EVE General Discussion

It always seem like the "fix" for low-sec has to do with getting more carebears into low-sec, and i don't think that is ever going to happen. CCP can add better ore, and tweak level 5 missions, but i really don't think they have some magic wand that will make low-sec a magical place, where pirates are shooting miners and mission runners all day long.

I recently moved from npc null sec to non-fw low sec, looking for the feeling of solitude in space without having to do 40 jumps thru null and i'm glad i found it.

Local channel and Falcon alt make me feel safe.
I run sites with the Ishtar or Proteus.
I move the stuff i loot with a Blockade Runner, sometimes with another cov ops ship.

I'm a lonely happy bear, and now i don't have to worry about small gangs looking for me, or bored alliance dudes that want to titan bridge on my Proteus/Ishtar.

I'm not sure i agree, i think npc null is more suited for small gang pvp. In my opinion low-sec should be more like high-sec, without concord.

I really like a lot of the low-sec mechanics, it's not terrible dangerous to fly around low-sec, it's easy accessible from hi-sec, and it's not a huge commitment to take a trip through low-sec. While at the same time low-sec is a place where you are likely to get shot if you let your guard down, or is just careless or stupid.

The future is what you make of it.

It will also "encourage" more people to quit...

Because there is always risk (especially when you are flying an insta-pop like a Cheetah. That doesn't mean it isn't empty, it is rather precautionary.

I also never implied that deaths don't happen in lowsec, especially to the careless, but that still doesn't mean it isn't empty.

And I didn't retreat to highsec. I retreated to Null, and now I'm back in high sec... looking for another null corp. What did I tell you about making assumptions?

Lowsec was fun back in 2006.


When we think of lowsec back then we think of piracy.


Imagine the pirates of olde trying to operate in the Caribbean and the are was just like lowsec.

Imagine that ships from say Kingston could just leave the harbor and then blink over to England or Boston. Or perhaps ships from there just blink right into the harbor.

What would that have been like?


The largest of the tall ships had issues with the reef heads and shallows. So there were limits to how the navies could handle the "pirate problem". From the looks of it, it's BLOPS BLOB or GTFO.

Perhaps lowsec could be the first candidate for the Dinsdale Cloud Effect? Maybe if supers were banned from lowsec like they are banned from highsec? Is not lowsec still empire space? Why the double standard?

Oh well.

Low Sec is just a honeypot for pvp. Most high sec peeps are scared to death of entering it alone and the peeps that live in 0.0 have other fish to fry. For the most part, it's the unsuspecting noobs that enter into low sec as most other experienced peeps know that it isn't worth venturing into alone.

Its a shame that we can't make some high sec systems into low sec and vice versa through some mechanic similar to flipping a faction warfare system. If CCP truly wanted to see more pvp, this would certainly be the way to do it. Just think of the ramifications would be flipping a highly traveled high sec system like Eudama/Sivala into a low sec one would be. It would be pure chaos! One that the care bears should want to protect and one that the low sec pirate corps/alliance would love to keep.

Low bears what's next worm bears?

My opinion is that we need more access points to low both from high and null space make it bigger as well and introduce lo sec areas with ban on cap ships(optional)