As many that play this game know, there is an underlying issue that plagues EVE and that is that null and low sec players wish to have more high sec players join them in those areas of the game.

REALLY ????
0.0 Alliances want people from High-sec, I think NOT.

Leave high-sec players in High-sec they are out of the way and a non Issue.
They deal with all the stuff that null players don't want to deal with.

If anything 0.0 needs more space, not a transplant of the masses from high-sec to 0.0.

One 'idea' if you want to try to 'purify' EVE's playerbase and chase all of the nullbears and carebears out of EVE: Remove most crafting. Remove most avenues of creating ingame content via ship-building and such. It'll stop mining to a large degree, for why do it if nobody needs or will buy the minerals?

Restrict the small amount of crafting to a few approved lines and items like WOW does, and I will bet that you'll see the carebear players leave EVE in droves. Then you can have your PVP player paradise free of dissenting voices, right? For a month or three. I don't see an influx of PVP-only players waiting at the subscription button for the news of this type of change, so I don't know how long EVE would stay in business.

People like you say this, but the only point in the game that EVE ceased to grow was in expansions like Tyrranis and Incursion where highsec carebears were the only ones who benefitted. Player retention in EVE is and always has been from the presentation of emergent, challenging PvP content.

"People like you", eh? And just whom would they be, oh great oracle?

Like I said, it's this arrogant, smirking, condescending attitude that's the REAL issue with null sec. Yes, the mechanics need some work but, far and away, it's the nasty attitudes of null sec know it alls that turns off many players who might like to venture out to the wilderness.

Turn all of eve into HS...
70% live in HS so... welcome to the few... who cares about null and low? Most people live in high...

**** with high and have NO game at all...

The main reason players are afraid of low and null sec is because they never go and it slowly grows over time to be some monstrous death zone where only the most skilled players could ever go. Players start thinking 'maybe when I finish another 6 months of skills I'll go there' and they never feel comfortable with the idea of going.

GSF tries to make sure that newbees get out to 0.0 within hours of joining the alliance to avoid this from happening.

Players will get more involved in 0.0 and low sec when they realise it's not an instakill death fortress, I'd recommend that everyone who is afraid of 0.0 to create a trial account, train it up for a day (at most) and then go into low sec and realise how only a handful of systems are dangerous.

PS: Moving content won't force people to leave because the issue isn't one of risk vs reward at all, it's 'fear of the unknown'. High sec players will just start grinding the less profitable activities instead.

And a vast majority of nullsec players have 1 or more alts living permanently in hisec.

Why is that?

Greetings capsuleer Tassik,

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Time to invest in a +4 memory implant perhaps? Or maybe get a full set for Charisma, Intelligence and Memory?

Regards,

Shian Yang

It certainly isn't just the fact that "many players" are deathly afraid of losing even a single ship. No sirree.

You're the guy making this claim. Prove it. I think everyone who's in Eve understands that it's a game and that the animated explosions onscreen are just that. Losing pixels and play money isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Annoying? Yes, because people have invested a valuable resource (time) into obtaining their ships. Making people quake with the same sort of fear as dying? Hardly.

You bittervets do understand that this is a game right? Eve isn't an IQ test, an indicator of bravery or manliness. It's a sandbox-style MMORPG and unless CCP says otherwise that means all playstyles are equally viable and valued.

You low/null sec PvP bigots really need to get over yourselves.