Crime & Punishment

This is silly, instead of pissing on highsec, why not make low and null better?

If you take the things I like to do away, or make them much more of a pain for me to do then I can take my two subs away. I paid RL money for my subs and I buy plex to sell.

As it is, I only play maybe 1 month out of every 3 I pay for. I still enjoy the game though.

I simply think making low and null better and leaving high sec alone is the way to go, upsetting the majority of your player base is not a wise idea.
We all know moving level 5's to low did jack all for low sec.

Faction warfare is bringing parts of low alive, because it worth doing and is fun. Add more of that is the answer, not taking away.

Oh well.

This.

The only activity that is higher absolute reward in lowsec than high is exploration.

Mining - the highsec ores are worth more than lowsec ones. (Nullsec ones are a bit more than either).
Missions - in lowsec you can't really use a blinged fit and your ship needs counttermeasures to various tacklers fit, reducing your compleetion speed. Plus in lowsec you get less for item drops other than a handful (meta 4 scrams, some plates, etc)
Incursions - again, much faster in faction fit t2/t3 hulls than in expendable t2 fit t1 hulls
Ratting - not lucrative in high or lowsec.

This would be interesting.

Removing respawns, reducing numbers of NPC ships and buffing them and having it be a 'One player versus a small gang' feel would be worth a try, IMO.

Reward for work is backwards in High v Low sec.

Lets think about it:

High Sec space. I secured, Well populated and developed. So seeing as it is well developed then wouldn't it stand that the most usefull minerals have be mine out pretty much? After all you don't see many large mines being built in the center of a capital city do you? Mission agents wouldn't pay a premium for your services as there are plenty pilots out there who will work for less.

Low Sec space. Less secure but still fairly safe to travel if you have a pit of experiance/practice (just like the outback). Here you find the nice big mines that you can extract all the good minerals that the industry types are wanting. Agents out here would pay a premium to get you to come and hunt that local band of pirate nps etc.

Using this very simplified example you can see the backasswards way the risk v reward ratio is applied.

Fixes.......??? IMO remove all but the basic minerals (Veld? - dunno I never mine) from high sec and move it to low. Reduce the rewards for missions based on the security level of the system they are in. The higher the sec of the system the lower the reward with a decent jump from 0.5 to 0.4 showing the difference from high to low. Even this doesn't have to happen as a lot of agents in 0.5 systems bordering LS send players into LS for the mission so could possibly balance itself out there.

vOv my 2 isk.