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My argument is based on my assumption that CCP wants a viable nullsec ecology that is not entirely dependant on rental income paid to someone else. You are of course right; if it's available to everyone, by dint of being in the API, surely everyone will make equal use of it?

That's false. But before i go on, let me say I have no ill-respect toward PL or anyone else who has the werewithal, gumption and resources to pull whatever they want from the API and turn it into 3rd party apps and widgets. Good on you guys. You are extracting more from the game than merely logging in and spinning in a POS waiting for stuff to happen.

However, that doesn't mean CCP should ignore the ill effects of, if not abuse, then exploitation of the API. CCP removed kill and jump logging via the API from wormholes precisely because it did not meet their design goals for wormholes to have perfect intel in a wormhole chain for every jump, rat kill or player kill that occurred in the wormhole. This basically nerfed a lot of people's ways of finding PVP (Blood union prime example).

Now, when you look at CCp's admittedly hamfisted attempts to change sov warfare in nullsec it's all been about disaggregaion dynamics - removing the need for blobbing, capital blobbing, dreads to DPS EHP walls, reducing force projection (which allows blobbing), etc. it's been a clear philosophical design goal they are moving towards, to reduce people's abilities to aggregate, coalesce and stagnate.

Yet here we are, providing perfect intel on sov warfare, on a platter.

Really, Fozzie? You see no problems with this? You thought this through? if you thought it was bad for wormholes to connect to much in nullsec because a few entities exploited them as a shortcut around Phoebe's changes, here you are basically allowing people to recreate the API kill data of Siggy of old, on a vast scale.

I agree with FT Diomedes. This game is getting too reliant on API data. It's almost a game you don't have to play logged in. maybe server logins are down recisely because you don't need to gather intel, be logged in except for 10 minutes to gank a titan, so you play LOl or WOW or tanks and wait for a jabber ping which, truthfully, we'll see automatically generated from the API.

So, yeah, good for PL and all, but terrible for everyone else. But I bet your candy-arsed CSM is happy with this.

I mean, if you want to remove the only leveling factor available to small groups in the API, we'll gladly allow it. Our organization has the resources to do without. Others do too. We'll mourn its passing, of course; using the API is certainly easier than doing it the hard way. However, with a ten-year history of nullsec quality of life being eroded little by little, we're nothing if not adaptable.

This is the truth. This doesn't help blocs, this helps the guys wanting to enter null. Now, I won't debate how many people are waiting on the sidelines to enter null or not. All evidence is there is not a great pool of people waiting for this patch to break in. However, if they have any hope of doing so they have to have as level a playing field as possible.

The main issue I see with this blog is CCP crossing the line into the sandbox by actively deleting assets with no compensation. Given our apprehension about them handling the future outpost migration well....this is not a good plan.

APIs? Fine. Roleplay it as NPC spies if it makes you feel better.

Aryth,
My station got ****** during crius due to a mistake on CCP part in their description. The description has been fixed, but it took 7 months of petitions and other crap. Basically from a level 1 upgrade that was installed in error due to a CCP mistake, they refunded me 900 mil for the cost of the egg. They also couldn't reverse it, so I could install another, nor did they even contemplate reimbursing the stuffing for the egg.

I don't hold a lot of hope for reimbursement of assets

It is ridiculously simple to check the your corp API once an hour and have a triggered google script send an email to your iphone/android/work/etc if the quantity of materials in a silo have not incremented by the correct amount.

In addition, there are bots (not advocating such a breach of the TOS/EULA, so don't do it kiddies) that would have no problem responding to such an email, logging in, blapping the siphon, and then logging out.

Its also possible to scrape killboards for siphon kills with R64 materials to find previously unknown R64 moons.

As fun as it is to poll the API, free intel is bad. I wouldn't cry if all of the game state API end-points were removed, leaving just the static data like item types to names, character names to ids, things like that.

I tried siphoning some moons last year. The ones on large nulsec alliance's towers were all gone inside of 24 hours. Only failscading and small alliances or corps without the know-how are vulnerable to siphons.

So no, they aren't useless. But they also aren't very useful either, due solely to the API reporting active game content.

Now imagine if they just deleted them instead!

How dare you come in here with facts!

have my babies

That's great to hear.

So, if i open up the map (by pressing F10 like a pro, not using the futtbucked betamap) and select sovereignty, it shows me the upcoming sov timers?

Oh. Wait. No it doesn't.