lowsec is where bitter vets go to die

Funny you should say that; I've been roaming lowsec for 2 days and haven't found a single person who wants to fight.

It used to be the realm of the swashbuckling pirate earlier in EVE's time.

Then the pirates stopped being pirates, and most just became gankers or left altogether.

So lowsec is really just an abandoned child of CCP in its current form.

Then I thought it was "to keep the bad guys out of Hi-Sec". (Silly rookie pilots will believe anything they are told.)
But Hi-sec players get "ganked" ( is that even a fair term? ) daily, and often, by so-called "bad guys", so that idea was shot.

Funny you should say that; I've been roaming lowsec for 2 days and haven't found a single person who wants to fight.

because whatever little honor there was died

pirates used to be able to make a living ransoming ships, then dishonorable sorts defiled the ransom system and nobody trusted the word of an honorable pirate anymore.

then it became all about the payout of the killmail, since now all you had to show for your good work was boasting rights.

now everyone ganks for cargo or tears or crashes random fleets into each other in null
the art of piracy is dead in eve

I imagine all of New Eden to be a fluid, random thing of beauty. In that sense, I still believe lowsec is largely a buffer between hisec and nulsec, but as random often does, the buffer is thinner and non-existent in some areas, and thick in others. Theoretically, there should be a definable zone as you stray further and further away from empire space, but as many of us who live in large cities know, there are certain areas where there is a line that is night and day in terms of safety and security.....for some reason they usually involve train tracks.....now that is a mystery which perplexes me.

There's no mystery, it's all explained with our global so bad economical model based on primordial behaviours where human means source of wealth, when it's not the case it's just some negative statistic number where dignity and respect have no place.

31/39 examples are forgotten, sad panda.

Yeah, but why the train tracks? It's almost always the train track s that divide the city. If you're walking on one side, you can expect sunshine and lollipops, on the other side, you can expect to get robbed, shot, and then beaten to death.... and after that terrifying ordeal is over you can probably score some good shtuff to calm your nerves.

Another economical choice, how many fortunate people want to live close to train rails? -none.

Then you have the "others" not really having the choice or the chance to know something better.

I understand that, no one wants to live near them and so the property values are lower. But what mysterious force makes one particular side of the track a better place? It's not like being on either side is going to make the trains any less annoying or unsightly, yet there's always a good side and a bad side to the tracks.

To revitalize and distinguish low sec a proper ransom game mechanic would be cool, shows up just like KMs but with a "ransom paid" something or other on the mail

Yeah, but why the train tracks? It's almost always the train track s that divide the city. If you're walking on one side, you can expect sunshine and lollipops, on the other side, you can expect to get robbed, shot, and then beaten to death.... and after that terrifying ordeal is over you can probably score some good shtuff to calm your nerves.

While you can get ganked in high-sec, it doesn't happen often, and it mostly happens to a specific group of players. Statistically speaking, high-sec is safe. You're not immune to being targeted but you're one of a large group and there are likely more profitable targets in your area.

Alternatively, low-sec is very dangerous. You could argue it's the most dangerous area in the game. It lacks the stability of CONCORD intervention or of large alliances.

"Lowsec, while only consisting of ~8% of the player population and a similar number of known systems in the universe, accounts for over a quarter of all PVP kills. Talk about fighting above your weight class." - Low Sec by the Numbers.

It used to be the realm of the swashbuckling pirate earlier in EVE's time.

Then the pirates stopped being pirates, and most just became gankers or left altogether.

So lowsec is really just an abandoned child of CCP in its current form.

Jump freighters killed low-sec? No more traversing of freighters through low-sec = very little reason to be a pirate in low-sec.

Huh, so you think deleting jump freighters would help?