Shadowsword
COLSUP Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2007.10.22 16:23:00 -
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Originally by: Cailais For as long as Ive been playing EVE there have been threads discussing the merits (or lack of) for Low Sec space. The majority have focused upon the idea of boosting low sec by adding better missions and better loot. Others have asked to 'nerf' low sec, by making it more friendly - all in an attmept to lure the 'care bear' pilot to a happier place. All have pretty much fallen flat.
So here (for what its worth) is my reccomendation - Piratise Low Sec.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
Low Sec should be a haven for the criminal, the chancer and risk taker. But it should also be a source of temptation, a risk worth taking. But the problem is everything you can find in Low Sec, you can find in other safer places.
Introducing - The Black Market.
A Low Sec Black Market operates seperately to a typical Empire Market, it deals in illegal, contraband goods whose sale is prohibited in High Sec space. Ones imagination could go of the scale here but as a taster the Black Market allows the sale of Tech III goods (combi-weapons for example), Booster Drugs, and Illegal contracts (such as Assasination contracts or single player "war decs").
Introducing - The Fog of War.
Without the capabilities of Empire maintained communication relays your ships awareness its inceasingly mutted in Low Sec. This works by degrading your local scan range - in 1.0 space you see in local everyone within 100AU (99% of a system), in 0.9 this drops to 90AU and so on until 0.1 systems are down to 10AU radius for Local Intell.
Introducing - Ruined Stations.
While there would still be a handful of 'normal stations' in Low Sec, the majority would be ruined edifices of a Empire in retreat. These Stations would supply the normal selection of services, with the noteable exemption that you cannot dock at them. 'Refuge Stations' would be the opposite, granting the ability to dock - but supplying no services whatsoever other than hangar space.
Those are the basis of how Id percieve Low Sec - a harsh cruel environment with the potential for untold riches: at a price.
C.
I rather like your idea, but it would fail. If the rewards aren't enough, it's not worth it. If they're too much, the 0.0 alliances will come back into low-sec and force pirates and non-pirates alike out of the way. ------------------------------------------
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