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i love how your small gang solution requires smaller groups to become large entities. you make tons of sense /s please carry on.

I have a great idea. Lets make ratting in nullsec harder to do, and overall pay out less. While we are at it lets give interceptor pilots the chance to steal 20% of the isk i worked for just for warping to an ESS that's lit up like a christmas tree.

My first read was hey that might be cool. The more i think about it the more i thing "CCP wants more people in High Sec".

I cant speak for everybody but I consider this whole thing a 5% net loss in income. Most systems that are anywhere close to unfriendly space just wont bother risking 20% for a possible 5% gain.

You don't include the universal bounty nerf that exists completely independent of the ESS when looking at the profitability of the ESS.

To put it in perspective:
Imagine you run a snow removal service.
Today you get paid 100 bucks per hour to remove snow of a lot.
Tomorrow, because of changes to the business environment, you only get paid 95 bucks for removing snow off that same lot.
Tomorrow, a new snowplow comes on the market. To rent this snowplow costs 15 bucks per hour to rent, but your new hourly income will net 100 bucks an hour (including rental cost). Is it profitable to use?

You don't look at the, but back in the good old days I was paid 100 bucks an hour, so the new snowplow isn't profitable to use cause I'm still only making 100 bucks an hour. You compare present values...

Wait, what?

First of all, there are no snowplows in Somalia. Wrong climate. Second of all, your plowtruck is going to get swarmed by people with AK47's, and stolen. You yourself will probably get away because you have a clone back in northern Canada or wherever you live that is making you compare snowplow trucks to EVE.

Not to mention hos the system works today, you get your bountys every 20 mins. So with this new system you have to wait 20 mins after your session is finished to go claim your isk.

So in other terms, if you log off due to rl, you forfit the last 18 mins of bountys which can be claim by anyone..

If they want to limit NPC bounties and create conflict, they should simply make NPCs deplete and a slowly regenerating resource.

This will promote spreading out, limit income per system and give much more interesting conflicts. It is also more real, i always wondered how the NPCs have an unlimited amount of ships...where is their manufacturing based? In the whole plot of EVE they are the thing that least make sense and it is causing problems. CCP tries to combat these with ever more exotic and nonsensical content. It's like trying to make a wrong right by adding many more wrongs...surely that doesn't work very well.

PS. Likewise, missions should be regionally pooled and deplete. Make people compete for a resource instead of auto-instancing the resource on demand.

CCP won't be pulling the plug on this at all. It's a **** idea, and we haven't gotten a large portion of the hisec community to shoot a statue about it yet, so of course it'll be going in.

If the CSM thinks the EES is a good idea, then you guys have lost touch with the player base faster than any CSM to date....
Good job being the fastest at something I guess.....

CCP Soniclover...... you really are a special snowflake.

To quote you.... "I don't usually respond to inflammatory posts"

Well....when you refuse to acknowledge 800 posts pointing out that your awesome ESS idea is a complete bag of horseshit, you will get some negative posts.

Then you say you are thinking about some changes, none of which address the issue.

Your condescending attitude really is not helping, it's just making things worse, though it's hard to see how that is possible.


So, when did you undock last, and not on SISI ?

You read Hilmar's letter, yes ?

A Humbler, Stronger CCP

I’m sharing these revelations with you now because it’s taken this long to transform them into action. From all this self-reflection, a genesis of renewal has taken root, a personal and professional commitment to restore the partnership of trust upon which our success depends, and a plan that sets the foundation for us to sensibly guide EVE to her fullest potential. In the coming days and weeks, the details of this plan and what it means for you will be unveiled. Part of what led us down this path is the fact we have not communicated well. This blog, and those that will follow, will hopefully demonstrate our conviction to transparency.

Good things are coming. They always do when you learn from your mistakes. In 2007, we faced a similar crisis of confidence, and it resulted in the creation of the CSM. We’re a better company because of it. In the last months, we’ve taken a hard look at everything, including my leadership. What I can say for now is that we’ve taken action to ensure these mistakes are never repeated. We have reexamined our processes, hired experienced industry professionals for key leadership positions, reassessed our priorities, moved personnel around and, above all else, recognized our limitations.

For me, the most frustrating aspect of this is that after all this time, as far as EVE has come and in spite of everything that’s happened, I fervently believe with all my heart that we’ve not even scratched the surface of EVE’s potential. My personal failing is not reconciling that passion with pragmatism. We’ve been trying to expand the EVE universe in several directions at once, and I need to do a better job of pursuing that vision without diluting or marginalizing the things that are great—or could be great—about the game right now. Nullsec space needs to be fixed. Factional warfare needs to be fixed. The game needs new ships. We need to do a better job of nurturing our new players and making EVE the intriguing, boundless universe it has the potential to be.

We really do have something that no one else has. EVE is still unique in the real and virtual world. This is our vision for her, and we want so badly to take you there. But getting there is not an entitlement. It will take hard work, open communication and, above all else, collaboration with you. The greatest lesson for me is the realization that EVE belongs to you, and we at CCP are just the hosts of your experience. When we channel our passion for EVE constructively, we can make this vision a reality together.

But enough talk from me. We all know that much quoted phrase, “It’s not what you say, it’s what you do,” that will make the difference here. From now on, CCP w

This, so much this.

1600 posts (wooh, go me) and you still talk down to the community and still think this is a good idea? I bet you won't even read the 30 pages that will be added onto this thread by monday. You'll just cherry pick one or two responses from people that have no clue what they are talking about (hrm, sound familiar?) and post as if a tweak here or there will magically make this a good idea.
There is not enough fire in the world to burn the ESS down with (and we're talking about a planet with a molten core, here).