Plasmatique
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Posted - 2003.07.08 21:21:00 -
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I believe anybody with a low security rating should have a hard time traveling through security space.
However, the rampant pirating (I'll use that term loosely) that we have seen is only because the players themselves have not been able to control it.
We were told we could be bounty hunters and I hear some have chosen that path. But where were they when Moo camped Mara/Passari for days on end?
All big cities in every country have an undeclared high security zone and a seedy low security zone, usually in the outskirts of town...the southside if you will.
Would you feel safe driving your car around the southside of chicago at 1am? I see on the news there are drive-by shootings all the time in or around the southside.
You never hear of this happening in "The Loop" (high security zone?).
Part of the problem is, outside of empire space, there is nothing. No point in going out there. Why should pirates be interested in hanging out there?
Let's say you put a few more stations waaay out in non-empire space with some very high profit, high risk trade routes to run. These trade routes would pay so much, you could afford to pay escorts.
But whats to keep the pirates from exploiting these trade routes themselves? I don't know. Maybe make them only available to super high security rating players via agents? Trade via agent to agent sort of deal.
Maybe even put some high-ish security systems in little pockets far out in non-empire space. Like little outposts or something. And give us very good reasons to travel through all the 0.0 systems to make us want to go there.
Right now, there's no reason to PvP, not a big enough reason for us to risk our hard-earned stuff and little reason to leave empire space regularly.
IMO, the new security changes are way over the top.
I liked the element of fear and danger with PKers running around all over.
Most of us are training our characters to be total war machines, with the strongest ships, best skills, best weapons, ECM skills, we train/think about/test combat tactics...for what? So we can clear an asteroid belt from the NPC pirate cruisers who appear to me guarding nothing better than some gneiss?
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