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These sound like an interesting mechanic. Here are a few use cases I can think of:

Setup a scan inhibitor and an ESS, get two people in cynabals and wait for interceptors to arrive. A great honey pot!

Stop people ratting in your space in cloaky T3s by setting up an ESS and taking some of their hard earned escalation money.

Will ratters ever use the structure to improve their income? Yes, as long as they're organized with good intel networks. They will see an interceptor coming from two jumps away and scoop the structure. You could even leave a hauler permanently sitting in range of the structure ready to scoop it at a moment's notice. If you have 10 people ratting and one hauler it's easily worth it. The structure will be less effective in busy systems though, but they're not exactly safe to rat in anyway now are they?

The only people who seem to be complaining about this structure are from bloated 10,000 player alliances that apparently don't have the organization to setup a simple intel channel or defense fleet. How hard is it to find 5 people out of that 10,000 to fly around in their own interceptors to catch invaders and have some fun?

I really could care less about the 5% loss. What I am upset with is that they wasted CCP employees time with thinking this thing up. I would rather they officially nerf bounties than try to make this crap.

What I do see it as, is bait.

Love how this thread turned into "helpless" Goons with their massive numbers, space and organisation crying that the actually a lot less powerful solo roamer or small gang roamer (that usually gets blobbed and camped in by said goons) will destroy everything :D

I'm not a goon, and more than likely the guy attacking ratters with that inty. I can enter system, warp to the beacon within 15-20 seconds, activate it within 20 additional seconds, then power off to 150+ km's during the 40 seconds it takes to online, and warp down and snag the tags and get away. A ratter in a BC will have no chance of stopping me, and attempting to do so will be very dangerous for him (as my pals could easily be waiting to enter system). Warping to a POS or station (as they will when I enter system because they assume I'm hunting them) will take 20-30 seconds, add another 20 seconds to swap ships to engage my inty, and antoher 20 seconds to get on grid, and there is very little time to defend he ESS before I take the loot, decline the engagement, or bring in reinforcements.

Frankly, I like the idea of the ESS, but find the response window too low. Locals need time to form up and defend it, and 60 seconds is not enough time.

Increase activate to 3-5 minutes, and then increase the drop time to 3-5 minutes, and now an organized group of players can scout the system next door, form up a response, and attack the people at the ESS. At 6-10 minutes, they have enough time to respond, but not enough time to truly blob.

Don't be stupid. The module could easily be made to take from mission and incursion payouts. It doesn't have to be bounties.

So multiplying up the amounts, and dividing down the bid/sell price for market orders in the same proportion?

This affects literally everyone in nullsec. You're seeing a lot of angry goons because surprise surprise, we tend to keep our fingers on the pulse of game development, and plenty of us understand the implications of what's happening here. We're also actually allowed to post on our mains which, with the exception of the chosen few in N3 mouthpieces, is not how our enemies operate. If you think Vince Draken or someone who matters on the other side of the Goon Curtain is going, "damn this is sweet, I want these all over my space." or if you think any renter, in any renter alliance is happy at all about this, you're full of it.

It hurts goons, but it also hurts Northern Assosciates. It hurts anyone in Northern Coalition. or Nulli Secunda that spends any time ratting. It hurts every blue and non blue in nullsec for no real reason. Do you think anybody will be deploying these modules to maybe recoup some lost isk when the fact is you probably won't be able to recoup it, whether you deploy this dumb thing or not.

It's an across the board nerf to everyone who makes money in nullsec that isn't importing, doing reaction chains, or is pulling out moongoo.

In the south, this is known as horse-****.

Not to mention that we pay taxes to our respective groups as well.

If CCP wants to take isk out of the game, there are better ways to do it. If CCP wants to generate more conflicts, there are way, way better ways to do it, starting with overhauling the sov system without using gimmick deployables.

^^ If you're going to nerf ratting income do it for all sectors of space that have npc's with bounties.

Because lets be honest who is ever going to click share?

Having had time to think about this more, this is a massive buff to afk campers.

why you ask?

Drop ESS in a ratting system 'afk' cloak near it -> none of the ratters show up to destroy it or take the isk -> free isk for you.
-> ratters show up to kill it, take the isk from it -> decloak, light cyno, point ships, enjoy killmails.

If CSM 8 let an idea as terrible as this and the Dscan inhibitor get to the point of Devblogs, then they obviously aren't doing their jobs.

Alternatively, they either objected, and CCP didn't listen, or CCP went right over them. In either case, why keep them around?

oh look, a left handed nerf for drone space.


can we expect to see a set of faction items for rogue drones? no, of course not, that would be adding content. everything about drone space sucks compared to any other region including high sec and you make it even harder to earn a living?

who's friends are you, exactly?