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How to incentivise lowsec
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Paul Pohl
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#61 - 2015-12-18 01:20:37 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Maldiro Selkurk wrote:
Its been said a million times but lets go over it again.

Carebears are NEVER going to leave highsec. We see the game as, "I'll play in highsec or I'll quit". There is NO way to change a persons personality with game mechanics, so stop trying. You risk losing a chunk of the playerbase and there is zero upside.

The EVE playerbase has already started to decline why push more people to consider quitting?


Oh, that's simple.

Because there are other areas of the game. Highsec should not get special treatment merely because the trade hubs are there to increase population density.

One area of the game should not be allowed to prosper at the detriment of all four of the others (I count NPC null as it's own area for various reasons).

Highsec is not the game, and the game is not highsec. And honestly, if your mentality is what you described, then you are just holding the game hostage against any real growth anyway, which will lead to it's inevitable death regardless of what CCP does.

They've taken steps to shake things up everywhere else in the game. It'll be your turn sooner or later.


1. Wait, you think the trabe hubs are in highsec to increase the population density of highsec...................LOL !

OMG, you dont need to say anything more to prove how utterly clueless you are about EVE.

2. There is nothing wrong with highsec or any other area of the game. Its just people hate to have their multi-billion ISK ships go BOOM so they play in highsec. Destroying highsec wont help the rest of the game, it wont populate them it will instead crush CCPs income stream and destroy EVE entirely.

3. If your mentality is as you state im happy to announce that CCP wont follow through with your request because they are smart enough not to bite off the hand that feeds them.

4. EVE was never a truly successful game because CCP is a poor steward of economics. A certain new upcoming game has already acquired one million accounts and growing and it is still in pre-alpha; that is how you win the economics game so you can support all the areas of your game both pve and pvp. If CCP had provided an environment suitable to a larger pve playerbase its finances would have allowed it to create pvp content it cannot even dare to dream with its current income stream.

CCP and many of its playerbase call EVE a niche game but that is just hollow justification for the horrible financial acumen of CCP.

5. LOL, you think the trade hubs are in highsec to increase highsec's player density !
(I had to state this one twice because im still laughing.)


Well it depends if that game ever appears....

But you do have a point about PVE, and CCPs inability to comprehend what is actually being said to them.