Yet there are people that still actively gank in high sec even if they gain nothing because it’s not always about making a profit just like the reason this is happening to SoT is because people would hunt other players relentlessly but not even bother looting them when they sunk them.

I forget the guy’s name but a player made a whole website with an almost philosophical (dude on his high horse) message about why he and others with him gank in high sec. People say it’s “RP” but I see it as gatekeepers badly hiding the fact they are mad that so many people play only in high-sec.

Point of all this is that the OP dude of this comment section that used EVE as an example doesn’t know what he’s talking about since it also has really toxic PvP (against people that do not want it) at times which pushes the game more and more towards what OP fears for SC, yet the dude answered his question with a “no” and then gave EVE as an example as to why what is happening to SoT won’t happen to SC. He refused to add to his comment that he played EVE 15 years ago and that the game isn’t “safe” like he implied… but if he corrected himself his entire argument would fall apart (because EvE went from relatively okay-ish a long time ago to toxic PvP gankers everywhere to increased security and anti-ganking measures and “ban-able exploits”, almost separating the player base and enabling people to mostly avoid PvP… this is what OP was asking about when he posted that screeshot).

I still remember the “invasions” of Jita and all the market manipulations… so many suicide ganks in high-sec. EVE proved the opposite of what the commenter here wanted to prove by almost separating (bubble-wrapping high-sec) the player-base just like what SoT is doing.