I'm betting not....

"Whenever a ship warps to the ESS, a broadcast is made in local informing everyone in the system that player X is in the vicinity of the ESS. This triggeres even if the approaching ship is cloaked."

The more likely interpretation of the above statement is that the alarm goes off once you're in range, not every time you hit the warp button.

The tears in this thread a delicious

I love how everyone is like 'this is so bad for our ISK income that we're just not going to use it in our space and ban it'. Well guess what, you don't get to decide if the enemy uses it in your space, which is the entire point of these things.

Fleet roles in to a highly populated ratting space, deploys ESS, cuts everyone's income by 20%, forces the owners of the system to do something about it, PVP happens.

This thing will be used more to force your enemy's hand and less to steal actual ISK, although that would be a nice bonus.

Can someone confirm that even the vote to share is also paid out in isk tags? And secondly that the tags can drop as loot?

Can someone confirm that even the vote to share is also paid out in isk tags? And secondly that the tags can drop as loot?

The tears in this thread a delicious

I love how everyone is like 'this is so bad for our ISK income that we're just not going to use it in our space and ban it'. Well guess what, you don't get to decide if the enemy uses it in your space, which is the entire point of these things.

Fleet roles in to a highly populated ratting space, deploys ESS, cuts everyone's income by 20%, forces the owners of the system to do something about it, PVP happens.

This thing will be used more to force your enemy's hand and less to steal actual ISK, although that would be a nice bonus.

The tears in this thread a delicious

I love how everyone is like 'this is so bad for our ISK income that we're just not going to use it in our space and ban it'. Well guess what, you don't get to decide if the enemy uses it in your space, which is the entire point of these things.

Fleet roles in to a highly populated ratting space, deploys ESS, cuts everyone's income by 20%, forces the owners of the system to do something about it, PVP happens.

This thing will be used more to force your enemy's hand and less to steal actual ISK, although that would be a nice bonus.

There is a few second "cooldown" on the notification so it doesn-¦t get spammed when a bunch of people warp in. So in the case of three warping in, only one notification is sent out. People just have to use the intelligence tools at their disposal to discern the level of threat.

All hail the newest meta in Interceptors online!

[Malediction, suicide cyno]
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Warp Disruptor II

Cynosural Field Generator I
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Small Cargohold Optimization I
Small Cargohold Optimization I


So why, you might ask, am I posting such a thing in this feedback thread? To put it simply, CCP are giving us an Easter Egg, a hidden gift that is shiny and good. While the ability to cyno fit an interceptor that can disregard bubbles has been around for a while now, the ability to act as a slow interdictor is just around the corner.

With the above cargo expansion fit you will now be able to warp onto that pesky ratting carrier, point them and drop your ESS deployable bubble while scooting out to a respectable distance that puts you just out of neut range with your cap stable point for the nice short 60 second activation timer. Naturally, dropping cyno is your single most vulnerable moment while bringing in the cavalry so having the fiend stuck well within a bubble as your cyno vessel is rendered to spacedust is quite beneficial. The baiting and drag bubbling options that it opens up are also nice.

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).

Thank you Super Friends!


P.S. CCP Fozzie - Please give us those mobile drug labs you mentioned.

I am going to laugh at this because it deserves it.
A single ship can steal all the isk the ESS contains so that makes a single ship just as much of a threat as a fleet.

This is a nullsec roaming nulified ceptor pilots dream

I applaud any feature that make PVE less attractive and increase PVP opportunities. And yes the reduction in ISK income is graat from two aspects (1) quell inflation in market and ships actually flown into PVP and (2) ensuring EVE profitiability.

Unlike some I realize that features that cause a few more people have to occasionally buy PLEX to replace ships - results in CCP being able to introduce better game play features and the less likely EVE is to die. Quit whining and pay up -- or get the hell out of our game cheapskate carebear.

All hail the newest meta in Interceptors online!

[Malediction, suicide cyno]
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Warp Disruptor II

Cynosural Field Generator I
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Small Cargohold Optimization I
Small Cargohold Optimization I


So why, you might ask, am I posting such a thing in this feedback thread? To put it simply, CCP are giving us an Easter Egg, a hidden gift that is shiny and good. While the ability to cyno fit an interceptor that can disregard bubbles has been around for a while now, the ability to act as a slow interdictor is just around the corner.

With the above cargo expansion fit you will now be able to warp onto that pesky ratting carrier, point them and drop your ESS deployable bubble while scooting out to a respectable distance that puts you just out of neut range with your cap stable point for the nice short 60 second activation timer. Naturally, dropping cyno is your single most vulnerable moment while bringing in the cavalry so having the fiend stuck well within a bubble as your cyno vessel is rendered to spacedust is quite beneficial. The baiting and drag bubbling options that it opens up are also nice.

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).

Thank you Super Friends!


P.S. CCP Fozzie - Please give us those mobile drug labs you mentioned.

Sean Decker, former EA Executive, now with CPP, enter CCP headquarter:
Emplyee: "Is that you or it is getting dumber in here?"
Decker: ""

Conclusion: since Decker/EA works with CCP, the total number of stupid ideas shoots through the clouds.

Prediction: there will be no more rage quits, we will see more reason quits.

"hacking"

This is a 5 percent BUFF to nullsec anomaly income.

I really donGÇÿt understand the anger by nullbears in this thread.

You get a new structure which allows ratters to boost their income by 5 percent. All you need to do is deploy this structure, place a low skilled alt within operation range, and push the button once roaming gangs are reported in intel channels, or once they enter local.

Of course it takes 20 seconds for the transmission to begin. You might lose the ship in the bubble to an interceptor. If you got at least some minimal tank, your extra income is safe.

In the beginning roaming gangs might shoot your ESS, but soon they might realize that itGÇÿs not worth bothering at all. Because if nullbear pushes the button frequently, itGÇÿs no fun at all to shoot a 400mm plated magnate and a battleship tanked ESS for a million bucks.

Also you donGÇÿt have to keep ESS up all day long. You can deploy it when you start ratting, and scoop it to your cargohold an hour later, when you stop ratting.

I really donGÇÿt get it. Nullbears place dozens of large warp disruptors (T1 and even T2) at gates. I have seen gates in 0.0 with so many warp disruptors, you could buy a marauder for this sum of ISK. So why care about a single 30m structure? Ridiculous.

My problem with ESS is of a different nature: I donGÇÿt like the way it is operated. Instead of a single transaction I would prefer a gas station approach: the longer somebody tries to steal ISK from it, the more ISK he gets. For example: ESS has stored 100 million ISK, I warp to it, start "hacking", then I get one transaction (or tag, whatever) for every x seconds. For example 1 million ISK in 10 seconds. It would take a longer time to deplete the ISK pool. This would allow for defenders to form a defense fleet. At the same time it would allow the attackers to better find the "pain point" of the defenders, and force a reaction.

This is only an example. Obviously you would have to find the right formula. Maybe the structure would have to boost income much more, in order to make it attractive. And maybe this should even be a permanent feature of the iHub, not a deployable. I donGÇÿt know.

But what I do know is that the rage in this thread is silly. ItGÇÿs a 5 percent income boost for nullbears, for godGÇÿs sake!