While nullsec and lowsec carry their own dangers people already utilise the resources there for PI etc, a little preparation and planning go a long way, so do friends.

Alright then, human nature is to make games competitive and fun, but then again I'm not making my real life living off EVE unlike some "players" that have far too much influence with CCP.

Human nature is to win.

That, or ***** about not winning because you didn't try.

It's far more punishing to those players who are happy playing the way they want.

Nobody in this game should be penalised for playing the game how CCP allows you to play, but it's blatantly happening more and more. Particularly in one certain area.

Especially as they listen more and more to large null/low sec alliances and ignore everyone else.

Yes there are areas of the game that need some attention, some more than others atm. But this dictatorial attitude towards high sec players and what they should be doing, or not be doing has to stop.

CCP has to take back control of the game from the players, they should decide the direction it takes.

I would like to see alliances banned. No more than 200 players in one corp. Limited collaboration only. No asset would be able to be shared between corps.

Ok there's gonna be a lot of flaming on that, but the powers that be need to realise who the boss is, and that's CCP, not them.

Explain why living in HS is less risk and effort.

Because the last I heard HS is the most dangerous place to live.

We all choose to live where we live, when we make that choice why should we expect the rest of the game to accommodate our choices?

We're mostly happy with how we play, we can live with it, why can't you?

Because highsec is overpowered. It chokes out the other areas of space. It's easier to fix highsec by nerfing it, than buffing everywhere else (nevermind that they cannot buff anywhere else because of inflation).

You're "happy with how (you) play" because you're holding the golden goose.

Explain why living in HS is less risk and effort. Because the last I heard HS is the most dangerous place to live.

Stuff a new player in a 100 million skillpoint clone and have it fly a multiple billion isk pvp ship with all the best mods and he will die every time. Player skill always beats SP and fat wallets.

Yeah, but then he'll just buy another via plex.

I don't want to fight peoples real world wallets. same reason I quit MTG before spending too much.

I didn't say player skill doesn't matter, just that some of us can't laugh off a billion isk loss and replace it with daddies money.

Tried to get 3 people into this game over the last ~18 months.

#1 Spent somewhere between 1-2 months, quit the game after he had 3 retrievers suicide ganked in as many days despite moving systems as I suggested.

#2 Spent ~2 week in game and quit after being ganked with PLEX in cargo - despite me telling him multiple times not to ever undock with it. (As an aside I'm 99% sure the corp he joined encouraged him to do it then ganked him on alts - which is both funny and a bit sad at the same time).

#3 Dunno how long he played but was looking for more opportunities to join up with random players to do missions and as a new char couldn't get into incursions, etc. so quit the game.

Concord, faction navies, gate/station guns, no bombs, no bubbles, no caps, no hotdrops.

Nullsec incidently has millions more destroyed ships than high sec despite having a fraction of the population.

Something tells me ol' Drago here hasn't spent much time outside of highsec.

Wonder how many times he has been hunted for hours simply for accidentally jumping into the wrong system.

No matter how good the NPE is, it would not have retained people such as the first 2. EVE as a game is fundamentally incompatible with people who are so dead set on not improving themselves

Different people measure improvement in different ways. They also measure success in different ways. Not everyone wants to be a vulture padding a killboard to prove how big of a **** they are. Some people just want to be left alone. I am not sure why so many that play this game seem constitutionally incapable of respecting that, especially when there are so many that are happy to fight with other players.