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This thread has been a fun read...some things of note:

-I'm going to need more cheese for all this WHINE...

-People are bitter about interceptors being...fast

I like this idea, because it promotes fights. However, the time it takes to drop the can and loot the can needs to be extended so an defense can be organized. However, the idea of dropping tangible currency is great. If they rob you, chase them and get your money back! Its not gone in the digital nature that ISK resides in as of right now.

Also, make the reduction and boost a bit more...like most people are saying let the boost rise to a 110%. Boost the HP as well.
The LP connection is also good, perhaps you can choose for a 110% boost to bountys or a 90% bounty 10% LP's?

Point being things like this promote the kind of fights that makes EVE fun ( at least for me). Small-scale gang warfare...not that blob #@%.

Some ideas to deal with roving bands of interceptors treating ESS's as piggy banks

-Put Guns on it that Shoot Reds...0.0
-Increase the time it takes to TAKE ALL significantly...however allow hacking to be done on it to make this go quicker. This forces the roving frig gang to bring a hacking ship.

All in all this needs work but is a good idea. Why does everyone here have to b@!# at CCP for not fixing pos's, capital ship rebalance, etc? It is surely being looked at, so quit whining about it.

Can we get another CCP statement?
I assume you have read the thread from page 15 onwards (Since ~ last dev. post).

So now CCP must be aware that this is a bad idea. There are no advantages to using it for defenders, and there are likely no change for an incoming fleet. Furthermore, it's obviously shoddy designed, as seen from the number of questions and "do I need to fly to HS to get my 20%" etc, and of course as one can find out just by reading the "explanation" itself in the dev. blog. You should be concerned when members (Some even pretty high-ups) from all the bigger nullsec organisations and coalitions are against it, or when (As a PL member demonstrated before) the intended use will be as a bubble, not anything else.
As I said before: When CFC, N3, Provi, PL, NPC 0.0, Stainwagon, and various rental org.s think it's bad... it is.

In fact, when a CCP tag (Can't remember who) asked for "constructive criticism" earlier, it showed your mindset, so I guess I need to cut it out pretty clear for you: There are no magic few numbers you can tweak to make this a good idea. It is irredeemable. There, how does that go for constructive criticism?
It's constructive because I don't ask for Team Super Friends figurative heads on silver platters, and because it will be an overall improvement to your idea. It's criticism for obvious reasons.

NullSec has for ages been asking for better POS code and corp/alliance roles etc, and for less hassle with shooting or repping structures as a part of the leadup to battles. This is neither.
NullSec has also been asking for incentives to live in NullSec (Maybe because we tend to scare carebears and industrialists off...), as compared to HighSec. For example the limitless HS missions compared to the very limited 0.0 anomalies. This is not that.
NullSec has furthermore been asking for and discussing the prospects of "Farms & Fields", where small gang warfare can become viable because you can burn the farms and fields, and as a person living out there you can set up your own farms and fields, increasing the wealth of your space. This is not a "Farms & Fields" idea.
NullSec has been asking for ways to make bottom-up income work on alliance level. This is not that.
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I'm not sure how to get the message clearer across. When a few 0.0 players asks this to be implemented across all space, it's not because it's a good idea, but because at least in 0.0, the organised players can shoot these down and deal with it, whereas it's not likely to happen in HS. A 5% nerf in 0.0 and an average of 20% nerf in HS would incentivise 0.0 simply by comparison - that doesn't redeem this piece of garbage.
Please CCP, you have a list of stuff that is wanted.
This structure isn't on that list.

Heoes don't do drugs.

The ess system doesn't bring in game of new equipment, the weapon. On the contrary ess develops ways of theft and deception. Thus game about space games becomes officially game about deception and theft. Such policy of developers of game conducts to decrease in interest to it. Players the interested deception have to create ways to achieve the objects. I suggest to dismiss the management of group of developers advancing in game policy of deception and theft. To focus ordinary developers on development of the new weapon and effects.

This is no doubt going to be a redundant comment having read a couple of pages, but since I logged in specfically to say this, I may just as well.

The ESS ís by far the most pointless idea I can recall being proposed. If this goes thru - and I hope CCP has the sense to just cancel it - all it will do it cause me more drama from members and allied entities "stealing" each others ISK by deploying these units and hurting direct ratting income. I'm already having to spend time on a forum topic about if and how we should go about banning the use of this module in our space.

If CCP wants to reduce income from ratting, just do so. 5%, 10%, no problem. Just don't do it in a way that only adds to drama that draws away from the game.

Out of all the things you can do this is it ? You are burning time and resources for this ?

People posting things like this will make small gang warfare viable again just makes me sad. As for game designers who came up with this it just shows that they are not really playing this game like most players do.

1) Someone who comes to put up one of these in hostile space: All ratting ships warp to POS immediately. Hostile leaves and people just blow the thing up. No ratting goes on while a hostile is in system or this thing is up. So no benefit to the hostile.
2) An Alliance is dumb enough to put one of these up in their own space: Alliance management which is already complicated and difficult to manage doesn't need this **** to further expose themselves to hostile action or create more friction between players.

Net result: 5% less income from ratting. I do not give a flying duck ! What makes me sad is that CCP has burned time and resources for this.

I dont allways agree with Nulli but +1

Encounter Surveillance System (ESS) - big fail of CCP

Thanks for sharing your really terrible thoughts on this issue.

I don't know if anyone's responded to this yet (because this is a 31 page WTF it seems), but this is an even bigger 'screw you'. Deploying one of these is flat out a detriment.

Make this thing extreme and it might be interesting. (Say, drop to 50% base bounty, spool up on the module from 100-200%) then at least it's got some serious risk-reward. As it is now, mechanically, I can't see it EVER being worth deploying one of these. Even then, interceptors need looking at as well before doing this (Or print time should be modified based on the value stored).

Edit: And maybe give the damn things a 20k-50k shield bubble before hostile access or something, so you at least need to work to break the pinata. (that amount of HP with a DPS interceptor isn't going to take too long to work through, but it gives a delay to allow response. The print-time delay adds dimishing returns to bringing an over-large gang to kill because additional DPS isn't going to affect that.)

Voila!

Edit 2: Some more idle ideas -

additional bonus matching ESS type to racial pirates
ESS converts a small amount of bounty to LP to alter reward type

I wonder what CSM members have to say about this brilliant device since apparently they knew about it since first drafts so let's hear their side now when NDA gag is gone. How did you imagine application or driving conflicts with this structure when you were talking about it with devs? I guess all null representants are above peasant activities like ratting so harassment factor probably was more attractive to them. So tell me how will you harass me with this new deployable and how gloriously it will enhance your gameplay experience. I cannot wait to see another snarky and condescending one-liner Malcanis will produce this time.