Caldain Morrow
The Reavers
Externus Hostis
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Posted - 2011.11.05 12:16:00 -
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Pater Peccavi wrote:I highly doubt removing the NPCs from hi sec will have the effect you want. Sure, it gets the mouth frothing to think, "Hey, these people are spending 95% of their time in hi sec doing carebear stuff! Let us hunt them down, their tears and loot will sustain us!". But that's not what would happen. Those players would leave FW, the experienced vets would move all their usual hi sec activities to alts (if they haven't already, since hi sec raids happen despite the NPCs) and things would settle down to pretty much the same **** as always after a couple weeks.
Except for the new players, who don't have alts that they can shift hi sec activities to. They'll stop joining FW altogether (or quit after losing some ships in PvP, and then losing their PvE ships as they try to recoup their losses). And FW will continue to stagnate with the same old faces.
If you want to give FW systems where they can fight without having to deal with pirates/caps/outside actors, then maybe remove NPCs from some border systems, but doing so from all hi sec strikes me as a bad idea.
Exactly why I ended up leaving last time. I'd burned through my latest batch of rifters doing PvP and was trying to run some missions to recoup. LvL 3s don't pay as well as lvl4s (which is all I had standing for) and SCUM set up camp at the choke point at Hof and was there any time I was online. I lost several mission ships so I retired to my hi-sec mission ground to run some lvl4s for the fleet and recover from my FW missioning losses...... got ganked in my PVE Maelstrom. (my dumb TBH) and was left with less than 100k in my account by the time I'd refitted a new Maelstrom. And that was with NPC police running around. Lose the NPCs and this little tail will play out a lot more. For this reason along I'm a'gin it.
From a philosophical perspective: Why, exactly, would police forces NOT be shooting at you if you are the enemy? It's all well and good that the US wasn't arresting Russian civilians during the cold war, but you'd better believe the first russian paratrooper that landed in Arkansas was going to get shot on sight. Nevermind the fact that we're talking about a war in FW that has gone beyond posturing and seeing who has the bigger bomb. |