Missions & Complexes

COSMOS rewards priority goes like this:

1.) faction standing

2.) modules, mats, bounties, whatnot

Please refrain from creating posts that stretch the page out. Thank you. -ISD Dorrim Barstorlode

Boo! -Ifly Uwalk

Ah ok , I didn't know the spawn time was so short there. I've not run these COSMOS plexes, as they are a lot more risky than the easy DED1-4.

Aye, it was a less preferred option, but at least it fixes the problems with camping. Thanks DEVS!

If they are now part of exploration, then they should also de-spawn when completed and re-spawn somewhere else just like the rest of the exploration sites.

One can only hope.

DMC

Just wanted to point out, that while this is a great fix for the sites in high-sec, it is a terrible blow to low sec. The 1/10 and 2/10 DED sites are hotspots for PVPers because of the site restrictions to frigates. You can warp to one and be offered a fight with another frigate pvper very soon after arriving. The very fact that they are static draws people to these areas and keeps healthy populations of players in said areas.

At the risk of sounding crass, this is another example of the greedy and fat high-sec carebears abusing mechanics to the detriment of a large part of the playerbase. As said I have no problems with you removing high-secstatics as there is no risk to someone camping them, but for the rest of us these sites are a PVP playground. You can't generally camp one for long without being challenged by someone else for it. And 9 times out of 10 this is exactly why one would spend time hanging around these sites. That is to draw fights, while the drops provide a nice bonus.

Don't buff frigates, only to nerf the places frigates go to PVP. That is all.

You're wrong, having the sites added to the exploration mechanic doesn't benefit greedy, fat high sec carebears. However, good point about the ship class restriction on the Plex to make sure only Frigates are allowed access for PvP action. Maybe CCP could just keep the 1/10's static, since those are labeled as beginner mode anyway.

Course since you're talking about being in low sec wanting to do PvP, seems what you're really saying is you don't want to have your security blanket taken away leaving you vulnerable to attack from all types of ship class. Also it seems you still want to farm up the valuable loot while sitting in a semi secure area.

DMC

Now that Retribution is out... Has anyone's opinion changed regarding this subject (i.e. removing static DED 1 / 2 rooms)?

I see that DED 1 and 2 static sites are gone, and can only be found by scanning. I just spent 2 hours scanning the systems that had them before and only found one of the old ones (excluding the other typical DED0 spots that yield zero value), and it was already done. Felt like a huge time waster to me. I don't run these often, but sometimes it's fun to just know where I can go for a quick little pve even if I can't get a keyholder to get to the last room for the named drop.

Also, since these gates only let small frigs or whatnot in, I'm having trouble fitting them to do the scanning as well. I've been scanning with one ship, then changing it to be able to jump in... At which point I find out the room is done already... :( I usually use a small frig, but now to fly with only 4 highs - I'm using Savager, tractor, scanner, ... and one gun?... Maybe I'm looking at my problem wrong - should I use a different ship now to save having to switch out what I liked to fly?

Hope that doesn't sound like a rant , just looking for advice I guess to better adapt to the change.

Thanks!

Yes they are well actually they are Strategic Cruisers which have better stats/bonuses than battlecruisers and standard cruisers. It would therefore make sense to prevent them doing 3/10's as if battllecruisers are considered overpowered for 3/10's and thus prevented from entering these plexes then surely Strategic Cruisers must also be considered overpowered.