Crime & Punishment

This forum is designed to pose a simple question to the masses:

How do you think High Sec Should Be in the coming future?

Now hold on a second before you answer that and hear me out.

Ive played eve for nearly 5 years between me and my alt accounts, I have been a newbro, a miner, a mission runner
I've been down on my luck ISK wise, Ive been space rich for a time
I've been a pirate, a Ganker, A scammer, a Null Block Soldier on the front lines

And thats why im putting this post up. I want to hear from other players like me who have seen more than one side of eve how they think the future of high security space should look.

Please None of these posts we all know about those opinions
"105% Safe"
"Remove it completely"
"Desolate wasteland"

I see the need for high sec so newbros can learn the mechanics of the game, but lets face it the last expansions since crucible have been about our rise to power over empire space. And thats why im putting this here and not Features and Ideas, High sec is about crime and punishment so rather than proposing anything im asking for feedback. I want to know what people really think. and what they think high sec should come to be

Highsec should remain exactly as it is.

You're really not the smartest are you.

It should be exactly like our Savior and Supreme Protector of Highsec James 315 imagined it. Make it so.

High sec should remain a place where if Pursuit of Happiness war decs you that you will go hide in low or null as its safer.

IMHO, High-sec should be good for training newbros and nothing else.

It shouldn't be viable to make billions of Isk in high-sec doing anything other than haul-trading or station trading.

I agree with Xuixien that Incursion/Mission Isk payouts should be reduced and supplemented by LP. I also believe that Incursions should be restricted to 0.7 systems and below, CONCORD should just nuke anything Incursion related in 0.8+ (maybe have the same effects but no sites spawn there). Missions should be spread around more too, Career Agents in 1.0, Lvl 1's in 0.9, Lvl 2's in 0.8, Lvl 3's in 0.7, Lvl 4's in 0.6 and bring Lvl 5's to 0.5 (look below to see how this would be balanced).

I also agree that belts should be looked at, shuffle them around some more, make more of them spawn in low/null and less of them spawn in high with less roids in them as well. I have seen belts in null that had only a handful of roids in them, even after the global repop downtime. I don't understand why this happens in null where I am alone for days on end while it never happens in high sec where you have entire systems being populated with 90% miners in Barges/Exhumers, this doesn't make sense in the least.

Tier Empire more, make 0.8+ actual high sec, 0.7-0.4 middle sec and 0.3-0.1 low sec.

High-sec would behave the same as it does now, maybe buff CONCORD response slightly (ever so slightly, it is after all supposed to be high sec) as well as how rapidly FACPO respond. I also think it would be worth looking at having CONCORD assign bounties to people who behave like criminals when in high-sec, players who engage them (in any sec) would get LP payouts similar to how FW players get LP payouts for killing enemy Militia.

Middle-sec would behave basically the same (with slight differences, a blend of high-sec included) as low sec does currently, replace CONCORD with FACPO, gate guns engage those who behave badly and sec status loss is had by them as well.

Low-sec would differ slightly in that there would be no gate guns, aside from that it would still behave the same as it does now.

High-sec should be subsistence living at best, middle-sec would be a balance of risk and income and low-sec would hold great potential for wealth but would also bring the most risk to be had in Empire.

I find that it is silly that high-sec is only high-sec in that there is NPC retribution for bad behavior there, while low-sec and null sec are both safer than high-sec by orders of magnitude.

I've lived in every type of space except WHs (sorry I like my local intel too much), done a little bit of everything to be done in Eve and the above is purely my own opinion as requested by the OP.

I, for one, am not at all surprised that we have not seen any aliens, but instead different iterations on the human lifeform. If you want, I can explain why this is not at all surprising, not from a game development perspective, but from a scientific one.

If you buff Low/Null, the market will respond and it will end up being a nerf to HiSec by proxy.

The problem with EVE is stagnation. NullSec is stagnant at the moment. HiSec has more or less always been static. The more we push people out of solo HiSec and into Low/Null/WH group play, the better it will be for EVE.

True about the market, but direct nerfs feel like a "you're playing the wrong way" slap in the face, whereas nerfs by proxy would be a little more palatable when justified as risk / reward means other areas are just bettter - and maybe take it as a hint to try them.

It's a sandbox game, players should never feel forced into any style of play but encouraged to try new ones out.

This is actually a huge problem. I think NPC corps should have links to corps that CCP has sponsored (E-UNI, etcetc)