you can't continually stalk someone like that just to bump them.

If the corp is being griefed by an awoxer, can they petition it? How many guys does the awoxer have to kill before it's properly petionable griefing, like a whole mining op?

So my test spy can't awox them since they've moved from null to lowsec to null to Vale...?

[or you know... psychology textbooks.

Honestly, I'm surprised new players even show up nowadays. I used to try to encourage my mates to play, now if people ask about eve, I simply say "you probably won't like it".

Well that really depends on if the niche market is big enough to sustain the company.

As time progresses other games are coming out in the same market, and this one is beginning to age.

We're still running on single threaded servers and have practically reached the limit of what the game can hold, while other games are able to adapt and improve.

And bear in mind that even the niche market players are put off.

Yeah you're right. Clearly this game is stronger than ever.

Accomplish what? Spaceships? A community filled to the brim with neckbeards? Or a complete lack of additional content? We've already lost a few to Star Citizen.

here, we can;t even split the load of a system onto 2 process on the same node.

No. Every person that comes here and doesn't stay is automatically "not niche enough", and idiots that like to make the game practically unplayable for newbies specifically targets the non-niche. You are the nichest. We bow to your superiority.

we are so incredibly elitists that we refuse to let new people in.

What do we gain by pushing random people out of the game?

Just make the decision to gank a much more serious one.

No, miners should have better inherant protections in highsec meaning their chances of surviving an attack are better without having to replace mining equipment with defensive equipment.

that some mining efficiency must be sacrificed

There's nothing telling them in the NPE "by the way, it's possible for someone to bump you for several hours causing you to be completely unable to align ore move, and it's fully within the rules".

Well clearly, they DO care about it.

Angelica, that's the issue being debated: How the game works. I believe the game will continue to work and be fun for everyone were the 'security' in highsec increased a little by changing the formula gankers use to determine targets. The gankers would need to adjust to the new reality, and they will always have targets, but they will have to be a little more discriminate. A side effect of this could also be that the loot get's better. There is no way in hell I would ever carry a plex around in my cargo hold as it is now. But if it was more secure..........

High sec "pirates" are just cowards who are afraid of real pvp and there is no reason they should get special treatment.

I'd offer a suggestion. What if Concord response time was a multiplier of the security status? 1.0 means arrival nearly immediately. 0.5 means Concord arrives as fast as it does now. Then extrapolate for the other numbers.