Thorian Crystal
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
Sanctuary Pact
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Posted - 2012.06.25 20:26:00 -
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Well, you need a good ship to do a dangerous mission even if that mission is in low sec. A good ship might cost hundreds of millions of isk, especially now that the prices are up. So if you go to low sec, you also risk losing those isk piles. In order to earn half a billion, you probably would still have to finish few missions, then do some hauling, ... Maybe you want to use implants too. All this time you risk to get ganked.
Ok, maybe you learn to avoid getting ganked, but that is not totally obvious especially to new players / casual players. At first new players farm level 1 and 2 missions. They don't earn much, so they learn that isk is valuable. Then they farm tons of level 3 missions. They might get a battleship, do some level 4s, and then wander into low.
First, they are greeted with a warning "Are you sure, you want to go to low sec, as it is dangerous!?" If they dismiss the message and go anyway, they might end up into a gate camp.
One other problem is that there are not many limits. There could be a whole fleet of gankers against you. Pve content is a challenge. Pvp content is a risk. All sane persons try to minimize risk. If pve content is hard, then there is more challenge. If pvp targets are carebears, then pvp content is easy. But even hard pve content is only hard, it doesn't become too hard, unless you do wrong level pve.
Sure in low sec there are still gate guns protecting you, but the guns don't seem to bother campers much. Then in null, well you might end up against anything. You can sneak around in null, or join fleets, but it is not only challenging, it is like lottery where you are bound to win to get ganked eventually.
Now, as the new player gets his uber (pve!) ship finally and goes to null, he might notice that he is back to farming lvl 3 missions again, unless he has saved up some monies. That is not encouraging. Only by playing Eve so long, that you really know what you are doing, can fly ship well, have back up plans, plan Bs, safe spots all over, intel, friends, etc, you can manage, and it is still risky.
Ok, pve:ing in null is risky, and it is good that way. But there is no wonder, that people go more rarily to take more risks. |