Here’s the problem with asset safety removal as it is right now:
Bob is in a nullsec corp. Bob has all his stuff in his alliance’s Fortizar. Bob is also in the military, and ends up getting sent to deal with the relief efforts in a natural disaster. Or a war. Or he gets hit with a hurricane, and spends a month without power (as happened to some folks each of the last two years). Or any one of a number of RL crises that he has no control over conspire to say “You don’t get to be online for an extended period of time, abruptly and unexpectedly!” Maybe he got hit by a car, and his arms are broken or something. The why doesn’t matter, really.
While he’s gone, the citadel gets RF’d, then blown up.
One of the longstanding carrots to get people to come back to EVE after an extended break has always been ‘your stuff is still here’. Removing asset safety as a blanket issue gives those players no reason to come back. My own personal preference is to treat it (you’ll love this) like wormholes.
Which isn’t what you think it is.
If you’ve got a ship logged off in a wormhole, and the account’s inactive either for a pre-determined period of time, or long enough to get caught in a regular activity sweep, your ship gets moved out of the hole, into LS. I know this because when my mining corp moved into j-space, we eventually set up in a C4.
As you no doubt know, C4 wormholes aren’t big enough for capital ships to get in. However, as people who made most of our cash on mining, we wanted to be able to compress ore to make moving things to market easier. Also, we wanted better boosts than our Orca provided. So we built a Rorqual.
Eventually, the corp got a bit too inactive, and we decided to close up shop, take down all three towers, etc. But, just in case we ever wanted to come back in, we left the rorq pilot in the hole, carrying a bay full of miners, a large tower, and a week’s worth of fuel blocks. We also left a scanning alt in there, so we could get people in quickly without having to leave things unattended.
Six months later, the rorq pilot logged into his account to check something on a different character, and spotted his rorq sitting in lowsec. Karjataimon, I think.
The ship that couldn’t leave that hole had left that hole. A similar ‘you haven’t logged in for x months’ provision for asset safety to LS would preserve the carrot for returning players, while ensuring that active players technically still have assets at risk… even though the length of an RF timer means that if you don’t evac your crap, you’re an idiot who deserved to lose it.
