Two step wrote:As I said in an earlier post, I like Mike, but I do have an issue with one specific highsec activity, Incursions. Mike, do you feel that the rewards for Incursions match the risk as well as the effort required? Do you feel Incursion income is properly balanced with even other highsec activities like missions or mining?
What about the balance between highsec and lowsec incursions, do you feel the balance is in the right place there?
Effort AND training . . . I, and a lot of the Incursion folks, I have talked with would love to see incursions get a make over, more variance, updated, etc. As for balance . . . how would you suggest we compare them to L4's or mining? One cannot afk an incursion, one cannot solo an incursion, a newish player with low SP will need the support of a lot of other people with more skills to survive an incursion. So should incursion income be on par with L4's? no.
I would LOVE for scout sites to be redone . . . heavily redone. To give newer small groups a taste of what is to come, just as L1's slowly build to L2's and so on.
As for lowsec? Hell, yes, that needs a buff to income to balance out the SAME level of training as needed in high along with increased risk and the shift to t1 fits and less blingy ships which slows down the income rate. I also would like to see some mechanism that keeps the movement of the lowsec incursions from being so large from one to the next as they have a MUCH harder time doing the migration after an incursion closes.
You never specified what your 'issue with incursions is'. I presume it is that they make too much isk for too little effort?
If so do you also think that we should take a serious look at other income streams that exceed that income and are shown to also be relatively low risk?
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End thought. I doubt ANYTHING is perfectly balanced in this game as balance in a living system always requires adjustments and constant monitoring. I would encourage CCP to revisit things in a rotation to see how the balance is currently, maybe have a patrol lap, so to speak.
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