That's special, I replaced axle, bearings and collars and it got worse. I take apart the ratchet all the damn time and triflow it, still skips. How do you explain all the no name Taiwan hubs I've had that ran perfectly without a teardown for a year plus. First hub I ever had that skipped was an odyssey v2 coincidently.
And like dude said above, I shouldn't have to do shit to them, I paid full price on release of the ratchet and empire laced it, should I have to pay more for it to work? Also, who wants to run a floppy donkey dick loose spoked wheel. Shadow Conspiracy wheels don't even do that shit.
And really, I know how to work on my damn bike