People who play during normal times would eat 5 or 6 pk deaths if they were dumb enough to be solo ranking a mage. Of course, you could squirrel yourself away in some remote area on the edge of bumblefuck but that hardly makes this typical or repeatable results. Its like Graham's view of formula investing, once enough people know about it, its value is entirely lost. IE - if people were routinely ranking in those areas they wouldn't be worth using anymore because people would start checking them.