The ESS is a 5% nerf to Null Sec bounty. Call it what it is.

Is 20 seconds long enough for the payout window? Let's be honest, if you are going to steal from the ESS you are Either Neutral or Red to the locals and you will be in a inty, a covops or, a nullified t3 for easy get away.
Which makes the bubble silly and pointless. Because once you get the notice that the ESS is being paid out, 20 seconds isn't enough time to scoop drones, align, warp, land, then Target whoever. Unless you are in an Inty yourself; and I don't know many people who rat in inty's.

You would have to be a badArse Inty pilot to do 500+ dps and still tank.

2 questions.

Why can't you tell us how many siphons have been used or give more info?

Why does the ESS require a 5% nerf to bounties?

Just quoting myself here, as they have gone unanswered.

I and I guess others, would like more info on the siphons. I'm not interested in where they have been placed, but how many. What information was given, does I think indicate a rather low usage level. Which makes me wonder, if that's the reason for you to withhold information on them.

The second question is why does the ESS require a 5% nerf to bounties. Surely if you don't use them, then you don't reap those benefits. If you do, then you have risk versus reward. Which I could understand.
So why does it require the 5% nerf, for it to be implemented?

The Mobile Micro Jump Unit and Mobile Scan Inhibitor are basically useless, but that's a good thing since their original stats were game-breaking.

The Encounter Surveillance System is still garbage and should have been canned completely.

The deleted word meant - very not bright.

When active, the Mobile Scan Inhibitor will prevent the operation of both combat probes and directional scanners by or against anything within its 30km radius. The structure itself is always visible to both probes and directional scans, and is extremely easy to pinpoint using probes.

Why make it visible at all, if it is capable of hiding everything around it? This doesn't make sense, certainly not from the users perspective. Warping towards it at range will reveal everything that is there, without the users seeing any Intel themselves. This block suggests it works by nullifying all signals in its influence sphere which should make itself also undetectable.

It is probably done to counter complains that it might otherwise be too powerful, but i disagree. From a user point of view it should stay hidden, else it would have very limited application. The most logical place to use for such a structure is as a rally point or as a way to hide your presence in WH space. The first use is severely compromised by its visibility, the second one is downright nullified.

There is now no timer to open the ESS window where the player gets to choose to Share or Take all, but both options now have separate timers on them. Share requires 30 seconds, Take all requires 210 seconds. Moving out of range while the timer is ongoing resets the timer. This prevents players from safely leaving an alt on the ESS and sharing as soon as a hostile enters local.
Interacting with the ESS now puts a warp disruption effect on the ship interacting with it. Ships immune to bubbles are not immune to this effect.

What prevents someone from parking an alt next to the EES and simply scooping it when local goes +1 ?
As far as I could tell the scooping took no time and there was no way someone could catch you before you scooped it up.
Wait till local goes -1 and deploy again.
What am I missing?

Scooping doesn't save the lp/tags/isk , the rewards are stored in a "system bank" so if you scoop your ESS you are just letting the hostile deploy one and steal your isk.

While active, NPC bounty payments pay out full value, with 80% being paid directly and 20% being stored in a system-wide pool. In addition, for each 1000 bounty ISK you get 0.15 Loyalty Points, these are LPs for the empire navy based the ESS type.

[I hope you are right. When I tested this last week, it seemed to me the rewards followed the ESS and not the system. I' pretty sure I picked one up and moved systems (it's possible I'm confused about the moving part) and after re-deploying I could see the rewards still available.