Originally by: Aleksei Thraddash

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Lowsec empire really needs some love, at the moment it is just pointless to be there at all.

Missions give only slightly more Isk/hour than in highsec and are riskier than npcing in 0.0 and the belts are just crap.
The only people youll find there are newbies who dont know better.

IMO the best way would be to add lowend BS spawns and better ores to the belts in 0.1 and to spread out the agents some more.

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Originally by: Bellum Eternus

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I'm not here to discuss PvP, or pirating in giant gate camps with instalocking remote boosted frigs or bubbled gates in 0.0. I'm here to discuss solo/small gang piracy in low-sec and what's become of it since the new patch.

For me personally it has completely disappeared. I had to wait a week to get Recon Probe Launchers (RPLs) seeded, so I could go after mission runners. Doesn't matter now anyway, as all the mission runners have disappeared into high-sec. I can't follow them there (yet) because I'm -10.00.

I don't have anyone to shoot at. Zero. There's more traffic in low sec now, but that's an illusion. Haulers go from gate to station, instadock, turn around and leave. Where before I might ahve stood a chance at nabbing one or two that didn't have instas, now I'm assured that I don't get the opportunity, no matter how small it might have been before.

Rarely does someone go ratting in a belt, and when they do, they're always aligned to the gate/station, and are usually in warp before I even get warped into the belt proper. Straight to the station and gate, with no chance to persue them.

I dislike 0.0 because of the bubbles and bubble camps, but it looks like that is all that remains for me to do. Not bubblecamp mind you, but ply 0.0 systems in search of targets. I spend half my time in 0.0 anyway, but that's fighting fleet battles and such for my alliance. I do that to support them, but I enjoy solo pirating in low-sec as my main style of gameplay. Lately I see less and less reason to undock. In my opinion this game is increasingly becoming one of PvP by consent only. Might as well make special arenas and 'battle grounds' and completely convert to WoW's design, we're already half way there.

I have jump clones in the four major circuits of low-sec in Amarr / Gallente / Caldari / Minmatar space. I'm not just suffering in a single system devoid of targets. I move around a lot using warp to 0km to my advantage to traverse high-sec in search of targets in remote low-sec systems. There just isn't anything to shoot at anymore. As soon as I get into a system, everyone is docked / safespotted / on their way to the high-sec gate.

Bring back solo piracy to EvE CCP.

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