Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Data sites in the known universe are in a word, worthless. No one i know runs them because the work to reward ratio is off compared to other tasks...especially relic sites.

Data sites often have 2 -5 times less value in loot than relic sites in the same area. They almost never contain blueprints and when they do they are mostly useless copies of t1 modules that you could obtain in empire. On the other hand the relics sites pay out a decent risk and work to reward ratio. And they drop t2 rig BPC and faction BPCs( though i have only gotten POS module faction BPCs from them thus far.)


The obvious easy answer is to increase the loot table so it drops more loot. However this will just devalue the loot even further in the long run and in 6-12 months we will be in the same place we are now. So to fix this without adversely affecting the market how about we do this:

Since data sites are suppose to be data centers for the faction...

* Data sites will have a chance to drop BPCs of t2 modules , t2 and faction ammo. About 10%-20% of sites will contain a BPC of some type.

* Data sites have the chance to escalate ( about 10%). These escalations would be as follows:
- All existing combat site escalations for that faction including a couple new escalations per faction
- escalations for other pirate factions ( as if they were attempting to set up operations in the current factions space)
- Gas sites, Special(( small) ice belts that contain most/ all ices. Asteroid belts that contain only a few types of high end asteroids.
- Hidden data sites( escalating into another more rare data site)
- Hidden caches of the faction( guarded and unguarded versions single pocket) that contain a variety of goods ranging from t2 modules, faction modules, dead space modules, BPC of t2 modules, ammo, ships. BPC of faction and deadspace modules and ships.
- Drug labs

If you get an escalation your chances of getting a type of escalation would as follows:

- Faction combat site escalation(10%)
- Opposing faction combat site escalation (5%)
- Gas Cloud( 10%)
- High end Ice belt (15%)
- High end asteroid belt (15%)
- Hidden data site escalation( which has better loot and a better chance of escalation)(15%)
- Hidden non Combat cache( but has less valuable loot) (15%)
- Hidden Guarded cache( single pocket /single spawn. Spawn may be small or large) (5%)
- Drug Lab (10%)

I am not sure if you can call the done measures an improvement. They added things to the data sites that apparently no one needs. I mean, what are Angel Standard Trigger Mechanisms used for? Correct, Cosmos guns that no one uses because they are useless. So ... yeah, sounds interesting what you suggest.

Then camp them. I've done extensive camping of data and relic sites in Syndicate and Curse and got a nice amount of covert ops killed. You cannot say "More PVP" without creating it. And before you even think about it: No, Data sites should not become anomalies. That would be the most horrible thing imaginable to do to them.

Cosmos guns are not useless, especially not the cosmos items that have been through tiericide.
No-one uses cosmos stuff because it used to come from single shot only missions, and was vastly too expensive because the only way to get the components was also from single shot missions.
Now both BPC's and components are dropping in loot lists, this will slowly change.

P.S. Thorian That will have been a Ghost site or something very like them. They come up as data sites but are a different class of site really.