The way to get more players into open is to convince PVE players that PVP is fun, not by trying to force PVE players to PVP, playing this game isn't compulsory so if you try and force people to do something in game that they don't want to do then you're not going to succeed, they'll just stop playing.
Pretty sure some of the pvp groups used to/still do this, and fair play to them.
Some of the PVP community though need to take a look at the way they play and realise that they're hurting their own cause.
Notice I said some, not all, but the rest of the PVP community need to think about what they want in game (more people to fight with) and what to do with the people that are stopping them getting that, and also realise that the ones ganking people don't care about other PVPers enjoyment any more than they care about the enjoyment of the people they gank.
Ganking people keeps them out of open, if you don't gank people but want more people in open then maybe you need to police those that do, you'll probably even get to fight with them too, I'd say that's a win win for a PVPer.
I occasionally kill people in game, (and often they kill me, I'm certainly not the king of PVP) but only when a) they present more of a challenge than pulling them out of supercruise and holding my trigger down, and b) when I have a reason to do so, that reason might be something ridiculous like if I don't like their paint job or ship kit, but it's still a reason and as long as I'm not being a d-bag about it then all's fair, if everyone played nice then there would be a lot more people in open.
Cheap nonsense like station ramming and killing noobs is just lame, and really does no one any favours, so anyone that has someone on their friends list or in their player group that does stuff like that really needs to think about whether that's something they want to be associated with, because biowaste like that is one of the reasons some people stay where it can't happen to them, if no one talked to or played with the people that do it then sooner or later most of them would stop.
I'm not really a PVPer or a PVEer, I do whatever takes my fancy at the time and I have no desire to be part of any community, other than just existing in the same game world as others, I have more desire to dip my tackle into a bucket of acid than join a player group, but it would be nice if someone put a lid on those few wallys that are just going out of their way to annoy everyone, that way open will be richer for everyone, player groups and lone wolves alike.
