Personally, I think that high sec should be reconfigured - they should make it so that highsec is just 1.0 and .9 space. In the “new highsec” pvp combat could be severely restricted if not out right forbidden. This way the newbees have a place to ease into the game and other folk to retreat to instead of logging out upon a war dec. From .8 to .5 could then be intermediate space (for want of a better term). In this new “middle ground” CCP could keep the current pvp mechanics (although I certainly do believe that ccp should work to balance out the risk of a war dec so that the defenders have some reason to participate in the war).