EVE General Discussion

Did a 50 jump roam in my caracal and found absolutely 0 people going between gates. Jumped into a busy bottleneck constellation full of ratters and died as expected. Even then though the busiest systems in null have only 60 guys docked and active according to the map. Whats going on? Aren't their people roaming around looking for fights?

Probably because its more worthwhile, appropriate, advantageous, advisable, beneficial, convenient, desirable, effective, feasible, judicious, meet, opportune, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, prudent, seasonable, suitable, tactical, timely, useful, utilitarian and wise to live in high sec.

After the technetium nerf there is nothing worth fighting for/over in 0.0

Nothing of value at all

Won't they just make coalitions exactly like alliances do now?

The easiest one is to tie Sov to usage. You don't use it you lose it.

Then people could be found all over the place.

It basically boils down to this.

A lot of space in nullsec is essentially worthless. Key systems are extremely desireable. Because of this, there is a lot of "dead space" between hubs of activity.

Hub systems can be extremely busy. When TEST isn't deployed, K-6 can have more people in it than Dodixie. Each nullsec alliance will have 1-2 major hubs, no more, as centralization is convenient.

Outside this, particularly good ratting systems will have constant activity. These are usually -1.0 truesec or close to it.

People rarely, if ever, camp gates in null. It is boring and not very productive. People instead tend to hunt for targets. There are a few exceptions, like severe choke points, hostile pipes during major PvP activity or enemy deployment, and highsec-to-nullsec gates.

If you want to find people, visit hubs or areas where fleets are being active. Any war front is sure to have camped gates, fleets, small roams, scouts, etc flying absolutely everywhere. If you want to see people, identify an alliance hub and pay a visit, just don't expect to be welcomed with open arms.

It just isn't very representative of nullsec to fly through a few dozen backwoods systems and think "man nullsec is so empty", because lemme tell you, when a nullsec system gets hot, it gets really f'ing hot.

Null is garbage. Plus all that empty space is empty because anyone who moves in gets WTFSUPERCAPBLOBBED just for the laughs.

This argument you've been making hasn't changed for a long time, but the reality that people who are too afraid to go to null today would still be too afraid to go to null, even with these changes, didn't change either. Especially if local were to be removed as well.

There are already ways to bypass choke points today. Wormholes, for example, is the best one. Jump clones, especially with the use of a Rorqual, is another. Sometimes you'd need to get a covert ops frigate or two in position before you go, but those can escape any camp with ease anyway.

People are afraid to go to null because they fear what's inside, not because they fear the path that leads there. Don't believe me? Go ask some long-time empire carebears why they don't make the move.

This has nothing to do with micro management.
If anything this system will be a lot more simple as the list of things an alliance gives you will be very small.

This promotes larger corporations and alliances that have less to bind them together.

where did you roam?

Great, now tweak it so that Jita will go to something like 0.4 please