Changes to Security Status & Abyssal Filaments

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Security Conscious Capsuleers,

As part of the Uprising expansion, we are making some important changes that will largely affect players in Highsec. The goal of these designs is to address the following issues:

To achieve these goals, we’ll be introducing the following new restrictions and limitations:

It's important to distinguish between Highsec ganking and griefing. Highsec ganking is a valid and necessary playstyle, where players will 'suicide gank' high value targets and offset the loss of their ships from the loot and salvage gained from their target.

Griefing, on the other hand, is where players 'suicide gank' low value targets (often new players) using relatively cheap ships allowing them to absorb the losses with very few consequences. For new players, ganking is very punishing as they lose their primary tool for making money and often lack the funds to immediately replace their losses.

Under the current mechanics, when players participate in such activities, their security status is reduced. Once a player's security status falls below certain thresholds, they will be hunted by the Empire faction police when entering a high security system. Any cloaking device fitted to their ship will also be disabled based on the same criteria, so they cannot cloak up to avoid the faction police.

If a player's security status falls below -5.0, the player becomes an outlaw, allowing anyone to attack them without CONCORD interference.

However, some players have found a way to bypass this by placing structures next to gates and then tethering to them. Empire faction police will not attack players when tethered, regardless of security status meaning other players have no meaningful way to disrupt those tethered. Additionally, regardless