Instead of allocating developer resources to things that matter and need to be fixed or improved (POS mechanics....

So unless enough ESS units are allowed to get into the bonus range ( >100% to 105%) to make up that "5% across all nullsec bounties" reduction

Ya when a dev's answer (kil2) on how to deal with nullified ceptors is "hide from them and hope they get bored and go away" you know something is stupid and unbalanced.

Or the ratters just , I donno, log?

There is none. People who rat don't want to fight, they want to rat.

The point is that adding a deployable that doesn't harm them won't effect their behavior. Duh.

Why even mess around with the idea with the 5% bounty debuff in null?

You can't be serious. Carrier ratting is incredibly risky, so much so that most people with any sense regard it as stupid. With that much risk, they're entitled to an increased payout. And they don't really make that much more anyway.

I've been able to fly a carrier for just over 24 hours now. I'm having a very hard time convincing myself it would ever be a good idea, especially considering the warp speed changes, the fact that forsaken hubs now have warp disrupting rats, and the fact that fighters are really not that good for applying damage to subcaps.

If carrier ratting is being abused then it's carriers that need to be changed.

The vast majority of value from high end wormholes is in blue loot, which generates isk from npc buy orders.

Maybe then nullsec bounties could be reduced slightly (5% perhaps) and to compensate for the reduction they would also pay out CONCORD LP?

It could be done in such a way that null ratters would make more than they do now (as they should) but there would be less of a faucet and more of a sink involved.

TL:DR = Super Friends have created a mobile deployable bubble with comparable range to a medium T2, smaller cargo volume requirements, around triple the raw EHP, half the onlining time without the need to stick around to anchor it, a vast skill requirement reduction to Anchoring II, a beacon that will allow your friends to warp in on the target even if you were to be explodified, and a shiny notification to let you know when there is someone inbound to it (mother of drag bubbles).

Because the ISK coming into the game from Null Sec bounties every day is insane and we want to minimize inflation.

Are you serious?

You have Faction Warfare, Incursions and L4s that are disgusting amounts of income, and you pick on null rats?

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/csm/CSM8_August_Summit_Minutes.pdf

This explanation doesn't hold water and you've published something to that effect.

They are the most recent minutes and there has been no significant changes to nullsec ratting between then and now that would suppose it was out of date. SoniClover is wrong about isk faucets being a problem, and I know that because the independent CCP employee whose job it is to look at the data and understand what it means reviewed the data closely and said so.

SoniClover claimed the bounties were an economic problem, and he's wrong.

The ESS is literally the most pointless thing ever made

Nerfing an income source that supports at MAX maybe 5 simultaneous users in a fully upgraded system with decent true sec (that an alliance is paying for) seems a bit strange when Level 4 missions can support an infinite number of pilots, with little to no risk.

Somebody, somewhere is paying for that Sov (and it costs quite a bit more than the paltry costs of a few lp store items);

Then the fix is replace some of the bounties with CONCORD LP like incursions. In-game CONCORD is the source of the bounties anyways. A null pve player would need to physically move the pve toon to the nearest empire CONCORD station to cash in, with would be a further isk sink because the pve toon isn't ratting right then (though the time can be minmized by jump cloning and death cloning).

Sov should be the most valuable ground in the game bar none.

I hope people's primary concern is based on those two things, and condensed into the simple fact that Sov is increasingly becoming worth less and less, and heading to the brink of becoming a pointless endeavour.

I thought that was evident from the beginning.

stop posting when you don't know what you're talking about

nothing you said had any merit to elaborate on it was just wild conjecture, all of which was wrong, which i did point out and you just bounced to new wrong wild conjecture

Take your own advice -- this guy is one of the few posters in this thread who actually understands the difference between income and isk generation.

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Our source would be the CSM summer summit minutes, where Dr. EyjoG specifically stated that isk faucets are not a problem in their current state.

You know, the guy actual economist they hired to know this kind of **** in the first place. I'm pretty sure he understands the economy better than codemonkey dev who'd rather be working for Sega.

So now you **** over every empire mission runner?
Wow. you are some piece of work.