Mixing pvp and pve is always a bad idea.

CenDre the game is currently 26 hours old. 20 hours if you count in the rollback. Isn't it a bit early to start preaching the end of the world based on completely fictional statistics?

How about wait and see for atleast 2 weeks, probably more like a month and see how the game fares before making any huge changes?

Give all the players some time to get a feel of the game and give the devs some time to get a feel of the players.

Maybe you're right and in 2 weeks people will be whining all over the forums about getting ganked all day, then the devs can react based on actual numbers and actual facts. Instead of a single player's claim that 94,05% of the player base will never ever PvP, 5% of the players sometimes PvP and 0,05% of the players always PvP. With an apparent 0,9% of the population staring at their login-screens all day long.

Wait and see, give the game some time. And yeah it sucks when devs aren't able to fix problems before they come up or right after they do, but the alternative of them fixing things that aren't even broken is much worse.

Cendre just lost the thread with the %s she just posted.

If you think pvpers living on beta (not f*ding* bate) are .05% that would be less tha 10 players, assuming we have under 2000 active players.  I'm sure you realize there's many more living full time on beta, not considering those who frequent beta but not living from a beta outpost.

You failed so hard here.

if a small grp is out lookin to gank someone they will haveno problems searching a whole island in less than 20 minutes.

CenDre wrote:

If you were on the beach ready to go swimming and have a great time and a life guard told you there were great white sharks out there feeding and they would never go away, it could be one shark or a thousand all they know is som one saw a guy get eaten alive...... would you jump in.

Disclaimer first: I am a carebear so far, i cart stuff from terminal to terminal making money off what i buy and sell, this does mean that occasionally i need to ask for help to get out to the stations on the outer isles to drag ammo and the like out. I do have a combat account, i go out and blow up NPC mechs, mission run, etc. but have not really wanted to go out to the outer isles yet. I do the same thing in EvE and love it, except there i have two accounts that are both merchants, neither account even has weapons on ships, lol.

There is a big difference between us in our flabby bodies going into the water with sharks, and working with others before going out into a PvP area.....
If you do not ever want to interact with others (which you said at least once earlier) and think there are a lot of other people here that feel the same i fear you are mistaken.
For one this is an MMO, perhaps more than other MMO's (other than EvE) the whole idea is interaction with others.
Secondly when you started out, you did not immediately rush out and take on star mechs did you? Did not swim with the sharks until you became as bad as they were?
You were barely able to handle the drones they sent you out against, same as the rest of us. Then as you learn the game and pick up some skills you fight tougher and tougher bots. The same has to happen with PvP areas, we all need to learn ways to get in and out relatively safely, what not to do, etc. You evolve in the game where to some degree you become a shark that can handle the other sharks in your pool.

As someone pointed out before there are plenty of carebears that go into the PvP areas for whatever reason and we have learned to swim with the sharks

...yes, i am carebear, if attacked in PvP i will run before using my measly weapons to hide shaking behind the legs of the nearest friendly bristling with guns lol....

An interesting thing to note, PvPers do sometimes need carebears (and the other way around). If the fighting gets hot and heavy, ammo supplies start running low, guess what? I can come running in with a load of ammo, they can blow me up, or let me in to start selling, if they do not like my prices i will not be welcomed back (other than as meat), if they blow me up, i can embargo them, or hurt them by playing the market (if they put in remote buy and sell orders i could do much better with that last though, lol)

I agree that more space would be better, for a few reasons, but mostly because the paths between alpha and Beta Isles are few and narrow. I am waiting for an enterprising large corp to decide to blockade between them, it would not be overly hard.