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I wanna say something about this Archy mini game.

Author
Ling Gong Chen
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE
#1 - 2013-05-13 12:22:22 UTC
In the last few days I have been running around in the high sec searching for relic sites, so all those fact I am going to tell below are only about high sec.
At the beginning I was trying to figure out if there are any different in different faction sites but later I found out that the amount of containers are the same as long as the signal level are the same, and the containers' number are way more than before.
But this good news didn't give me too much joy after I found out the problems came with it. First, and the most important thing, is the virus is too weak to break through the game. My Archy skill is only level 2 and my virus HP is 15, and the analyzer is not ready for using yet so if I couldn't found the mainframe (MF) after breaking through 4 firewalls I may have to retry because the leaving virus HP is not enough to attack the MF. On the other hand, the MF status is different every time. So far I have seen two kinds of MF status, 9HP with 3 strength and 20HP with 6 strength. The status are random. I have saw 9/3 in the faction mining installation(the hardest one to probe in high sec) and 20/6 in excavation (the easiest one). The earlier one seems to be very easy but god knows why every last attack I tried to break it the mini game will frozen and not responding anymore. For the 20/6, without the analyzer the highest HP I would have is 18 when my archy skill is level 5 and the strength is still be 3 since there is no sill to enhance it. Even if I didn't meet any firewalls (which is impossible) and found the MF, my virus is still not capable to break it. Even if the analyzer is online, T1 analyzer will only provide 12HP and 2 strength enhancement, which makes my virus up to 30/5 status. This means I can break the MF as long as my virus still have 18 HP left when I find it, which is still too difficult. With the signal level decrease the numbers of firewalls increase in every container of the site. Once I was doing a mining installation I almost breakthrough 7 firewalls before I found the MF, and there were multiple times I failed because I have gunned down 6 or 7 firewalls and still no sight of MF.
Second thing is, there are many bugs in the mini game. I know the game is far from finish but I didn't expect this far. Besides from the frozen problem I mentioned above, some point in the circuit map can't be lighted up, and if you tried to attack it you will lose your virus HP. Some of this dark points will give you an assisting item and it will displays in the utility slot at below, but some are just empty and it sill cost your virus HP. As for these items, I am totally lost in them because I barely saw them actually working. So far I have saw 3 or 4 kinds of items, only one of them works, the virus shield. And it doesn't work everytime. Sometimes I did got a shield but my virus HP were still dropping. For the others, neither the MF guide nor the firewall reducer have work, not even once.
Yet these bugs could be solved and they will be no longer problems soon. What I hope is to set the analyzer online so I could see how it works. And please apply the mini to the data site so we can test it all together.