It’s pretty obvious ( edit: maybe not so obvious seems we only see the ones that cry the loudest on forums) by now that huge block null sec residence don’t want change, they don’t want a challenge and they don’t want a die hard universe that gets in the way of their farm.
Solution Give us Low Secors the danger remove our local, remove our gate guns and station gun’s give us the mad npc’s with crazy environmental effects that we need to adapt to with some juicy rewards in return, we love change we love danger and o Boy we love a Great fight :D.
In exchange please remove the ability for Titan’s/Super’s to enter low sec, let them be built in null and stay in null, low is better with more sub cap battle’s and a few carrier’s dread’s as an extra that need’s subcap support.
After realizing what nullsec is about from this black out I feel like never stepping foot in it again, killing afk ratters is boring and having people dock up when you come for a fight is equally as boring, I ask all the residence of New Eden to come to low sec for roams, let it be the place of great battles and skirmishes let it be our paradise of destruction let it be the grave for our Viking soul’s.
Blackrise is pretty lively atm had some really great fights over the last 3 months, but I can understand your point, maybe constellation chat instead of local will be more handy then, as it would have quite a bit of people in and would provide less intel than local can.
I’m a long time resident of null sec, that’s NPC null sec to be exact. NPC null sec and the residents within it have an entirely different paradigm than SOV null sec residents aka renters/botters. Honestly I have not heard anyone in my circle admittedly limited circle of friends complain about the lack of local, we are for the most part fine with it.
The primary burr under the seat cushion is that all statistical data within the map still shows activities such as number of pilots in space and more, creating an imbalanced, virtual ducks in a barrel scenario that provides one-way intel to the roamers. I have very little experience with wormhole living, perhaps someone could enlighten me…does the map show wormholes and how many pilots are in them? If it does then please disregard my previous observations, but if it doesn’t then we may have an imbalance on our hands.
What I know of the NPC Null residents both friend and adversary is that we will and are adapting and won’t be packing it in, we live on shoestring budgets and form tight friendships that are lasting and strong, in other words we look out for each other and we don’t typically live under an umbrella of security as it were. We are free-booters and opportunistic looters that can deal with this recent change together.
I guess at the end of the day I’m wondering how the map still knows so much when local doesn’t, don’t even get me started on the agency showing signatures far and wide without the investment in the joy of exploration. Exploring for targets of opportunity as well as signatures and anomalies is a natural extension of the wonder that is EVE, a bright spot on the map or a list of signatures with a single click deprives us of our inquisitiveness and breeds in the long run more entitled pusillanimous easy button pressing masses.
So much has changed since 2003 for me but I am still hanging in there and keeping it real.
Game On
If my predictions for the purpose of all this come true (Which tbh I dont expect but would like to see), the wailing right now is but a drop in the ocean.
And you and I and other natural survivors will benefit.
