Paynus Maiassus
Capital Munitions
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Posted - 2014.11.09 23:02:31 -
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Hal Morsh wrote:People constantly go after me for suggesting the boogyman is around every corner in lowsec, anyone, everyone + their alts and PL dreads are all after you specifically you and only you just because you are in lowsec.
So I hadn't entered lowsec in months but the *content* decided to send me there, and while most supposed "carebears" would not do it I decided I would, since there might be an A-type in it at the end. Lets face it though, everyone is considered a carebear of some sort by everyone else.
So I get my destroyer, the first jump is clear, second jump is a full overview gatecamp, and the game decided that this was the jump to not select the next stargate but the previous stargate, so I lost my pod too. Wouldn't have mattered, I tried again with a tristan, all lows and rigs with low friction nozzle joints and nanofiber hull, lost that but jumped through.
I docked at a station, but what do you know? Only t2 modules for sale in the land of bittervets who love camping. So I fit a tristan and undock *instadied*, figures...
So I fit another one? The guy looted my wreck and left, thankfully the site was only a few frigates, but nothing dropped except a meta autocannon, i'm surprised at this point I wasn't probed down before even seeing the probed on d-scan, like what happened to my astero with that ancillary shield interceptor whom I obviously wasn't going to be able to kill because *one module to rule them all* ancillaries being as OP as they are.
So at least I left lowsec alive, the whole gatecamp jumped through with me, but only locked me and didn't scram. Maybe they figured it wasn't worth the kill this time, and I can't even get anything off the killrights, because 2 out of the 3 have a billion + in bounty and are all minus security status, even if they entered highsec who would need the killright to shoot?
Lowsec is "murphies law online". Might be a reason right there why so few use the "lowsec content". Won't be making that mistake again. Where's the reward for my risk? People suggest better ships, but why throw more isk into the grinder? That obviously doesn't make sense.
Edit: fixed some of the mangled words.
Low sec at a minimum requires some alts and some experience in order to be safe. That's at a minimum, but you don't need the alts or experience if you have a group of friends. That's the hostility toward carebears. There is a lot of ratting and industry done in low, even some mining, but it is generally done by groups who know their area and work together to exploit it successfully.
If you just all by yourself decide to dive on in to low sec, you have about as much chance of getting your butt handed to you as a guy who closes his eyes and dives off the side of a building has of hitting the ground in a painful way.
It's not that the game is broken, it's that your play style and/or your social group is not suited for low. I'm not digging at you. Stay in highest if you want. Highseccers are important for the game. We need those loot drops and that ore. But if you want to go to low, join a corp that operates there. Make sure they are a corp that doesn't make their ISK on high sec alts. Most low sec corps like a certain amount of PvP involvement, but with some effort you'll be able to find a corp that will support you as a low sec ratter.
Eve is a game with a learning curve. You just gotta learn low sec if you want to be there. It's better to live there than just head there once in a while for a lark. After you've lived there and know how low sec works, you can move back to high and use your knowledge to foray into low on occasion.
Also, protip: You can fit a fitted frigate in the fleet hangar bay of a Deep Space Transport. You can also package one and fit it with modules in a Blockade Runner. Those ships are suited to going through low sec border systems. Low sec in a lot of cases, gets less dangerous the deeper into it you go. The border systems from high to low, especially on 'pipelines' are quite often very heavily camped. But you'll find out about this from a good low sec corp if you join one. |