Except that you get 100% of your current ISK the second it activates. 80% will be in your wallet and 20% in the EES. The 1% level ups are over and above that amount. According to SoniClover 'several' people ratting will max out the bonus in about 30min. Assuming 20min ticks that means about 2 ticks before you are at 105%. Assuming you get an extra 2mil/tick/character that means it should take about 1-1.5 hours to break even. EDIT: Assuming 3-4 characters

So, you really have two options:

1.) Make suggestions to improve it so it gains utility within the current environment.
2.) Demand it be removed from game, giving you no value for the money that has already been spent on it.

----Edit----
To Alphea. Null Bounties are 42% (Or higher) of the total Isk Faucets in EVE. So, it may be that a 5% nerf on Null & only Null Bounties is actually needed to ease pressure on the system. That, I don't know, they haven't released enough figures for that recently to really have a clue. But, I'm ignoring that 5% because it's irrelevant in terms of risk/reward of the ESS. It happens before you apply the ESS. So the ESS actually becomes a 15% penalty, 5-10% bonus item.

Let us suppose that we have a system that can support 4 ishtars. That's really pushing most single systems, but lets go with it. We will let each tick give +2% and see what happens...Its only about an HOUR and a HALF of uninterrupted ratting, with a total of 4 HOURS to pay for the 'upgrade'. None of these considerations take into account the cost/logistics of getting the upgrade into nullsec to begin with.

If you have to clear the cache anytime during ramp up and reset, then the nightmare starts all over again. Even if the ESS lasts long enough to pay for itself without getting blapped, a couple of people are going to have to agree to work together for 4 HOURS every time they opt for PVE to see a 3mil/isk/hr 'bonus'. This is nuts. Its rubbish.

CCP is seemingly inventing a problem, just to be able to solve it. That's really bad game design.

The 5% nerf isn't strictly in need of the ESS, CCP could just go "we've got a problem with inflation, we're going to nerf bounty payouts in nullsec" and that would be that. There'd be bitching, but at least it wouldn't be attached to a bullshit mechanic which is taking up (and has taken up) resources on both developers and artists and which won't yield enough benefits to make a large number of people go "yes, I shall deploy this".

I'm really hoping that the lack of any more replies from CCP means they're having internal meetings about what to do with the ESS.
Though sorry to say my belief is more on the lines of the CCP I have come to know which is them sticking their heads in the sand and hoping the issue (angry players) goes away. Sorry CCP but that is your normal MO.

Anyone from CCP willing to face the mob and post what the plans for the ESS are, will our feedback be taken seriously and in full or should we just shut up and HTFU before moving our assets to Osmon for SOE L4's?

Unlikely, typically once the responses end it means the change will be implemented as originally proposed.

Sure, I can grok this.

But we're talking about a specific activity generating 72%...Not a specific area of space.

My heart bleeds for you tippia

Seriously though, i think you guys are wasting your time here. CCP are going to do this so the best things you can do is start demanding that they add more PVE content to make it worth living in null.

Unlikely, typically once the responses end it means the change will be implemented as originally proposed.

.............
I also assure you that I am not ignoring negative feedback. There are absolutely a lot of people giving that in this thread. In the past when I've gotten negative feedback which is backed with well articulated arguments I don't hesitate to make changes (see industrial rebalance, electronic attack frig rebalance, battleship rebalance), but in this thread the majority of complaint is very disorganized and unhelpful, that's why I'm instead going with the positive feedback coming from the CSM, from our testing and from some posters here.

"Start"

My heart bleeds for you tippia

Seriously though, i think you guys are wasting your time here. CCP are going to do this so the best things you can do is start demanding that they add more PVE content to make it worth living in null.

Taking the 5% base income nerf into account: (so that 95% is your new 100%)

Carebear point of view:

-áGÖª risk:
-á-á-á-áGû¬ 15.79% less income than without ESS in case of theft.
-á-á-á-áGû¬ price of the structure
-á-á-á-áGû¬ travel-time (setup, scoop, cash out)

-áGÖª reward:
-á-á-á-áGû¬ less than 10.5% in the best case
-á-á-á-áGû¬ 5.26% until the ATM is in bonus-mode

-áA sanctum-anomaly has 40 NPCs
-áHave a look at NPCs killed per 24h in a sample region.
-áGP¬ I really can't see why I would use it, except in one hotspot per region maybe.
...

[translated from german] during the last 90 days 72% of NPC bounties came from 0.0

Unlikely, typically once the responses end it means the change will be implemented as originally proposed.

GP¬ Then there is almost NO reason NOT to use it. Even for lone ratters in bad systems.

GP¬ this leads to frequent successful theft

GP¬ which in turn leads to roaming pinatas ... if that's no incentive for PvP i don't know

Impeccable logic.