EVE General Discussion

Hi,
I am a full out carebear that rarely ever leaves hi-sec. I make several billion in profit each month (after calculating PLEX payments for each account) off mission running and mining with my fleet. If things stay this way I will have immense amounts of ISK to my name before I even know it.
As such I am honestly one of the last people who should speak out against hi-sec profits. But I am. I believe game balance is more important than my personal profit and what we have here is a lack of game balance.

Right now a person can make more ISK/hour (consistently) mining with a fleet in hi-sec than they can anywhere else doing anything else, with one exception: Hi-sec multibox mission runner/hauler ganking.
The scenario we have is thus: The biggest ISK earners are doing so in hi-sec, and the biggest ISK takers are also doing so in hi-sec.

This is counter to the entire point of low/null sec - increased risk for potential increase in reward.

I will not go into the details of exactly why hi-sec is so profitable, I hope discussion in this thread can touch on that. ]However I will relay an idea here.

We could commit these changes to hi-sec:
- Reduce bounties and agent payments for hi-sec missions.
- Reduce the amount of ores in hi-sec that are not Veldspar and Plagioclase.
- Reduce the quantities per rock to 2 cycles max and commonly just 1.


What does this result in?
- Mission running in low/null - with a disposable fit - would now be more profitable than running them in hisec.
- Only small time miners can really keep up in hi-sec. Large scale mining fleets will struggle to find belts with large enough per rock quantities to be worth their time. Very few large scale mining fleets are willing to lock onto a new rock with each barge every time a cycle is completed.

Carebears are only willing to put themselves in danger if there is a significant profit incentive. As of right now the profit incentive really isn't there, coupled with the fact that we make more than we desire anyways in hi-sec.

Profit reduction in hi-sec = Increased profit margin for low/null = Increased activity in low/null

Seems like a simple enough formula...

As such the big ISK earners in hi-sec will need to move their butts into low/null if they hope to keep up the profits.

Always hated this line of thinking in any context. People in EVE asking for nerf to hisec rather than buffs to low/null. Just like people making pretty decent living wages telling others they don't need more than minimum wage.

Instead of improving or advancing themselves, some people rather just keep others worse and stagnant.

I would be okay with buffing low/null my friend, don't make assumptions like that other idiot has.

I'm not really sure how they would do that without ruining game balance though. It seems most active, intelligent players are overly rich already. Would it be a good idea to send them to low/null to become EVEN richer? I really don't know.

OP:

1. Shut up
2. No, that's totally all I got for this one....

You can reduce the income in Highsec by 75% and people would still be sitting there. Because its convinient. The market is around the Corner, you dont need a scout to jump two systems. You can fly more expensive ships with little risk to losing it.
And most importantly: You can do stuff on your own schedule

In lowsec you have to constantly watch local, watch D-scan for probes, be constantly aligned, you have to pay attention all the fuckin time. Thats work. You might not even be able to leave the station/system because of the Pirates, which can only be get worse with more Mission runners in lowsec.

Was gonna post but Reese already nailed it.

This:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=287044&find=unread

Correct.

here is an even better idea. lets get CCP to go though every acct in the game and just delete 95% of all the wealth. that way the richest will loose more money the the poorest.

Then what we can do is remove all the 'safe places' in the game including stations and 1.0-0.1 systems, with that of course go all gate and station guns as well as concord.

While were at it lets remove all ships and only have noob ships and noob guns.

Or what you can do is shut the hell up and play the game. CCP has had more then 10 years to implement any changes they want to do, they haven't and i doubt that after the amount of threads on the subject they are going to read this one and suddenly think your right.

Good thing all my value isn't in isk.