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Nice. +1 for this.


Won't matter that much, because a lot of people will still skip the lowsec part of the escalation.


That's a bummer. And i don't get the explanation to be honest.
"We're going to keep the inconsistency, because people are used to it." ?


FINALLY. +1

Any chance to be able get "Warp to at range" by right-clicking the Journal entry (bookmark?) of the expedition?

Nice, thank you.

But actualy I was reffering to the escalations from anomalies, like refuge, den, hideaway. These escalate into rated DEDs. Do you tamper with these also ? Like increasing the chance of getting them ?

PS. Oh and please don't forget to also increase the completion timer of the Serpentis and Angel 6/10 expeditions (Angel Mineral Acquisition Outpost - Part 2 and Serpentis Logistical Outpost part2 ) .Sometimes It's a pain that i have only 1 day to finish it up, because I am not allways prepared to go to null sec to complete it.

During the changes to the system jumps required to continue expeditions, we've also removed the code that forced expeditions to occur in lower sec systems than you received them in.
Thus, expeditions will check all systems within it's radius.

Edit: Upping the completion timer is something on our backlog but will not be released with Phoebe.
(Initial design is to increase it to 48 hours)

That's really great news! Thanks for that!


As a part of this, it would be nice, if we had an option to hide/delete specific escalations from the journal list, to prevent the list from getting overstuffed. Would be great, if you could think about that.

Why 48hours? Does increasing the timer more cause problems? You clearly feel 24 hours isn't a high enough value. Did you come up with compelling reasons not to increase it to the level every other PVE content has or did you not have any actual design behind the number chosen and you just chose a slightly longer timer at random because we kept asking for an extension? The choice just seems inconsistent without a reason from a player perspective, so I'd be interested in knowing why CCP sees it at the sweet spot for this particular content.

I Do not want to sound whiny or discontent, I just wonder - IS IT REALLY THAT HARD? I mean, most of these small issues like changing escalation timers, drop rates, escalation range etc etc.. For many players these small things are important and make a big bunch of difference than it comes to the moment of decision of whether to stay in this game or not. Can you explain to me, and US the players, what is the problem with fixing all these things at a faster rate? For what I know (and I may be wrong) these changes require minor editing in the code. Possibly, one sole person might be able to do most of it in one day.

I just do not want to wait for few more patches for these simple issues to be solved, I want em solved, I want em solved fast, so you could work on some NEW content (like MORDU sites) for us and the game. Exploration always requires new content like new kinds of sites. Mission runners, for instance are getting burners.

Special question for DRONE SITES, can we know if they gonna be fixed in any way? Done a big bunch of em, full escalations, all escalations actually. And none of em gave to me over 150mills of profit. These sites are senseless, no point of wasting time on em if you know that in BEST CASE SCENARIO you are getting 150-200mill for over 2 hours of running em.

I run quite alot of relic sites. I am quite exited about the data site boost but even more so about the new type of sites that was hinted at EVE Vegas keynote. When can we expect a devblog on theese so I can get even more exited?

And what exactly was the exploit?

Having the expedition timer reset when the player warped to the site in my opinion wasn't the exploit. I believe that game mechanic could only be done for 7 days, after which the timer wouldn't reset.

The actual exploit is the Overseer / Commander NPC's could be scanned which gave players the ability to view the contents of possible loot drop. If the loot drop wasn't favorable they would just simply go back the next day and rescan the Overseer / Commander again until they viewed good loot.

Most explorers I know didn't do that since it required them to spend more time in a lower security sector of space, thus missing the opportunity to gain more expeditions.

The ability to view the contents is still an issue which is also a major problem with containers at Data and Relic sites.

Players scan the contents, bypass low level loot and only access those containing high level loot. Due to the despawn mechanic associated with those sites being changed, players now find half completed sites filled with low level loot.


TL,DR :

Allow 24 hr expedition timer to be reset upon warping to site for 7 days.
Remove ability to scan contents of Relic / Data Containers and Overseer / Commander NPC's..
Enable Relic / Data sites to automatically despawn when player leaves after interacting with the site.



DMC

"If you build it, they will come".

Currently there's not much market for those because the price of components outweighs the value of the end result. it's why I kept most of my COSMOS BPCs untouched.
my hisec char stopped doing COSMOS missions because the BPCs were unusable. With faction components added to data sites, the price for built storyline items would drop to expected levels.



Or you could use this nice EVE in-game accessory called Notes?
Not the right answer, I know, but a workaround.



...until you read them for the 253rd time.



Yes but no.
Currently the loot table is completely screwed, some high difficulty can are literally empty while lower difficulty ones might give 90% of all loot value in a site. Unscannable cans would have to respect the rule of "harder means better". if not, then they should be scannable.

"What if each scan counted as a failed access attempt?"
I like this. Makes sense and fits well within the game mechanics. However, repeating scans should not change the count:
"Scan once or more would make the can only accept one hack attempt"