EVE General Discussion

The armchair explorers on this forum are telling us we only actually ever needed level II. :)

personally I enjoy scanning.
i agree that the actual content of what you find needs enhancing though, and they do look to be addressing that as well here, but the method should stay largely the same.

Would be nice if there was more of a convenient system for the late night players like myself.

By the time I get online the only sites left are Wormholes.

Then downtime comes around and it's a mad rush to hit all the sites before someone else gets it.

However, this is solely because I'm located in hi-sec currently... I dunno.

nah, that legacy code's been in since Exodus.

Yes, the disparity of the exploration experience based on time of day is one of the current problems in the system. The issue is that as explorers gobble up all of the good radar and DED sites the wormholes and grav sites 'build up' over the course of the day. People logging on late in Eve's day end up getting the short end of the stick finding wormholes and grav sites everywhere.




Edit: I just saw this post. I was unaware of this change. It still seems to me that I have far greater luck near downtime than I ever have during 'prime time', but maybe that is just random being random after all.


One change I would like to see overhauled is the DSP and signature strengths. At the moment I believe it is far too easy for highly trained explorers to 'strip mine' high sec space for all the good sites.

In my opinion, this causes multiple issues.

- Risk vs reward is out of wack. There is no reason to move to more lucrative low sec and null sec exploration sites if it is safer and more efficient to 'strip mine' high sec space. Sure, each site may give you less money, but there are also no pirates to deal with and nothing you can scan down that a strategic cruiser can't easily handle.

- New players (new in game or new to exploration) get a bad taste for the profession by traveling system after system and only finding 'wormhole, wormhole, wormhole, grav site, wormhole' and having good sites literally taken right out from under their noses.

I would also like to see more site variety (more types maybe) and a mag and grav site revamp to make them more appealing.

Because that would then require them to make actual content for the game not just continually rehashing over stuff that doesn't need hashing,

Quite the contrary, I am a veteran Eve Online player who's played since Red Moon Rising and I -still- feel like a new player a lot of the time. The barrier of entry for a lot of things in game make it seem like they are impossible to accomplish.

Marketing and industry is a big one as you can only ever attain an edge in manufacturing if you literally have all skills at level 5 and have a POS somewhere in Hi-sec, which in turn costs hundreds of millions of ISK (not to mention the hi-sec keys in order to even have the thing in the first place). What it boils down to is that there is that you (personally) cannot attain an edge in the market simply because there is already someone who has that edge.

Unfortunately, there is some disparity in exploration sites as well and it's not just a disparity between new and old players - it's time zone as well. I get on usually between three and six hours before downtime (due to my job) and at that point there is absolutely NOTHING left to scan down. In the past week the only thing I've gotten was a Serpentis Hideaway which wound up being nothing but empty wrecks from another player.

So, yeah, I wouldn't mind a re-iteration to this system - new player content or not.

technically, you only need I.
to equip a probe launcher.

Yep, just like I told you in the previous thread. At least you seem to be learning something now. Or do you still think you know all there is to know about scanning? :)

listen all the discovery scanner will be is an enhanced scanner mod you use to launch probes when there are no probes...

its no new d-scan or new probe launcher its just a new scanner for mid level exploration...