Missions & Complexes

Yesterday I found an Angel Cartel Research Facility in null. I proceed to hack it in my Buzzard, knowing the risks of being blown up if failing the hacking, and I was blown up indeed but was strange.

I hacked succesfully the difficult one (meh loot), then one of the easy ones (no loot, yay), and then another one. I started hacking and BOOM.

I didn´t failed the hacking, I had my coherence at full and I even if I activated accidentally a firewall/antivirus/whatever there is no way to deplete a full coherence bar in just one spot.

It wasn´t the rats, they appeared like 10 seconds after the explosion.

It wasn´t a player; I was alone in local at everytime...

Fortunatley enough I could go back for looting the wreck and I recovered the cost of the ship, but it was very annoying not knowing what has happened... someone has a clue of what could be? The cans may explode on a timer even if the pirates have not appeared yet? There is some kind of BOOM button exclusive to ghost sites hacking?

You can check in log file if enabled in setting

the cans seem to pop before the rats show up. the explosion from the can will pop you.

edit: cans pop based on a timer, don't know what the timer is anymore because I don't run those sites.

the timer never stops, if u just warp in to the site then leave, the site despawns when the timer is out regardles if someone is there

When Ghost sites were introduced to the game, CCP said that a timer will activate when any capsuleer ship lands on grid, even without attempting a hack. The timer is random ranging from 5 minutes up to 20 minutes.

The actual scenario for the sites was that a few 'Ghost' NPC's (They don't show up on overview hence the 'Ghost' term, they have to be added manually) will warp in, web and scram the capsuleer thus enabling full force of the can explosion to hit their ship. The explosion has an AOE (Area Of Effect) range, so if you're in-between the cans, the amount of damage received is greatly reduced. The 'Ghost' NPC's will also shoot at the capsuleer and then warp out after a minute or two.

Course as usual that new content was plagued by some bugs which were supposedly fixed. However since it is CCP we're talking about, that content may still be a little bit buggy.

Anyway, at least you were able to go back and collect your loot due to local being empty. Hope you have better luck next time



DMC

but u dont need the relic/data analyzer on to hack, i allways turn it of 1s after i started it to save time and dont have to wait for the cycle time to end if i fail the first hack,
obvious i only do that in normal relics/data so maybe diffrent in ghostsite?, im going to test it someday in a ship that dont insta pop when i fail :-)

No they're not. It's cans exploding based on a timer when you land on grid in ghost site. Normally you should be able to do 2 cans after that site will explode and rats will appear and shoot you too. Usually there's decent loot in only 1 can anyway

This is correct.

In my experience its better to just hack the 1 can that has the best loot if ur in a frig. That way you walk away with ur ship and the goods without any unnecesary risk.

The timer doesn't start until someone 'uncloaks' on grid.

If you use a tanked stratios you can stay on grid until the rats leave, finish repairing armor damage and then warp off.