Not a completely terrible idea, but does that mean I could use a bunch of gank-velator alts to artificially raise the sec status in certain systems?

Recycling those would be an exploit.

In the real world police don't hang out everywhere because they have finite resources, so they look at metrics to determine problem areas and hang out near those.

The classic example is the downtown city bus stop. If there's a series of drug deals discovered there they will put more officers in the area, taking them away from more peaceful zones.

So let's make hi sec sec status more interesting.

First of all two guidelines

• A system will never drop below 0.5 sec status if it is a hi sec system.
• A system will never go above 1.0 sec status if it is a hi sec system.

Here are the rules of the system.

• There is a finite amount of sec status that can be distributed across hi sec.
• When a system has a suicide gank occur in it, some sec status is taken from neighboring systems and given to the system where the gank occurred. This represents officers being restationed to protect the peace.
• After a certain period of time the sec status will bleed away from the elevated system and back into the surrounding systems. So if the system is uneventful officers are restationed.

This means that systems where ganks occur will rapidly have an increase in sec status at the expense of the sec status of adjacent systems.