The Alioth/Thades/Madis safe zones really shouldn’t drop. The actual hook of the game is a newbie seeing the scale of the game by managing to get into orbit, across a couple hundred SU of space, and to manage to land on another planet. and the current three newbie planets is a nice amount that offers some choice between "bioformed temperate"/"unnatural disaster desert"/"algae ice ball".
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If anything the current PvP “vets" should be up in arms that current “PvP reward ores" have the same risk as newbie region “PvE reward ores”. Considering planets with the most interesting rewards should have some combination of atmospheric PvP or territory control. Along with the expected hoarding of those high end rewards when the “price of risk” for them are at the lowest they will ever be.
PvE also adds risk and a lot more people seem to enjoy that than they do PvP.
What I find startling is the fact that PvP gamers always talk about how good PvP is but they only ever seem to want to attack non-PvP players in ships that cannot fight back, against players with no interest in learning all of the skills and abilities to PvP. They never seem to form into opposing groups in areas with the aim of attacking other PvP players.
