Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The only ways there are to get players into low is to change the game so they want / need to be there so how do you change that?
What follows will get people upset but when you look at the current situation it makes a fair amount of sense. So donning kevlar and nomex suits here goes.

Make high sec even safer than it is now and yes that means even considering 100% safe - there I acknowledged the elephant in the corner. Why should people go into low and be forced to fight others that want to and would fight back when they can pad kill boards with easy to kill stuff in high sec that rarely if ever fights back.

Remove any and all forms of kill boards both in game and on outside the game web sites.

Or we can change the very nature of low sec and make it closer to high sec than nul. With a more stringent set of rules of engagement and higher payouts than current there would be more incentive for border line players to call low sec home. By borderline I mean those that are not quite ready to make the move to low right now.

Remove most or all of the ability to make ISK by killing other players in high sec. Essentially this means taking the drop rate in high sec to around 5% at most but increasing it significantly in low and nul to say around 70% to 80%. Why go to low and fight others that want to fight back and make nothing, when they can sit in high sec and cherry pick the fat juicy targets that will drop something that makes them ISK.

Outside of these drastic types of actions there is little you can do to change the status quo of low sec.
Besides that the wild west was not as wild as the movies and popular myths would have you to believe. The real wild west of old was and is exactly like EvE with the vast majority of the population living in the areas of greatest safety and the rest virtually empty of human presence. In the old west those safer areas were cities and towns, in EvE they are called nul sec and high sec.

You do realize that the reason all the 'prey' stick to high sec space is precisely because they view low sec as 'the wild wild west where everyone is trying to kill me'.

If you want to make low more dangerous, you're going to have to make it safer first. The profit of outlaw piracy is coming from the carebears suckling on the ISK faucets. Figure out how to get the bears into low, and the pirates will follow.

But people who want to keep themselves safe, they will always stick to high sec no matter what. Even though as I said previously, high sec at the moment is by far more dangerous than other areas. Because people don't expect to be attack there and therefore, bring more valuable assets with them.

Anyway, I don't care about players who want to play safe. They can stay there for all I care because nobody will get them out of there.

What I want is to give a better reason for the pilots who actually enjoy to pvp to go to low sec. At the moment FW is total BS, seriously it's a piece of crap. I would say out of 10 plexes I enter 8 of them are farmers.

The fact is there is no real incentive for people to go to low-sec. I personally don't care about security status, I been -10 since I can remember. But I talk to new pilots and one of their biggest concerns is losing security status and being unable to freely walk through high-sec. And I can't blame them.

At least, if there was a higher drop rate then there would be a reason for people to lose it, and enjoy a merry yarrrrr... life :) Pvping each other and not needing to farm all day for their next ship.

I don't do FW. I go to LS for 1v1 fights and Mordu Legion / Clone Soldier rats,

There is one unbalanced thing in the HS/LS/NS equation, from my LS resident point of view...

There is no Concord presence in Null, and that's why you can't loose sec status there. Then, why does killing rats increase your sec status in Null? Either remove the possibility to grind sec status in Null, or make people lose sec status while fighting in Null. But at least, try to keep it coherent.

Just saying.

you've obviously never been -10. Low security space is the back roads of eve. It goes everywhere. I can go from Aridia to Molden Heath going through MAYBE 3 high sec systems. if that.

Low sec is already the wild west of bitter rivalries, honorable opponents, kick-starter corps and industrialists. You can already squeeze out a decent living there if you're willing to brave that barren waste. Leave it alone.

Can confirm that he's only ever entered one complex in FW space just to see if he could. No he's never fought anybody in one.