EVE General Discussion

Because of work, I haven't been able to play since before the escalation patch. Yesterday I finally logged back in wanting to find my buddies and run some incursions. What I found, stunned me

There were 3 active incursions in highsec, but only one had influence at 0, the other two were completely abandoned and one just 7 jumps from Amarr was left to withdraw without even trying to run it. I asked around and was told it became common after the nerf. There are so few people now running incursions, both shield and armor fleets focus on just one.

I remember how highsec incursions were on weekends since their inception: the constellation will fill up with players within the hour, working sansha influence quickly down to 0. There was a fun community of players constantly forming fleets or looking to join one, smack-talking on local after contesting an NCO.

I am stunned and sad to see how this nerf has devastated a great in-game community. Incursions are now just another abandoned feature, the next Factional Warfare. A feature reserved to a few hardcore players instead of what it was before, lots of fun for everyone.

CCP: great work "rebalancing" hundredths of players out of the game

OP: "waaa! waaa! my isk faucet is gone and i now have to actually work to make isk!! waaa!"

I supported the nerf, results of it were perfect :)

I made 100m/hr running incursions yesterday so my isk faucet is intact, not that I need one anyways

The nerf went too far towards making running incursions just another grind like missions or (god forbid) mining.

So you support whatever change that makes over 65% of players using a feature, to abandon it?

Your use of "to decimate" has been found to be in violation of the Guidelines for Prescriptive Semantics according to which it is permanently defined as "to take one out of every ten".

Your 200m ISK fine for this violation is payable to Vera Algaert. Further violations of the Guidelines will result in escalating fines.

Have a nice day.

To be fair, FW just got iterated on

I also agree with the nerf.

The risk vs reward was just way too screwed up.

This proves that incursions were really just an ISK fountain and all that stuff about them being such important content was total BS as those ISK snatchers have very quickly moved onto something else.

Yes please keep comparing riskfree incursion isk to tech moons

If enough people keep repeating a bunch of nonsense loudly enough, CCP acts on it unfortunately. I used to run Incursions and no I didn't really do it for the money. There are other professions that make much more money (with persistence, luck and rng gods on your side) but these are solo things. Incursions were my first taste of fleets and it was fun. Oh well, I'm back to my solo stuff now.

You have to admit that all those moons in those deserted systems are more safe than just being in 0.0 space would imply.

I just spent over a week trespassing on some alliance's turf that has a moon, ihub, the works, but I was the only one in local for almost the whole time. For 5 minutes a couple of what appeared to be mercs tried to get me, and then finally after just over a week someone from the "owning" alliance shows up.

At no time was there any hostile force in that system and the funny part is, that region in particular is seeing some conflict and significant SOV turnover.

I think it would bring balance to the game not to outright nerf them, but to make them, along with all other natural resources, finite. Eventually the entire universe would be nothing but capital blobs and a few planets.

(I'm kind of thinking of what happened in the Lexx series when the Mantrid Drones converted everything into... Mantrid Drones).