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Soldarius
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Posted - 2014.01.14 17:18:00 -
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My tear cup before ESS.
My tear cup after ESS.
Time for an upgrade.
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Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2014.01.14 20:42:00 -
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Querns wrote:A thing a lot of you naysayers are missing is that anyone can deploy these ESSes in a system. Say I've got an inkling for messing with folks. I duckwalk into a system owned by hostiles and deploy my own ESS. Suddenly, I am sapping 20% of the bounties of the system. If you are a sovhaver, you have to deploy these items defensively to prevent this from happening to your systems, unless you want your space to be worth four-fifths of its current value.
I find your lack of perception disturbing. Anyone can take from these. So there is no such thing as a defense ESS. You've only saved me the trouble of bringing one in.
Whats the volume on these?
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Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2014.01.14 22:05:00 -
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There is a much easier and more appropriate way to fix the issue: remove interdiction bubble immunity from interceptors. It was a terrible idea from the start. Now it is only getting worse.
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Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2014.01.15 16:26:00 -
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The unintended use of the ESS as a better medium bubble is completely lol-worthy. This alone should get it pulled.
The risk vs reward is totally unbalanced for ratters, especially when they can just go to hisec and run missions, incursions, or losec for FW.
And as much fun as I thought it would be to drop these in ratting systems and blops drop anyone that comes to it, the possibility of locals simply warping a covops in and establishing a perch from where they can blap it with snipers pretty much screws this idea. That being said, a lot of nul-bears are pretty dumb and/or lazy and won't think of that.
I am still curious to see how many ratting systems actually use them. Mark my words: some will.
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Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2014.01.23 18:35:00 -
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omg, CCP gives exactly what so many suggested (LP not get rid of ESS), and still crying how it sucks.
I don't usually come right out and burn people on forums. But seriously HTFU or go back to WoW.
And on your way out, remember to give me all your stuff. TEST-free needs mo' monies for siphons.
Review:
- LP bonus ia2 isk. More effort, more reward. gj
- More EHP = good.
- Bigger volume also good.
- Bit lower cost... ok. I can see that.
- 10x increase to minimum range from gates etc... yup. You really want it off grid from those things.
- Activation time increased by 2x. Don't see why. But doesn't seem to hurt anything.
- Removed open window timer. Good. That timer was redundant as all hell.
- Different longer timers (30/210s) on share and take all respectively that reset if you leave the ESS. Excellent. Can no longer warp in an inty, click take all, burn/warp off, then come back. You have to sit and fight for it.
- Infini-point seems redundant with the timers. Just get rid of inty bubble immunity.
Now, the question is if these changes are enough to make ratters actually want to use it? It seems much less abusable.
In Period Basis I had no problem getting 10-14m isk ticks in a ratting Raven. Other people did better or worse. So .2LP/1k isk would be 2000-2800LP per tick. 6k-8400LP per hour. Could buy yourself a CN Raven in 100 hours.
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