9/3/2023 0 Comments Reserve keysBut since the max payout is always the same across the richer/crowded regions, and poorer/quiet regions the thieves are always encouraged to steal from dead-end regions rather than the most crowded ones. One naturally emerging counter-balance here is that crowded regions attract more hunters. One problem with the abundance era was how dense certain umbrella regions became, how many people they can rageping at any time, how much force they can project in their own region, etc. Thus, we have a risk/reward imbalance between the thief and the farmer.įourthly, there is no risk/reward scaling in stealing across more or less defended regions. Not only non-nullseccers will be less encouraged to steal from nullsec relative to farmer self-draining, but also nullsec inhabitants will always find it more sensible to drain their own reserves rather than aggressing someone else’s. This means that, unless key prices are negligibly low, the risk/reward math will always make more sense for farmers to access their own ESS. But since farmer risk of self-draining is lower, farmers will have more demand for the keys and will be willing to pay higher prices. The price equilibrium will be composed of the farmers’ and the thieves’ demand. Meanwhile, draining your own reserves can be done at a quiet time with some alts and ignorable PvP risk. But locals can rageping, reship, respond to aggressor fleet composition, use capitals on ESS gate or on system gates. But stealing in hostile territory will always be riskier than accessing your own reserves. The keys cost the same to locals and thieves. Thirdly, even if the keys were more common, they will still hit a (lower) market price equilibrium. Secondly, even if the sites were common, gating marauders in lowsec is a bigger risk than the potential reward for most lowseccers. This means time consuming preparation (of alts, or players organizing) is needed to run them, but the time spent for chaining them as a playstyle is not worth the reward. Meaning, only high SP multiboxers can solo the sites. Below are four reasons why the ESS reserve design is underwhelming, They all tie back to the imbalance in risk/reward levels.įirstly, the reserve keys drop from lowsec sites that require up to 1-3 marauders and at least 2 hacker alts. In my close circle we are desperately looking for content for our fleets, and we don’t even think for a second about ESS reserves.Ī fundamental driver of most Eve content is that the riskier your activity is, the more rewarding it is. But the money in the reserves speaks for itself about the general non-engagement with the feature. Some players likely bait fights with keys. Instead, as CSM puts, it became a bottomless pit with trillions of ISK lying dead useful to neither the farmers nor the thieves. It could have created a sizeable portion of the nullsec conflict. The reserve bank was the promising conflict driver. That’s probably fine, as that bolsters the agency of individuals to defend their own money. And reserve defense is at the organization level, potentially yielding alliance-level income.ĭue to the shortness of the payout time, insufficient money accumulates in the main bank for wider engagement with this feature. Individuals farming the bounties defend their own main banks. The distinction between the main/reserve banks is cool. However, we were barely listened to about the accumulation and the distribution of the money. No capitals, hard to kite/disengage, ships at risk for the thief. All CSMs did great work to get the ESS grid to a playable state. They hit us with specifics of the grid design. It could be the feedback or coincidence, but a joyful moment. What if “stealing” as a playstyle was democratized instead of niche players earning trillions ( stealing Excavators, citadels, AT ships, corp theft)? What if farmers had an “ante” that they had to fight for, from which daily regular conflict arose?Ĭouple of months later, plans for an ESS revamp was revealed to CSM. As an “Excavator Stealer” who got freshly elected into CSM 14, I gave a piece of feedback to CCP.
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