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Posted - 2007.06.14 20:44:00 -
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 Originally by: Sealteamx
Ok, so i keep hearing about how CCP is trying to make lowsec more populated, and i had an idea.
At current, empire space is (basically) big green happy friendly safe space, surrounded by slightly meaner space, surrounded by big angry 'rip-your-face-off' space.
The problem is that the carebear population can simply stay in .5 and above space the whole time to go about their business.
So: My basic idea; add a lot more low sec within empire space. I mean low sec between regions, low sec that forces traders and industrialists to take risks to get their goods, that forces players to buy the cheapest of an item that's in their area, rather like pirates are limited currently, rather than just go to jita or another trade hub for the cheapest on available.
This would mean that pirates have more game, trading and industry rewards taking risks by traveling through low sec to take your cheaply purchased goods to more expensive areas. Escorts would be required, ect.
I hope this would help to break up the centralization of the population, bring more prosperity to pirates and add more risk versus reward to traders and industrialists, all simply with the addition of more low-sec space within empire, without alternate routes between regions.
Although the idea has merit, the major problems it has is your targets will usually be newbies who would be absolutely unable to defend themselves and the mechanics of the gate jump gives the gate camper a huge advantage.
If travel from region to region required passing through at least one low sec system, you can set up an alt at the exit of the safe system to monitor ships reaching the gate so that you can pick/choose who to pounce on when they load into the low sec system on the other side. They are effectively blindsided. You have all the advance warning, they have none. Even if they had friends jump ahead, you can just wait for an easier target.
this game is already too focused on camping the gates, the more we can get away from it the better.
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