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What is the point of High Sec?
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Baldrik DeLeNoir
Beltane Legion
#241 - 2012-05-30 17:04:06 UTC
Tor Gungnir wrote:
From what I've gathered on the forum, the point of High-Sec is apparently to kill EVE Online.


you really shouldn't believe what you read in the forums - especially GD
Darth Tickles
Doomheim
#242 - 2012-05-30 17:05:45 UTC
Baldrik DeLeNoir wrote:
you really shouldn't read the forums - especially GD


Fixed.
Drei Ontalas
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#243 - 2012-05-30 18:54:12 UTC
Hi-sec is where CCP gets its money. At least this is my suspicion. I doubt CCP would provide info that confirms or denies this though.

After reading various threads on these forums I have gained the impression that CCP is philosophically opposed to PVE, yet it nevertheless retains Hi-sec.

The logical conclusion is that CCP believes that Hi-sec serves a purpose (to the game as a whole or CCP's pockets) that forces it to retain Hi-Sec.
Nefertiri Ra'apharo
Mabad Ilhba Alasw'd
#244 - 2012-05-30 19:37:24 UTC
Eva Rourge wrote:
No wall of text here, just a simple question. A clear one sentence reply would benice.

Edit: Since i've gotten a few replies suggesting that this is a thread about how safe high sec needs to be... let me add the following to my original question: Do we really need high sec at all or (as someone recently pointed out) what is the point of having multiple security levels when we can have just one big battlefield?


Hi sec exists as a counterpoint -- for example how can one know Dark if no Light exists to separate and define Darkness.
Fiddler Hays
Aerodyne Collective.
#245 - 2012-05-30 19:46:42 UTC
The only issue I see wrong with Hi-sec is that CONCORD is too soft on flagged criminals. I read a lot of advocates of PvP talk about consequences, tank your ship, etc. And yet they have the advantage that CONCORD will not pod them. I chuckle when I see a bunch of -10 criminals waltz into .5, meet up with their 5.0 buddy in an Orca to get a ship and gank someone.

If they rate a -10, why isn't CONCORD killing them? As is always pointed out in these threads by the PvPers. You got to have consequences. I don't consider losing a ship in hi-sec appropriate consequences for a person flagged -10 that has not only destroyed a ship but a lot of times has podded the person as well.

My 2 cents.
Mokanor Lenak
Odd Fluffy Bunnies
#246 - 2012-05-30 19:58:50 UTC
Eva Rourge wrote:
No wall of text here, just a simple question. A clear one sentence reply would benice.

Edit: Since i've gotten a few replies suggesting that this is a thread about how safe high sec needs to be... let me add the following to my original question: Do we really need high sec at all or (as someone recently pointed out) what is the point of having multiple security levels when we can have just one big battlefield?


Just one big battle-field will almost surely kill EvE.

High-sec is a big part of eve. This is where new players will feel relatively safe, where new players grow.
This is also where null/low sec people "escape" after a while to relax.

Null and low are great, but you can't just take your freighter 20 jumps without a heavy escort now can you?

Ganking makes high-sec a bit more interesting. Brings you a bit extra "oh what was that?" to the mix of just carelessly flying about.

But without it new players will die constantly just because of douchbags. And its not WoW. When you die you don't keep your stuff.

A new player flying from one system to the other, constantly having to go back to a rifter because he keeps getting his cruiser blown up, or having to play the waiting game 3 out of 5 hours of game time because someone bored in a T3 keeps killing him, will just kill the game.

Every MMO have to have a bit of carebaring it in.
Without it, the game is dead within a year tops IMO.
Sekirei Takahashi
Doomheim
#247 - 2012-05-30 20:10:55 UTC
The OP is trolling, thread locked!
Lady Bavmorda
Grau Foundation
#248 - 2012-05-30 20:15:15 UTC
The point of High Sec is to allow us to call Low sec "low sec" otherwise it would just be (not very high) sec.
Juess
The Order of Cerberus
#249 - 2012-05-30 20:17:44 UTC
Eve needs High Sec to grow what it kills for CONCORD's sake.

(Original Quote from William S Burroughs: Death needs Time to grow what it kills for Ah Pook's sake.)