While I hate agreeing with Pedro, because he’s usually posting along the stupidity line, the MER does indeed disagree that ratting is dead.
However, to appeal that, we need another tool at our disposal, namely - Dotlan. Using it we can see that only TWO regions of nullsec have significant ratting numbers over hisec: Oasa and Cobalt Edge.
The data is for September 2020. I got enough fingers on one hand to count the number of nullsec regions with significant ratting activity. I also have enough fingers on my other hand to count systems that have more ratting activity than hisec L4 mission hubs - there’s exactly 4 of those, all in Oasa, maybe one more in Cobalt Edge, and that’s it. Other regions are not even present on the ratting heatmap. From 1.7T you’re talking about, Oasa plus Branch plus Cobalt Edge = 30% of all bounties, and this includes hisec and lowsec. On the other hand of our equation, we have regions like Wicked Creek, Scalding Pass, and Impass - none of them are frontlines, yet none of them are even 1% of global bounties, literally less than hisec (Lonetrek 522B bounties, Impass 339B, other mentioned regions more or less same as Impass, 09/2020). It’s safe to say that ratting values below hisec can’t really be considered a problem, or even existence…
Hitting those regions equally would probably still be unfair, but odds are more accessible regions will be hit harder, thus making it double unfair.
So was blackout. PCU graph clearly showed a change of login behavior.
We call it collateral damage when the strike was aimed at intended target, and the brunt of the force was delivered to it. When aimless shots land anywhere but on the intended target, this is usually called a war crime.
OH PLEASE.
Everyone who does ratting knows EXACTLY how it’s gonna affect his game. The rest can be extrapolated from there, following the thread of ISK.
You mean the resource removal.
The point is, how you define a failure. If success is to make anyone who do not wish to buy plex with $$$ quit, it is a major success. If success is having a better game, then those are utter failure.
That is far from worst case assessment. In fact, losing 50% is along the line of average to better case. Worst case would be responding and losing a ship that takes 10 hours to replace, repeat every hour, and you cannot afford a frigate by the end of the week.
So that’s why they make changes that benefit bots doing those?
Can I quote you on that? You just pronounced that paying for another account and doing things in space is bad. Apparently, buying PLEX and selling it for ISK, which is more or less the same as second account in terms of ISK income, but without any ship activity associated with it, is better? Back to good old Pedro the stupid, aren’t we?
You forgot to add “SENSIBLE” after “something”.
Inform me when this happens. Haven’t happened since removal of clone grades.
So, according to you, removing me from nullsec is gonna be better and more interesting.
Care to explain HOW it’ll happen?
NO.
The high-attention, the super-attention, and tunnelvision-attention income is getting removed, not just nerfed.
This is not a nerf. This is removal, because it makes ratting about as good as sucking on Omber in those new belts. There is simply no point in doing it, in any shape less than super ratting, unless you bot it, and don’t care that your income is that low, because it’s not your playtime that’s making it.
So we can agree on one thing: MESS aka ratting removal, and mining removal, has made nullsec not worth time and effort.
The blackout did not get reverted. The damage it did is still there, check manufacturing graph on MER - blackout maimed it for 50% and it NEVER recovered. Many alliances, including pvp ones, have never recovered either. The massive wound to eve which blackout was is still bleeding, a year after. Saying it was “reverted” or “can be reverted” is a fallacy, the damage it dealt was permanent, and the removal of mining and ratting would be permanent damage as well - because why build in nullsec, if one move by madmen in CCP can completely sweep the rug from under everything you’ve ever done in the game?
How do you even see “right”? Because from what I can tell, the new vision is “a nullsec player that tries to make an income is a free entertainment content generator for a real customer, the ganktard, and the only way he can avoid being treated as the clown dog is to pay for PLEX on top of subscription”.
Do you want them to get that vision “right”, so it works perfectly, everyone who does not buy PLEX is a free target who’s job is to lose ships as soon as they pay for themselves, grind for the entertainment of the paying customer only to lose it all once the grind is done?
Personally, I only want them to wipe their ass with that vision and then stuff it into the mouth of the one who had it in the first place.
