Rook Highwind
Miners-R-us
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Posted - 2008.04.09 22:10:00 -
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Unfortunately, I can't see a general move towards losec ever taking place, for the simple reason that the reward will never ever be worth the risk, no matter how big that reward is. Think about it; the potential benefits of mining/ratting in losec are increased, so you may get an initial influx of pilots from empire. This would last two days at most, because as soon as many people started going there, all the pirates would go "hey, there's noobs in losec again! Party time!".
The [likely] huge influx of pirates would mean that the chances of actually leaving losec with any more money than you took in would drop to nil, since no matter what belt you went to in any system, there'd be pirates no more than five minutes away. That's not greater risk for greater reward, that's suicide. Then all the carebears leave again, and again with the whiny pirates.
The only probable solution I have thought of doesn't involve a change to losec, at least not exclusively. Introduce a new kind of rat; one that fights like a player. It employs similar tactics and fits, and fights at varying levels of skill. Introduced to missions, the numbers of rats per grid might have to be reduced somewhat due to the nature of such setups, but it would encourage 'carebears' to fly ships fitted to deal with PvP style aggression all the time.
This is the only thing close to a win-win scenario I can come up with. Missioners get an enhanced chance of survival against mission-probing f*gs, and thus might be more inclined to venture into losec (were the rewards to be appropriately raised at a later date when everyone was comfortable). Pirates would get more even fights,and more targets, which is what they really want*. It's a little tangential, but it might work.
*I realise that what pirates whiny forum b*st*rds want is a myriad of easy targets. Two words: Just No. If you want to pew pew and have lots of shiny things fall to pieces around you while you zoom around taking nary a scratch, do yourselves a favour and go play one of the slightly less realistic WWII flight sims.
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