Originally by: Rafein

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Alright people, sit down, cause I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Will probably surprise a lot of you.

People lived in 0.0 before jumpdrives

WTH happened to all the 0.0 players? When did they become more carebear than the mission runners?

Answer, when Jumpdrives allowed them to "skip" huge portions of space, thus reducing the chance of random, PvP encounters. With Dreads/Carriers, moving huge amounts of good became safer then Empire living.

Remember the the excitment of hunting down a Freighter full of enemy goods? Now, remember the last time you saw a Freighter in >.4?

As for CCP not knowing what they are doing, they actually do know, it's just, the game has evolved away from their initial view of 0.0, as a place to build Empires, a place where you need logictics. A place where players interacted, where Industrialists needed PvPers for protection, and PvPer's need industrialists for ships/mods.

CCP is correct, 0.0 kinda evolved away from interaction between industial players, and Pvpers. Sadly, change doesn't even begins to bring logistics back to 0.0, I think that ships has already sailed. It makes it less profitable, but with the profit margins most are running, it is a moot point anyway, they can still get the good they need, they wil just have to spend an extra hour or two mining high ends for the same return.

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