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Have to agree with this concern. Increased frustration and the feeling that you are being set up as a clay pigeon is not an enjoyable experience. Sure a bit of a rush, "getting away with it" but that' a rather niche group that will stick with that kind of experience.

Furthermore, adding the need for tractor beams on an exploration ship further increases the difference between a PVE ship and a PVP/Ganker ship. This isn't encouraging PvP really, just gank targets.

I'd like to see a move toward less of a difference between PVE and PVP fits. That way when someone comes after your exploration ship, you can actually defend yourself. Can gateway individuals into PVP perhaps even. Making it not cost effective to prepare a defense locks people into the carebear pigeonhole.

GF?

Yes ! Paradroid had the best hacking game EVAARRRR

I pointed CCP Affinity to it during fanfest and sent her the link; exactly this video incidentally. She said they'll look at it for inspiration.

Will the "can chasing" require manual piloting of your ship in order to be effective?

If so, it's literally the only place in the game where manual piloting is necessary. A lot of newer players don't even know it's possible.

The manual piloting interface in EVE is clunky and annoying even now--the one-second tick speed of the server certainly doesn't help that. EVE has never been a twitch-based game--that's one of the wonderful things about EVE.

Don't spoil it by trying to shoehorn twitch-based gameplay into a game that's fantastic without it. If I wanted to manually fly a ship, I'd play something else.

So if there are no rats at these sites, could we now actually use a covops frig for exploration in null/low sec? After all you can't fit a tank in the mid slots if you need hacking and scanning mods?

Also, it is fundamentally wrong to have separate teams working on separate items without an over arching plan. Who is in charge of ensuring all the "features" in Odyssey are integrated? I suspect that person might need a course on project management.

for reals player expand on this consept if you mine an assteroid and you fail no ore or if you run a mission and dont do it exsactly right you loose yoru ship ..or if you trade and your late you loose ...you guys are brilliant but you shouldnt be able to sell or trade or get reward from a mission without solveing a puzzle that no doubt 18 yeaolds with alot of xbox time can do ...wonder what the average age is here

Off-Topic Hacking Proposal
All this talk of hacking got me thinking about what hacking is used for in real life; the retrieval of otherwise inaccessible data. The Odyssey changes to exploration will be adding a new interactive hacking to the game and but still only rewarding pod pilots with physical loot.
Why can’t digital espionage have a role in pvp?
Since information is such an asset in EVE why is there no way (other then spying) to fight over intelligence?

Allow small gangs to infiltrate an area and secure information about systems or constellations by hacking specific structures. Once the structure is secured a pilot can then hack the structure. This information could give the “hackers” real-time information about the current location of ships within a constellation, perhaps requiring them to hack several structures or a single constellation centralised structure.
A hacked structure could give real time information over a period of time (unless it is hacked by another individual) or give a snap shot of the current status requiring the pilot to remain close in order to keep getting these snap shots (more vulnerable).

Entities hoping to keep this information for themselves could guard these structures with covert groups attempting to disengage this structure before showing their hand.
The intelligence should be real-time to allow the players to use the hacking actions to their benefit and give them objective that give them a real advantage.

This hacking could go as far as to disable certain alliance structures and give benefit to raiders if they hold onto them (passive income?).

What ever you do, don't pick up the Duck, I think I'm ready for this :)

Related to the above, but not quite. Some people have already asked info for this, but I don't think we have received an answer: What will hacking and archaelogy skills do? They cannot give us faster cycle time anymore, since it won't matter. Also, what is the difference between T1/T2 Codebreaker/Analyzer or T1/T2 WhateverTheNewModulesWillBeCalled?

I expect you have an answer to that, since it is only two weeks and couple of days until official Odyssey date. If you don't... *doesn't want to think about it*

Also, those virus we are supposed to use: Where do we get them from? Or don't we need them at the beginning?

Edit: Apparently plural form of 'virus' is 'viruses' in english, not 'virii'. My mistake. :)
Edit2: Typo fix (You => I)

The virus is the module itself, the stats used in the hacking attempts come from the modules. Ship bonuses and skill bonuses translate into buffs for the module stats.

I'll poke people to talk about Ladar sites.

Thank you for the answer. So you had thought about it, just as I expected (even though I feared otherwise).

PS: Typo fixed from my quoted text. (You=>I)