lol we have really clashed heads on this subject, and has grown into another direction.
ok - interesting read.
Again ill point zKillboard / youtube / other gaming community’s from Ex-Eve players, as always I back my views with evidence, facts, common-sense, interactions with others who quit the game and why they did…
I’m trying to understand why an intelligent person and an experienced player like yourself cant face the facts.
CCP have done the research, have experts to analyse the data, have had management discussions regarding lack of paying customers, short number of players and how to improve the game.
How can you claim that a player with over 20atl ( 21st-hand zKillboard) will pay a full subscription for all accounts since the last few years has been playing for free? - no not at all .
I don’t believe that CCP came to the conclusion to impose red safety rules for Alpha account’s to arrive at your conclusion that
Any new player, no matter how good / old or young an experienced gamer, they will get ganked at jita - now the problem is 9/10 its by a player with 20 or more atls (already gave a name from zKillboard but there are 100s like that) - they have 2 choices to make - rage quit, evaluate time money effort to fun factor - or get better, statistic’s are showing you they quit.
CCP now know they cant get a person with 20Atls to pay full sub they have been playing for free for years, but they can improve the chance to maintain the prospects to entice a new player to subscribe
All top related games that involve financial transactions are only improved / gameplay changed for monetization, this is basic 1st level business common sense.
CCP could not publicly declare that they want to stop an activity due to profit or forcing 20atls to sub there would be an outcry from the free playing players and there 20 atls. This would be totally a bad PR statement, and again they have professional / experienced staff to advise on PR matters.
As said many times gankers are a part of eve online, ganking community’s, style of play ect BUT and its a big “but” that you cant accept or don’t understand what I’m saying,
Eve is massive and gankers have themselves to blame for over farming new players with free accounts and of course we both know they will not sub 20 atls with real money.
Eve dose not revolve around HIGH sec JITA ganking, ganking can be done at low/nul/wh/ ect ect , when I use to play amazing battles in null sec out of this world, and most that I knew would encourage new players to leave high sec, they would help them train them, same with w/h corps ect.
I’m not saying or have said it should stop - now that’s another debate on views lol we could bash head at.
so now to distinguish the difference between real life money and theoretical game real-world
We both know even a week a month depending on hours v game time v days that a player (lets call them potato) is not going to be that good in a few weeks, we both know that they may buy plex with real life money, they want the ship for relic or something, they might even have brought plex then sold for isk, its common, stupid but common.
Now lets say they tank a ship to best they can, we both know 20atls 1 shot from them and pop.
They jointhe majority as statistic’s shown and quit. CCP lost real life money transaction payment.
ganker has 20 atls some even more, they hit (potato) and get a nice 10b score - happy days - times this by 50b a day / lets say 4 days a week , they sell items in market for ISK, they use ISK to acquire PLEX - NO financial support to the game – if you were ganking “if” would you really spend money you worked for a sub?. come on think it over.
Fact - the price of plex increased at a staggering rate, basic business indicates this is because less plex in circulation, when any object becomes in demand the price will fluctuate accordingly to supply.
How do we get PLEX we acquire it with real money and that’s something in high sec gankers don’t need to spend money on anything - playing for free means exactly that - they play for free, sure great for buying PLEX from in game market for ISK they got from ganking,
But not good for CCP as sale of plex for real money has got low - why has it got low - read above 
Don’t get confused that in-game theoretical real-world isk or plex pays wage to keep game going, it is Theoretical money , 2b isk = 500 plex so 5 ganks = 10b = 2500 = 3 months free game time happy days
got zKillboard se how much new players lose, yes their own fault, but lol another but
look at the damage its done to game over the years
Alliance / corps - ill try name a few lol ok ok dont copy paste this part its been a long time lol . test alliance / razor / brave / goonswarm / Pandemic Horde anyways, when a new player starts they may need xzy skill points or they believe they can go it alone ect, but when they join an alliance / corp that get to become part of something, sure they will go pop but its not because they were ganked way in null sec - because of PvP in an alliance war, they would arrange
battles for new players, not sure if they still do.
The point is they are more likely to get a sub to help them self enjoy the game / buy that ratting ship ect that is where subscriptions peek
That is how PLEX is brought with real money then converted into theoretical game currency.
Have you ever herd that saying - “sh~@ sticks” ? years ago when I played around its peek, think of all the things eve offers think on what iv said about alliance/ corps, wh, ect, ppl didnt quit because of the fun they had, they quit because they new gankers with there 20+atls didn’t give them a chance.
To little to late from CCP - shi~ sticks.
pls got look the numbers in zKillboard – even now with new rules, and when I played wow I stuck in fraction war / butit was full of jita gankers wth 20+atls, they have top end ships bumping at jits station,
you know sometimes when you play a game for as long as we have, more you as I quit 2 years ago or so, its hard to change our views / expectations.
PPL quit the game way before CCP changed the rules, mostly for this reason as new players, but you have no intention to step away from the game look at the game as a whole, your stuck in 2009 2011 when game was at it peek (different ppl different years)
The number that quit from 2009 to 2011 is far greater then 2019 to 2023,
Pierre de Bricassart, said were in a Newdo forum ? so lol maybe we move it to another part of eve forum lol
I’m not trying to change your views, you have had them for 12+years, games develop, they change like it or not, we can change with them or quit, from start of covid19 across the world gaming community’s changed as did games, and how ppl play them.
anyways this has been great, thanx