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Ladars will mostly be unchanged. They will still include gas sites and booster themed combat and hacking sites. They will still need to be scanned down with probes.
The only difference is that the new hacking and loot mechanics will be used for the hacking containers.

My mistake in that case. Thanks for politely slapping my wrist. I deserved that. I have to add though, that I would have liked little more info than what has been given, but since devil is in the detail, I let the devil slumber little longer. Hopefully the details will be ready at 4th of June.

Keep improving on the good work CCP!

So this idea just fell into my head, I'd originally made a wall of text but decided against it, here is the TL:DR;

- Multiple Script slots in the code breaker module to tweak performance in different areas.
- Scripts alter specific stats of your codebreaker
- Mini game features different amounts of different obstacles depending on NPC faction.

I hoped for effects along the line of:

- Players tune their codebreakers to their target faction
- Maybe Scripts can be made in an invention like fashion based on decryptor loot?
- Players design the minigame layout on their own hackable structures, meaning an enemy hacker might need a diverse kitbag of scripts?

Bleh, and here was I hoping for Indiana Jones 'in space' with a prince of persia style puzzle mini-game would be the logical next step for our new avatars and Archeology...

Ho hum. Hacking looks worth a try now though - cheers.

This is basically what I'd like to see if Utilities made it to the Market. You can fit your Hacking modules in advance and create them. There are lots of scope for passive boosts.

The last part in particular is a reach but would also be very cool.

Couple of thoughts. I'm all for making hacking/arch more multi-player friendly. My issues are that scanning really isn't. There's no good way to share information with your fleet or corp. Bookmarks make a poor usage since these things disappear after a short period of time. Additionally multiple people scanning a single system is annoying since you end up covering the same ground and if you do different systems then you often end up multiple systems apart and someone ends up having to warp around for what may end up being a poor payout or an already in-progress site.

Please find some ways for scanning to be more multi-player friendly. I think ultimately much of the reason that exploration before was a niche activity was that the tools were so unaligned with the activities and the scenarios.

• Scanning Frigs -- low combat facilities, but exploration requires combat [FIXED]
• Scanning -- solo activity where more people in the same system doesn't help [NEEDS FIXING]
• Scanning -- hacking/arch requires multiple people to be most effective, but scanning is still solo [NEEDS FIXING]
• Hacking/Arch -- requires multiple people to be most effective, but doesn't allow multiple people to participate except at the end leaving one person twiddling thumbs [NEEDS FIXING]

Exploration should naturally send you places you don't normally go. If you're in hi-sec you should just wander around until you find yourself 15 jumps from home because you kept searching. If I have to go back and get my ship it sucks because I feel tethered to my home base. You've mostly fixed that thankfully.

I think exploration will be most successful when the mechanics of it are married with the thematic of wanderlust. I think thematically it will be worst if you just end up making the same circuit twenty times around your home base.

And lastly my biggest issue with exploration as it stands now as a hi-sec profession is that it simply takes too long to find anything even if it's not rewarding. I scan down many times more combat, wormhole and empty ladar sites than I do radar or magnetometric. When I'm in my cov ops looking for exploration sites, even in 0.5, it's rare to find anything worth while which leads to a lot of frustration. You have this new interesting shiny. Please make is so that it doesn't take 3 hours of searching to find a single site worth doing.

p.s. a couple of suggestions:

If they aren't already put combat, gravametric, ladar, and radar/arch sites all on different spawn timers. I shouldn't have to do combat sites in order to replenish the radar/arch sites in the area.

Secondly, consider putting some level of control over the amount of time the cans stick around in space in the player's hands based on something they can control. E.g. if the length of time they stick around were tied to the remaining health of your virus, that might place some conflict between searching for utilities and finishing up the site with the most hit points available,

Multiple scanners working the same system is an everyday thing in wormhole corps. Splitting the sigs can be done either by signature, or location.



I always just wander around when I explore, and escalations literally cause you naturally to wander, by sending you to other systems. Many people go on exploration trips to remote areas, and come "home" only after long time. Home is where your pod is!



Leave the busy hisec then :) it's not uncommon to find several profession sites in every system of a lowsec constellation. They are also more valuable.

Did you know that others solo sensibly exploration sites every day, while you whine?

The new mini game will take longer and thus will keep the explorer ship exposed for longer.

As i said, "sensible" and "soloable" are not a part of EVE gameplay design.