Extremely confused by the notes today… you go from 1 line saying, “Payouts are automatic and no longer need to be retrieved in person.” To “You must have a key and spool out payments.” That doesnt seem very automatic?
The ESS does nothing to directly effect the null isk faucet
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Groups should just use the “reserve” to fund their defense fleets. Problem solved no calculations required
You don’t think this will have an effect on the amount of krabbing that will happen on a daily basis?
ONLY if enemy already formed up and ready to cyno to potential target or to rorq, otherwise no, a krabbing super dies much faster than a rorq.
Yes, let´s forget about like 50% ehp nerf for supers.
what a pile of bullcrap
Now - kinda, before now - mount Everest was more chaotic then highsec.
Because players themselves need to do all of the things, they dont have a lovely high system security status or policing NPC.
TTT - yes, it´s more profitable to work together than screw it up for everyone, unless someone decides otherwise.
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The ESS doesn’t stop players from producing bounties while ratting at any reduction from right now. Any Effects because of ESS will be due to player reactions to each other. You’re thinking of Dynamic Bounties which will overall reduce the bounties coming from nullsec.
Both changes will have an effect on player behaviors and decisions.
Dynamic Bounties are meant to nerf the isk faucet. ESS are supposed to give you a reason to punch your neighbor in the face.
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And what’s your point? It can be stolen. What’s worse, all the ISK that you were forced to put in there for weeks can be stolen just like that. Because you have had to spread thanks to diminishing ratting multipliers and change systems on a regular basis now, you might not even be in the system you ratted in anymore.
And what’s even worse: You have to steal your own ISK if you want to log off from your ratting because you otherwise have to be online for 3 more hours until you get your money, or else it will get stolen. Good feature development.
It would be safe it it was in my wallet. In the ESS it is unavailable to me and decidedly not safe because CCP still has it.
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So why don’t you protect it?
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FW less so, since FW lp shops have unique items not found in hisec lp shops.
No, this is going to reduce the pressure on navy lp style of lp shops (like those of caldari navy, federation navy, etc …).
it’s nullsec, it’s not supposed to be so safe, the notion that you can keep getting paid steady income for destroying endless spawning pirate ships and bases is ridiculous anyway! it simply shouldn’t be happening the way it is, or at least it should be a VERY exhausible and it definitely shouldn’t be as safe as it has become … nullbears need to stop crying “game ruined” every time CCP tweaks their overflowing isk faucets
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LvL 5’s have been removed from hisec for … must be 8 or 9 yrs now, and it was because of the (now removed as well) Hysera agent.
Incursions have been nerfed for 2yrs i think.
There used to be 3 hisec spawns (focuses), now there is just 1, with higher population … and 1 Headquarters system can at best accomodate 2 fleets of 40 (with the site spawn rate).
So they went from 3x spawns with 1.5-2 fleets per spawn, 240 concurrent players without competing for the same isk to 80 concurrent players without competing for the same isk.
It resulted in incursion groups demanding higher fittings standards, making it harder for new dudes to get into it. 
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So you warp to an acceleration gate that then warps you to the ESS. Seems like the acceleration gate is where all the trolling will be.
I like this idea, but I’d rather see 1 per constellation than every system. Maybe it changes which systems it’s in and needs to be scanned down each day.
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Hi there,
I thought the same, however, one point I oversaw in my thought process was, that whoever is sitting in the side, ready to kill you, can’t cloak, so you can Dscan them and if you can surprise them, they have to ABurn out of the 75km range before they can warp out (and no MJD).
Never the less, I’m into a small gang (2-5) and we are running MWD mainly. We would need to invest a lot of ISK to run with (oversized) AB that can work in the ESS area and in conventional 0.0 PVP against the 0.0 blobs.
It amazes me that after 17+ years CCP does still not understand how PVP works. 
These changes as they are will make the ESS less interesting for the Small and PVP focused groups!
They have to change their hole setup, invest far more money, and later even bring a bloody KEY for the big cast price. 
Back to the drawing board, please.
If this went by the CSM, I bet all the 0.0 dudes were clapping. 
Cheers
As usual with these announcements I have no idea what is going on or why.
Is this some site specific thing? Or dies it apply to combat anomalies or something?
MWD disabled, seriously? That doesn’t sound fun if most of EvE sandbox tools can’t be used. The trend continues, instead of balancing things around the sandbox features, or even see how players react, and then react, you just create a another mini game with completely different rule sets for the environment, a la instance light.
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it doesn’t need to directly effect the faucet to have an impact
My eyes have been opened to the greatness of the EVE developers and their masterful captaining of this great and glorious game. The rock-solid and brilliant competence on display this past year or so has been a true inspiration.
Who knew that the way to divert the trainwreck was to add another layer of Pirate financial support to nullsec? Those Pirates are going to save EVE, I tell you. It’s clear now the other parts of the game just weren’t working out for us, or CCP.
In fact, I would like to propose we rename EVE to Pirate Welfare Online.
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Which will probably be balanced out by the fact that a lot of people won’t do it and instead find something somewhere else to do. When the screwed up anomalies in 2011 lots of us ended up doing incursions but incursions were available all the time , so what did we do in the between times?
High sec anomaly blitzing for escalations and, yep, lvl 4 missions. Thanks to the Standings guide a player put in the PVE forums, it’s not even that hard to keep standings for lvl 4s from all 4 factions.
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