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==== Effect on the community ====

Very little, as that particular site was the least favourite headquarter site to begin with.

== August 2017 ==

Changes were made to tighten up the requirements to get paid for a site, it's no longer enough to simply be in the fleet anymore; you have to actually participate in the site somehow.

==== Patches ====

From the [https://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-august-2017-release Patch notes for August 2017 release] (August 16th):

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Players will now be disqualified from being rewarded for participation in Incursion sites if they have not dealt any damage or assisted other players through logistics.}}

==== Effect on the community ====

It used to be possible to ''"pad"'' a fleet with additional members to take advantage of the fact that incursion sites pay out the same amount to each pilot in the fleet up to a certain point. So adding more people to a undermanned fleet would still pay the existing fleet members the same and simply add even more ISK by having people ''"sponge"'' payouts. So if your fleet had room for 3 more people you could bring in newbies, alts or whatever to allow them to get some free ISK without having to do anything. This change made that a bit less efficient and any additional members of the fleet would now need to do something to help assist the fleet or deal some damage in order to continue ''"sponging"'' payments.

For the [[EVE University Incursion Community]] this was a minor issue. Sometimes we had the scout/hacker come in and get some extra ISK sometimes, but these roles are already being paid and it wasn't that often we were in a position to allow them to sponge anyway. So this changed little for us.

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 ==== Effect on the community ====
 Very little, as that particular site was the least favourite headquarter site to begin with.
+== August 2017 ==
+Changes were made to tighten up the requirements to get paid for a site, it's no longer enough to simply be in the fleet anymore; you have to actually participate in the site somehow.
+==== Patches ====
+From the [https://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/patch-notes-for-august-2017-release Patch notes for August 2017 release] (August 16th):
+{{quote|
+Players will now be disqualified from being rewarded for participation in Incursion sites if they have not dealt any damage or assisted other players through logistics.}}
+==== Effect on the community ====
+It used to be possible to ''"pad"'' a fleet with additional members to take advantage of the fact that incursion sites pay out the same amount to each pilot in the fleet up to a certain point. So adding more people to a undermanned fleet would still pay the existing fleet members the same and simply add even more ISK by having people ''"sponge"'' payouts. So if your fleet had room for 3 more people you could bring in newbies, alts or whatever to allow them to get some free ISK without having to do anything. This change made that a bit less efficient and any additional members of the fleet would now need to do something to help assist the fleet or deal some damage in order to continue ''"sponging"'' payments.
+For the [[EVE University Incursion Community]] this was a minor issue. Sometimes we had the scout/hacker come in and get some extra ISK sometimes, but these roles are already being paid and it wasn't that often we were in a position to allow them to sponge anyway. So this changed little for us.
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