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thats because they never answer to a player

we aint worth **** for ccp except the contribution we pay

Please don't. This once again makes the assumption that something that can cause conflict will drive conflict. That would only be true if the players involved want conflict. The reason most high sec players are in high sec is because they enjoy a play style that avoids conflict. If doing these sites gets you flagged, then doing them will become content ignored my a huge fraction of the player base.

If you want to see examples of this, check out the statistics of:
a) The fraction of missions that come from a high sec agent, but go to low sec, that are actually accepted.
b) The fraction of excursions that start in high sec but go to low sec that are actually completed.

For players who want conflict the game already supplies them with low sec, null and W. Please don't turn part of high sec into low, the game already has low.

Not really, most players like the new hacking, probably because it's much more fun and involving than waiting for module to cycle.

Well, criminal flagging would be the ultimate "born dead" touch. Reward is a piece of sh*t already, just pumping up the risk would essentially kill the feature.

Which maybe would be good, as EVE desperately needs that the thinking heads start treating their customers as adults and take their actions at face value -if they stay in hisec with 30 million SP, then bloody deliver them more hisec content worth having 30 million SP!

The whole "feed them sh*t until they leave" is not working as intended. We don't leave hisec, we leave their bloody game and the arrogant assholes just try to compensate this slow but fatal hemorrhage re-selling the game to everyone who stays.

Seriously guys, if I had a subscription game with a sub price of 15 bucks per month and my actual income per subscriber was 10 bucks per month, I would wonder what's wrong, and would start by asking my employees why some of my customers are systematically treated like sh*t until they leave.

If they want to encourage people to venture into lowsec then they should scale the risk more. One method would be to increase the number of sentry guns in gates and stations the higher the system sec is to 0.5. It would make perfect sense that a lack of police presence in a 0.4 system would be mitigated by an increased number of sentry guns.

Agreed.. Exploration has died with Odyssey.
Who wants to click away after clicking on the 'MINI' game on the loot your earned, just to maybe get 40% of what? the reward?
Dont get me wrong, I like the 'MINI' game, but the whole scattering thing is too much!
Perhaps adjust the drop rate, and have a static can with drops instead?

~Rain

I think some players are struggling with it because they think they're supposed to get all the loot, instead of enough loot for the time and effort spent getting it.

Welcome to Psychology 101, it feels better to manage to pick up 20 out of 20 items, than to have the potential to pick up 30 but only managing to snatch 20 of them.

Imagine if your boss came to you with a big wad of cash when it was time for you to get paid. He then throws the wad up in the air in a random direction, tells you that you can keep anything you catch before it lands on the floor. It doesn't really matter if there is more money in the wad than you'd normally get paid. No matter what you do you'll see some of that cash hit the floor, opportunity lost, you'll always feel like you could have snatched just one more, or several more.

For a lot of people, that leaves a sour taste in their mouths. I'm glad it doesn't appear to affect you or perhaps even spurs you on as a challenge, but try not to belittle or trivialize the negative effect, because it is very real for a lot of people.

Oh, it's real for me too, but I can't do anything about it, so I just have to accept it. And, although it may be a bitter pill to swallow, I would think it's healthier for everyone in the long run to accept that, just as you don't always win a fight, or get the best trade deal, or miss out on an industry slot, you don't always get the best loot either.

Perhaps the specific mechanics could be improved, but at least now you get a choice. Before, you clicked a button and got a couple of things at random; I don't think you could even scan the containers. Now, you can scan in advance, and if you see a BPC, for example, I assure you, you're gonna pay attention! You'll do what ever it takes to get that BPC, possibly to the exclusion of all else.

Having said that, I'm ok with the loot spew, but I would prefer they lasted longer. It would be nice to have more time to assess what I wanted, or even get all of it if I'm quick enough. It seems strange that they decay so quickly, considering that, in space, they're actually more likely to last several thousand years.

Still no news of being able to extract minerals from stars. You tempted us years ago in this chronicle, where a superweapon could be manufactured using minerals sourced from stars!