I think that instituting some kind of protection against scamming for newbies would be wise from a business perspective, somewhere below the 1-million sp level.

Mittens,

I fully agree with the "risk vs reward" principle, and I agree that there is little risk in hisec activities.

I am curious as to whether you think null, w-space or lowsec is currently most "risky"? My uninformed opinion (having not lived in null yet) is that much of null is actually pretty safe for residents (low populations, alliance control, intel channels etc), whereas much of lowsec (I have spent time in lowsec) is pretty risky (higher population density per QEN, plus regular roaming gangs of ebil piwates). And w-space depends on how well you control your statics (I have lived in w-space too), but if you're good at that you're also relatively safe.

And following on from that, where do you think attention most needs to be focussed to get the risk/reward balance right?

Thanks
Z3

3.Null corps have (il admit rather old) rap for being highly dominering, most people do understand the concept of following the chain of command but there are limits to this (ultimately fictional) concept, Example: a player wishes to become a soldier in a null corp to participate in null battles, he will follow his superiors orders and fly the appropriate ship/fit/broad skill plan, but say he is told he must dedicate his skill training to some hyper specific plan for the next 6 months to fulfill the a extremely specific role as dictated to him with no deviance, do you support this philosophy and belive it is affecting the desire for people to plunge into Null.

For some people the holy grail of game design for sov warfare would be a system that encourages both military entities to split their forces over many objectives. This would mean that each one of current huge fights would be replaced by a number of concurrent, smaller fights that can be handled more fluidly by our hardware, are more interesting (because )and are more fun.

He said encourages, not forces.

Could you please tell me how many Alliances you have run, how many nullsec systems YOU claimed sov for with your Alliances before you gave it all up to become a swarm member? Because i'm not convinced i am the one who is suffering from naivety in this particular conversation.