Maybe someone can explain what exactly the problem with low-sec is? I for one am enjoying it

Haha i went to rancer as well to check it out, because it sounded like the shithole of eve. Wasnt very busy tho, but there were evidence of recent ganks and what not

I take it you spend most of your time in hi-sec then good sir?

Fixed. Same goes for stationhugging low seccers, bears possing up in holes and null. Amusingly enough, each and every single area in the game appears to be full of them.

Completely agree with that as well. Used to be one of them, scared to lose anything even slightly expensive and now having much more fun than I thought possible with the game.

I find it amusing how basically every 0.0 alliance is recruiting. It didnt always use to be like this. If someone wants 0.0 they can basically pick any alliance they want and gogo

Well first of all, this hot debate about low population in lowsec didint start hisec dwellers. Low/null dwellers did. Hiseccers just pointed that this low population is mainly because of gatecaps. You cannot have high population in lowS when lowsec dwellers dont let them pass in. They are not affraid to lose ship in belts, doing l4-5 or other activities in lowsec. They are just disgusted being ganked soon as they enter into the lowsec by blob "elite PvP" camp.

According the Rancer. Your one time visit conclusion that it is not as messy as rumors said is statisticaly unreliable. Im traveling through Rancer on daily basis (jita-hek trading in cloaky industrial) and its camped 80% of all time i pass through.

"Most people in highsec are cowards. Loudmouths. Worthless scum that wastes space."

Cowards? Loudmouths? Please check aggain what kind of dwellers blob camping gates and station exits. Also check General disscussion from the last month. I cannot remember when did i lass saw soooo much tears from "l33t-ers".

There should be consequences for attacking someone in low-sec. At least there should be a way to distingush the dedicated pirate from the industry or exploration guy or what have you. If you really want PVP with no strings attached there is already a place like this and its 0.0

I don't even think it's the community that ruins the experience for new players, it's the game mechanics.

New player starts they have limited isk and trained skills, so they set out to train up skills as quickly as they can which means investing their limited resources (isk) in learning implants. As soon as they've got those implants they're trapped in high-sec as they can't afford to lose them and they don't have access to jump clones because it takes time to get 8.0 standing with a corp.

I know that some corps offer services for jump clones but they would have to leave the starter corp which they can't get back to which is not good for a new player.

Most new people aim for +3 implants because although expensive for a new player they're achieveable given sometime to gain the isk and of course only need lvl 1 in cybernetics. It's this coupled with no access to jump clones early on that tends to prevent new players from exploring more dangerous areas.

You are right about people in high-sec corps warning people about low-sec but this I don't think would be enough to put of a new player from exploring if they had jump clones available at a much earlier stage of the game.

well. reason for opinion "Low sec is broken" isn't that low-sec is "too dangerrous"....

Problem is: there is not so much cookies in there. As 0.0-person i only use low-sec for hauling stuff from empire to 0.0 and back. (added farming FW LPs few days ago :D).