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Great, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HACKING MINI GAME?

CCP Bayesian and Team Prototyping Rocks, why not listed and no feed back thread for his/her dev blog

Any way at present the spew containers spew what is low value rubbish npc goods, the nice stuff is obtained just by opening the hacking site and taking (no loot button) no other action required, is this going to change, will access to loot only be obtained on successful completion of the module activated mini game, or will the the real goodies be spewed.

Please make background transparent for the sake of immersion and for hostiles, just ran a site in incursion system, incursion started while i was in site, playing game suddenly notice no shields and 50% armour, as is its a death trap.

I have the problem, that i have a massive drop in Framerate, when getting to the new relic sites where the old shipwreck is floating in space. Frames drop from around 60 fps to around 10 fps. The reason seems to be the little pieces of debris floating around the wreck.

It's worse than both those- we didn't lose any mechanics, we didn't lose any ways that provide people with an entire array of reasons to venture into dangerous space, it's worse because we are losing everything and getting it replaced with junk. Exploration exists- if it's old and known that's fine- I'm not bored with it! I go into null in a stealthed interdicted proteus and farm mag sites in enemy territory (admittedly, when those zones are at low ebb) but now? Now it looks like there wont be a reason to fit a t3 for exploration- they might as well drop the emergent scanning subsystem because you can't even grab loot with a cruiser.

When I heard the new expan was about exploration, I was stoked. I imagined a whole plethora of new sites, maybe old ones redone- but I never expected them to attack the value of doing the sites- making them unimaginably harder in a way that cant be compensated for by fitting or ship type- I wont be able to make money doing these out in null as the system stands and turn a profit, that much is clear.

When the name of the expan landed in my lap: odyssey, I expected galaxy-spanning escalations where the game wasn't killing ships but having to follow signals through a wide array of systems made hostile by the sheer variety of alliances in null. I imagined finding a site in a .7sec system that took me into lowsec then took me into goonswarm, then test, then back into highsec and in the end rewarded me with a deadspace module. The imagination boggles at the opportunities ccp could have to make the game fun in the best ways- timers could have made warp speeds important- new effects in system could cancel cloaking- giving the guy following the huge escalation something to deal with while also answering some of the complaints about cloaking while still leaving cloaking whole.

But no- Instead we have a mini game which is less fun and less intuitive than solitaire (which I've played beside eve many times) and not even as hair-raising as a game of minesweeper- which I expected when I saw it showed-off. Instead of adding new, easy to implement exploration chains, they change a fundamental mechanic, only for explorers, that is supposed to "make us want to group up." If people aren't grouping up for anything these days but pvp maybe there is a good reason- grouping should be willingly, not enforced, and certainly not enforced in such a hamfisted way.

EDIT: A bit of grim humor: Now when I think of odyssey I'm thinking (sadly) of the odyssey I'm going to be taking from eve, maybe when I return they will have added something new and not cannibalized something I enjoyed that really made the game worth playing.

You could have done a really better job improving exploration and the ui. Why don't delay the expansion for to July and rethink some ideas?

Spin around the camera to seek signatures is stupid, and without sense in a spaceship. And you wrote in another post that your aim is to remove the list on the scanner. This is even worse

The probbing system is not as good as the current one even if i have to admit that there have been improvements in this
week.

The haking site are the worst thing, the mini-game is a bit ********, and getting the can back is annoying and tiring for the eyes. Really with the amount of light that usually go with those radar sites watching dozens of cans changing color from green to yellow and white made me stop doing it after the first site.

I'm sorry but i really think that the design of this expansion is badly done, and most of the complaints will come out after 4 june, because this expansion looks cool but it stumles when you try it. And most of people don't bother try sisi.

You should make this game deeper, cause it's its depth that keeps people playing. Flatten it, and yes you are making it more and more flat, wil hurt us players and will hurt you

I just started playing with the personal hangars and noticed something a bit odd.

The corporate hangars have 1.4 million cubic meters of space while the personal hangars have 50 thousand cubic meters. The personal hangar array has 28 times less space than the corporate one...so shouldn't the CPU and Powergrid usage reflect that (as well as volume)? Presently they both use up 150 CPU and 100,000 Powergrid.

Edit: and maybe a smaller model too.

Question:

Will the art for data/relics be the same for all sites? That is, will the same derelict ship model appear for all relic containers regardless of whether or not it's a Pristine Serpentis Battle Remnants or a Crumbling Angel Antiquated Outpost?

While I understand that there are so many variations of relic/data sites that it would be unfeasible not to have repeating assets and some dumbdicks still insist that Eve's art is superfluous to the spreadsheet I still think that'd be pretty lame.

new launcher equals the suck...

Again, why the need to change it to where client log-in happened before you were 'in' the client? what was wrong with the old system....besides the fact the only time most ppl used your shiney new launcher was for patches b/c everyone told it to 'close after startup'?

Forcing it on us won't make us like it any better. As you keep saying, just because something is there, and there is a worthy goal at the end of doing it, we (eve players) will still do it regardless of how painful it is....so why make it more painful?

Moving the Undock button to the Station Services tab makes life harder for multiboxers who want to undock with less looking around for where they put it. Would love the option to keep it on the left tab.

How does any of this degrade solo play? Sorry if I missed a previous comment which stated this a little more clearly...?

Also, the new scanner looks cool, but it is quite useless. I still have to D-scan to see ships, I still have to system scan with probes to detect hidden plex's/Whs/etc. All this really changes is that you don't actually have to open up and run the scanner to detect open anoms which I have to pan around the screen for now (worse).

I think a lot of people are missing most of the "odyssey" part of Odyssey, myself included. Some of the stuff like pod death and jump stuff = totally awesome! And ship line (training) changes = awesome. The rest? I just don't get it and nothing has changed to make me 'want' to.

Since I can not find a better place to post this;
The Big Flashing Hull warning that does not shut up, and can not be turned off is really not cool.

The overall effect when I am loosing a fight is good, Shield, Armor then Hull warning, followed by the transition to my Pod, but when I am at
99% Hull,
100% Armor , and it is still filling up my screen , and being annoying ... the effect is becomes one of an annoying feature, not a good one.

The Logic that activates the Warning needs to be aware of the other two layers of protection, Ie. only trigger if incoming damage will further reduce my Hull.
Maybe clear the warning if armor goes back above 25% ?