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I guess this missed my attention after three years waiting.

Wanna know how I know that you don't PVP in high/low?

-5.0 and below are outlaw. Shoot em to your hearts content, no sec status loss.

It would be nice if people engaged in a mechanic before they complained about a mechanic.

I don't see this adding anything useful o the game. If faction navies were to become several strengths higher and podded negative sec pilots then this would become a worth mechanic addition, but seeing as how the benefits of having a positive sec are virtually nothing while the impediments to negative sec are also virtually nothing, what value does adding the tag mechanic to the game bring?

This feels for the most part to be a reach to appease Fw plexers who have for a long time had to deal with bad fw mechanics and not a real problem within the eve game outside of that. If anyone at or within the plex area was flagged as a combatant or even within the fw system itself, then one of the problems with FW would be mitigated.

This new mechanic will also not affect many of the people that it is seemingly aimed at., those who are using alts to gank in hisec. The concord mechanics are known and documented, which parts are and arent exploits though the rulings are a little mixed. The rise and strategy of ice barge ganking has the manipulation of concord pretty well explained and demonstrated though defensive measures which use the same strategy in reverse is ruled an exploit. Because of this, being negative ten does not in any way shape or form change how the gank is carried out as the response to security status is not the same as the aggression status. Were sec of a player a factor in how fast and when concord responded or faction navies responded ot individuals then this mechanic could and would be used to great effect. however because an individuals sec itself does not impede these behaviors in any way the redemption of sec is not necessary.

People will still have to rat for hours to obtain tags be it lowsec status people, their alts or people just for tags. this changes nothing but whether or not you will lose sec firing on these collectors. If you have made a choice to get negative sec why should you have an easy alternative? live with your choice or work through fixing it. I agree that fixing ones sec is not fun, but it exposes one to risk, and thus more combat.

I expect to see a rise in noctis alts

everyone covets the space throne, but you come at the space king you best not miss~~~

however i happen to be a recruiter for goonswarm, we could use someone with your motivation. we'll require the standard background check and security deposit of course, just drop me an evemail

Does that include DED? Shot up some of their haulers years ago, they didn't seem to like it much.

Only 20 tags to get from -10 to 0? So what's the point of even having a security status for capsuleers, then?

The security status is suppose to be proof that you're a criminal or someone who performs bad actions against other capsuleers, and the frequency and severity of the actions rated by your security status. It's part of the consequence for doing such actions. Being able to trade in a few tags to reset your security status despite the fact that you're a cyber sociopath completely negates that consequence. Especially if these tags can be sold. So why bother with the security status? It'll become as meaningless as bounties (which oddly you can place a bounty on yourself).