EVE General Discussion

In light of the proposed gate gun changes to eliminate gate camping to make lo sec easier to enter, I wish to share a parable.

There once lived 3 hi seccers who wanted to venture into lo sec to reap the rich rewards.

The fist hi seccer fit a drake with no prop mod, pure PVE fit, and blindly jumped into Tama.

Pirate Camp: "Welcome to Tama! A fiery death awaits you"
Hi Seccer #1: *stunned silence*

The hi seccer decloaks and is nailed by the gate camp with no chance to run. He quietly leaves.

The second hi seccer noticed that his trade route had a shortcut saving 7 jumps if he went through Tama. He fit his badger II with max cargo expanders and no tank and blind jumped the Tama gate.

Pirate Camp: "Welcome to Tama! A fiery death awaits you"
Hi Seccer #2: "Not on my watch!" *begins to align out*

But he doesn't warp fast enough and is nailed by the gate camp.

The third hi seccer fit noticed how he could make billions by doing DED sites in lo sec. He did some research and fit a PVE tengu with a cloaking device in case a hostile entered local. He used a friend/alt to pre-scout the gate in a shuttle to verify it was safe. He even checked the map to look for where the pirates were camping and opted to enter lo sec via Ikoskio instead of Tama.

He safely farmed his way to riches because he played smart, and Darwin rewards those who adapt to the challenge of their environment.

Isn't Charles Darwin dead? Wouldn't EVE be the one rewarding people who play smart and adapt to challenges that their environments place on them.

Also, the proposed Gate Gun mechanics are silly. They simply encourage more blobbing, and make even Freighters safe if the camp isn't big enough.

LS is not HS. We don't need Illegal LS PvP to be determined by the same kind of DPS race against the clock that Suicide ganks are.

I don't get it. What is this 'lo-sec' of which you speak?

There are no untanked barges for you to kill there...so don't worry about it.

Where is the sec in lowsec? What does low signify? It appears there are those who would like to turn lowsec into nullsec for people without a hundred friends. I would like to see the gate guns strong enough to prevent any gate camping.

BURN!!

If gatecamps become more difficult to do, there may be an increase in traffic through losec, more traffic means more targets customers to be taken advantage of, but only if hisec dwellers realise that losec can be considerably more rewarding than hisec albeit with an increase in risk of dying.

As it is at the moment most hisec dwellers stay out of losec because going there is pretty much akin to visiting a shooting range while wearing a target on your back, you're pretty much guaranteed to die unless you're really really on top of your game

apparently it has been renovated so as to look just like hihgsec only with less missions, less players and now less reason to live there. Gee I hope that was the goal of this patch.

And a Dram can do the DPS needed to knock the balance over to the Gate guns killing the Carriers.

"4.5m until the DPS can kill a Triage Carrier"

Whaddya wanna bet they're not gonna let you just snipe from 151km.

Affect the Spider Tank of Carriers?