I would like to be able to form a small corp, without being decked all the time - remowe war dec mechanics from hi-sec.

I would like to be able to do moon mining in hi-sec.

As I'm into mining, manufacturing and the like, I would like, at lots of other players allready has suggested, larger belts with roids consisting of multible oretypes.

This is the kind of thing that piques my interest as you said the key word, career. Living in empire should be a viable career path and have the same depth of experience and things to do as nullsec. Empire in my opinion SHOULD be an end game as much as 0.0, just different for a different playstyle.

Highseccers tend to be casual players [..] their concerns are marginalized or ridiculed

EVE is a dark and harsh world, you're supposed to feel a bit worried and slightly angry when you log in, you're not supposed to feel like you're logging in to a happy, happy, fluffy, fluffy lala land filled with fun and adventures, that's what hello kitty online is for.

Time to remind what the wise man said

My big concern is honestly more that there are large powerblocks in null that feel high needs nerfing to death. They have messed up their own kitty litter with 'supercaps online' and too many blues, and seem to feel that the cure is to destroy high sec. All this would achieve is more lost subs and even less devs/community reps than we currently have.
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The fix? My discussions with alliance members and randoms in high sec systems seems to indicate that a large portion want to move to null or wormholes[u][/u] however the price of admission is too high, be it time (which there isn't much anyone can do about) or more importantly, the repulsion towards being renters or 'pets' to a massive superblob alliance.
So in a funny way, the best way to 'improve high' might well be to concentrate on null (and likely add a series of new wormholes).
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Bring back the feeling of being of an adventure, in a wild frontier, limit the superblobs ability to project power anywhere on the map and give people something to work on as a group, outside of random destruction and structure grinding, and I suspect null will thrive. Oh and kill the bots.

Note for Vile rat about bounties:

No. Makes sense that there's no moongoo in hisec.

Note for Vile rat about bounties:

Flat death bounties have never worked in any game. Too easy to exploit. Only way to make them not profitable is to set up a bounty escrow with CONCORD that pays out for less than the value of the destroyed items like so:

Dead ship: Everyone on the killmail splits 50% of the base value of the destroyed ship and destroyed fittings (not dropped), up to the amount in escrow. The killers also split the insurance payout, if for some reason the wanted pilot had insurance.

Dead pod: Everyone on the killmail splits 75% of the base value of the implants plus 75% of the cost of the clone, up to the amount in escrow.

This makes it unprofitable to get podded by your own alt, makes the pod potentially more valuable to kill, and a high-bounty target can be hunted for a very long time. If the target flies small ships instead of supercaps, it lowers the value of an individual kill, but keeps the escrow running longer.

Example:

Vile rat gets bountied by annoyed highseccers after he trolled them in Assembly Hall, for 100M ISK total (cheap bastards). This goes into the CONCORD escrow.

He gets his cruiser blown up by 5 attackers. The loss in hull and destroyed modules is 50M ISK. (Dropped stuff is up for grabs.) Each of the 5 attackers gets a 5M bounty payout [(50M*50%)/5]. The escrow goes down to 75M still on Vile rat's head.

They manage to nab his pod and all 5 get on the killmail. Vile rat had implants, and their base value + the cost of his clone are 500M. 500M*75% is more than what's left in the escrow, so each attacker gets (75M/5)=15M for the podkill instead of [(500M*75%)/5]=75M.

Now if the bounty was significant, like 10B ISK, not only does Vile rat's pod become a potentially juicier target, but the escrow stays high enough that he can be hunted again and again. He can hide in a station or go out without implants, but the clone value still makes it worthwhile, and not having implants only makes the escrow last longer.

Adding a bounty to the destroyed ship is just a thought, as it gives a solo roamer a reason to go after a wanted pilot even if he might not be able to nab the pod. If that gets too complicated, just forget it and keep the 75% bounty on the implants and clone price.

Note for Vile rat about bounties:

OH MY UNDERWEAR. WHAT DID YOU DO !

But seriously though. This idea is awesome. Some CSM guy or CCP devs, please, give some feedback about this thingy. It looks, wonderfull. Really. Awesomeness concentrated in a wall of text.

Shouldn't there be a seperate proposal for this somewhere?

So the actual bounty is escrowed and the payout depends on the actual cost to the person losing it?

This is REALLY good, I like this a lot. It doesn't create new money in the game since you have to put it up front and it causes you to only get paid if you cause hurt to the person who died.

Thank you for offering this idea, I'm going to see if it can get some legs.

Time to remind what the wise man said:

... Yes, it's an ISK sink ...

I do like the idea, don't get me wrong. Technicaly, it is not an ISK sink. No ISK is being added or removed from the sandbox over the long term, it is just being transfered from one player to another.

I do like the idea, don't get me wrong. Technicaly, it is not an ISK sink. No ISK is being added or removed from the sandbox over the long term, it is just being transfered from one player to another.

This is a great thread.

I know I've been conditioned as a young player to not trust anything with "goon" as a prefix - but from reading this thread I have new found respect for the OP.

This idea seems pretty out there - but what about the idea that players, through large cooperative actions, could CHANGE the security status of certain areas.

i.e. Through a concord directed set of objectives, a section could move from 0.4 to 0.5.

The reverse could also be true - by connecting with pirate groups, a system could be moved from 0.5 to 0.4.