Missions & Complexes

Thanks for the update. Good step in the right direction.

that should keep everyone happy and sites being run normally for the time being. Thanks for the update.

Have to wait to see what Darth says though

In my opinion HQs and AS sites should pay better. They are more risky and are harder for the FCs and it's more work to keep them running if ppl. leave fleet.

Ok, it's fine. Thanks.

The journey of a thousand miles, begins with but a single step.

I really love the CCP isn't just abandoning this feature, It is most definitely one of the best features you added to date. Now that being said putting on another Band-Aid over the six Band-Aids that you already put on it is not going to make it heal.

You need to balance the low sec incursions differently then the high sec incursions, because the two communities have very different needs and if you balance it for one community let's say Lowsec community (you would need to make the site pay more well taking the less time) to balance the risk enough to draw people back to them. however if you do this to the hi-sec incursion you'll be creating another faucet problem while unbalancing the risk versus reward again.

On the flip side if you continue to balance for high-sec the low sec/null incursions will just become an annoyance to anybody who happens to be living in that space because no one's going to bother running it because it's not worth the risk.

So I implore you look at redesigning incursions completely, Each security status should have its own group of sites: That way you can balance them independently from each other. For example:

You Could have a set of sites each security status, you set a scout sites, Vanguard sites, assault sites, HQ sites that only Spawn in high sec, & a completely different that only Spawns in low sec, & and a third that only spawns in null sec.

That way you can tailor each set of incursion sites to the needs of the group of that area without unbalancing the other two.
I'm not exactly sure on what you should do to balance each particular security status however, I am 100% positive that you're never going to fix it if you just keep using these heavy-handed quick fixes

keeping this on the first page for a while...

Not a valid argument at all. High end, tight-knit communities, flying multi-billion isk ships with near-perfect boosters can do it fast, true enough, but they can still do the other sites even faster. OTAs are a bottleneck at the moment, well out of proportion with the other two sites.

I don't see how you can say that unless you can't see the Wall of OTAs that populate the Vanguards 6 sometimes 12 hours before downtime. Look at the Journal for Fólkvangr's sake: Only 1 Incursion is being run anymore. I have high hopes that this will rejuvenate the hi sec incursions.
I'm really hoping too the lo/null sec incursions too will be able to defeat the OTAs I think the current problem currently stems from only super shiney fleets being able do them in a survivable amount of time, and this is mirrored in the fact that they are not being done there because such shiney ships are too much a target(risk) in lo/null.
Its is very founded in looking at how all Incursions have withered from being a vibrant growing community it was the very week before Escalation.

um no.. I'm just reducing the EHP overall for OTA sites