Copy pasted my post from this topic here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=342427

"I am dumbfounded by this whole topic. It seems to me that the majority of posters here are neglecting the primary reason people pvp in WH space. Its not because its made easy by 3rd party tools utilizing api data that is not available in game. It's the pure joy of the hunt. That moment when two WH entities just happen to come across each other, mount up their forces and meet in glorious battle on the field.

Personally this data will have no effect on the way I live and explore in WH space. And with what I see being posted here, I hope it does go away to make 'carebears' more comfortable coming into WH space giving rage rollers a higher chance at more targets.

It's a game. Adapt or quit, it's really that simple."

wait, so you want me to take my scout, run through as many wormholes as i can adding them to my mapper tool of choice, then sit back and wait and hour, probably go make coffee talk BS on TS, and wait till i see the npc counter rise.
All while having a fleet on standby just waiting to see someone make a move so that we can get in there and kill.
Thats my attitude, and the problem with people who are opposed to these changes imo.

Lol you have no idea what you're talking about. How do I know this? I know this because nobody runs C5 sites without closing their static. What you just talked about is not how NPC kills are used, ever, stop being dumb. NPC kills are used to guage whether or not a system is active. So you scout your chain, look at the systems, check which systems have had recent activity, and then go stick a character in those holes and watch them yourself.

This is actively finding your content. Removing the NPC kills just means you have to stick an alt in EVREY SINGLE SYSTEM instead of just a select few.

Maybe it's just a ploy to make us buy more accounts eh?

First not true I was silently watching a group do cap escalations in their C5 a few days back (it was my first sighting of that it was pretty cool to see:-))

Second, why do you feel you HAVE to stick an alt in every single wormhole system in your chain? I don't understand why you feel you need to have intel on the full chain, you live inside a wormhole surely you can accept that you could have to actually go there to find out any new activity, i.e. patrol? Saying that you will pretty much be forced to put an alt in every system is the weirdest way of thinking in this, you make this sound like null and intel channels.

Like I said I understand all your guys concern about farming if that really is an issue, but the amount of spewed crap that gets thrown around regarding scouting, or the ONLY way to identify targets is NPC data and other BS makes me want to throw up.