EVE General Discussion

Before I played this game I read stories of vast empty systems, regions where you could jump 10's of systems without seeing anyone. This intrigued me and reminded me of the feeling I often got back in the day playing Elite when you really did feel all alone in a vast universe.

I've been playing for a few months now and found this not to be the case, except for a few days over xmas when I was able to make some iskies exploring and hacking but apart from that New Eden feels like Tokoyo. People everywhere, whether in high, low or null. WH's are not much better.

Anyway this noob would love to see huge expanses of space made available. Double or triple the size of New Eden as it stands now. To be able to feel adrift in a vast cosmos would be awesome.

Perhaps, when subs were lower, it previously felt like this? Does New Eden feel crowded now to the old players? Other than WH space have CCP ever expanded the galaxy?

Stop standing so close to me :/

Like the guy above said.

Get out of highsec. Preferably, go find a wormhole. Have fun.

There is a LOT of empty space.
Yesterday we rolled our static for 4 hours and the only person we found was some dude harvesting gas in his venture.
Bob hates us.

Eve is very, very small.

As in a land-rush, it has all been staked out, carved up and fortified. To gain access to said open spaces all one has to do is become a soldier in one alliance or another.

A blog called this Conehead play style.

I much prefer your thinking, referring to a broadly expansive, alluring Eve Universe.

To answer OP:

High sec and low sec is extremely populated compared to back when I started. Remember living out of Rens and not having to go more than 2 jumps to be in empty high sec systems.

Low sec is actually less populated than I remember it... That is if you count the RMT armies living out of Ingunn for a few years. Lived next door to them and once manged to get no less than 200 hauler kills in an hour which ended in 45 mission ravens all called sdfgasifk, iasghfjh, asdfkuh etc. warping in to kill my lonely sleipnir. If you dont count them, you were lucky to find a ship or 2 piloted by real players. Then FW hit, and since, low sec has been very populated.

I got almost no experience with 0.0, but remember having a pos somewhere once. Managed to keep it alive alone, using a wreathe to fuel it 11 jumps into 0.0. (yeah, we have all been nubs once with too much time). Anyway, back then I only lost 2 loads of fuel in 3 months og running a pos. Now (in my limited experience) you can barely enter 0.0 without running into a camp.

0.5/10

Go to nullsec, its almost completely empty!

I think you're lying, if you've been out of highsec you would of known that not be true.

Think of it this way

Caldari space is los angeles

Gallente space is chicago

Amarr space is london

Minmatar space is detroit

Null sec is the middle east

Low sec is somalia

Wormhoe space is hawaii

Yes this is what 0.0 usually is like.

I've been roaming null and have easily done 10 jumps without seeing anyone. You need to leave hisec.