I have nothing against getting more if you spend more. Getting a better armor if you can pay for it, getting a better weapon if you can pay for it etcetc and both are important if you decide to go in a PVP4. But the PVP4 is just some that you can decide to go or to avoid and represent few % area of a planet and the 0.0x % of the whole universe. At the contrary if someone dont want to risk a PVP in space actually he is loosing a large % amount of EU. If we have 4 planets and each one is the 25 % of EU (without calculating space asteroids and cp) you are closing him the 75% of the whole universe. And this for what? to allow VERY few ones to enjoy a large vessel and continue to stay stack with this idea of pirates? what the sense???? a yes , to don t allow so many to trade or people go around to the universe......well i cant remember a protectionism form/law that worked over time. Maybe the protectionism idea per se is not a good idea.
Why you lose that areas?
You still can travel from planet to planet to explore the other planets?
Do you really need to carry stackables with you, that could be looted, to do that ?
Have been at Ark and RT lately (after buying my own Quad).
The flight is cheap but takes around 30min (no warp at quad).
I got attacked one time so far, and my quad was shot down one time (nothing looted).
If I count all my flights + repaircost for that one PK together, I did my trips still cheaper than using a MS service every time.
And there is not a pirate at every edge.
Some flights I did completely AFK, couldn´t care less if some PKer wasted his ammo onto me just to get nothing!
Only thing where pirates are a real threat is at the space hunting areas, where you get loot (that could be looted by pirates).
The space hunting areas are relative small, and only a very small % of total space.
Easy to fly around, no need to enter it at all.
Its not that much different than PvP4
Go there to hunt space mobs is taking the same risk than hunting Mulmun or something in PvP4
Go there to travel, well you could also get shot down at some TPs at Amethera, and nearly all amethera area outside the LAs is PvP, where you or/and your vehicle could get shot down by PKer (not looted).
Where is the difference to enter PvP at Amethera (where you can´t be looted) and entering space (just to travel) where you can´t get looted as long you don´t carry stackables, what you don´t need to do just to traveling?
Only people that are really affected by pirates, are space hunters, and interplanetary traders (with stackables).
Beside that there is already interplanetary trade with non-stackables that can´t be looted, by pirates.
And there is interplanetary trade with stackables from traders that use MS service and protection.