[adrr]

It risk vs reward. To own the resources that generate large amounts of ISK/Resources, you'll need to risk your ships to defend it. You can grind all day long in places which has little to no risk to your ship, but it will take a long time to earn enough resources for a nice ship.

[cdash]

In general, this is actually a major problem with EVE right now. The risk vs reward balance is off with the game at least in the sense of an individual player. About the only thing this applies to is alliance income from moon minerals and market speculation.

Most alliances who own space in EVE though don't actually hold the moons that are valuable and so its pretty much all risk for them and no reward at least in terms of money, you do get a reward of having fun.

For the player as I said the risk vs reward ratio is very off balance because there is really no advantage to living in an area that you are more likely to be killed or participating in any pvp of your own choice