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Well the problem here is that lowsec is still Empire space supposedly - some technology from concord is still big brother - watching you and pulling your sec status down as you commit criminal acts. It as if the law still applies, but there is no one there to enforce it! That is what is broken.

But otherwise, sure! Players should be able to work for these NPC pirate groups and maybe get a tatoo. :D But also stand to profit from doing work for them.

This change would benefit the gameplay of casual PvP

Even tho such changes would go against the EVE story/RP background, those things should never get in the way of good gameplay in MMO. The story part has to revolve around gameplay, not other way around

I guess the question I would have is why are we worried about low sec mining? You could put low refineries at 900% output and the life expectancy of a Hulk in low sec would still be about 5 seconds.

I think he addresses the real issue: People don't spend a lot of time in low because fighting back at any length means not going back to high sec. Not everyone wants to spend tons of time managing sec status. Eliminating this worry will encourage casual pvp.

Edit: If anything giving people more freedom to fight will encourage them to even try mining since they are allowed to protect themselves

You're right about the mechanic as it stands now, there is nothing particularly broken.

The issue is making it appealing to as many people as you can. Changes to mineral quality will only get so many people to enter low sec (that are not already there) since any mining op would need enough protection to fend off any amount of pirate attacks. Very few corps could or would be willing to pull that off given how saturated low sec is with pirates. Someone like AAA could match anything you put out there and would love doing so, it would just be a loss

If you start eliminating the major objections people have to spending real time in low sec, you will begin to see more people there. You will also dilute the danger posed by aggressors simply because there are a lot more targets, which will make things like industry and mining more feasible to more corporations creating even more targets

You can already make a lot more isk in low sec than you ever could in high sec through mission running, exploration and PI. That still doesn't bring people in. Doing something with the security status hit will IMO

This is very good idea,

/signed

I hope the devs have the same thoughts on this. They should take notes of this topic.

Because Sov 0.0 is a much, much more complex system and cannot be "fixed" in any way that would be as simple as showing some love to Losec?

I love this, ccp do this

This needs to happen !

+1

Any csm interested in this?

In what way?