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The only big danger on the horizon is the learning implant removal. That is a highly disruptive event when it comes to the economy. Still very needed and doable just tricky.

CCP you are boosting PVE in Sov system by greatly boosting anomaly spawns in all systems.

What is most important , that the biggest boost get currently worsts systems :

 In contrast, a fully upgraded -0.1 system would gain the following 15 anomalies in addition to those that already spawn there now:

+3 Havens, +1 Forsaken Hub, +3 Forsaken Rally Points, +2 Forlorn Hubs, +2 Hubs, +2 Forlorn Rally Points, +1 Port, and +1 Hidden Rally Point.

Why this is bad?
Because this will directly affect number of escalations and faction spawns.
Why this is bad for pirate LP stores?
As almost every faction item you can get from LP store is also able to drop from escalation and faction spawn, currently the only item that is faction store specific ( so cannot drop ) is XL ammo.
Ammo that is less and less desired ,and after sov changes it will be even less needed.

Currently LP price vary between Pirate LP stores, but for most of them it is getting closer and closer to 1.8k isk per LP ( after next patch this will drop even more)
Usual LP payout for lvl 4 pirate mission is from 4 to 15k ( old missions)
20-25k ( burner missions)

Just for example FW mission payout at tier 4 or 5 give you 60-100k lp . What is also important , each of those items have high demand item that can easily give you around 1k is for LP.

Each change to escalation rate lead to lower and lower value of pirate lp stores.
They urgently need balancing, by :
- increasing LP payout for all non burner missions ( but this is bad direction )
- balancing pirate faction items, and moving more of them to pirate LP stores ( as almost for every lp store you can find something useful )

Without this most of the pirate lp stores will become even much less profitable , when compared to FW , incursions, or simple anomaly ratting.

People that want to live in NPC null regions are totally different people that desire to live in sov space.
What is also important , they use this isk to harass people in all regions around them , and this means only one thing.
More roaming gangs, more fights ... more content.

This increase of anomaly spawn , just shifted a lot of income from those groups to people inhabiting SOV space.

Number of places you can havens will increase dramatically , and escalation from them.
Remember that faction drops are mostly from faction spawns that also show up without escalations.

Everyone wants to be doing Havens/Sanctums to get the 10/10 escalation, whereas the other escalations aren't even worth the time to do them. People were forced to do lower tier anomalies in crowded systems before, but with more total Havens/Sanctums, there will be more total escalations unless the rate is changed again.

Just changing the rate of escalations a few months back caused most dead space loot to lose ~50% of its value. It's really sort of sad because exploration as a profession really took a huge hit from that. Its also sort of sad, as escalations were the only thing that made sov pve at times more lucrative than HS incursions or FW, and yet now they are totally devalued, as is the loot from the reprocessing changes, so....sov pve is really in a bad spot.

Yes the faction stuff will drop again, the same thing happened to pirate lp stores, but after this change they will be much worst in terms of actual payout than some of the higsec LP stores.
There will be just not to many profitable items that you could actually pull and sell.

Not checked , but for pirate faction stores i know , the only unique item you can get is XL ammo, and people will be using it less.
What is also important stuff you can get from faction drops is in much bigger variety that you can actually get from LP store, adding all those items to faction store will reduce price of those items but will provide more different stuff that you can trade.

This is not perfect solution, but best one is rework of the lp stores, introducing new items, so a lot of work .

Judging from your previous posts in this thread you have no idea how economy works in this game, so that's just your wishfull thinking.

Like they did with data sites? They have problem with only one feature and you think they can handle economy in macro size? Just beacuse we need to buff nullsec? It's not like -5% on some hull.

This is main goal of exploration. Hit the jackpot. If there will be none of it there no point of doing sites, especially when they will be spawned by new nullsec upgrades. Loop, but you don't understand it. No, it's not like ppl don't do them and they will become worth more, data sites are moslty abbadoned and didn't increase in value. I have to adapt to what? For 2 years CCP fail to interest me in content named "pirates data sites".


Big If. I want healthy null, it's obvious. CCP want to lure players there and I hope they succeed by not nerfing other aspects of the game (maybe incursions and FW).

CCP should really hire you. Someone who seems to have complete knowledge of how the most sweeping changes in nullsec in years are going to play out would be a valuable addition to the team.

The economy is a complex beast that will be influenced by many factors, most importantly how many people actually start living in nullsec. That number alone will completely dominate any effects on the economy, certainly compared to a slight change in the spawn location or number of spawns of exploration sites. I don't doubt there will be effects, but CCP has ways to tweak the economy. Certainly not buffing site spawning because it might impact one small portion of the economy is not an option - these changes are needed to make the space livable to large groups.

Again you are fixated on your ISK. This is a player driven economy, if players decide they like doing an activity, the value of the rewards from that activity will go down. CCP can tweak things a bit if they so choose, but ultimately it is the players that will determine the value of the rewards.

Buffing nullsec is needed. The economy will adjust. There will be winners and losers in that adjustment. Time to adapt friend - you can't stand in the way of progress.
I understand it perfectly. Some of those sites will now go to nullsec alliances. CCP is giving some of your candy to other players as reward for living in and defending a nullsec system. And like any small child you are here crying that someone has taken away your candy.

Let me make this clear. CCP knows it is taking some of your candy. They are doing it on purpose and not by mistake, all for a greater game reason. They have also left you plenty of other candy, but yet you are still here crying because you want all the candy. Get over it.

They will not. Incursions will have to be changed, reworked, or nerfed - this is already underway (see: Drifter Incursions) and Sugar Kyle was talking about rumblings of a major Faction Warfare rework. Both of these farm-fests need to be toned back a bit to encourage players to participate in activities that actually generate content.

If FozzieSov is going to have a chance players have to see null as the place to make their living rather than relying on their incursion or FW alt. It's going to be a tough juggling act though so I wish them luck.

Cross posting my GD thread here - because I can't be ****** typing it out all over again.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5882960#post5882960

doing what falcon told me to do v0v.

When puzzles are figured they may become boring. Null need missions, for solos and groups. Anoms are the most boring part of PvE ever. I tried to do them in null with rattle. After 3 days I've started to wonder what I'm doing with my life. I can't imagine someone could be doing them on daily basis, only mining was more boring, I even felt asleep once.

It is not expensive for me. Some hint even , dps ships have no SRP , so all go from my wallet .
I can manage it , but it is hard for new players.
Yes they can join some big blob that will even SRP lost ratting ships, but i think whole point of all current changes is to move away from blobs.

CCP stated at some point , that battleship fleet should be rare , but i don't think that by this CCP wanted battleships to be rare because they are much worst than hac/t3 cruiser fleets.