EVE General Discussion

Just enable the escalating gate guns in lowsec.

Should clean up that nonsense.

Why was that dropped anyway? Or is it still on the table?

i'm bad and i want ccp to change the game for me!

We had warp to 0 fix a lot of low sec and maybe a little lag, but why not just have the jumpgates hurl us to where we want to go bypassing it entirely?

I think that would be the quickest the best solution.

I've biomassed multiple mains thinking I'd never come back, but I always do. I've started several main characters and all of them (including my first) left high sec almost immediately. I know from first hand experience that a BC is plenty capable of null sec belt ratting with about a month of training. You might not be an awesome solo killing machine right off the bat, but you can contribute to PvP fleets pretty quickly. Your statement is objectively and demonstrably wrong.


They already have that. It's called a cyno.

A few points:

1: I agree with the idea that Low Sec should have unique rewards available there.

2: However, currently Low Sec is busier and more populated than it ever has been in the past, FW has been a huge boon to it.

3: A noob in a rookie ship can enter low sec and do whatever he pleases, gate camps are only difficult to pass (for a lone player) if you are trying to bring in larger ships.

4: Gate camps are, and have always been, the absolute best way to get pirate kills. You are more vulnerable in a gate camp to attack from an organized group than most any other group activity in EvE, save mining fleets.

5: Anything goes in High Sec space as well. If you haven't figured that out yet, you will.

6: If you insist on playing solo, your game play options are going to be limited in comparison to the rest of the community. This is by design.

7: The map and it's various settings are your friend, if you are clever enough to use it.

8: Someone is bitter about getting snagged in a gate camp I see.

Get eight friends with battleships together and show them what you think of their gate camp.

It already exists, it's called a scout.

I hate gate camps too but they are an inevitable emergence of the game mechanics as they stand.

With a bit of thought they aren't difficult to deal with though. Here's a few ideas:

Check the number of ships killed the the last hour stats on your map. Anything higher than 5 should be warning bells.

Fit warp core stabs for travelling and then refit when you arrive.

Use interceptors.

Use cov ops.

Use wormhole space to bypass notorious choke points.

Fit a MWD so you have a chance at burning back to the gate.

Learn the MWD - cloak trick

If already in losec, warp to a nearby planet and d scan the gate to check it out before going through.

If already in losec, keep a good eye on local chat and watch for blinkies.

I haven't lost an expensive ship to a camp in a long time.

Amazing, OP seems to be involved only in hisec "pvp", and wants a safer lowsec.

While I can agree that lowsec really need some love outside of FW gate guns and camps are definitely not a problem that needs fixing. Gate camps are relatively easy to avoid even without scouting alt (pro tip: map statistics) and if one cannot manage to do it that's not camper's fault.

Problem with low is that after static DEDs stealth removal big parts of it simply converted to ghost towns. Metrics of course show nothing because FW areas are bumping statistics.