I guess I just get really good luck with combat sites because all I hear is people complaining about the loot they get from them, yet every time I do them, I get all the shiny drops.

It was the same for the random belt spawn.

2005, I hadn't even started paying for the game, I was still on trial and I encountered a Shadow Serpentis in an .8 system. It dropped a Daredevil blueprint copy that I abruptly made and trained to fly. It was the single motivating factor in me buying the account and continuing EVE. It was also the last one I would ever loot. Having killed thousands of Shadow/ Dark/ True/ Dread and Domination I have seen many implants, many faction fittings, several POS bpc's and most in HS. None in the last 3 years though. 40% and 60% ammo and a garbage dog tag. I don't know why CCP thought it would be smart to take the little things away from players. I hope it worked out for them, whatever it was they were trying to do.

So, I have been running high sec anomalies for about 8 years.

you've played this game for 8 years with a focus on high sec anoms. consider this perceived ~nerf a blessing and do something else.

I don't believe there is a problem, the 'RNG' is a fickle beast and I've had WAY worse than a 100 anom escalation drought.

That being said, I haven't had an escalation doing null, low and high sec anoms in something like 7 weeks. I'm not kidding there, 7 weeks. Longest 'drought' I had before that was 3 weeks. It's distantly possible that something got screwed up in some patch or another, but none of us (as players) have enough data to say for sure. It is still probably just "the RNG hates me".

Another couple weeks and I'm gonna petiton...just to hear a GM say "working as intended" so I know they still exist lol.

PS, there is no high sec consiracy here, droughts happen everywhwere.

Using a Vindicator in highsec anomolies seems a little over the top. I use an assault frigate in the lowsec ones, or at most a HAC.

O noes my 0 risk isk fountain no longer works.

I always thought highsec drop rates were a little high considering how often I heard about people getting rare modules there, compared to how bad they often are in nullsec.

I don't bother with anomalies because it's just bad but high sec combat sites can do and pay really well. You can make 250-500 mil a day if you do them right. No bragging, no joke. RNG still happens of course; some days you get nothing, then 3 days in a row a bill.

I heard the high sec exploration combat sites were even better than the anomalies, so I thought I'd try it out. Ran some down and killed some True Sansha rats. Got excited to go loot their wrecks and got a single frequency crystal. Five times in a row. I didn't run any more combat sites after that.

I always thought highsec drop rates were a little high considering how often I heard about people getting rare modules there, compared to how bad they often are in nullsec.

Same **** happens to me in nullsec. Kill a true sansha rat in a belt and get a damn crystal. Its bullshit. Makes going out looking for faction rats not fun anymore.

...Making high-sec less appealing is not going to get people into low-sec or null...

Yet another potential use for those useless Criminal Dog tags. "Here is a Shadow Serpentis Copper tag, Mr. Agent". Agent offers me a mission with benefits. One that requires the Criminal Dog tags being turned in for missions and an Advanced Social skill not available to trial accounts but maybe I'm dreaming.

And to be fair to CCP this could be why they nerfed it.

If people can spam anoms for 3 weeks and get enough loot to make 800 mil and a Plex they will. While I am motivated by the loot and the prospect of using the loot, I am a small minority in EVE. Most simply see it as a means to an end. It would be nice to see a skill or implant that eliminated trial spamming from the loot tables.

Yet another potential use for those useless Criminal Dog tags. "Here is a Shadow Serpentis Copper tag, Mr. Agent". Agent offers me a mission with benefits. One that requires the Criminal Dog tags being turned in for missions and an Advanced Social skill not available to trial accounts but maybe I'm dreaming.

I have had two officer spawns in 8 years and one of them dropped tags and ammo

Cool idea this!