Essentialy what the opening title of the thread says; how would you change nullsec for the better? I hear often how nullsec should be rebalanced and changed a bit to better support people, so what would you do to change stuff in nullsec?

How would you change industry? Sov mechanics and such things? Ratting and plexes? Infrastructure hubs and the sov grind? Station mechanics and settlement of areas, etc. etc. etc.? I really am curious to hear the ideas that everyone has here, and would love to understand what it is people from all around null would like to change and adjust.

make all 0.0 npc space

Add Concord


Maybe then ppl will fight there too.

I don't know what needs changing in null sec. I'm sure that sovereignty has it's problems, along with the logistics of managing large alliances.

However, as far as for the solo player, null sec as it is is fairly optimal IMO. At least it's fun for me to explore null whenever I get in the mood. It's also fairly sparsely populated in some regions, and this alone makes it very penetrable for the solo player who wants to make isk out there. The biggest thing that I can think of to make null sec more penetrable for the solo player is, as I've mentioned numerous, numerous time, would be a ship somewhat like an orca that can serve as a mobile platform for a player or two. Simply set up the ship like a station in a system that has limited capabilities for manufacturing, clones, etc., and also make it so that it consumes fuel at a rate that requires it to be refueled every few days, and require that it be refueled at a full station and boom, we have a pretty cool new ship that lets the solo player live out in null sec for a low investment for limited periods of time.

As far as PvP goes, I'm not sure what could be done there. People complain about blobs in null all the time, and this is simply going to be the reality of null sec so long as we have large alliances which live in null and have incredible reserves of materials and isk. I'm not saying that there can't be improvements to null to make small gang PvP also a worthwhile form of PvP, but I am saying that you're not likely going to get rid of blobs. One idea would be to move away from POS's and stations (or at least provide options for smaller groups of players) in null where the industrial strength or an alliance needs to be fairly centralized in a given system at a POS or station, where both are pretty difficult to attack with a small gang of sub-cap ships, which would encourage alliances to spread out military forces more in order to defend targets that are more spread out.

wat.

Just another day in null.

In 0.0, the fights have consequences, the enemies have brains, and the ship kills are juicy. The highsec numbers are also skewed by the legions of noobs losing ships to NPCs. Pod kills per day is a more accurate representation of PvP.

You should actually visit null and get into a few fights before you come to a conclusion like that.

NPC's dont kill pods

Again .. highest total concentration is in hisec ...

3) Make Titans x4 the current cost.

hurr let's balance by cost it'll be awesome guys
guys?
guys?!

Make it a completely separate shard that couldn't have ISK sent to characters there. No more pvp'ers cheating the system with highsec alts and highsec PvE, they would actually have live and PvE in all that wonderful empty space they own.

Alright, this thread exploded pretty quickly. I'm interested in the replies, but why is it everyone wants local to be removed in null?

Alright, this thread exploded pretty quickly. I'm interested in the replies, but why is it everyone wants local to be removed in null?

just fix industry and I'm right there with you bud

Not everybody, just people who either hate null for some reason and want null to suffer, or people who thinks removing local from null will make ganking so much easier, when the only thing which'd happen is that null would depopulate even further than it is right now.

Maybe you could try building MORE stations in your space.

So we need to divert CCP to improve indy because you're what..... too lazy?

It's like, what, 10 seconds to log out and log back in on your highsec indy alt and build/research away in complete safety at a HS POS. Not like you have to actually TRAVEL....

1) Maybe you could try building MORE stations in your space.
2) Do your production/research in POS's like a huge chunk of us "carebears" already do and have done for years.
3) Get your alliances to stop charging so much fn refining tax so nullbears aren't forced to jump it out.
4) Get your corps/alliances to actually DEFEND the miners so they can drag in low/mid and high minerals/ice.

Been there, did it - the biggest setbacks to indy in 0.0 are at ALLIANCE level.

Been there, did it - the biggest setbacks to indy in 0.0 are at ALLIANCE level.