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The idea, while good in theory, offers not many rewards or incentives to utilize it. CCP should be trying to increase the income being generated by nullsec to get more targets out there to be poached by nullsec roamers.

Is ESS some kind of attempt to introduce prisoner's dilemma to 0.0?

As I see it this thing will be only used by ratters in some ass end of nowhere space. It certainly will not be used in any space that has high pvp activity, as it makes easy target for roamers and hotdroppers, with added bonus for them of stealing part of ratter's income just before blowing up his 30m structure. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Similarly it is unlikely to be used in NRDS space as random mixture of neutral or loosely affiliated corps and alliances living together is generally unsuitable for creation of tightly enforced social contract necessary for this structure to generate any income benefit.

BTW those two things essentially mean anybody living in Providence just got his ratting bounty income cut by 5% or more. Thank you CCP.

But as wheel of fortune turns and people living in dangerous space get their “just reword” for their fortune, so do all those downtrodden carrier rating deep nulsec people that newer get to enjoy wonders of random hotdropps get their well deserved 5% income boost, because if anyone needs it it is them. Excellent game design CCP, truly ingenious.

A couple of questions around exactly how this will work:

1. If the ISK is distributed in the form of tokens that can be traded for cash, how does a contributing player actually receive the token? Obviously, not all players can be present to pick up said tokens, so is it placed in their hangar in a nearby station (determined how?) or what?
2. Exactly how is the token bought by the Empires? Is it buy orders in certain stations (which will therefore attract sales tax), or are they redeemed in loyalty point stores.
3. Can ESS tokens be traded on the market like any other commodity?

It seems like an interesting content generator

"You will use my new deployable or lose 5% of your income!"
Super indeed

I say, this has to be one of the worst ideas i have ever seen someone come up with.

1st - It said that this will generate a notification for anyone (even cloaked) that gets in range of the ESS. I thought it's been said multiple times that there will not be something developed that will locate cloaked ships. Also what is the reason to even put a bubble on this structure if the base idea for it is to boost/nerf income?

So now we have a deployable that can detect cloaked ships as well as bubble them?

And for that matter what if you do decide to try and set a trap at one of these? You can't do it with a hostile in system because they will be notified who has shown up at the ESS. Could we please include a deployable that notifies the rest of the system who is afk too by sending a message on anyone who has not pressed a key in the past 5 min?

2nd - It is said that if the ESS is removed and the bounties are not collected then a new ESS can be dropped where the process can continue and old bounties can then be paid out. Ummmm..... Doesn't the server have enough issues with lag and tidi these days? So what will happen when it now has to be calculated who currently has share in the pool and if an ESS is killed that data is still being processed?

3rd - So there is going to be a 5% reduction in bounties paid out in all of null as the new standard and when placing an ESS it reduces it by 20% from what it currently is..... Then the factions are going to pick up the 20-25% of payments after X amount of npcs are killed. The background (or so called lore) to this makes no sense what so ever. Why would a faction have any reason to want to make up for concord's short fall?

4th - Interceptors. Nuff said. I

Make the cut on base rat bounty 80% not 95%
Eve is filled with way to many math geniuses (why is that I dont read about you guys solving navier stokes millennium challenge, or being like me and deducing relativity from Pythagorean theorem? Shameless plug for live events channel) to realize 10% punctuated != 15% continuous lost
Therefore you need to make this a better choice either by dropping rat bounties to 80% or letting the max cap be 110%

Or for real EVE style, all bounties are processed through this deployable and every bounty is in ISK tags with the cargo reusing the POCO code to allow someone's tags to be held separate... OK I am laughing typing about the benevolence bit.

Also for the polymers is it stuff purchased now gets increased or only the post patch stuff?
IE I have 1 polymer it gets made into 100 and all orders on market adjusted so that I cant immediately sell my 99 for pure profit?

RATTING WITH AN E.S.S.

-Risk-
1] PVP gangs
2] Hot-droppers
3] Cloaky campers
4] Rats (once in a blue moon)
5] 20%-25% of generated ratting isk
5] ANYONE can access the ESS... At any time... (like when I'm sleeping, or at work, or making dinner. You know the other 16-22 hours of the day)
6] You have to let the isk build up to get more than 20%, which gives others more time to steal from you.
7] If you remove isk, the 0-5% of ratting isk is not generated anymore. (For the time being)

-Reward-
1] The possibility of 5-10% more of generated ratting isk (compared to not using an E.S.S.)

RATTING WITHOUT AN E.S.S.

-Risk-
1] PVP gangs
2] Hot-droppers
3] Cloaky campers
4] Rats (once in a blue moon)

-Reward-
1] 95% of generated ratting isk

...so yeah, who thought this would work? I'm confused...

YOU can't play in MY sandbox unless you use MY SHOVEL!! (ignore the rack of shovels over there, plz)

I'm going to have to ask you the same question I asked CCP, do you even PLAY this game?

Indeed I do, and I lived in nullsec for a year. What issues are there with the ESS that makes it so bad?