There is a common sentiment among low/null players that CCP is on a quest that will finally change highsec into Space WoW: perfectly safe, therefore allows constant and unstoppable growth of wealth of players. There was a well-thought out series trying to prove that such action would eventually kill EVE Online. Please read the linked post, it's really good. Its short version: the safer highsec is, the more player will move to it to get their ISK. Even if they have low/null alts, they can't really do anything with it as any possible targets moved to highsec too. I fully agree with the situation report: highsec is vastly overpowered and one focusing on personal character progression shall never ever leave it.
Low-null-wh already has riches like high-end minerals, deadspace and officer loot, more LP in FW, T3 materials that they can trade for highsec items or ISK. The crucial problem is that in low-null-wh you have losses, while in high you already have little, therefore the highsec guy buys materials for his Tengu once in his life while the low-null-why guy buys materials for his ship several times. So the demand for low-null-wh items in high is low, while the damand for highsec items in low-null-wh is high which greatly outperform the larger relative supply in highsec due to AFK gathering.
This is the situation already. WoWifying highsec would just make it worse as you couldn't suicide gank on huge mining op or wardec them, right? Yes, but it would make the situation only slightly worse (as highsec is already safe enough). On the other hand the shift from 99% safe to 100% safe would make a huge difference in one item front: top deadspace and officer modules. Currently only idiots fit multi-billion ISK items on anything but a titan. With no highsec ganks, purples would be a major e-peen source in highsec. By changing highsec perfectly safe, the highsec players could start gathering these items for peacocking, just like their WoW counterparts collect "l33t epixx". The prices of these items would skyrocket overnight. The point is that you can't farm them in highsec at all. Every "purple" would mean multi-billion ISK transfer from highsec to low/nullsec.
Currently the earning power is in highsec, PLEX is mostly created by low-null-wh players and traded for the ISK created by highsec ones. Highsec players play for free, subsidized by nullsec ones. With the above change the direction would turn back. The "pro" highsec players would open their wallet and get PLEX to trade for ISK to trade it for that precious purple. The result would be that an officer spawn would set you up with enough ISK to play for free and be in ships for several months. Practically the whole nullsec would play for free, subsidized by busy space-WoWers working for their "full-epic" pirate battleship. The alting direction of the time-rich would switch too. Instead of null players having highsec alts for ISK making, highsec mains peacocking in a purple Tengu would have a nullsec ratting alt busily farming for officer spawns, providing soft target to feed the PvP food chain.
The best part would be for alliances: they could set ratting bounty tax high and people would still happily rat as bounties would be a smaller part of the income compared to selling the loot. Also, currently they live on ingame-altruism: they have nothing to offer to the pilots who donate their time to the alliance efforts for nothing (the player of course can have fun doing it). With the change owning good ratting spots would be a pilot magnet and the alliances could set demands in return of letting pilots rat.
About the source of "WoWifying":
For EVE trade and industrial discussions join Goblinworks channel.
If you want to get into nullsec but don't know how, go to the official forum recruitment thread and type the name of the alliance you seek into the search and start reading. I'm in TEST by the way.
Wednesday morning report: 161.3B (5.5 spent on main accounts, 4.8 spent on Logi/Carrier, 3.2 on Ragnarok, 2.6+0.1 on Rorqual, 2.4 on Nyx, 2.8 on Dread, 17.4 sent as gift)
Low-null-wh already has riches like high-end minerals, deadspace and officer loot, more LP in FW, T3 materials that they can trade for highsec items or ISK. The crucial problem is that in low-null-wh you have losses, while in high you already have little, therefore the highsec guy buys materials for his Tengu once in his life while the low-null-why guy buys materials for his ship several times. So the demand for low-null-wh items in high is low, while the damand for highsec items in low-null-wh is high which greatly outperform the larger relative supply in highsec due to AFK gathering.
This is the situation already. WoWifying highsec would just make it worse as you couldn't suicide gank on huge mining op or wardec them, right? Yes, but it would make the situation only slightly worse (as highsec is already safe enough). On the other hand the shift from 99% safe to 100% safe would make a huge difference in one item front: top deadspace and officer modules. Currently only idiots fit multi-billion ISK items on anything but a titan. With no highsec ganks, purples would be a major e-peen source in highsec. By changing highsec perfectly safe, the highsec players could start gathering these items for peacocking, just like their WoW counterparts collect "l33t epixx". The prices of these items would skyrocket overnight. The point is that you can't farm them in highsec at all. Every "purple" would mean multi-billion ISK transfer from highsec to low/nullsec.
Currently the earning power is in highsec, PLEX is mostly created by low-null-wh players and traded for the ISK created by highsec ones. Highsec players play for free, subsidized by nullsec ones. With the above change the direction would turn back. The "pro" highsec players would open their wallet and get PLEX to trade for ISK to trade it for that precious purple. The result would be that an officer spawn would set you up with enough ISK to play for free and be in ships for several months. Practically the whole nullsec would play for free, subsidized by busy space-WoWers working for their "full-epic" pirate battleship. The alting direction of the time-rich would switch too. Instead of null players having highsec alts for ISK making, highsec mains peacocking in a purple Tengu would have a nullsec ratting alt busily farming for officer spawns, providing soft target to feed the PvP food chain.
The best part would be for alliances: they could set ratting bounty tax high and people would still happily rat as bounties would be a smaller part of the income compared to selling the loot. Also, currently they live on ingame-altruism: they have nothing to offer to the pilots who donate their time to the alliance efforts for nothing (the player of course can have fun doing it). With the change owning good ratting spots would be a pilot magnet and the alliances could set demands in return of letting pilots rat.
About the source of "WoWifying":
For EVE trade and industrial discussions join Goblinworks channel.
If you want to get into nullsec but don't know how, go to the official forum recruitment thread and type the name of the alliance you seek into the search and start reading. I'm in TEST by the way.
Wednesday morning report: 161.3B (5.5 spent on main accounts, 4.8 spent on Logi/Carrier, 3.2 on Ragnarok, 2.6+0.1 on Rorqual, 2.4 on Nyx, 2.8 on Dread, 17.4 sent as gift)
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