@Brisc_Rubal
Speaking about the need to increase or decrease the protection of hi-sec, these systems are one of the most unsafe and should not be misled by new players, that they are safe or even very safe. Just because somebody said it by flying a 5M ISK ship? I believe that there is no need to introduce new generic mechanics in raising or lowering protection of these systems, with one exception - S-Size Structures. If we talk about security, then it is only about economic protection in my understanding. I would say that hi-sec systems need only “point fixes”, mainly to improve playability and content availability. Since it is worth considering that players with different budgets are playing there, including those who make claims in zeros. Medicines are good because they have a balanced dose of trace elements that do not harm living organisms, but you should not allow cats to balance the dose of valerian in medicines.
Security in hi-sec systems is ephemeral. A resource can be called protected while it is inexpensive (1.5B ISK), but as soon as its price exceeds the critical value of 1.5B ISK, its security for each addition billion in protection hyperbolically decreases and vice versa the price of resources used for destructions increases linearly and very easily covers the protection. I consider the last change of WarDec to be balanced from an economic point of view, since it is no longer profitable to attack weak, cheap, unskilled and unprotected goals that had to spend a lot of money (billions) per player for defense, given that you can earn little in hi-sec systems without ALTs in zeros or J-space.
In previous posts, someone was outraged and started arguing with me that I wrote about the need to balance JF. I mentioned that they are not balanced from an economic point of view, comparing them with other similar ships. For the same money you can buy ships more protected that can bring much more profit like: Rorqual, Carriers, Marshal. I wondered… most players do not want to use JFs without an important reason and keep them at the docks. In other words, a JF in hi-sec is like a 10B ISK T-5 Abyssal Cruiser, with a Suspect Timer on. It was disgusting for a 3B ISK Cruiser even. In my opinion, the 3-4B ISK hull price of a JF should be nice. I consider that further improvement into JF protection creates logistical difficulties for gankers, especially during none winter season. These arguments lead to the dilemma: Is it worth playing this content or is it worth developing by CCP such a content at all?
Based on what was posted above, I’d like also a more functional corporation Wallet Divisions – the ability to set a respective Wallet for respective purpose in every UI (which supports only private and default corp Wallets) by one user without the need to change that default Wallet every time. Like an individual Wallet for Rents, Corporation Trading, Corporation Contracts… like banking accounts. This functionality can be counted as a protection. The same for corporation itself. There must be a quota mechanic to change the meta management of a corporation.
The last thing I’d like in hi-sec, is only a S-size Upwel Structure for War-Dec immune Corporations. Obviously, those things must have serious diminishing returns over all parameters, must require a CONCORD certificate and a monthly billing like Renting an Office. They must remain WarDec immune until a corporation will anchor a M- L-size Structure, POCO or POS. It should be interesting to open an own “garage” to completely manage and craft own junk on this level.
As I voted in the OP, overall protection is good as it is. Huge rebalance rework requires the low-sec on both protection and economical levels. But this tread isn’t about it. I performed almost all types of available content in low-sec and nor of them is worth doing based on risk and amount of time spent compared to null-sec and even C2 J-space.
What about FW? Well, I have three main directions to think about and work around:
- Player owned Structures in FW zones;
- Cyno-Jammers in FW zones. Is this a good idea?
- Time and objective granulation of FW content.