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Ok I will say that is a better idea a good analysis tool or something in the scanner that brings up the info would be better. I just hate the idea of giving out all the information with no effort.



Now as for other stuff that has been brought up. Yes make cans unscannable.

I hope you are aware that in highsec, it's the other way round, and relic sites are nearly worthless compared to data sites, at least in Gallente space. I know highsec exploration is hardly worth it at all, but still you probably don't want to unbalance this even further with regard to the new players.

wtf??


if smth cost 11 mil and u ad drop rate x2 so new value of drop will be more than 11 mil ?? wrong... stock will crash :P



yes u can increase drop frequency BUT then u need lower amount of Relic sites and data sites

CCP please remove excalations from anomalies.
Plexing no farm.

I actually run them in an Eagle, but same concept. The fact that you choose to run these sites in a 1B+ ship with very long range scramming rats in low/null for what amounts to far less than 100m/hr doesn't make these sites a balanced income source. It just makes you and me and everyone else running them gluttons for punishment. While 20m/site sounds right, you are not going to find sites back to back and a Marauder is not exactly a fast warping ship.

If you are in nullsec you might as well rat in a carrier or blinged-out Ishtar; put the same cost of ship at risk for AFK income that is better and more consistent across the board. For lowsec we could be blitzing L4 FW missions at a fraction of the cost or, since you are willing to put a Marauder on the line, doing DED escalations for what would likely work out to better income overall.

I'm not saying they aren't fun (after all, I am running them too), I'm just saying for the risk/time investment, the income is not on par with other activities. I can only assume most other people have drawn that same conclusion because, at least in low-sec, I routinely find three of four of these in a system untapped in areas with reasonable amounts of traffic.

EDIT: Also implicit in my assumption is the fact that since it requires extensive travel (unlike, say, nullsec carrier ratting), you are most likely going to have a second account/scout at least partially dedicated to providing cover. That means you have to account for the opportunity cost on that second account. Unless you are in the habit of jumping Marauders blind through low-sec gates; I dunno maybe you are :)

Wrong way.
Why? Eve Chronicles contradict this innovation.
Who live in WH? Sleepers (really, its true) and players. Any time we see a ghost sites.
What will? WH-players can make all T1/T2 rigs, fractional POS modules, AAR, ASB, LMJD, MMJD, TB in W-space not flying to HS.
Newbies? All newbies die in W-Space. Sooner or later. Small part of new players goes to W-Space for relic and data farming.
Old players? Ambush relicrunners (no guns, small defence, no local, no informaton) in WH.
Scanners? More work. More signatures -> more work. It no funny.

CCP RedDawn?

These look like great changes.

My only feedback would be to add these little things:

1) An indication an Anomaly/Signature has been complete even if it doesn't lead anywhere. At the minute, if you complete an anomaly and it doesn't escalate, the only way to know it's complete is to see it disappear from the discovery scanner window.

2) The ability to "Sell" or transfer an expedition via the contract system. This way when running anoms, if the person awarded the anom has to leave, the fleet doesn't loose the expedition.

3) Moar sites. They're all a bit samey after a while. They also don't really promote team play as they're mostly (1/10 to 7/10) easily solo-able.

Not sure if it has been mentiond but with the escalation part of these sites where does that sit in wh space ?

Will it be in same system or are you give my out free bookmarks to some one else wh home to run the site in there ?

Or is the escalation in k-space?

Either of the above will be broken as in :-

Getting out of original wh and then back into the new wh means a possible hike from one end of Eve to the other and if it it a populated wh ure dead period,

If escalation is in same system that's way to easy

Best thing to do is make new data relic sites for wh space to incorporate the fact traveling for escolar ion is almost impossible so a general increase for wh space is nothing, people would more than likely run first part but unable to complete the escolation.


On a slightly diffrent note all these changes to wh space c5,6 unaffected c1,2,3 slight increase if any with relic data sites,
What's happaning to c4 Space ?? It's now almost non efficient to run solo if at all and I mean solo 1 account U now need 2-3 but no increase in loot for sites.

I rarely post outside of F&I, but I felt extremely compelled to say that telling the player which structure to shoot feels like the sort of dumbing-down that even CCP can't magic-handwave away as "optimization" or "streamlining".

You're flat-out telling them what they need to do to proceed. Stop that. If the player can't be bothered to stop drooling on themselves long enough to investigate beyond simply "kill everything that moves because pretty explosions", then do they really deserve that escalation? Or has CCP decided "everyone should be able to have access to everything, no matter what, and having to think or investigate is for other games"?

TL;DR -
For the love of all things, scale back your "shoot this structure to get bacon" into a hint "there may be bacon here, but you'll have to look for it." This is EVE, not preschool.

I kind of agree that these "Ample" infomation blocks, although quite "Compact" on the screen give extremely clear and "Scoped" objectives. Perhaps you could be a little more "Restrained" in your infomation giving to prevent any further dumbing down and the bitter vets might be a little more "Enduring" with you.

I'd also like to see the sites objective become a little more complex. Instead of just shooting a structure why aren't we hacking it to retreive the data. This might help give the game a little more dpeth.

Also, the mechanics of the "Expedition" system are a little dull. The expeditions tend to all be a "Step 1: go here, shoot a couple of rats. Then Step 2: Go here, shoot a couple of rats. Then Step 3: Go here and shoot a couple of rats. and this continues till you get to the end. You basically go on a little ride around a region of space doing very little of interest until you maybe get to the end and then possibly get phat loot.

I think this system could be broadened a little. I mean, why not "go undercover" or something. Say site one there was a hauler of some sort. you blow it up and it drops all of its cargo and a message saying where it was going to deliver it to. You could either keep the cargo (which would be quite valuable due to high volume of it) or take the cargo in a hauler yourself to the "drop off" and get to the next expedition point that way.


The whole thing really could use some fleshing out.


How about this:

Release your PvE content design tools and let the community design some missions and anomalies and expeditions and all that stuff for you. Then you simply test it and if it works/isn't broken to simply be an isk faucet, release that player made PvE content. This way you get stacks of new PvE content made for you!!