every time I tried to make escalation from HS to LS, I was scanned/warped to. People told me “lol I dropped this” (while I knew what was the drop) when I warped out, brought in carriers, tried to hide on the next gate.
Some escalations take a lot of time to do.
Now there is no way I would do the escalation in LS, especially since the loot is not better than in HS (it’s crap). I mean, different experiences … and of course I had to use a drake for that escalation, because rats with very high DPS, not even a blinged thing.
Back to the thread,
if loot chances were to raise, then the price of their items would decrease.
Prices are driven by supply and need for those items.
The only thing that can increase the value of HS combat sites is, by adding specific items to those sites. But in the end, those sites loot value will remain very low, because very easy to do, so the supply would still be high.
So, this idea is absurd.
However, what CCP can do is increase the OPE value.
Since I do all these activitys you quote I will happily give my opinion.
First what you are experiencing isn’t low end combat site rewards they are just fine, and I myself can say a week or two ago I got a mid-grade slave Omega from a faction rat at the end of a serpentis den. It wasn’t in the escalation, it was in the den, yes I got a hisec escalation from that site too.
Second it is obvious your profession is burner missions and nothing else. The reason you can just say no a million times until the burner mission you want comes up, and worry little about repairing it, this is all because the current system is broken. No its not broken in a bad way, its actually broken in your favor, however it is still broken. The fact you don’t have to worry about your faction standing in relation to getting a burner mission is broken and eventually someone will do something.
HS to LS escalations always send you to the most dangerous systems. If you get an escalation from a site in LS it will either send you somewhere random or to a Null entry system which will also be dangerous. Escalations in Null on the other hand will typically just send you somewhere random, often within friendly territory. Escalations are not the thing to do in lowsec. Like I mentioned L5s, 6/10s, Burners, and Besieged sites are what you want to do in low.
This relates to the topic at hand because what I’m trying to say is that loot tables are fine (I agree with you), and if OP wants better exploration rewards, they’ll have to venture out into the wild yonder. The only thing I personally think should be buffed/reworked is escalation spawns and locations themselves. The loot tables are find though, I agree with you there.
That’s funny…so LS escalations aren’t worth it you say…it always sends me somewhere scary he says…how bout learn how to operate in LS so it isn’t so scary. I love a good lowsec escalation as the site is only able to be scanned down by combat probes and you get tons of advanced warning…just warp off and they can’t find it. Sure some will camp you for a bit…but they always get bored and leave or go about doing whatever they were doing before you got there. You can also sit cloaked for a bit while they look and that will buy you more time as they will realize your cloaked and assume you were there to gank someone yourself. HS honestly sucks for PvE compared to LS or NS as the good pay outs are so few unless you run burners.
That’s the point though, the fact you can let your corporation standings go to almost anything and because of faction standings being high you can still access the missions.
Once you have high faction standings it gives you the ability to basically spam the missions to a very unfair extent before you ever need to worry about repairing corporation standings.
They either need to make faction standings not exclusively let you access level 4 missions or they need to make the odds of accessing a burner mission go down with lower standings to the corporation you are asking.
no you don’t.
If the prober is good unless mashing dscan every 10s there is still a chance they pinpoint you without seeing anything on the dscan.
Some escalations require to bash structure for a long time, with a gimped fit (because cloak) mashing dscan every 10s for 30min is just not possible to ensure.
You mean, stop the escalation ?
You mean, stop playing ?
Like, everybody is able to wait for several hours ? “Today I got an escalation . went to the site, someone tried to pinpoint me down and now they won’t allow me to leave the system. I have to safe logoff hoping tomorrow they won’t be here when I log back in. What a wonderful day ! I really had a lot of fun.”
Let’s be clear : all the answers you provide suck.
If I do go in LS to make that escalation, it’s because I intend to make money. If I need to wait 1H before I can safely do my escalation … it just sucks. I would make more money scanning for ded sites in HS and doing them. PLUS I would not need to mash dscan , and I would almost risk nothing.
I think scanning in LS in correct ship and for correct escalation is worth more wrt the time than in HS. Just not in every ship, every system, every LS escalation.
Missions give a more or less fixed amount in ISK+lp per site, you can continuously run in your own instance, where exploration sites are chance based free for all and their main drop’s value is determined by the player market.
Two different systems. Two different risk/reward profiles.
Because the op is talking about burner missions not regular missions and burner missions don’t just give the isk/lp that you see they also have a 1 in 10 chance for a faction drop.
No, you can’t . learning from burners need a lot of money. Imagine you started the game a few months ago, you just started doing L4s and bought yourself a BS… first mission a burner.
What you do ? You lose the money you don’t have to do that mission you have to do ?