EVE General Discussion

theoretically could null sec players survive if access to low/high sec were severed?

I suspect that they could survive at least either through POS production (assuming that blueprints are around) and fleet mining and internal trading. But the massive profits enjoyed by null sec corps would be gone along with the large scale wars that these empires funded. In fact pretty much all conflict would die of in null sec as the resource cost of ships have massively increased, especially tech 2 items due to the research requirements since those blueprints you need for tech 2 versions are now irreplaceable.

Meanwhile in high sec there are swings and roundabounts. At first the market would crash a bit as the flow of null resources stop and prices of ships rise. But on the other hand the demand for ships to fight the null sec wars decline so after a while the market would return to some form of stability. The main place where this isn't true however would be in mercoxit which would completely cripple tech 2 high sec production.

So in other words on both areas of space the tech 2 industry is crippled.

Edit: And before anyone says all mercoxit comes from sleeper. Shh. We're talking economic systems here.

Also what kind of fleet would you need to completely blockade all entrances to null sec perfectly 24/7?

Tell that to all those L4 alts.

You can't jump into highsec only out of it

if you gatecamp both the gates on the null sec entrance system. We might not be able to see a covert jump field but if we put up warp jammers all around the gate to pull you out of warp and then blow you apart before you've got to the gate.

If its a big enough camp we should have the dps.

well if you keep blowing up the POS labs that contain the prints and as so can't access NPC vendors for replacements then the supply of orginals will be reduced. Sure you can make do with copies but you won't be able to do research with them.

So you do research in station systems only, where the BPO is safe. The BPO doesn't need to be in the pos.

You know you have been playing Eve too long when you have seen this topic in GD at least 100 times.

I think this just goes to prove the other guys comment was correct.
Jump Freighters normally jump to a LowSec Station (with a nice undock) in a system next to HighSec then warp directly to the gate and are safely into HighSec.
With the exception of a 24/7 camp of those stations and maybe smartbombing camps on the gates to try and take out the JF before it makes the jump through you wont stop one getting into HighSec.

In relation to your question yes NullSec could survive but it would be a dark ages time while everyone has to actually build infrastructure, recruit industrialists and get used to the fact Jita shopping trips for supplies wont be happening any more.
There would most likely need to be some form of new free port or trade hub as otherwise you wouldn't see much T2 being produced as each region would need to trade the moon goo.

Let's say that the stargates were simply removed, and the actual star systems became unreachable by jump drives, and whatever's there is there, on both sides, so there's no need to gatecamp and blockade JF's. One part of this equation is missing though, does lowsec belong on hisec side or nullsec side? Is it its own category?

The NPC null systems would be the freeports, and there would be a tremendous depression in hisec, since so much of the business comes from null. Hi end minerals would obviously skyrocket in the empire, or if lowsec was severed as well, they'd be nonexistent. I've never seen mercoxit or arkonor in hisec and you can't moon mine. T2 ships in high would be as valuable as alliance tourney prizes. Faction ships would be the new normal.

There'd be a very strong industrial bubble in null, as there'd be a severe lack of ships and modules, and the ones that are already there are pretty expensive as it is. It would be possible to build anything as long as the blueprints are actually out there. Not copies. No NPC's sell any ship blueprints in null except outer ring's industrial ships. Everyone would have to use faction here as well.

Lowsec would be the only one that could really truly survive without the others. There's all blueprints(except outer ring and syndicate stores) moons, ore, missions, and exploration. You'd be able to build anything, or have it drop from faction rats.

I guess you haven't heard of Pod jumping.

You'd need about 85% of the active playerbase dedicated to it.

Jump clones and the cyno field make that impossible anyway.