If you look at it this way, EVE totally falls apart at the seams. There's no risk, no reward, no nothing, since it's all pixels. In fact, from this point of view, EVE is no different from every other MMO out there, including WoW. All that is left is entertainment value, content, storyline, etc., of which EVE has precious little.

And many folks like to avoid stress, in gaming anyway, because their daily lives are stressful enough as it is. Really nothing wrong with that. In fact, the way combat in EVE is done, it lends itself very well to low-stress gameplay, at least as far as PvE goes. Most other MMOs, even PvE can be very hectic and you constantly need to watch for respawns, patrols, live events, etc., all of which are absent in EVE (in a good way). Spawns are predictable and usually predicated on triggers, incoming DPS is often known, meaning if your ship fits a tank that can easily handle incoming DPS, it is impossible for you to die no matter how badly you screw up. Very few MMOs have that.

But in a game that has an easy (too, too easy) counter to just about everything makes the other security areas of the game unviable for most standard gamepley functionality.

When a T2 Transport with 4 stabs giving it Wapr Protection +6 can be countered with a single module providing focused interdiction..........that's handing out 'victories on a platter' with lazy effort:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14682167

You died in a transport, hauling a low value cargo that would fit into a blockade runner, to a group that had more than 6 points of scramble without the hictor, on a character that has the skill to fly a blockade runner and fit a covops cloak.

Tell me your stories: Why highsec?

You do realize this is a computer game and that ship you lost was just pixels and data, right?

I do know what you mean though. I used to feel stress a lot in fights (i got lower back pains sometimes) but the more i participated, the less the stress got to me.

I know the Quarterly Economic Report has this statistic, but since such a disproportionately large population of the game either never leaves, or almost never leaves highsec

Not quite. What the QEN (and the various population stats replacing it) has shown is that a large portion of characters never leave highsec.

Behind those numbers, it's not particularly hard to see an interpretation where some 2/3 people consistently sit outside of highsec,..

take joy in ruining another persons fun.

Oh really. I had no idea what I was flying for once, just to give it a try.

EDIT: not really sure what you are trying to accomplish beyond obviously stating the Obvious, just to be obvious.

See Post #10.

Re: post 10.

If you went to lowsec seeking PI, then suprise suprise you found it there.

As surprising as it may be to some null/low-sec dwellers, some people really have no interest in the hassle of living outside of highsec. They don't want to deal with blob bubble camps, afk-cloakers, blops, and super carrier hot drops.

Sure it is: there are no people sitting anywhere in EVE, only characters. And the vast majority of the characters never leave highsec.

those are things that do not exist in wormholes

Really?

I refuse to do X because of my prejudicial misconceptions towards an aspect of the game I have no experience with

GǪand that means nothing as far as telling how many of us have left highsec. That's the entire problem with the oft-cited population numbers and the conclusions people try to draw from them: we have absolutely no idea how many people are actual high-seccers and how many play their game outside of highsec.

Except that the only data we have (as far as I'm aware, please feel free to point me to something else) is that a super-majority of characters never leave highsec.

Unless a corresponding super-majority of characters is also inactive, that quite definitely says something about the state of the game population.

Tippia's point is that you have absolutely no correlation between characters and people.