I’m doing The Ancient City — arguably the hardest escalation in all of EVE Online.
It requires two capital-class ships just to survive the incoming DPS.
So tell me, why is the reward absolute garbage?
We’re talking about a top-tier escalation that drops nothing. Not sometimes — always.
RNG has nothing to do with it. Other capital escalations? Same story — nobody runs them anymore.
This game is already a massive time sink, and we players invest hours, ships, ISK, and real effort into content that gives no return. It feels like a slap in the face.
CCP, do better.
Stop giving us empty escalations and actually design content that respects our time.
We’re not asking for billions every time.
We’re asking for a reason to log in.
No it does not, it can be done with a subcap fleet.
In this we are in agreement, the potential reward vs the opportunity cost are not in alignment. PvE used to reliably generate 10/10 escalations, now it seems to be predominantly capital only escalation slop not worth doing.
Quite a lot of $$$ on ISK, even with PLEX on sale I see your losses are hundreds of dollars. Did you consider after your 2nd or 3rd golem loss someone in your corporation is a spy ?
Its giving huge return for the people who like dunking marauders.
Capital escalations are trash, however it appears your perspective is modulated significantly by personal struggles with the basic environment of EVE Online.
To break even the escalations would have to pay out billions to cover the kind of losses you have personally incurred, so, yes, you are asking for billions every time.
With that kind of payout, everyone who is currently running these sites with the appropriate fits and compositions would be seen as equally, of not more so of a problem to the economy and invite endless whines about ISK velocity and the prevalence of whales.
A golem with a single ASB for active tank is a reason to log in, only for other people. Whoever in your corporation/alliance is advising on your fits should be fired. In sansha territory a paladin would be a better maruder, though if you are on the radar of spy it does not matter which maruder is used. Stick with something simple like a ishtar for a bit and see if someone else starts getting dunked, then its 100% a spy.
