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Amarr
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Posted - 2008.02.22 19:00:00 -
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Risk vs. Reward
I am always wondering about this statement, what exactly is the reward pirates get for gate camping and destroying every ship that comes through the gate? I have never sat on a gate, but I hardly believe that they can make as much isk doing this as they could from running a mission or mining.
So, maybe the reward is not driven by an incentitive to get more isk. Maybe the reward is the personal joy of engaging in PvP. But that is also a myth as 99% of PvP fights (excluding fleet warfare) are extremely one sided and always result in one ship being attacked by several with absolutely no chance of a fair fight or a positive outcome for the sole pod pilot.
What risk did the pod pilot make in jumping into Low Sec in the first place that could have given him enough rewards to justify the jump if he was not part of the gate camping blob? That is the real question.
I ask you this, would any of you move your family into a townhouse on Georgia Ave in Washington D.C.? For those of you who are not lucky enough to live near the US Capital, Georgia Ave is quite possibly the most dangerous street in the city. Parts of the street are nice, there is a nice college and two hospitals. Other parts of the street are lined with barber shops, liquor stores and 7-11's with bars on the windows. The unemployment rate of residents living on and near Georgia Ave is over double the national average. There are gangs, drug dealers and homeless people lined up along the road and in the alleys leading towards the rest of upper North East D.C. So I ask you, would you move your family to this street? What possible reward is worth the risk of getting shot, mugged, molested, threatened and or killed on a daily basis? To me, driving through D.C. is like flying through Low Sec. I only do it when I absolutely have to, I lock all my doors, I ignore red lights and I have my 9mm pistol and two knives on the passenger seat ready just in case. I don't view driving in D.C. to be worth the rewards of, well hell there are not to many rewards for driving in D.C. in the first damn place, it's crowded, there is no where to park and the metro is easier.
That's it, we need a metro in Eve We need a way to safely move into low sec without having to fly through the gates. This means that you can not take your ship or any mods, but you can take isk and easily buy a ship once you get to Low Sec. The gate camps are the worst part about Low Sec, remove that threat and more people will travel in and population will boom. There is a reason more people take the metro into D.C. than drive, maybe we should apply the same methods in game.
 Originally by: Shadarle
Roleplaying may be a good way to get chicks... not sure it works for investors. Unless the investors are chicks.
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