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:golfclap: Congratulations CCP on making a great point ( whether intentional or not ). All those people deadset about how buying SP is going to kill EVE and you simply put out an accelerator that offers 900 and 1080 SP/hour bonus for 24 hours ( 21.6k and 25.9k SP respectively) and people buy them off contract, hunt for them everywhere and cheer it on all the way never once thinking of the hypocrisy that while they are against being able to inject SP, this is exactly what these are, just on a slow drip. Perhaps this also provides a solution to the fears of pay to win.

The proposed "skill packet" for lets say 256k SP when extracted would result in a booster such as these, offering lets throw out there +20 ( +1800SP / hr ) for ~ 6 days ( and time or attribute bonus can be scaled for diminishing returns based on current SP of the character being injected ). So you can buy all you want, but you can only get the SP allocation over time ( and can't sit there injecting your way up to 10m SP on a character that is 3 hours old )

Again, very elegant point as long as these are truly working as intended ( which I'm not so sure of prior to downtime ) . Perhaps putting current SP/Hour on the Character sheet would be helpful ( or even in the properties for the skills )

FEEDBACK ON GAUNTLET SITES:

This may be a bit premature, but I think the new blood raider gauntlet sites will be very successful. Specifically in lowsec.

As they are, its a pve site that can be done with pvp fits no problem. This encourages roaming gangs to stop for a few minutes to finish one. On top of that, the rewards (the attribute boosters) seem to actually be useful.

But in my mind, the value of these sites is that they are a nice conflict driver, but only if multiple groups are living in the same space. In blue donut sov-null they arent so different from an anom, except far easier.

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How about an anecdote:

I came into my home lowsec system and saw a gauntlet site on my overview. Upon dscaning it, I saw a caracal inside. Local intel leads me to believe it is a relatively new Brave Newbies character. So I reship into a slicer expecting him to have HML or HAMs or something. When I find that he infact has RLML, theres very little I can do to him. By the time I get back to station to reship again, theres another caracal in the site. I escalate with a navy stabber.

The two brave pilots, while in passable pvp fits (maybe not for small gang, but its not as if they were specific pirate resist tanked with shield boosters) I got'em.

But whats this? I see a vagabond on scan. I wait for it to land so I can see who it is/weapon type etc. Its an arty vaga. So I go back in after repping at station. That was a bad choice. I can't do much to his tank.

Luckily for me, the local galmil Spaceship-Bebop gang has spotted whats going on, they have also been grouping up to run these sites all day. They come in and begin attacking me and the vagabond. Again..... luckily for me...... in their eagerness to kill the vaga, they neglect to spread points on me so I manage to escape.

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I don't know of any other pve sites that can lead to situations like this as well as these gauntlets.

The reasons I would credit for this?:
1. They can be ran in PVP fits
2. They dont take that long to finish
3. They seem to spawn reasonably regularly (my experience in lowsec, I have heard they are very hotly contested in high)
4. The rewards are valuable and sought after (the booster, but the skins are cool too)
5. Everyone can easily find them by checking the overview, and see whats inside with dscan

The mordus legion sites are similar, but due to the difficulty of those rats, a standard roaming pvp gang (without logi) will take losses doing them, so they dont.

TL;DR: good job CCP! These things are awsome! It would be more awsome if sites like this were a permanent fixture of eve, with special flavour versyions for events like the crimson harvest

We already had cerebral enhancers in the game before these gauntlet sites. Personally I'm not keen on grinding to gain SP, but I've got nothing against these cerebral enhancers as they don't circumvent the skill system, only speed things up. Completely different to being able to liquidate your characters SP and trade it.

Fundamentally the same thing.
You use your time to hunt down and contest sites to find boosters, put them on contract so you can make isk, someone with isk ( regardless of how they got that ISK ) buys it and gains SP with no effort.
You use your time to gain SP, put it in a container so you can make ISK, someone with ISK ( regardless of how they got it ) buys it and gains SP with no effort.
You use your time to earn enough ISK to buy a plex to play for free ( which requires someone to have purchased the plex for RLM )

I fail to see how either favour the older or the rich IRL players. This however is probably a better discussion for a different thread and I apologize if this side tracked this thread at all.

From what I recall, the few sites I ran the beacon disappeared with the BC being destroyed, so leaving the last few rats made no difference, this may have changed which would put them more in line with exploration sites ( Data/Relic ) where 1 can left means the site doesn't despawn and respawn elsewhere. I'm not sure if these sites operate on the same method ( there are x number, when one is knocked out it will spawn a new one somewhere else.

I've found about 12 so far today. Lots of folks are out looking for them.

I absolutely love that I can run them with a PVP fit Confessor.

Seems like the site would be more competitive if the BC spawned as a final wave after all the cruiser waves.

Having run nearly 50 sites, I have to say this is as close as Eve can ever come to grinding for skill points.

warpin wasnt empty, had waves of frigs which i killed first before gate would let me in. Did have 1 later where someone else activated gate slightly before me, but not the 1 i posted about..

They did say it was a reward not loot.