EVE General Discussion

A fairly typical arrangement, from what I've seen of serious players.

Nullsec is the high-end battleground.
Very few people actually live there, and the ones that try end up burning out on the limited content pretty quickly.

There are exceptions, of course, but I've seen too many people try to go all-out into sov null, burn out after about 6 months, and simply leave the game completely at that point.

There's something wrong there, and I don't think that having to ship goods in from highsec trade hubs is even on the same continent as where the real problems lie.

Now compare it with the "nerf hi sec, buff (we only care for) sov null sec" threads and draw a comparison with yours.
Yours and mine are a whole systematic approach, not the same stuff you find in GD.

And compare what you propose, Malcanis proposed, and what I have proposed, and they are all along a similar line. We all think people need a push from Hi sec or that hi sec needs to shrink. Surely this means, that there is something inherently wrong with hi sec

Just for a starter I proposed to remove the current awful scanner and replace it with a more modern radar. That thing (and local) would provide less and less information the lowest in security you go. Human players lock times would be higher on higher sec as well, possibly with active defense like "lock breaker" mods to click before the other player got a solid lock on you. Capitals and bubbles would still be limited to lowest sec areas, supercaps only in 0.1 downwards.

Player owned stations and POSes would be available at every sec, with increasing kinds of activities and efficiency and slots enabled as you go lower in sec (a bit like now, where you can't react in hi sec etc.).

The ways are possible, I have played so many PvP games in a decade, some of them dealt with "full PvP" without all the aerobatics EvE goes through to keep an artificial safe zone.

That's because we provide our own content and "new player experience." While it would be a good idea we haven't needed it as of yet. An actual player showing the newbee how to move their ship and explaining things to them works far better than the career missions.

Every single, every single PvP MMO I have played had conquerable castles, keeps, stations and whatsnot where the only reward was being able to show your flag and tabard, sometimes getting a 5% buff at what gold NPCs dropped as loot and similar trifles. We had to pay tons of money a day as "upkeeping", keep 24/7 guard at our conquests because there were like 20 available structures to fight for between the whole player base and all wanted to capture your stuff.

Seriously, if you don't feel like you have achieved a reward for holding what you conquered, you are playing a clerk game where all you are in for, is the union contracted base wage.

Even the worst BoB took pride for their conquests as "per se" e-peen display.
You new(er)comers seem only interested at some pathetic paid fee for a job you were not even really after.

I understand most won't like what I'd like and unlike others, I don't spam 1 thread a day to push my wishes on the face of everybody else.

Ban Amarr!

Anchor-anywhere modular POS will solve the industrial imbalance (if CCP allows it to).

It's already been stated by a dev as being in the plan.

You've got bigger problems than this, especially since even Goonswarm space which should be the friendliest and most entertaining space to play in for new players that are part of the empire is a pale shadow of the most backwater NPC regions for activity levels.

As we can see we are almost at Godwin's Law thread status. Thanks for pushing forward to it.