For people who fly in pg or solo because you are afraid of being shot at. You are a single ship flying over a huge moon/planet. You spend weeks looking for spot that is bigger than your ship and it is stationary, how do you think a ganker can find you if you are smaller and moving on top of that???????????
As for somebody who will never get here in Corvette with 9ly jump range... first, engineered vette can jump much further than that, but they would not need vette to be a threat, just an Asp with lots of MCs would smash my ship to pieces with no problems at all (well maybe not mine, I'm too fast, but typical exploration ship), so do not be afraid to play in open, just keep your eyes open when in SC
I agree....I almost never fly in open back in the bubble, but out here in an Asp Ex with no weapons I have seen 1 other cmdr in several months. That was a strange one...I jumped into a totally random system in the Heart nebula and someone was there in an Asp just idling in SC. Looked to me like they had walked away from the computer or something, which is a definite no-no while in open.