Originally by: Terra Nok

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If so, please fill out this survey.

1) What is your monthly play time in hours per day averaged.
~ 6 hours/day
2) Do you PVP regularly?
yes
3) Do you mission run regularly?

yes

4) Do you mine regularly?

Yes - Miners and other industrialists

5) Are you an industrialist?

No

6) Why empire and not low sec?

Low sec rocks for quick thrills. Biggest problem is sec status hits - once again, no trade in 0.0, can't go into empire if you're naughty often without mission grinding. (Or going into 0.0 and chaining battleship spawns). War decs are so much cheaper and avoid all of those issues :)

That said, I play there frequently enough, just usually get them to shoot first :)

7) Why empire and not 0.0?

The better question is Why NOT low sec. Access, access, access 1000 times access. I've played 0.0 in various toons, and the problem with 0.0 is 3 fold:

1. ACCESS: Instead of providing useful means for alliances to control their space they are forced to use blobs and bubbles. That combined with CCP forcing 'tunnels' to increase contact makes soloing out there tiresome - it's "doable", but requires more time (see 3rd point)

2. Alliance Upkeep - Alliances can't defend their space without 23/7 patrols en 'masse. This means that trade in any normal sense does not happen. It becomes an issue of time - since you can't have traders hauling out goods, you have to do it yourself, etc, etc. Yes, once again, it's possible. But why grab the stuff in 0.0 when you can just hit the people coming back from there and take it?

3. Time - Because of #1 and #2, even with a few hours during the work week I have little time to spend the needed time for things like POS upkeep, required defense time, etc. Sure, everything in eve should require some work, and perhaps that's how it has to be - I'm not complaining about this - but at the same time it keeps players out of 0.0 unless they can reliably spend a largeish amount of time online consistantly.

8) Do you belong to an alliance?

Not this toon - but I have been in several of the largeish ones.

9) Do you belong to a player corp?

Yes

9a) How many people active in your corp?

A complicated question with a simple answer - Enough.

10) Do you plan to enter 0.0 or live in 0.0 anytime in the future?

Enter, yes, live, well, I would hope everyone answers that above. So, no.

11) Do you make trips into 0.0 for any reason? More than once a month?

Yes. I make them frequently enough to suit my purposes :)

Thank you. The point of this is simply to get a handle on the reasons the vast majority of people spend time in empire, rather than 0.0.
I'm an alt, so that politics need not be a part of this. I'm also a 0.0 alliance player, so you can understand where I'm coming from. If you can add something usefull, do so.

If you are a 0.0 player, please keep the comments constructive, this is for information gathering only. Plenty of other places to flame.

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