Cygnus Scott
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.03.07 18:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Morrow Disca
Your drop in sec status will hurt you alot more that losing a few haulers will hurt a carebear. Most Carebears will simply adapt to the attacks in the same way as they would if their corp was war dec'd. Stabbing haulers, not going afk, staying aligned in missions incase someone warps in, etc.
There are no carebears in low sec because there is no way to be safe while you operate there. The difference between 0.5 and 0.4 is stark in terms of security but negligible in terms of ISK to be earned.
The solution lies not in making empire less safe, but in making low sec more secure. Making all missions in low sec require a gate key (given to you by the agent) would be one start. You'd not be able to attack them in missions but it would still increase the amount of shipping in low sec and thus increase your chance of getting kills. Plus the more people run missions in low sec the more people will need supplies, more haulers moving stuff in, etc, etc.
You can't be greedy and demand the right to kill anything anywhere, if you do you'll just end up with all of eve becoming like low sec. Then where will we be? Accepting a 'safe' aspect to low sec will ultimately work in the favour of pirates.
Not a bad idea.
The biggest problem with low sec is the fact that its just not profitable, the risk vs. reward is grossly out of balance. That is something the pirates neglect to see. In fact I'd go so far as to call them the "carebears" since there is little actual risk to piracy. PVE fit ships pose little real threat to a PVP fit pirate gang, not to mention that you can fly a cheap ship and just let the NPCs do most of your work for you. Sentry Guns? Its already been shown you can mitigate the consequence/risk of sentry guns if you aren't a idiot from low sec gate camps. You can almost always choose your fight so that the odds are heavily in your favor. Calling for easy low to no-risk targets is what you are doing, isn't this what you're accusing the carebears of having in high sec? Easy money with no risk...hypocrites.
Find a way to even out the risk vs. reward in low sec and you'll see more mission runners in low sec. Miners you won't see because of the mechanics of mining, you have to remain in one spot too long to make ISK doing it. That and hiring guards or the loss of a ship cuts the profits of the better ores to be pretty much the same as what you can make in high sec with a hauler partner/alt. That is why High Sec or Alliance patrolled 0.0 is best for mining and low sec sucks for it.
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