Souvera Corvus
Gallente
SPORADIC MOVEMENT
The Threshold
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Posted - 2008.02.22 06:42:00 -
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Edited by: Souvera Corvus on 22/02/2008 06:44:34
As a long time low-sec resident, I really don't know why these demographical stats should be cause for such furious debate. The reason low-sec is sparsely populated is because it carries a commensurately higher risk than high sec. It is NOT because the rewards are commensurately lower, because they aren't.
People who talk of low-sec being fantastically unrewarding ignore the fact that L4 agents are of a much higher quality than those found in high-sec, that the ores are of a much better quality than those found in high-sec, the hidden sites that much more lucrative and that the much higher chance of pvp in low-sec provides the opportunity to get hold of some very expensive loot.
Low-sec demands a more corporate playstyle than high-sec. To survive you need friends, friends who know what they're doing and who are willing to help. You need to cooperate much more closely than you need to in high-sec.
0.0 appears to be relatively more attractive because its a much larger space and this skews statisitcs and perceptions of danger. You're far more likely to bump into someone who wants to shoot you in low-sec then you are in 0.0 because its a much smaller space.
Those who argue that the risk/reward balance of low-sec needs to be addressed are quite commonly (although not always)people who don't live there or people who want to pad their KB stats with the corpses of mission runners.
The people who invariably call for L4's to be moved to low-sec are looking for less well equipped, less experienced targets its that simple.
Low-sec, as far as I'm concerned is operating as it should be. Its dangerous, but there are opportunities there if you want to find them and are willing to share them with others in a coperative effort.
Ard Unjiigo has it right:
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To those calling to make low-sec more rewarding: why should we? It won't have much of an impact except on a small greedy percentage that will then end up in the clone bay shortly and back here whining to have low-sec nerfed for them because they are unwilling to learn the tools that make it quite reasonable actually to exist here.
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