Its not a question of whether peoples play style should be protected, its a question of whether the risk/reward of certain play styles is imbalanced.

Personally I think miners have some imbalance as compared to mission runners - we have not seen a mission-runner-geddon have we? Why is that? Could it be that missioning platforms (cheaper than hulks) are extremely hard to gank, whilst delivering greater rewards (current mineral price changes asside) from a non-market driven isk faucet? Why are highsec mission runners so confident of undocking in 2 billion faction fit ships - they get 24 hour notice before anyone can kersplode them - in contrast a hulk miner gets about 5 seconds.

I shall make a toast in your honor brave soul.

really? look at the numbers. if 70% of the player base is in hi sec, why the baseless attempt by CCP to move peeps to low sec?

Because the numbers don't show that 70% of the player base is in highsec. They show that 70% of the characters are in highsec, which can quite easily be interpreted as only 30-40% of the players being in highsec.

missioning platforms (cheaper than hulks) [...] undocking in 2 billion faction fit ships

Travel through hisec and every system is full of people. Travel through 0.0 and it's largely empty.

Can't explain that.

Oh, wait, you can. Most of the players are in hisec.

I've seen much larger numbers in local channels in 0.0 than in Jita.

Travel through hisec and every system is full of people. Travel through 0.0 and it's largely empty.

Can't explain that.

Sure, for the occasional blob war.

Let me tell you about something called GÇ£densityGÇ¥ and how it relates to available volume.

Yeah, you know, huge fights. User-generated content. No big deal, it's just 0.0 blobwar.

You just blew my mind. I played chess earlier today with a friend, guess we generated a lot of content as well. \o/

Shame there are no specific numbers of 0.0 systems and hisec systems, to draw such a conclusion from.

Exactly, so thus we arrive at the original conclusion: the numbers do not say that there are more players in highsec.

The burden of proof is on you, for saying there are more 0.0 systems than hisec systems.

The burden of proof is on you, for saying there are more 0.0 systems than hisec systems.

Sources?

The ******* map?

You fly in low and null sec that is the risk you as the player wished to make- you chose to do it, nobody twisted your arm. So stop trying to twist others arms because you chose a different play style.

I tend to think it's RL politics: people are so used to using government decrees and laws to screw people they don't like while trying to benefit themselves, they bring it into MMOs. Don't like something? Get the rules changed. Can't compete? Get laws passed. Somebody having too much fun? Well, "there should be a law!!!".


This is why I hope for a global libertarian revolution that topples all governments. And do you know what we are going to do to all of you when we accomplish this?

We're going to leave you alone.


And maybe after a few years of being left alone and not having to worry about someone else using weaponized democracy to take your stuff or tell you how to live, people would be more inclined to simply enjoy a MMO instead of trying to change it.

Sources?

Even if it's roughly 3500 in 0.0 to 1000 in hisec, 0.0 still wouldn't look as dense as hisec if all those people were packed into 1000 systems. 0.0 is absolutely barren.

which still doesn't change the fact that the numbers do not show that most people are in highsec.

But it's like arguing that in the absence of actual numbers, there are more people in Russia than the US just because it's larger.

Thankfully, we have very accurate populations for each

If complete uncertainty is now your goal, instead of proving there are more people in 0.0 who are just spread out, like you originally said, i'll consider that a victory.