G'Kar5
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Posted - 2007.03.02 13:36:00 -
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Edited by: G''Kar5 on 02/03/2007 13:54:33
CCP, please don't do this. I'm a highsec mission runner who just finally saved up the 200M required to buy and fit a BS. At my rate of play, that took me about 90 days to save up for. Now you are going to force me to take that setup into lowsec where I will be pwned in about 30 seconds? Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-PVP, I actually like going ratting in lowsec in a pack of frigs/cruisers. Its fun trying to beat the pirates (although I always lose), but I don't care because my losses are minimal.
The best solution to the problem that I read:
Keep existing L4's as they are now with similar ISK reward and bounties. I can continue to farm these missions with my BS.
Make the new L5 missions in lowsec, but make them doable in a BC or gang of cruisers. Also, the reward for these must be higher than the L4's. In other words, easier missions, higher rewards. Make L5 agents require ridiculously high standing (9.0 or something corp standing, and 3 or 4 faction standing, positive sec status, etc) so the pirates cannot farm them all day and that only players that are career mission runners can get them.
Make the level6's the capital ship type missions in lowsec. This should give the L6 mission runners plenty of "cannon fodder" cruiser/BC pilots to gang up with to lock a system down from the pirates for their mutual benefit.
Change the security standing system such that not only does security status control which systems you can enter, but the size of the ship you can bring into the system. Something -5 to -10 cannot bring anything bigger than a frigate/assault ship into 0.3 and up, etc. The sec status and ship class may be way off, but you get the idea. Make the pirates work to be able to bring ships into the system to pwn missioner runners. Give the advantage to the mission runners in 0.3 and 0.4 space, and the advantage to the pirates in 0.1 and 0.2 space.
Now THIS gives me incentive to go into lowsec. There is ample reward and I have no problem risking a frig/cruiser with 20M in fittings once in a while. Heck, it might even be fun to mix it up in PVP if I know when my ship gets popped, I can easily go back to L4's to recoup my loss (with my BS that still exists). Now if it takes me months to aquire enough ISK to purchase and refit my ship, I'm done with lowsec.
If CCP does this, everybody is happy. Pirates get more targets with named/T2 fittings, mission runners get into lowsec because its financially viable for them, and CCP gets lowsec populated.
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