Aerasia
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.08.08 17:20:01 -
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Viper Kiss wrote:However, low sec is meant to be the wild west where everyone is trying to kill one another. You do realize that the reason all the 'prey' stick to high sec space is precisely because they view low sec as 'the wild wild west where everyone is trying to kill me'.
If you want to make low more dangerous, you're going to have to make it safer first. The profit of outlaw piracy is coming from the carebears suckling on the ISK faucets. Figure out how to get the bears into low, and the pirates will follow.
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Aerasia
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.08.08 18:04:19 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:I'm not sure you could offer enough of an incentive to get players to overlook the stark reality. Incentive is exactly the point.
It doesn't matter where you do your carebearing, the income equation is basically the same: ISK earned in PVE - Piracy losses = Profit.
In high sec, you can control your piracy losses. Try it for yourself if you don't believe me: A) Get in a fully Meta 0 tanked, but otherwise empty, Badger and sit outside the Jita undock. See how many months it takes for somebody to finally get tired of you and spend 5 Catalysts popping you for that sweet Invuln I loot. B) Post in C&P that you've got an officer fit Maurader in a 1.0 sec system, that got stuck in a mission. See how many nanoseconds it takes for local to spike with blinky red.
Low sec doesn't offer that same level of control. Piracy losses are simply a function of you being found, which is a fundamentally different mindset than blitzing L4s, doing Incursions, mining or just plain running freight.
Viper Kiss wrote:Anyway, I don't care about players who want to play safe.
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The fact is there is no real incentive for people to go to low-sec. You can't have the lowsec you want by making everybody wolves. Increasing drop rates only slows the ISK drain of PvP. At best, you end up with the very thing you're complaining about, -10 sec players basing out of low and day tripping to high sec to gank.
You need to worry about the players who want to play safe because they are the juicy pigs that feed your hunger. Give the pigs a path to profit, and they will violence your rocks. Show them that the very worst the pirates can do will still leave them with more ISK than they're making in high sec, and they will run missions in your space. Understand that you are putting yourself at a disadvantage to lure those pigs into a trap, and sometimes that pig will be a boar instead.
If you want to make changes to how lowsec operates, you're going to have to put yourself in the carebear's shoes. Answer the question: How do I make a better living in low, even if I'm operating in a system a pirate think is 'his'?
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