Mayhaw Morgan
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.01.14 23:25:00 -
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Nicolo da'Vicenza wrote:Sarah Schneider wrote:Nicolo da'Vicenza wrote:Firstly, nullsec has the most fights of any class of sec space. Why I would like to believe it is so, it's not, statistically, hisec has the highest numbers of ships killed during the past few years (that's from dotlan statistics), but.. there's a "but" though... I said fights. Not tutorial kills. http://evenews24.com/2012/02/15/malefactor-lowsec-by-the-numbers/ wrote:Kills by sec group, 2011, no pods/rookies etc, FIXED: High 423447, Low 705378, Null 1135046, WH 132089
...broken down to: 15.6% high sec, 27.8% low sec, 50.1% null sec, and 6.5% WH.
You said "fights". You did not say "ship kills".
Many fights in high sec end in a stalemate. Some call them station games. Others might call it force protection. But, if you're bubbled, outnumber, in a system with no stations ( that will let you dock), with hostiles who can engage you with extreme prejudice for 5 jumps in any direction, etc. you're probably gonna die. In high sec, if you can warp off, you can survive. There is also the lemming mentality of fleets, where, by the time they all realize they are losing, half of them are dead. That doesn't mean null sec is more conducive to PVP. It means PVP in null sec is more likely to end in a ship loss. If you're at the Jita 4 -4 undock in your officer fitted Vindicator, you bet your ass you're gonna dock that bad boy rather than whelp with the rest of your fleet, no matter what your FC says. It doesn't mean there wasn't a fight.
Force PROTECTION . . . it's an interesting counter-point to force PROJECTION. You can only really do one of them at a time since projecting your force means exposing it, and protecting it means putting it in a place where it is safer, rather than where it can do the most damage . . . well, in the real world, anyway. Not so much in EVE Online.
Haha, maybe we should start calling EVE "Internet Ships", since things like jump bridges make the space between them so meaningless. |