So I was scanning around in 0.0 today, and found a complex DED threat assessment 8/10. My exploration ship can take up to 4/10, what with the cloak, probe launcher, hack and arch modules - somewhat weak.

I looked up the name of the site and the big boss has a bounty of 80 million ISK.


Now a question comes to me. What does 0.0 need such high bounties for? The pit boss was also said to drop BPOs and BPCs for some tech 2 cruiser.

And why does DED gives a rats ass about some overseer in someone else SOV holding?

And often we hear "those carebears in high sec with the level 4 mission ISK faucets!!!!1!! That's ruining the game!!!1!! It has to stop!!!! Marsha Marsha Marsha!!!".

The way it looks, you'd think that 0.0 would be the place where people had to build from scratch, needing an entire community of miners, fighters, scientists, and industrialists and could build everything they needed. You would think that 0.0 would be the place where the high level indies would be building the good stuff and bringing that to high sec to sell.

But it appears that the blueprints end up in high sec, everything gets built there, and there is no incentive to build in 0.0 because there appears to be some significant ISK pumps. You can buy almost anything from high sec, where the community is.

This is the impression I get. A lot of talk about not enough people in 0.0, but it appears that all you need are guns and you can bounty up your ISK, and then buy stuff from the oft-maligned high sec carebears. I have even yet to see an actual mining op in 0.0. All I see are roaming small gangs - hey that's something - bubbles, and occasionally some bot runner cursing about something in russian.

Am I right? Wrong? Close? What's the deal here?

Whatever happens, I hope there is no nerf bat. But to address the issue of "low 0.0 population", something certainly has to change. I don't think there is going to be a way to arbitrarily force people into 0.0, but there is certainly no need for anybody who is not flying a tech 2 combat vessel.

The answer that would solve the problem without screwing anybody over feels like it's within reach though.