ESS Gate Mechanics Abuse

There you go. I overfulfilled my Positive quota for CCP for this month already. I refuse to say something positive about meaningless rubbish like so many people on this forum and elsewhere do just to pat someone fragile characters. I say only something positive about CCP when I truly believe that it is a positive thing. I do so on a regular basis anyway.

Regardless whether people considered Blackout a fleeting experience and waited it out or not (which bots definitely did not as a surge of intel pod bots on gates clearly showed), Blackout was nothing that deserved any positive remark whatsoever. It was poorly implemented, poorly communicated, poorly designed and poorly handled. Plus, any form or benefiting null sec sov holders is doomed to create more issues than it solves. And while Local is the ultimate intel tool, it is available to everyone equally and cannot be tampered with. No one sees more or less than other people. No one can hide themselves or create false data. It is a neutral tool that everyone can use and no one can abuse. Every mechanic that tries to change that only results in undesirable issues that CCP will not ever be able to solve.

Even 2 years later, CCP still has not published an analysis of their findings from these 2 months, even though they said they would.