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Low-sec Hopes and Changes

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Roland Schlosser
Entropy Engine
#241 - 2017-03-16 23:13:45 UTC
Separate the Empire HS areas with LS. minimum 5j between Empires through LS, no avoiding it.
Xel'lotath Tier
Sanity's Redemption
#242 - 2017-03-17 00:49:01 UTC
So much awful ideas.
Remove it entirely or add concord to it WTF?

Low sec is fine.

The only thing that needs to be done is nerf high sec to oblivion, then people will actually have a reason to leave the tutorial area of the game.
The fact that high sec is so populated when essentially is the "asylum" of this game says that something is really wrong.

You are supposed to leave high sec. High sec is only there so new players don't get immediately blown up while learning the game. Everything else is crappier (and it should be) in high sec, the game is teasing you to move to low or null for better rewards when you feel comfortable enough, but how can that happen when players don't even know what the dscan is.

Low sec is not the problem. If they want it to be more populated, nerf high sec so people actually learn the freaking game and leave the tutorial area for once.

I don't know anything about incursions but I heard you can make near carrier ratting in null level of isk per hour. How is that even a thing on high sec? If that's true then they should be low sec/null sec exclusive.

That's the problem with low sec, why leave high sec if you can make 150 mill an hour in the safest space of the game.

And for the people that are saying "if you move stuff to low sec then people will not do them anymore, like level 5 missions, or they will quit." So what? If people are too scared to leave the starting area of the game because they don't know how to protect themselves in a game called Everyone vs Everyone Online, then they are just playing the wrong game and should leave. It's like playing Dark Souls and never leave the asylum because you are too scared of invaders. You should like to be hunted, and you should like to hunt other players. If you don't, then the game is simply not for you.

I've been playing this game 11 months now, I leaved high sec on my own 2 weeks into the game, I was still in a npc corp. Why are people so afraid of dying in a video game? What's funny is that if you know how to use the dscan, which is not hard at all, then you are almost unkilleable. You will evade your predators before they even land on grid. You are only really at risk at gates because you can't dscan the other side, you still have options to deal with those though.

Condcord in low sec... my god. This is why developers should stick to their vision and never listen to their ignorant fans. Lol I'm triggered.
Rotho Ataru
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#243 - 2017-03-17 05:17:46 UTC
Xel'lotath Tier wrote:

The only thing that needs to be done is nerf high sec to oblivion, then people will actually have a reason to leave the tutorial area of the game.

Nerf high sec if it makes you feel better but low sec would still be unappealing in it's current state. It's a ganker's paradise. Gankers get to choose their target who is not fitted as well for PVP as they and gun them down with hardly any retaliation at all. That's not fun for the target. That's why all PVE happens in safe places like high sec or in null sec with a large alliance protecting you.

Xel'lotath Tier wrote:

You are supposed to leave high sec. High sec is only there so new players don't get immediately blown up while learning the game

Source from CCP? I get that CCP wants people to play in other parts of space more but high sec is not supposed to be just a tutorial.

Xel'lotath Tier wrote:

I don't know anything about incursions but I heard you can make near carrier ratting in null level of isk per hour. How is that even a thing on high sec? If that's true then they should be low sec/null sec exclusive.

Well you need a fleet with pretty advanced skills and you have to constantly move your expensive ships through space chasing the Sansha. It's more much involved than carrier ratting. And I am fairly sure it's not as lucrative but they're probably somewhat close. Also, there are incursions in low sec but you'd need to have a very well prepared team or be a special kind of dumb to take expensive incursion ships into low sec incursions. Gankers would have a field day.

Xel'lotath Tier wrote:

And for the people that are saying "if you move stuff to low sec then people will not do them anymore, like level 5 missions, or they will quit." So what? If people are too scared to leave the starting area of the game because they don't know how to protect themselves in a game called Everyone vs Everyone Online, then they are just playing the wrong game and should leave. It's like playing Dark Souls and never leave the asylum because you are too scared of invaders. You should like to be hunted, and you should like to hunt other players. If you don't, then the game is simply not for you.

I understand your sentiment (you want to PVP in a PVP game) but that would shut down a large chunk of CCP's income. Good luck convincing them they should make less money so you can blow up more internet spaceships.
Xel'lotath Tier
Sanity's Redemption
#244 - 2017-03-17 06:14:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Xel'lotath Tier
Anyone with half a brain can pve "safely" in low sec or hostile null sec. All you have to do is keep your dscan open
(you don't even need to watch local, so idk why many people want that feature removed, but that's off topic) at 14 AU with 360ยบ angle and watch it every couple of seconds. See ships on it? short it to 10 AU, then to 5 at which point you should start to get worried and pre aling. See ships at 1 AU? Warp off. Gank avoided. Even cloacky ships will have a hard time catching you if you pay attention because they have a delay before they can lock you up. Sometimes ships can't get to you without using combat probes, giving you even more time to warp off.

If getting interrupted constantly is a problem. Then all you need to do is open your ingame map or dotlan, and search for a system with low traffic and just pve there.

I don't see how a whole fleet can be afraid of low sec even if it is pve fit. (Talking about incursions here).

I've pved in wh space alone. Did combat sites on low sec alone. Explored in hostile sov space with intel channels alone. I consider myself a noob at this game, if I can do it, anyone can. People just need to stop being so risk averse and take some risk in a risk vs reward game. Those who do will see the benefits that low/null sec offer. Those who don't will remain in the tutorial area of the game making **** isk as they should (and they should make less that they are making now).

I honestly don't see what's wrong with low sec (apart from fw farmers, which are just an annoyance), it's looks like is the best (along with WH) space to me so far. No concord and no blue donut to protect you, only yourself. Fast and accessible solo/small gang pvp, better minerals, better exploration sites and less competition.

If people want low sec buffed, or with exclusive content not even found in null, thats fine with me. But saying that low sec serves no purporse and should be removed or that it needs concord it's so stupid that it made me post here for the first time lol.

Low sec is basically a better space for those that learned the game enough to not waste time in high sec but don't want to deal with sov stuff or bubbles.

Again the fact that high sec is more active than low and null sec and not the other way around, says to me very clearly that something is very wrong with high, not low.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#245 - 2017-03-17 12:11:13 UTC
MoonDragn wrote:
Drake Aihaken wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
Soloing level 5s should not be possible unless you are in a large capital ship period. No exceptions. That will balance the content better than it is now.

L5s weren't designed to be run in capitals or the acceleration gates would allow them. The fact that some L5 missions are directly warpable to is merely a happy coincidence for capitals. And no one would run L5s with embedded rooms in capitals because you'd essentially be trapping yourself without an option to quckly align out.


Well like I said, they were meant to be group content, not solo content. Should not be soloable anyway. It being soloable is a mistake that I think they should fix.

That taken care off, it wouldn't have much impact to bring it to high sec cause the rewards will have to be shared with a group. I think it should be a group of coordinated min of 3 people to prevent being soloable in multi-boxing alts.


min 3 people....so my rattlesnake and a couple of alts for logi.

again you are just proposing ideas to make highsec more appealing while doing nothing for lowsec, which is what this thread is about

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#246 - 2017-03-17 13:02:16 UTC
Xel'lotath Tier wrote:
The only thing that needs to be done is nerf high sec to oblivion, then people will actually have a reason to leave the tutorial area of the game.
The fact that high sec is so populated when essentially is the "asylum" of this game says that something is really wrong.
This is the strategy that many null-sec leaders have adopted and is completely wrong for the game (even if you think it is good for you). You don't become a bigger, more profitable company by alienating half your customers.

Sure, provide positive incentives to move to other parts of the game ( WH, LS, NS). But don't destroy the part of the game some players prefer.

"Go west young man" is better than Stalin forced resettlement.




Scialt
Corporate Navy Police Force
Sleep Reapers
#247 - 2017-03-17 13:11:12 UTC
MoonDragn wrote:
Another solution would be to remove local in all low and null sectors. I don't see any reason why anyone should be able to automatically see who is in the system. How is that happening anyway? There is a magic sensor that tells everyone automatically who is in the system?

I can see how it would work in Hi-sec if the government monitors the traffic and broadcast it as a public service, but that should not happen in low and null sec.



I don't think that would drive more people to low sec.

I think it would probably drive more people from null and low sec into high sec.

If we want to eliminate local as a mechanic in anything other than high sec, that's fine. But I think people have a really odd conception of how the players would react to it. If people wanted that style of play they'd be in wormholes already.
Ishido Attaka
Purity of the Iron Cold
#248 - 2017-03-17 13:28:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Ishido Attaka
Xel'lotath Tier wrote:
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The only thing that needs to be done is nerf high sec to oblivion, then people will actually have a reason to leave the tutorial area of the game.
The fact that high sec is so populated when essentially is the "asylum" of this game says that something is really wrong.



You are so wrong it hurts... Way too many legal EVE players just do not want to interact with other players for whole 100 % of the time. 5-10% of the time - yes, but not 100%. Constant D-Scan paranoya or hours long run around "Dotlan-empty" systems to earn at least some ISK for PvP is just not worth it for them / us. I earn ISK to PVP and I do not like to be interrupted during that relaxing time to the degree, when I quit playing if bothered with forced PvP too often. I dare to quote here the opinion I agree with:
Bill Bones wrote:


First thing first: people staying in highsec is not a problem, thus, it doesn't needs to be fixed. People staying in highsec is the cash cow where CCP earns the money for the smaller minorites doing null, low and WH stuff. so the real problem is people leaving both highsec and the game altogether.

EVE needs the kind of player who stays in highsec i.e. someone whose "risk" level is suit to highsec AS IT IS. They are the bulk of the playerbase. They also are the vast majority of any potential users (people who still haven't played EVE) left for CCP to replace the parting players.

Plain and simple, after 13 years, EVE Online is a game where MOST people log in, play in highsec, amass bilions and then leave. SOME people go to null, SOME people PvP, SOME people become cool guys having drinks with devs in Reykjavik, but the money for CCP it's in the guy leveling his Raven and then removing it from the game by going inactive after roughly 2 years in highsec.

The reason why EVE economy remains healthy althouhh production triples destruction it's because inactive accounts remove anything between 30 and 60x more money from the economy than PvP does. So the real economy flux in EVe is:

Each month, 3 ISK are produced, 1 isk is destroyed and 50 isk disappear into inactive accounts.

Each month, 25 months worth of production are removed from the game as players leave it.

Highsec is the proverbial elephant in the room. It si not a "starter area", but the reason why EVE still is alive after 13 years. And also the slow destruction of highsec since Rubicon is the reason why EVE is going south no matter how Hilmar tries to spin CCP's one year record to prospective buyers. You can only sell a launch app with a new hardware once. You can only go "F2P" once. You can only convince investors that VR is a thing before it crashes and burns and your company's main future asset becomes useless.

Then 2017 comes and goes and unless someone buys CCP, you'll be left with a company whose cash cow EVE is decaying at the same rate as development is drained from keeping EVE's cash cow healthy and resources pour into "cooler" but financially unsustainable gameplay. Nullsec can't pay for nullsec's development. WH and low, they even less. PvP can't pay for PvP's development. Remove highsec, kill it player by apleyr, nerf by nerf and month by month of neglect, and you'll be left with a cool highsec-free game which just happened to lose 60% of its income.



TL;DR - you want to see CCP broke and eve dead? - nerf high sec
MoonDragn
ZiTek
#249 - 2017-03-17 14:17:44 UTC  |  Edited by: MoonDragn
Xel'lotath Tier wrote:
So much awful ideas.
Remove it entirely or add concord to it WTF?

Low sec is fine.

The only thing that needs to be done is nerf high sec to oblivion, then people will actually have a reason to leave the tutorial area of the game.
The fact that high sec is so populated when essentially is the "asylum" of this game says that something is really wrong.

You are supposed to leave high sec. High sec is only there so new players don't get immediately blown up while learning the game. Everything else is crappier (and it should be) in high sec, the game is teasing you to move to low or null for better rewards when you feel comfortable enough, but how can that happen when players don't even know what the dscan is.

Low sec is not the problem. If they want it to be more populated, nerf high sec so people actually learn the freaking game and leave the tutorial area for once.

I don't know anything about incursions but I heard you can make near carrier ratting in null level of isk per hour. How is that even a thing on high sec? If that's true then they should be low sec/null sec exclusive.

That's the problem with low sec, why leave high sec if you can make 150 mill an hour in the safest space of the game.

And for the people that are saying "if you move stuff to low sec then people will not do them anymore, like level 5 missions, or they will quit." So what? If people are too scared to leave the starting area of the game because they don't know how to protect themselves in a game called Everyone vs Everyone Online, then they are just playing the wrong game and should leave. It's like playing Dark Souls and never leave the asylum because you are too scared of invaders. You should like to be hunted, and you should like to hunt other players. If you don't, then the game is simply not for you.

I've been playing this game 11 months now, I leaved high sec on my own 2 weeks into the game, I was still in a npc corp. Why are people so afraid of dying in a video game? What's funny is that if you know how to use the dscan, which is not hard at all, then you are almost unkilleable. You will evade your predators before they even land on grid. You are only really at risk at gates because you can't dscan the other side, you still have options to deal with those though.

Condcord in low sec... my god. This is why developers should stick to their vision and never listen to their ignorant fans. Lol I'm triggered.


Don't think you understand the problem. The reason I left EVE was because there was no casual content. If I log out in low or null sec there is nothing but pvp. What if I just want to go ratting or do a mission? I can't because some idiot will try to jump me. I don't have time for that. I just want to do a quick mission because I only have a short time to play, not have to be stuck somewhere for hours.

If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.

You think some of us haven't left high sec? Our corp used to have a few offices in Geminate. We only left there because the devs changed the ore spawn on us and MOO decided to move into the area.

Back in those days there was nothing but ratting or mining. No missions. That's great when you are still in college and have plenty of time to play, but RL will catch up to you and EVE desperately needs casual content that can be done in 1 hour or less.

PVP in eve is a real drag for me. When you are a casual player, it is hard to hook up with a group for pvp, and going at it solo is going to ruin your day half of the time. So solo missions is about the only fun there is left in EVE. I got tired of sucking roids a long time ago.
Salvos Rhoska
#250 - 2017-03-17 14:20:17 UTC
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#251 - 2017-03-17 14:23:06 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?


thats the thing, he has made it clear he doesnt want to go to lowsec, he wants low and null content added to highsec, which is not what this thread is about

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

MoonDragn
ZiTek
#252 - 2017-03-17 14:25:27 UTC  |  Edited by: MoonDragn
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?


I don't want LS to change. I'm arguing against the change. I want there to be a clear delineation between PVE and PVP. let the people who enjoy doing PVP to have their own area and leave us casual PVEers alone. If I want to pvp then I'll go in there, but don't force it on me.


PS> Before you say: Why don't you just quit then, EVE won't miss you. I'm sure CCP would miss me because I plunked down over $200 since I came back in Plex. They would miss me because I've been a long long time subscriber. Without people like me actually paying for the game, there would be no game.
Salvos Rhoska
#253 - 2017-03-17 14:26:51 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?


thats the thing, he has made it clear he doesnt want to go to lowsec, he wants low and null content added to highsec, which is not what this thread is about

Thanks for the opinion, but I didnt ask you.
I asked him, and my question is ontopic and what this thread is about.

Stop running interception for a bit and let people answer.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#254 - 2017-03-17 14:40:07 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
Lan Wang wrote:
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?


thats the thing, he has made it clear he doesnt want to go to lowsec, he wants low and null content added to highsec, which is not what this thread is about

Thanks for the opinion, but I didnt ask you.
I asked him, and my question is ontopic and what this thread is about.

Stop running interception for a bit and let people answer.


he has already answered maybe read what he wrote instead of asking the same things

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Salvos Rhoska
#255 - 2017-03-17 14:51:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
Lan Wang wrote:
he has already answered maybe read what he wrote instead of asking the same things


He answered 2 mins 21sec AFTER you.

Check the time stamps.

Are you a time traveler?
Or maybe confusing your alts?
Salvos Rhoska
#256 - 2017-03-17 14:56:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
MoonDragn wrote:
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
MoonDragn wrote:
If there is no content like that for me, then it is time to quit again.


So what exactly do you want changed in LS?


I don't want LS to change.


Ok then.
That's, like, your opinion, man.

What exactly is it that you do in LS?
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#257 - 2017-03-17 15:01:26 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
Lan Wang wrote:
he has already answered maybe read what he wrote instead of asking the same things


He answered 2 mins 21sec AFTER you.

Check the time stamps.

Are you a time traveler?
Or maybe confusing your alts?


no im not a time traveller, im sure you have some sort of memory problem if you cant remember yesterday...

MoonDragn wrote:
I rather all the PVE stuff get moved to high sec and the PVP stuff to low/null sec. There is no point in forcing people that just want to PVE to go to there when they don't want to.

Is it a real challenge to gank someone who is not outfitted properly for PVP because they are doing PVE content?

If you want PVP, fight someone who is outfitted for PVP. If you want the HS PVE income, then do PVE.

I never liked the idea of forced PVP and if PVE is too easy, then nerf the rewards. Don't force people to PVP if they don't want to.


MoonDragn wrote:
Right now in order to do level 5 missions you have to go to NULL, DED complexes etc, just bring a less isk reward version to high sec and if people really want to go to null for the higher isk version then fine.

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Salvos Rhoska
#258 - 2017-03-17 15:06:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
Lan Wang wrote:
no im not a time traveller, im sure you have some sort of memory problem if you cant remember yesterday..


Those involved HS and NS changes.
Not LS.

I specifically asked about LS changes.
To which he replied 2mins 21secs AFTER you claiming he had already answered that.

This is legit beginning to stink, as do the sudden "first time posters" appearing in this and the wardec thread, often at the incidental lack of posting by typical antagonists.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#259 - 2017-03-17 15:47:14 UTC
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
Lan Wang wrote:
no im not a time traveller, im sure you have some sort of memory problem if you cant remember yesterday..


Those involved HS and NS changes.
Not LS.

I specifically asked about LS changes.
To which he replied 2mins 21secs AFTER you claiming he had already answered that.

This is legit beginning to stink, as do the sudden "first time posters" appearing in this and the wardec thread, often at the incidental lack of posting by typical antagonists.


lvl 5's are lowsec content which he wants added to highsec, thats a lowsec change because why bother going to low to run 5's if you can do them in hs.

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Salvos Rhoska
#260 - 2017-03-17 15:56:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Salvos Rhoska
Lan Wang wrote:
Salvos Rhoska wrote:
Lan Wang wrote:
no im not a time traveller, im sure you have some sort of memory problem if you cant remember yesterday..


Those involved HS and NS changes.
Not LS.

I specifically asked about LS changes.
To which he replied 2mins 21secs AFTER you claiming he had already answered that.

This is legit beginning to stink, as do the sudden "first time posters" appearing in this and the wardec thread, often at the incidental lack of posting by typical antagonists.


lvl 5's are lowsec content which he wants added to highsec, thats a lowsec change because why bother going to low to run 5's if you can do them in hs.


Wait.. Wat..?
Not only does this not explain the timestamp issue, now you are claiming his statement that he wants no changes to LS, is false?

Are you that goddam dishonest, that you will claim to me and readers, that removing L5s from LS, is not a change to LS?

Get your **** straight, bro.
This isnt going well for you, nor "him".

Send a better shill. You guys are crap.
Better yet, send me the uber-shill!
Lets go, toe-to-toe!