Player Features and Ideas Discussion

really? I hate to inform you, but there are players who own carriers / dreads in high sec.

as for the content creation due to removing capital production from low sec stations, if you love popping pos's that much you should jump in a time machine and go back to 2005 and enjoy the sov mechanics that were based around whoever could deploy more pos's on the moons in one system.

the production aspect of using low sec stations really shouldn't change, there is already more than enough content in low sec that moving the production to pos's only is not warranted. you have pirate ganking, pirate hunting, improve sec status tags hunting, FW, titans+ moms in low sec getting ganked and mishaps on stations that cause other capitals including jump freighters to get ganked too..... I also forgot to mention about pos's on good moons getting ganked too.

as you can see there is plenty of content / chances of content already in low sec and if you really are having trouble finding content why not go roaming with your corp/alliance in null

So, you technically agree with me that Sov 00 is pointless for industrials, simply because the bulk of the people are too lazy, too cowardly and too convenience-only driven?

My point is and always will be that, if you have SOV, you are supposed to LIVE in your sovereign space: Make money there, build the things you need there, defend your home there. Not import from elsewhere, not make money elsewhere - only because it is easier. My point is that you have cheap access to minerals in Sov 00 because of the fact that you can set reasonable prices and because you have it right at your doorstep. You don't even need to import from 00 (which is the case in Low sec production), because you have ALL the minerals right next to you.

If that is the case, Sov 00 is pointless in its essence and can be removed. Let's just all have NPC 00 and a lot more Low sec space in this case. Solves a lot of problems and gives finally room for good PVP, more commitment and more death.

Your small POS is RF'd in minutes and you cannot do anything about it, it will be done repeatedly and especially by bigger fish to drive of smaller fish. You don't need to destroy the POS, just continually put it in RF. that interrupts enough and blueballing makes people mad over time.
The advantage of Sov 00 is that you don't need a POS to reprocess, that the cost (while also low in NPC stations) is ZERO in Sov 00 stations, unless you have a bastard as station holder. You don't need to move minerals across huge distances, just from one refinery system to the production system next door. You can do all that under the protection of Cyno Jams. There are so many advantages in Sov 00, that your points about Low sec production cannot compensate.

With your consideration points, you leave out of the picture that people gank more than ever before in High sec under dubious justifications. That you have your massive intel in Sov 00; or should have, because otherwise you are doing it wrong; that you can have defensive fleets ready and guarding the miners (which, after all, is demanded by miners in High sec as well, so why should Sov 00 mining be different?), etc. You can ignore AFK campers because you can react immediately to fleets appearing. You exactly do not lose time hauling because Refineries and Production plants are usually close together, if done right, whereas in Low sec production, you need to haul the ore/minerals from trade hubs to your Low sec.

Just start living in your space, use the full potential of what your space offers you and ignore the rest of EVE, especially High sec as source of cheap labor. You own your empire, so use it - otherwise we don't need this system at all. Also, if you start doing that properly as Sov Holders, demand in High sec for Ore/Minerals will dwindle and people look for new ways to make their money with mining, which should theoretically draw more people to Low sec and 00 Sec (not all, as I have stated repeatedly, but a considerable number will reconsider the possibilities). This can over time also solve the constantly brought up problem of the importance of trade hubs and can change the gameplay quite a lot. But if Sov 00 holders (the, as it seems, drivers for content and gameplay of EVE) continue the way they play now, nothing is going to change and people will continue bicker against their own windmills like dumb pulps of meat.

Only in the current state of rotting things.

And if it is easier, I ask again, where is the point of Sov 00 to begin with? Why have that if people are not willing to take on a slightly harder path? From what it seems in your posts, and I mostly agree with them, we should not remove High sec from the game but make all Sov 00 into NPC 00 or Low sec, since people take the easier path anyways. Limiting cap production in Low sec is in my opinion unlikely to change anything in that regard.

no

Um, no.

Lowsec needs more activity, not less.

Not sure about the defending part. If that link to actual FW performance would happen and if Sov 00 bunnies switch over to Low sec for production, the mentioned blobs would just chose 1 FW side and dominate the FW area of said part, effectively prohibiting players of the opposing faction warfare from cap production.

As stated in another thread: Blobs are dumb and predictable and do everything to exploit the game for the maximum possible returns. So this would very likely result in even more power to the blob and in turn less activity in Low sec.

Yes

No. Not everyone lives in Null or wants to live in null, so why should a aspect of the game that works be removed for those that use it in their choice of home space.

Which is not useful. I will be building a carrier at some point and I'd want it being done on a station where I have easy access and not have worry about pos logistics.

The building of capital ships is as much a low sec thing as it is a null sec thing. SuperCaps are whole different kettle of fish they alone should be the domain of null industry