Jita Park Speakers Corner

Come to HED and we'll have that talk again...

Just to expand on what I was meaning:

Move L4s to low, and you'll see a lot less L4s being done. Because it's not really worth it in a risk/reward sense.

What you'd need to do, as far as I can see, is add a new content type to lowsec, which is limited in how many times per day that you can do it. That way it can be worth the risk of losing your ship, while reducing the chance of it being farmed.

Man when even I say this is a bad idea that won't actually do what you hope it will (by the way, this is a bad idea that won't actually do what you hope it will) you gotta know you're wrong.

I have been on/off writing a manifesto for low-sec. Got some more things to work out before I release a draft.

My key issues with lowsec as an area are:

lack of motivation to hold territory - due to NPC stations and gateguns OR the lack of bubbling mechanics.
Escalation is too easy and too hard to counter - titans and supers don't belong in lowsec, period. What began in sov must stay there.
low income generally - ratting and scanning activity is too hit&miss relative to other areas of the game UNLESS you're in a t3 which makes everything ez mode.
FW - another dead horse topic, a necessary evil and some of those mechanics should be transposed on to other lowsec areas including sovlite ie greater spawns or high reprocessin yield for example.

And many more issues.

Lowsec isn't for newbies, show me an average lowsec battle that is so derivative in structure as drone-assign warfare and super blobs. Most lowsec activity occurs at BC or lower ship types. Lowsec is an end game in and of itself and is in many ways objectively less safe for victim and aggressor than nullsec or WH space.

I met CCP Seagull in person last year at Fanfest and the CEO Dinner and she does not strike me as an individual who wouldn't listen to reason. Putting her name to support your proposal is wrong on many fronts but mostly in understanding her view on changing the stagnant beast.

* First - the original 3 types of space, now 4 when you add WH to the mix, but the original 3 have really for the most part not changed in years. Sure there have been changes in the anomalies and the true sec but nothing that has caused a real deviation from the 3 types intended purpose.

* Second - The attacks that High Sec. is bloated and too secure for a weak player base is utter BS. I will site the argument that in low and null everyone in local is a threat and their sec status typically announces it. In high sec. the carebear yesterday might be your suicide ganker today.

CCP does not need to trim high sec. or penalize its players, they have done a significant amount of that over the years without needing to take more. Generally, CCP needs to realize that there are more then one type of player base in their sandbox. Once they can come to grips with the fact that we do not all come here to shoot each other they can move to trying to balance the game as originally intended.

I wanted to try to list out the multitude of player types but found that most do not fit in to one category or another alone and in may case cross the line in to multiple areas. It is more important that CCP understand its user population and treat them all with the same respect so that the rest of EVE can understand that EVE is not just a lowsec null sec conflict.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss this further. Thank you.

Regards,

Einear

Hello friend. Khanid is one of the quietest parts of low and it sees plenty of action.

You're absolutely right that lowsec is intrinsically the issue but for the problem of that while it remains unused it will never get the attention it needs.

Black rise was once a ghost town. Fw rebalance came and now it is populous. We can do more and go further. With competition for highsec materials increased that natural course of action is to have people move away.

Finally with a 92% subscriber loss rate CCP could afford to be more creative with their game sometimes.