It’s somewhere around 50-60%. High-sec has contained 70-80% of the game’s population historically, and some percentage of that is going to be trader alts, low/null/WH players doing logistics, and a few gankers/pirates/mercenaries, but the rest are going to be carebears. Now, there are going to be carebears in places like null-sec too, that do nothing but grind rocks and PvE in their rented systems. That’s why you have a kill board statistic that basically says that only about 10% of all characters are involved in any sort of PvP activities (winner or loser).
The majority of players play MMOs for solo PvE, and not for PvP or community aspects. This is even true in other, more conventional MMOs. Most just want to move around and occasionally extract something from a virtual rock. Mining’s got electrolytes (what plants crave).
Not exactly what I think of when all you NPCs are in here all day bleating about EVE being a PVP game. In fact, the stat you quoted from a legit source would suggest the opposite.
Was there ever a time when there weren’t people multiboxing in EvE, though?
Thank you for calling them “chars” rather than “toons”. A little thing but appreciated.
The hardcore feel to the game that seems to be slowly taken away.
The sandbox that we were all drawn to that is now being taken away. Cloaky Camping / Stuka fleets (being able to boosh the whole fleet). I miss abundant ratters.
Most of all I miss the days of Inpanic, solar fleet, kids with guns, badfellas etc. When nullsec was diverse and full of whales.
If your are who I think you are we had some fun times together on opposite sides of the barrel. We looked like Whales, and to some extent we were, but we also had bat ■■■■ crazy guys who’d escalate with on dime with nfs given just for the lols.
Zaera is also 2005. What she misses most is the old war system where you could war dec bears, engaging in a turkey shoot, the mercs they would inevitably hire, more shiny targets.
