Originally by: Mickey Simon

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I don't think increasing the "reward" of losec/nosec is a great idea.
If you do that, you're going to put a larger difference between the people who stay in hisec, and the people who control the losec/nosec. Perhaps make give an incentive to solo people in those areas, although I'm not sure what that would be exactly.

I don't think there should be less risk either - when I lose a ship, I want it to mean something. The same goes for when I kill someone else's ship.

I think what needs to change, is the general attitute to losing ships. It's a game, it's not real life. So you lost a ship today, big deal. If you've been in hisec for that long in a relatively risk free environment you should have enough for another one fairly quickly. Players need to stop thinking that losing their ship is the be all and end all, and instead of crying about it, need to figure out what the did wrong (and no, the answer is almost never "shouldn't have gone to losec!").

I've flown through rancer countless times without incident. It's also the place when I lost my first and second ship, and was first podded. It's not that scary.

tldr; the main thing that needs to change are attitudes to ship loss, and the realisation that EVE is a game, not an extension of life. There'll always be people who are too afraid/insecure/uninterested in exploring, but there's surely a lot of people who just need to take a shot of concrete and get out there to learn that it's not really that bad of a place if you know what you're doing.

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