Missions & Complexes

... from combat sites has been increased.

Way too freaking much.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-phoebe

I'm getting at least 4-5 escalations a day.

I used to get 4-5 per week if lucky.

I have a rather large sample pool so its not just random RNG exploration crap I'm spewing here.

What number we are talking here? 10 anoms to 1 escalation? 100? What sec and space? (caldari i presume).
I keep blaping those poor blood raiders and got 2 so far. One that ended in low sec (medical something) and DED4 monastery (there are no loot in there, only those overseers black boxes, i ran quite a lot of them, both rooms, one cheap meat module looted...)
Also when i get escalation it's by default 9 jumps away, i don't recall less...fairy don't like me...

I got 3x 3/10 escalations all one after the other in highsec yesterday plus two other non-DED expeditions.

Crazy stuff!

There seems to be an issue with the distances too (see my separate thread) as the 2/10 min/max aint working at all!

This is actually a huge nerf to exploration. The value of deadspace mods from exploration was already plummeting. It's a little ridiculous when some deadspace mods have actually reached the same price as T2. I am not sure why CCP feels that making the most ******* boring PVE in the game (anom farming) the most lucrative is a good idea.

Here, let me fire up my afk ishtar and start farming Maze escalations until x-type loot is the same price as T2. WTF, CCP.

PAGING CCP AFFINITY!

Did highsec and lowsec need this buff? Because nullsec didn't...

Explorers are just middlemen. We deliver modules to the market. Devs forget that exploration is mainly driven by loot value (we don't explore anything, we are going there for shinies). I want to find 1 module worth 50mil not 50 modules worth 1 mil. It would be good for explorers but not for the buyers and usefullness of the loot. This will never be balanced. Maybe its start to seed some items that won't be connected to the market directly?

Hard to compare secs. You propably have more anomalies per system in null that hisec (as guristats space, i know anoms are making scanner green when i'm going south). So you can just milk one system and have better chance to escalate.
Every single time when i read in devblog: "we are going to increase..." i'm wondering how bad it will be. I keep feeling that devs don't see big picture here. Small change can be deadly in such fragile environment. I know they want to keep tight connection with exploration loot-market but in some cases it don't work how intended. Now I'm looting faction frig size modules with almost no value. It will affect industry as well. Why build t1 and t2 when looted modules are cheaper?

Me too, this is a very good thing, because the more time people take doing escalations is time those same characters aren't stuffing liquid isk into the EVE economy. AND in the case of low sec and null they are facing additional danger for having to travel to the escalation and doing so in what is probably a non-station system. Escalations break up the monotony of doing anomalies.

And DED sites don't always give deadspace mods. I've done 2 9/10s this week and got nothing but the 22nd tier OPE at the end., the other 2 9/10s dropped a total of 1.2 bil worth of stuff.

Higher escalation chances (shifting the reward for anoms less towards liquid isk and more towards material rewards like mods and blue prints) is something that should have happened in 6 years ago. The potentially lower prices for deadspace gear is also good because when pvp alliances realize that deadspace stuff (better than t2) doesn't cost so much, they start using that stuff, creating more demand.

Sure, if you think that moving an OPE to empire to sell (their are no Concord staitons in sov null....) takes zero seconds, which is does not. OPEs are delayed isk injection, as opposed to the immedite nature of anom bounties. Lower 'velocity' of isk injection is a good thing. Also OPEs can be destroyed in transit, the liquid isk on your wallet can't.

I agree. And that demand will be satisfied with no problems because yesterday i took a hike to high sec to see the chances of escalations there and Jesus, everyone is running anoms. I expected to see a swarm of Gilas so i used a Navy Omen with pulse+scorch to contest them and it worked really well (Sansha and Blood space). I got a few ded sites and some ship BPCs running them so i'm really enjoying these changes.



I've been doing combat sites for years and i never did it for the isk because for that i prefer other activities. I like to find ship BPCs and manufacture them, sometimes i use them myself, sometimes i give them to friends that i know they will pvp with them. Same happens with the modules. I usually tend to give deadspace reppers or MWDs because i prefer to fit T2 since i pvp very rarely these days.

There was a time when i was always on the hunt for isk but now i don't care, that's why i like this buff. I like the atmosphere of eve and that is all.