EVE General Discussion

All of my T2 salvage has come from "Parts" and "Materials" containers. I have yet to see anything worthwhile in an "equipment" container (which doesn't mean there is nothing worthwhile in them - I've only done 4-5 relics).

Now this is a very interesting post, thank you.

Why am I getting the impression that the moving of the undock button and the loot spew have mananged to screw up a few bots?

You're welcome.

I'll do some more 'sploring just to make sure. Although, Korotani's link may be more accurate.

Edit - Equipment and Scraps are entirely useless until they add more items.

Edit 2 - I was certain I got a data core from a data can but according to Neural Boost they're in parts cans, time to investigate. :)

Ah, let me give my word on this.
So I live in low-sec, got me a Cheetah to do some exploration and I went off into some quiet systems. I kept doing it for say 3 hours more or less and have currently sold 160mill of loot and I'm waiting on another 100mill profit I'll make from producing the items from all the bpc's.
If you ask me it is quite profitable. Furthermore here's a nice tip. Use a cargo scanner on the structure! It'll give you a nice view on the content and then you can decide what containers you want to tractor in first. For example you see all those tasty bpc's then you'll simply grab all the data containers you can. It isn't that hard. I bet it's even easier when having a buddy next to you.

Also get out of high-sec for exploration! Low and null-sec are safe enough.

Personally I think the minigame part is a nice improvement and also very in line with "decisions=consequences" translating (I hope) for a more or less loot value depending on players choices when hacking. But what it guts me really hard is the click fest after this, it really sounds awful when you talk about but when you practice it's even worst, this is the part that really got me mad and ready to throw the mouse out of the window: too much clicks kill the click, that's how I feel about it.

Out of interest (I've not done much exploration and certainly none of the post-Oddysey type), how do you determine which containers are likely to contain better loot? Do they look different/have a different coloured bracket?

Yeah, after a few sites I found out which cans I should prioritize. Since I operate in lowsec for the most part I simply asked one of the guys to grab some loot. Better for someone in my corp to benefit then no-one at all right? The total amount of ISK we pooled up was better then what I'd make solo, time spent on the actual site is long enough to generate some fights. I thought I was going to hate this new system, but it's growing on me the more I make use of it. People are quick to dismiss and give up I guess.

Okay, I'm not really questioning the profits to be made, I just don't like how you get those profits into your ship after you are done hacking.



And upon thinking further, for an exploration expansion, CCP really dropped the ball.

1. Where are all the hacking specific skills and mods? You know, stronger viruses, better attack/defense vs defensive nodes, a skill or mod that increases your virus strength every turn.
2. Where's defensive systems that let everyone know where the node is and that you are hacking it (more for low and null if you failed to hack it or are taking too long)? A failed hack would be a great reason to spawn a few NPCs to put the hurt on the player.
3. Where are skills, ships, or mods that allow you to tracker in more than one container at a time?
4. Where are hacking drones that will hack for you or loot drones that'll take your loot to your hold for you automatically.
5. Why couldn't have CCP redesigned the imicus? That thing is ugly as heck and I'd like to look at a more attractive ship.
6. The Genosis is a big hit, why can't every faction (or ORE) put up a version of it?
7. Why didn't they add more things to do for exploration? Why can't we have new combat sites or ships sending distress calls that you need to rescue or give us a mission from a local corp that pops up when we warp to the area? Why can't we find a site of a recent battle where we can just salvage and loot?


They could have done any of those things to make exploration cool and instead they make loot spew, loot bukkake, loot diarrhea, or whatever you call it.

This type of screen interaction would be nice for combat. But for picking up loot? Not so much.