Main reason?

Small numbers needed, even at higher sec status. Especially considering how an anti-tanked barge is more than often what you are going to find in HS. "B-b-but........MY EFFICIENCY!!!" Single most used reason why tank is eschewed in favor of yield mods...or worse...mods that literally make zero sense. Like warp stabs or inertia stabs.

End of thread right here, Dirk wins lol.

I take it you've never fished with dynamite?

There are (slightly) less rewards in highsec because of the significant consequence for highsec gankers which include in part automatic ship loss, kill rights and a negative security status hit which will quickly make the ganker unable to operate normally in highsec, and being unable to dock for 15 minutes. But really, these consequence make ganking difficult enough that only dedicated individuals pursue it, and as a result make highsec much safer than regions of space where CONCORD does not operate and people are free to engage with no penalty.

If you don't take pods, you can gank a fair amount before you hit neg five. If you take pods, much, much less.

As for recovering sec status, that is not particularly easy. The only way to make it semi tolerable is to use the tags, which are hilariously overpriced. 500 mil at least to get from neg five to neg 1.

Yes i can mine safely in null - great game design right there.

I'm now taking more risk in hi-sec, and yes i know what to do to protect myself but seriously? why should i have to for much less rewards?

Garbage game design, all the effort from me to mine safely for peanuts but no effort to kill me.

Honestly its you that doesnt have a clue about EVE.
Really its dog eat dog universe.
Like me for example....if your mining afk, botting, active....and I am mining or someone that im affiliated with is mining and your literally competeting with lasers on the same exact rocks......well
I am gonna take you out....I have enough alts myself to easily gank a single miner by myself.
and its basically just this......business is business and we are in the business of doing business....dont like it....find a different game because your kind are getting in my way. Enough QQ when you went AFK.....thats your fault.

There is a difference between your EVE character having sociopathic tendencies (ie gankers) and you, being the person at the keyboard

no he isnt
Rp=/=reality .

well the voices are inclined to agree with you but the doctors dont

Is it possible to be both soulless and truly evil? I've never met the prereqs to inject Infomorph Philosophy so I'm a bit lost in this thread.

well it is pvp when the miner is a player.

of sorts yes
apparently there is an activity in eve that has exactly 0% pvp but i do not remember what it is

There is nothing you can do in this game that does not remotely affect someone or a group in one form or another.

You need slaves? I got 'em; all shapes, sizes and colours!

I use them to carry me between spaceships. My feet shall never touch the ground.

Oh, I can. I just prefer this as a fashion statement.