Moor Deybe
Delusional Aspirations Of Grandure
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Posted - 2014.01.18 20:53:00 -
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Hi CCP,
I tried out the ESS module on Singularity last night for several hours, and I would like to provide some customer feedback for you.
I did some Drone Hordes and have the following thoughts :
I found the 20% reduction to the normal bounty unacceptable. It made me want to do something else..........anything else i.e. log out of EVE.
I'm not interested in gambling any of the bounty for a bit more, even if the reward was 50% more, nope, not interested in rushing back to change to a PVP ship to defend a structure that's holding my ISK, any more than I'd be interested in abandoning a PVP roam to do some PVE mission or ratting.
Other players won't want to sit there hanging around staring at empty space for hours on end "defending it" either, how boring.
After 1.5 hours the "rate" had risen to 82%.........which basically means, forget solo ratting with the ESS deployed, as you'll have to arrange your gameplay around the schedule of others ALL the time which would be quite restrictive I think.
Other's I've spoken to feel the same and they won't be ratting with one of those in a system if it goes live.
Worse case scenario, people will take the 5% hit and rat at 95% of the previous bounty rate, or jump clone back to high sec until the ESS modules are gone and do something more interesting.
Some have posted to the effect that they are looking forward to dropping them in ratting systems and looping back around later on to see what's there in terms of ISK/tags or the possibility of a fight with people trying to take them down.
I can see how that would be fun if it were to actually happen, but human nature being what it is, I think they will just find that the devices have extracted 30M ISK from their wallets that they will never recoup, either in ISK or fun PVP encounters.
Based upon this whole ESS design, I'm assuming that CCP employees aren't allowed to actually play the game once they're employed there (probably quite rightly) as nothing else could explain how far wide of the mark the ESS is both from the PVE'ers point of view and the PVPer's point of view with regard to creating more interesting fun gameplay for everyone.
Still, you have 80 pages and counting of customer feedback to read, so its a simple case of totting up for and against and deciding how many customers you want to irritate, or you could take the path of irritating none of them by consigning the ESS to the round filing cabinet (thats the bin BTW).
P.S. If you want a quick win to make up for the time spent on the ESS, just bring back level 5 security missions to high sec, honestly, the number of people I know who are bored out of their minds with level 4's will love you for it.
The ability to get in a fleet with others or a single ship specialised PVE fit that can handle level 5, will keep people entertained for quite a while.
And why don't they just do the current level 5 security missions in low sec you ask?
Glad you asked...............because of the difference in ship fitting between PVE and PVP is so wide, that taking a PVE fitted ship into a lowsec mainly PVP environment, leaves it so vulnerable that its a joke.........and taking a PVP fit ship into a low sec level 5 mission means that its probably not capable of even completing a level 5.
Anyway, I digress.
Those are this customers thoughts anyway.
Thanks for reading CPP.
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