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Encounter Surveillance System

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Triakis Cadelanne
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-09-04 21:40:28 UTC
Hello,

Today I walked to a farmer system and noticed a Gallente Encounter Surveillance System. I read the description and so tried to scoop the ISK as it would have been so kewl to earn 1,4 B just pressing a button.

However, I spammed the "Take All" button but nothing happened. According to the wiki it was supposed to drop cans containing tags that I could exchange for money at a Federation Navy Station but it did not. Did I do something wrong ?
Riela Tanal
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2015-09-04 21:56:47 UTC
Triakis Cadelanne wrote:
Hello,

Today I walked to a farmer system and noticed a Gallente Encounter Surveillance System. I read the description and so tried to scoop the ISK as it would have been so kewl to earn 1,4 B just pressing a button.

However, I spammed the "Take All" button but nothing happened. According to the wiki it was supposed to drop cans containing tags that I could exchange for money at a Federation Navy Station but it did not. Did I do something wrong ?


It is on a timer and you have to stay on grid if I am correct.
Triakis Cadelanne
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-09-04 22:11:04 UTC
Riela Tanal wrote:
Triakis Cadelanne wrote:
Hello,

Today I walked to a farmer system and noticed a Gallente Encounter Surveillance System. I read the description and so tried to scoop the ISK as it would have been so kewl to earn 1,4 B just pressing a button.

However, I spammed the "Take All" button but nothing happened. According to the wiki it was supposed to drop cans containing tags that I could exchange for money at a Federation Navy Station but it did not. Did I do something wrong ?


It is on a timer and you have to stay on grid if I am correct.


Ah damn.

Do it always have pirate NPC orbiting it ?
Mo'fuhka Jones
Doomheim
#4 - 2015-09-04 22:15:45 UTC
When set up in a site correctly, yes. The idea is to have the NPCs guard it. So properly set up ESS will have it in the hardest encounter in the system with all waves spawned, ideally.
Triakis Cadelanne
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-09-04 22:17:28 UTC
Mo'fuhka Jones wrote:
When set up in a site correctly, yes. The idea is to have the NPCs guard it. So properly set up ESS will have it in the hardest encounter in the system with all waves spawned, ideally.


Ok. How long is the timer before the can pops ?
Mo'fuhka Jones
Doomheim
#6 - 2015-09-04 22:21:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Mo'fuhka Jones
Can never pops, but site despawns @ downtime. Most of the time someone will be paying it out though. ESS is a fun isk maker, but not a reliable one as you have no way of telling how much isk is in it, it usually protected by NPCs, and you still have to get the tags out.

EDIT: Misread that for some reason. I dont know off the top of my head but some simple googlefu should provide what youre looking for.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#7 - 2015-09-04 22:27:42 UTC
It was very unpopular when it was introduced.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!

Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#8 - 2015-09-04 22:36:04 UTC
Triakis Cadelanne wrote:
Mo'fuhka Jones wrote:
When set up in a site correctly, yes. The idea is to have the NPCs guard it. So properly set up ESS will have it in the hardest encounter in the system with all waves spawned, ideally.


Ok. How long is the timer before the can pops ?

210 seconds.
Triakis Cadelanne
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2015-09-04 22:37:40 UTC
To get the ISK in the system-wide pool, you need to interact with the ESS. The range to interact with it is 2500 meters. While interacting with the ESS, a warp scramble effect is put on you.
When you start to interact you get two choices, Share and Take all. Share has a timer of 30 seconds, Take all has a timer of 210 seconds. If you move out of range (or are destroyed) while interacting, the timer is reset.

Found in Ruicons patch notes.

It's a lot of time tough.
Yun Kuai
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2015-09-05 07:04:04 UTC
The ESS in theory is pretty cool, but like most things in EvE it's gamed by players in a way that ruins gameplay. It's a way to put yourself in more risk to gain more isk so all is well in the EvE universe. However, the biggest downfall to the module is that the pirates will guard the ESS for you instead of shooting it (like how POS towers will auto cycle on mobile cyno inhibs, etc.) even though you're there blasting wave after wave of those pirate's friends.

But to answer the OPs question you need to wait. Until CCP removes the assbackwards NPC guarding and forces players to actually protect it themselves; i.e. conflict driver, consider this a broken toyUgh

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