 4 trade hubs??? Could be wrong but