Well if you really can’t understand the difference between blackout null and wormholes then you truly don’t understand wormhole life. No pretending happening on my side.

As for my pro blackout stance I just understand than it’s good game design and good for the health of the game if null is less safe than hisec. I pretty much ruined my EVE experience with safe carrier ratting. Cause I didn’t think the income was even close to what people said. Then within a week I had far more isk than I could reasonably spend. Which made me feel like I cheated. Cause the risk/reward is absolutely undeniably unbalanced.

If you actually believe nullsec is safer than highsec – a ludicrous position on its face – then you understand neither nullsec nor blackout. Pull up the Zkill page for the Delve region and marvel at the ratting ship kills that auto-update every minute. You think that happens in highsec?

Your claim about carrier ratting is similarly dubious. If you spent a week – we’ll give you a full seven days in this scenario – ratting eight hours a day at $100M per hour, which is a typical return for running Havens, you’d make $5.6B – at considerable effort and time commitment. It is impossible to make “far more ISK than [you] could reasonably spend” Carrier ratting in a single week, which causes me to question the basic seriousness of your position.

Finally, you want to know what’s “absolutely undeniably unbalanced?” The August MER shows that wormholers – ten percent of the player population – generate 50% of the wealth in EVE. But by all means continue griping about nullsec profits.

I’ll explain in reverse order. The MER shows that wormholes in general generate a large ammount of total bounties because it combines all ~2600 wormhole systems. Additionally almost all of that that bounty wealth is made by C5 and C6 residents which are very few in number. Which is to say that a very significant portion of wormholers don’t make even close to as much. Not even close to someone carrier ratting in null.

As for carrier ratters making to much to reasonably spend. It’s kinda hard to explain to someone who’s used to making such a ridiculous ammount of isk I suppose. You’d understandably feel entitled at this point. If you don’t suck and die, which you shouldn’t ever really if your coordinating properly, you make back your carriers cost in less than two days. After that it’s profit. 800 mil a day profit which is far more than the effectively a few million isk needed to pvp for fun thanks to fleet reimbursement. So that 800 mil a day goes to new ships til you’ve got the variety you want and…… Injectors? Once people got all the small ships they want people then use the entirety of this absurd profit to buy more and more and more capital ships and we get to the point where there’s too many capitals.

Lastly I said it’s safer than hisec in “some ways” namely that you have an large ammount of backup if you get caught somehow and you always know if someone is out to kill you several systems away. Frankly the ONLY way ANYONE should ever get caught in a carrier ratting is if a wormhole opens up and a low class group wants to try their luck. Which is fairly rare.

Remember that my carrier ratting example was intentionally exaggerated – I don’t know many people in nullsec who can stand to rat (or who have the time to rat) for more than a couple hours a day at most. Nullsec profits are in fact very similar to the model you describe in J-space, where a small minority of players make an absurd fortune while the masses of regular line players often make barely enough to justify the risks. Is it worth it for CCP to screw the majority in order to slightly inconvenience the handful of turbo-krabs? The blackout experiment suggests not.

As for the relative risk of nullsec, we view that differently. Supercapital umbrellas are not omnipotent. I have killed many, many capitals, Rorquals, and even a handful of supers under hostile supercap umbrellas. Sometimes, fleets deliberately bait the supercap response to try to take a piece out of that rather than the Rorqual we initially targeted. Nullsec is considerably more dangerous than lowsec, where gate guns and lack of bubbles make gate-camping impractical – I can sail through most regions of lowsec in whatever I feel like flying without being confronted. Meanwhile, hostile gangs gate-camp inside Goonswarm’s staging system nearly 24 hours a day in nano frigates that are extremely difficult to counter – guaranteeing instant death to many players who enter or try to leave the system. The chief day-to-day danger in null, though, is wormholers rolling into the middle of a region and rampaging around in cloaky cowardfits that take forever to be identified and reported in intel. I’m guessing lowsec and particularly highsec don’t have to worry about that.

I know the “nullsec is safer than highsec” canard gets repeated endlessly on Reddit, but I don’t think there’s any reasonable sense in which it is true.