Unbalanced Sansha Incursion Distribution in Nullsec (Fraternity Space Issue)

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Hello CCP,

I would like to raise a concern regarding the current distribution of Sansha Incursions across nullsec regions.

Over the past weeks, there has been a noticeable lack of incursions spawning within Fraternity-controlled space. At the same time, incursions appear to repeatedly spawn in specific regions (such as Pandemic-controlled systems), often multiple times in a relatively short period.

While I understand that incursion spawning may be influenced by internal mechanics and not purely random, the current pattern feels heavily unbalanced from a player perspective.

This situation creates several issues:

- Reduced PvE opportunities for players in certain nullsec regions

- Economic imbalance in ISK generation between alliances

- Less incentive to remain active in under-served areas

From an external perspective, it appears there may be:

- No effective regional cooldown system

- Or insufficient distribution balancing across nullsec blocs

I would like to suggest reviewing the spawning algorithm and considering:

- A regional distribution balancing system

- A cooldown to prevent repeated spawns in the same constellations or regions

- A more even rotation across major nullsec areas

This is not a complaint about difficulty, but about fairness and content accessibility across the game.

Thank you for your time and for continuing to improve EVE Online.

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All on red, but it landed on black.
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A couple of questions:

  • does the game have to be ‘fair’?
  • does every region have to be the same and have the exact same Sansha Incursion chance?
  • does ‘a small number of observed random occurrences’ offer statistical insight of any meaning when it comes to randomness of these spawns?

I get the feeling you skipped straight past these questions implicitly assuming a ‘yes’ to each (I would personally say ‘no’) in your envy of random events happening in other parts of space than your personal backyard.

RNG is random.

Next time you may be lucky, or annoyed, depending on how random Sansha incurasions interfere with your daily plans.

Also if space elsewhere seems more attractive to you, why not encourage your leadership to start a war to claim it?

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Those are fair questions.

I’m not assuming the system has to be perfectly fair or identical across all regions. Variance is expected in any RNG-driven system.

What I’m interested in isn’t enforcing equality, but understanding how the distribution behaves in practice — especially whether there are short-term clustering effects or patterns beyond what we’d intuitively expect.

And I agree that small samples don’t prove much, which is exactly why I’m interested in looking at actual data over time rather than relying on isolated observations.

This isn’t about envy or wanting the same outcomes everywhere — just curiosity about how the system works under the hood.