Aralieus
Amarr
Rising Devils
En Garde
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Posted - 2010.05.20 03:08:00 -
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How long have you been playing?
1.4 years
Have you ever been in low sec?
Yes, alot
Do you run missions or complexes in low sec?
No, mostly exploration
If so, what is the appeal for you?
N/A
If not, why not?
I have seen far to many ppl lose PVE ships to PVP ships, its not really that hard to figure out your going to die to a ship who can exploit every last one of your weak points. Its like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Are rewards in low sec in line with the risk?
This is very situational, for me yes and no, sometimes I have to travel thru go 6-7 systems while 2-3 are gate camped and not find a mag/radar site. Sometimes I have 3 sites I can farm but local is completely full making it very risky to even attempt. Other times I am alone for hours thru many many systems and still not find a explo site. Sometimes I have I get lucky and have 2-3 sites in one system that I can peacefully finish w/out anyone in local. What I find that sucks hard is finding a site, warp to hit, kill rats, start salvaging, hacking or analyzing the cans then I see combat probes on scan and I know there looking for me but I really want to finish this site cause its the first I got in hours of searching so I hang around till the last minute till they warp in cause if I leave the site will despawn and I narrowly miss destruction.
Is the risk in low sec over-stated?
Depends, if you know what your doing the risk becomes significantly low. However if your in a clumsy PVE fitted battleship your pretty much just asking to get popped. I understand some ppl argue watching local and hitting d-scan every 5 secs will help reduce the risk but this puts your ship at risk to the mission rats because its not taking your full attention and you could accidentally pop a trigger and get full room aggro thus leading to your tank being cracked and you loosing your ship anyway. And with all the time you have your attention on d-scan and local your not focused on the mission for maximum efficiency thus lowering your ISK/Hour rate so your better off in high sec running them comfortably maintaining the same ISK/Hour.
Would education from savvy players about how to mitigate risk in low sec encourage folks who didn't just want to AFK L4's to operate there?
heh, not really
What is the number one change to low sec that would cause you to considering doing missions and complexes there?
Become unscannable while in a agent given mission and all explorations sites. Increase the bounties and LP rewards. Increase spawn rate of all exploration sites per system. 2-3 per system but of lower quality seems fair to me. Maybe get a really good one every 2-3 systems. If you are not in fleet or the mission was not given to you and you and/or your fleet warps in mission/exploration site, all NPC's will consider you/your fleet more of a threat and primary you. They will hit you for massive damage, kill your drones and use whatever E-War that faction uses with extreme prejudice. You are the one fitted for pvp, so a warp scrambler will be considered the most dangerous thing those rats have ever seen in thier entire existence 
Do you believe it is possible to make low sec changes that would allow both pirates and carebears to co-exist profitably without crippling either play style to extinction? Why or why not?
I see it like this(and yes I have been a pirate before, also a CB at some point so I can see both POV'S) if you are a wolf and you kill all the lamb that are around don't f'kn cry when you starve to death. I am not defending pirates or CB's I am just saying there needs to be some balance. Pirates, PvP'rs need viable targets, CB's need to have some reason to come to low-sec with some type of control of the situation w/out feeling completely helpless and hopeless on making a profit in low-sec. See above response.
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