That's why I'd suggest making nullsec vulnerable to roaming gangs.

Currently, relatively small numbers of players can control huge parts of 0.0, because timers give them time to move the blob into position - they know the time and place where the enemy will strike (or blueball).

If e.g. moonmining arrays could be hacked by a small gang that BO-bridges in a couple of blockade runners to haul the stuff off without any timers or structure grind at all, 0.0 alliances would depend on having their space populated in order to quickly form up small defensive gangs, trying to intercept the raiders and giving them a hard time.

If they don't, their unpopulated systems will end up with a negative cash balance, which would in turn motivate 0.0 alliances to make themselves more attractive for potential inhabitants. So instead of having renters, paying billions to run their bots, they'd end up having to introduce replacement programs, educational services etc... to keep their space populated with actual humans.

To entice players [back] into null there needs to be a big carrot and not a stick. This carrot should be unique, easy to get into and most importantly it should be fun. The problem is I have no idea what that carrot should be because I still happy out in null .

For me to move to WH space they would have to get working local, jump bridges, gates and stations.

For me to move to WH space they would have to get working local, jump bridges, gates and stations.

Its more like a buff then nerf.

How to repopulate nullsec..

It seems to be an untold truth that nullsec should be the end goal of every player in EVE. And that its a problem if players seek to other places in the game.

This is something i dont get. I know even CCP seem to think that nullsec should be the "popular" part of the game, but i dont get why it should be like that.

Ive been in 0.0. I been in those giant fleets involving thousands of people, and ive gotten my dose of abuse from pimplesqueesing seventeen year old FC's. Ive tried to make sense out of whats going on there. Ive tried to fit in between the hordes of socalled elite 0.0 dwellers. The guys that dock up when one neutral enters local. The guys that cant figure out what "hold on gate" really means and the childish alliance chats that really cant get over the poop jokes they throw at eachother.

It just isnt fun. when im in 0.0, i cant really get myself to log on, because the game has suddenly turned in to a chore.

I was involved in killing a titan. And all i remember is that the game was so laggy i had time to get myself a cup of cofee and take a **** mid fight. I wasnt even sure that we really killed it before someone told me we did so. I dont know and dont care whos titan we killed. It was that uninteresting.

The reason it was that uninteresting, is mostly because of how anonymous you are. Yeah, i killed a titan, Im number 456 on the killmail, you see me there? Yeah, was quite a feat. Adrenaline? whats that?

And then in comparison, you can be part of a little flock, 3-4 people, they are all your friends, they know you, they know that you got a littlebit eager with your razor the other day, they know and they are still your friends. You hunt with them, you cloak up in a wormhole, probes down that little legion, you try to control the adrenaline that starts to rush trough your veins, your hands are allready shaking alittlebit when you uncloak and tackle your prey. You call in your friends and they come in their ships youve helped discussed the fitting with and you kill your target and finally you can let the adrenaline free.

That, is EVE to me. And i wont find that in 0.0. I will never populate 0.0 no matter how much cash you can make there. Maybe, ill go there if you can get some good fights with small gangs, but i doubt that will ever happen. And i will still base myself out of low or highsec.

I think its the same with alot more players. It just isnt so, that the pirates in lowsec really wants to be in 0.0 if only some thing or another would be changed there. Lowsec is their prefered playstyle, its that simple.

Highsec too is a place that i think should be left untouched. The highsec dwellers are a beautiful mix of very interesting people. Its a oasis of new and old players with varying degrees of knowledge of game mechanics. You have people that think its a good idea to take an Orca out during wartime because the war shouldnt affect them, You have the pimped out battlecruiser and the lolfit CNR's. You have gankers, wardeccers, stationhuggers canflippers..I can go on and on and i love them all.

These people should be allowed to stay in highsec and do as they allways have done.

If nullsec really is underpopulated, it might just be that the playstyle that are forced upon you when youre out there, just isnt tempting enough. Maybe people feel that there are more interesting things to do in this game than having to deal with what i consider a pretty ******** part of the playerbase.

Maybe its simply time to get over yourself, and realize that there is other parts of this game that other people find more interesting and that there isnt one reason, one problem, that you can fix and then suddenly 0.0 is filled with new faces.

Not to be flip or anything but my answer would be: "nothing."

My game is in high sec. I've been playing for three years and have had short ventures into null and low, but I found myself choosing to not play when I had time while living in those areas. I don't care for CTAs, abrasive FCs, rules about when I can and cannot do non-corp/alliance activities. I don't care for politics and peoples' hurt feelings causing me to PvP. I don't care for mandatory operations and rules about who I can and cannot sell my stuff to or buy from.

I'm comfortable in high sec. I like highsec Eve. I may try out some WH stuff, but highsec is just what I prefer. The changes that would lead me to consider null/low would break those areas for the players that like it.

I'm happy with Eve. I'm not trying to force people into high sec. Why do nullsec people feel the need to force/encourage people to play their game? If it's just a matter of too much space and/or not enough players, suggest CCP shutdown 25% of nullsec and stir things up. But I'll just move on to a different game before I'll move back out to null. That's meant in a "meh...it's just a game" kinda way...not trying to be confrontational or anything (hence my non-null personality )

Taking on the words of the WH -dwellers, and those words of the people who have been to 0.0 and why they left, I am starting to think that perhaps we need a new kind of 0.0.

Or basically more 0.0 added that is not like the present 0.0.



New 0.0 with:

- Jump gates to systems that have ship size restrictions
- rich exploration and complexes but no moon goo and only hidden belts
- sections where there are no gates to gain entry, but reachable by finding the right wormhole.
- no local


Think of it as an in-between place between the completely unknown wormhole systems and the well-known 0.0 systems.

I would certainly go to THAT 0.0.

The one we presently have is only good for trespassing in, and watching the Jan Bradys rage in local when their bots auto-dock.