EVE General Discussion

So, for those of you who have the EON lowsec map, and/or live in lowsec, what I'm about to go over will make sense pretty instantly, but for those of you who don't, it might take a bit of explanation.

First off, looking at a good flattened map of lowsec, showing lowsec connections, something becomes instantly clear: lowsec is not a ring around highsec, lowsec is a complicated maze of systems that leaves some areas completely cut off from others. If you're a pirate, or someone else with low sec status, it makes travelling anywhere very difficult, thus providing a huge disadvantage in travelling to people already limited by being cut off from highsec.

Examples of this are abundant:

*Lowsec Domain/Kor-Azor/Kador are cut off from lowsec Amarr facwar space, in order to get from one side of Amarr lowsec to the other, you have to take a complicated loop up through genesis, into Sinq Laison and Everyshore, and across the Schoorasana-Gratesier-Saidusarios Pipeline into the bleak lands.

*The factional warfare sections of Devoid and Derelik are completely cut off from the non-lowsec sections. The non-FW sections are a completely isolated lowsec pocket of about 50 systems, unreachable without going through highsec.

*Lowsec Lonetrek and lowsec The Forge are over a hundred jumps through lowsec away from each other. To get to the lowsec areas of The Forge, from Lonetrek, you have to go all the way through Black Rise, Verge Vender, Essence, again across the Schoorasana-Gratesier-Saidusarios Pipeline, then all the way up the Heimatar-Metro Pipe.

*Lowsec Khanid is cut off from one side of lowsec Tash-Murkon by highsec, necessitating a route up through the back end of Aridia and Genesis and around and down.

*Lowsec Solitude can only be reached by one non-nullsec route, into the back end of Genesis where it connects Aridia.

There are plenty more examples, but these are the most egregious examples of places with issues. What this ends up doing, is making it very very difficult for those with low security status to travel very far outside their system neighbourhood, thus encouraging a static existence with gatecamping and and roaming the same neighbourhoods constantly as the norm.

How to fix this is easy, just like highsec has Highway Gates, so too should lowsec. Turning lowsec into a true loop around highsec. There would still be some lowsec pockets, but not as many, and overall I think this would make pirates very happy. Here are some places, purely as speculative examples, of places where gate connections might be added:

Saikamon-Soosat
Sharir-Bairshir
Maila-Ihakana
Olettiers-Hypsera
Kenninck-Ratillose
Ashmarir-Rethan
Sibot-Soosat
Zinoo-Haras
Karan-Agaullores

Even with only the gate connections I've listed above, most of the problems would be solved and lowsec would be made much easier to travel around. To say nothing to the possibility of just adding more lowsec to turn it into a more complete loop. I also think much more NPC null should be added around the perimeter of lowsec, to form yet another loop, but that's a discussion to be had in another post, and would be a much more involved concept.

Overall adding gates is easy, and the benefits are huge, the drawbacks few.

So what does the community think?

Well of course I'm in favor. I full intend to one day be -10.0, and would love it if I could get to other low-sec areas rather than be trapped in a pocket. Of course, small fast ships will always be able to rush through hisec to get where they're going, but a lowsec PvP corporation with overall low security status should, in my opinoin, be able to take alternative paths other than hisec if they choose to move around. Hey CEO, bored of yarring around Molden Heath? No problem! Pack up your corp (with all the fun risks that entails!) and take the base of operations to the south-eastern lowsec areas of Devoid-Derelik (which is currently an isolated pocket).

I just think this would be a great idea, because it would allow some lowsec PvP groups to mess with other lowsec PvP groups they've never seen before on the other side of the map without having to dodge the cops all the time.

+1

I'm kinda amazed this isn't in game already as it's a small fix for huge gain.

I expected a thread about highways for highseccers to bypass lowsec.
I got a thread about highways for lowseccers to bypass highsec.
+1

-1

I want lowsec and highsec to be more scattered. I ******* love regions like Solitude. I do not like loops.

I like lowsec the way it is. It make the universe zones feel unique, for exempe, places like solitude are special.

There are already too many highways, and travel is too fast.

If anything they should remove the high sec highways between the Minmatar/Gallente half of high sec, and Amarr/Caldari half of high sec.

while I do understand where you're coming from, another losec route to solitude wouldn't be that harmful.

This also would be solved by turning hisec empires into islands separated by lowsec.

Don't you dare touch my Solituide.