- Nerf hisec, losec and WH income, hard. Nerf hisec, losec and WH content.
- Reduce hisec & losec physical size by 80%

EvE will never be all that it can be while a disconnect between what is marketed is at odds with this reality.

We need to confront that dichotomy head-on, to admit to oneself that the underlying reason so many new players that do join because of BR-5's and 'This is EvE' videos, yet who leave the game, is because they are sold a concept of EvE as a constant big-battle world, yet are handed (and entrenched in) a PVE hamster-wheel in hisec. They then suffer sub-par ship replacement insurance penalties when they do lose a ship, or confusing mechanics that allow them to be wardecced, suspect-baited or ganked -- and hello risk aversion or desire to break out of the hisec mold.

I tried to teach them to drop their fear and risk aversion, by being a hisec asshat and shooting them in the face. But for each 1 person I post-detonation saved and recruited to teach, I lost 9 to frustration or even leaving the game, because their detonation was at odds with all they had learned in hisec up to that point. That misconception that EvE can be a 'safe' place for them to carebear endlessly. I realized I was a boy with a finger in a dyke, and as I relocated to null in frustration, the lightbulb went on...

We need to admit that for EvE to really grow, that hisec must be greatly scaled down (in terms of ISK generation, content and even physical size), and that we need to push players out of there ASAP and 'into the game' that is known to sell the game, the question becomes 'what do we do with those people?', and 'how do we counter risk aversion?'

I chose nullsec as the single zone of focussed play, to strive for critical mass to be reached. I chose to support a better ship replacement insurance scheme like in Elite:Dangerous. Some would instead argue the single-zone be losec based, or that industry would suffer to much with better insurance.

We can have that debate.

But I won't stop saying (through you) to CCP, that as bold as the Aegis SOV changes were, they didn't go far enough.

To that end I don't care if I don't get upvotes, just as I am today a solitary voice in my alliance in support of jump-range and jump-fatigue changes as 'good for EvE'. Leaders or visionaries can't always be populists.

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If only there were more solid mechanics pushes and drivers like I proposed, to create more Brave Newbies organizations; a perfect example of quick-ramping new players into EvE as-marketed meeting reality.

As much as I loved to dry-hump Boonies, their idea and concept is one of the best things to take place in EvE in a long time. What they did is like a faint beacon of light, just waiting for CCP to clue in and say "how do we keep reproducing that", "how do we support them and new groups like them mehcanics wise?", how do we critical-mass constant generation of 'Brave Newbies" like organizations in hisec, that will tear off into losec and null...

You make hisec smaller. You remove ISK generation from hisec. You remove content from hisec and make it a content wasteland, a 'ready room' for the 'real' EvE that is outside it. You implement better ship-replacement insurance, so newbros don't learn risk-aversion when they do lose a 'good' ship.

You do SOMETHING, and ignore the status-quo'ers who don't want to see their cheese moved.

Someone once told me that in the beginning EvE was only nullsec, and the other 'secs' didn't even exist. Imagine that.

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