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Okay, but how many were used to make figures in space?

Also, 30 seconds for the ESS share option still seems too short if an alt is already on standby. But so far every tweak you've made to this structure seems able to prevent abuses from it, which is cool!
Let's hope that it does not crash LP prices.

Indeed

this made me think whether CCP could have by accident created a game design dead end by making some of those structures for private use only.

For example the depot. It is an awesome structure but of limited use in fleets, it doesn't scale very well. Now imagine they would make it standing based and a single depot could supply a whole fleet with ammo and fitting service... i don't think that we will ever see this since it would be OP for such a small and cheap module. I imagine the tractor unit has the exact same problem where you can't tell just a corpmate to pick your units up since they are all private and locked to the owner.

hi fozzie sorry for putting this here instead of the ESS thread but I think my post got lost in the noise there...
1. Can more than one player open the ESS window and click one of the disburse buttons simultaneously?
2. If one player clicks Take All and another takes Share, do both timers start activating?
3. Does the warp disruption effect only last while the window is open?

This is why using the Features and Ideas section of the forum is important. While CCP SoniClover thought he knew what he was doing and didn't need to talk to anyone about his awesomely thought out idea, he was VERY wrong. This resulted in an angry threadnought and him looking pretty daft in front of everyone.

Compare that to how the other deployables have been presented in F&I. They have all needed changing but in a way that had the Devs and players work together.

With luck SoniClover will learn from this and use F&I in future rather than feeling he knows best and getting dragged through the mud.

neat.
I for one, welcome our new mobile overlords.

Great job in not at all addressing the issues brought up on the ESS.

Monkeying with the stats doesn't change the fact that imposing an arbitrary penalty strictly to drive use on your feature is poor game design.

You increased the 'share' time by 10s. That will do exactly nothing. What you don't seem to get is that extending it even to five minutes would do nothing. Same with the take all timer.

Either the residents see the threat coming and preemptively cash out, or the attacker finds a fat ESS and hotdrops it to cash it out. The choice will overwhelmingly be A.

It's kind of a silly mechanic, why not just buff ratting and be done with it? Because in the current implementation, that's all this does.

I really like many of these new deployables! Excellent Job CCP.


A few points I want to bring up that weren't addressed on the ESS:

1.) The ESS needs a means to inhibit it's distribution timer. I tested this last night on Sisi, and this is what I found:
I can land next to the ESS and immediately hit access and choose take all (starting the 3.5 minute timer to grab the isk-tags) or I may choose share all (starting the timer to share the loot). There are only two ways to stop me: a.) destroy my ship. b.) get me to leave the proximity of the ESS (15 km radius). It would be very nice if a mechanic existed where a player could stop this count-down. I can think of several ways to do it:

Option 1: Target the ESS. This would force those on grid to chase off anyone that's preventing the timer from counting down.
Option 2: Damage the ESS, were every the damage delivered creates a proportional extension in the delivery times. (example, +60 seconds for every 6000 damage it receives).
Option 3: Counter-access the ESS. Allow a pilot that lands next to the ESS to access it and choose "stop" to prevent the ESS from completing its timer. The means you and the other pilot would both be within 15 km's of the ESS.

Note: Ideally the ESS would name the pilot responsible for activating it (as you can't tell). And ideally the ESS would name the pilot responsible for hindering the timer from counting down.

2.) As pointed out, if someone can successfully deploy this inside the Sun, where your ship will be ejected out upon landing, this might be considered an exploit. I'll try doing this on Sisi tonight (if I can find a system where I have the sun's center bookmarked).

honestly i believe the mobile scan inhibitor should inhibit its signature on dscan, but NOT probe scan

I like this idea too.... It buffs the role of covops, which is currently overshadowed by nullified interceptors.