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That's not really the point of most of the posts here. A nerf to bounties or a bounty-siphon isn't a nonsensical idea. The issue is that the ESS in its current form is a 5% nerf to bounties combined with a poorly designed yet overly complicated bounty-siphon, both of which could be implemented in a simpler, more straightforward way.

The dev blog seems to indicate the expectation that people will voluntarily set up the ESS, which is both laughable and foreboding.

New Question: Where does Corp Tax rate factor into this system? Is it applied to the 95%/80%, or is it still applied to the original 100%? Does it apply to the 20-20% when someone does the 'share' option? I assume it's ignored for the purposes of tags.

I don't mind the nerf, but the 95% listed bounty payout seems like bad UI design. Why is the UI lying?

Where's the highsec version of this? Oh right I forgot, daddy CCP is caving to the carebears once again and declaring the MTU drones thing to be a bug. Poor highsec doesn't need anybody interrupting their isk faucets.

The ESS is effectively free candy for interceptors.
If anyone deploys them they're braindead.

The variations on the Siphon units look good though.

Also with people deploying them offensively- no one will rat with a neutral or red in system anyway and as soon as they're bored and fly off someone will just take it down or destroy it. In fact, deploying one and leaving system will most likely be announcing your intention to come back and rush the thing with interceptors in the next five minutes.

I FLY INTERCEPTOR

I STEAL ISK

HOORAY GAME

Yay, interceptor honeypot!

Deploy it out of d-scan range and wait with interceptor of your own and a heretic at it. Pew pew.

Because what nullsec need is a nerf to pilot income.
And in case you didn't notice. Thats sarcasm.

I'll start with the simple.
The tag names are lame, can we just have Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum or anything that's not "Amarr 1M Bounty Reimbursement Tag" it just sounds far to "this is a game mechanic item" and not "this is an actual thing in the EVE universe.

Something like "Amarr Silver Bounty Compensation Tag" would at least feel like I am using something tied into the world more (and yes I know I am terrible with making names).

Secondly the ESS itself seems somewhat useless past taxing alliance line members (who are the ones suffering to make ISK), renters or neutrals (NRDS) using the system to make money.
When you write ANYONE CAN ACCESS THE ESS does this mean a red can fly into system, activate it, take the tags and move on? if this is the case with it being a marked location on the overview and not deployable near any kind of defence it makes it worthless to ever use.
It's basically taking your wallet and leaving it on the bar while you sit at your table and hoping it's still there with all your money when you come back to get your next drink, people just don't do that because it's stupid.

With anyone having access this becomes less of a tool for an alliance to upgrade their space more and bring us closer to building our own Empires and more a griefing tool for roamers, or is that the intent.

As it is right now the ESS implementation give you the choices of
Take 95% of the current income (another nerf to NullSec and reason to run L4 missions or HighSec Incursions)
Take 80% of the current income and let every Alliance Spy, Roaming Red, Nuetral take 25% of your work with no effort.

Please tell me I have just misunderstood all of this and it's actually a good thing.

Same.

Also I really like that you can do tax evasion with this. Think of all those GSF taxes set at 15% which you can now partially avoid by printing tags.

In all seriousness it is really funny that CCP decided to give nullsec another blanket nerf. I guess I'm just glad I don't rat at all anymore.