Play for free is only possible if someone else is paying extra for it. Every subscribed account ( after the first 51 free days) is paid for by someone.

An intelligent player is always safe, in high sec, low or null. At the moment high sec is the place for lazier players who either don't want to be attentive or don't want to adapt to their circumstances by fitting properly, or not autopiloting, or scouting their freighters route for possible gankers. The gankers/bumpers et all have to play actively, and CCP nerfs their rewards while buffing the rewards of the lazy and the afk. What do they expect this will do? You can only imagine more afk and less active play. That's a pretty disastrous future in my opinion. No wonder miner ganking is at historic lows.

Exactly, we need to concentrate on the features that get those players who 'pay extra' to keep on 'paying extra', whether that's PVP, suicide ganking, sov warfare or any other form of emergent content.

Play for free is only possible if someone else is paying extra for it. Every subscribed account ( after the first 51 free days) is paid for by someone.

EVE is about whatever each individual player wants it to be about for them. No play style is more "valid" than any other.

Perhaps miners will be able to call CONCORD to their grid at the first sign of suspicious activity?

CCP see a bit farter than you.

They can't "copy" modern business models because the playerbase clearly has shown them they don't want payware features.

So they copy another business model: the increased turnover of disposable players, a la GW2. CCP will just farm new players who will quit fast paying about 1 box, while ArenaNET is content with them buying 1 real game box.

Once the new player has paid their 40-60 bucks they can go to hell and be replaced, while the "vets" keep staying and don't suffer such programmed turnover. In a world in crysis, in a world of free to play MMOs, the "disposable new player with his 40 bucks" is the only way for a game to survive to see the end of the tunnel.

So, yes, the game will have a fast turnover, "useless" hi sec full of 40 buck people who try EvE and mostly leave, while the rest of EvE will stay what's always been.

Plexes on the isk market will eventually be purchased. If there were less "carebears" chasing plexes each month then the price could be cheaper for people who are willing to play the game the way it was meant to be played. Highsec plex-chasers would be replaced by people more willing to spend money on the game because they're more involved in it. That's a good thing.


You're right. Your play style is no more valid than my play style. That means you should not be able to encroach on my play style by evading mechanics put into the game to my benefit, continuously demand and somehow receive changes to the game to prevent anything you dislike caused by my play style, and abuse unfair and unbalanced benefits which make my play style redundant.

Take your own advice. Don't encroach on other people's play style. It's no more "valid" than anyone else's.

"Don't remove the smothering blankets that stifle emergent content from EVE because improving the lot of newbies and casuals as anything other then a quick cash injection to CCP is a waste of time, it's all about catering to the multibox ice miners' risk free playstyle". At least these arguments are becoming more honest.

...never exerience the joys of low sec or the agony and ecstasy of holding space in 0.0.

Just stay in high sec , we have null covered. There is nothing out there, so don't bother coming out.

from http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-highsec-big-picture.html

If CCP wants to make a big overall change to highsec, they'd best do it at a trickle. Small changes that are easily accepted as no big deal, because it's, after all, just a small change.

What do all the small changes add up to though?

Mining barge buffs? No big deal. It's just a small change, you can still gank miners, it's just a little harder now, a little more expensive.

Removing insurance on highsec ganks? No big deal. It's just a small change. Gankers should only be profiting on their kills, not the loss of their ships.

CONCORD warp disrupting you from across a system, the moment you open fire. No big deal. It's just a small change. Gankers should only be able to kill on a single grid.

The Crimewatch suspect flag. No big deal. It's just a small change, sure it's harder to make a living on highsec PvP due to suspect flagging when looting the booty. Nobody liked freighter ganking anyhow.

The killright system? No big deal. It's just a small change. Dirty pirates deserve to be free-for-alled by everyone in a system. Their life should be tougher.

The dueling system? No big deal. Sure it's consensual PvP, but it's a small change, and outside parties can still get involved.