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Difficulty of rats doesn't stop multi-boxing, though. That's the shame of it. In fact, it's not even that much harder. Managing a logi alt and two combat toons in a PVE encounter is pretty simple and easy to do. Mission and complex runners have proven that before. Hell, I've seen one player incursions before.

And of course, we may see rats entering with failed hacks and whatnot in the future on these sites, so multiple hands on deck could be more important than just grabbing the loot with.

Its a novel idea: Being able to use a covops frig at a professional site without getting killed by rats. Killed by players? Sure but not rats.

I watched the fanfest videos. I remember CCP whatshisface say that it did not make sense that rats you be hanging around sites that are 1000s of years old. I agree. Finally I can use a ship dedicated to scanning, whether it be scouting/hunting/exploring, and not have to bring a separate vessel to run the site!

But wait! Now rats might spawn? Oh well, CCP has fooled us before!

However the idea of allowing SKILLED players to successfully hack a site AND prevent a spawn, well bring on the suspense! After all said covops pilot will have to watch D scan, enjoy a pointless click fest mini "game" and collect worthless loot all at the same time! Let the good times roll!

Shameless plug: I am selling this exploration character in the character bizarre if anyone is interested.

This change should only apply to known space and not WH. Though I haven't been into a WH yet to test it out, is it?

After somewhat extensive testing of the new feature that is the loot pinata i can say this:

Planetary Interaction was changed from a click-a-thron for a reason. Now you're introducing it again in exploration?
Incoming RSI remarks (though less than what PI was originally)

Other than that it's what has been said in the thread already.
Small cans and brackets not on overview
collision models - getting stuck chasing the loot
totally unrelated and useless clickfest with no real purpose other than to keep you there for some time hacking mini-game
unclear mechanics of when to click a can and when not (as in will i lose one if i click another or do i have to wait till that one can i clicked dissapears or something?)
the most annoying camera feature ever invented when trying to click a field of small dots on your screen. Yay for rollercoaster camera.
uhhh, loottables? wtf is this? if i want larger quantities of small arms or documents or whatever i'll go heist NPC haulers ffs. less fuss too!
how the hell is bringing a friend to this going to be more enjoyable than going solo exploration? so i can have someone on standby clicking dscan all the time while i try to click the growing mess of dots? It's called forced gameplay, which doesnt belong in a sandbox...

I loved it when i heard you where going to make exploration more immersive, add spacescapes and new visuals and improve that part of EvE which has been sorely lacking. As it stands now however it still feels like empty space, nothing looks like it was abandoned 100's or 1000's of years ago, there's no real incentive to specialise in exploration (lore wise, great discoveries, making a name for finding peices of puzzle and putting it all together...all that kind of stuff) not really any new stunning visuals (next to some strange looking apparatus which need to get hacked by clicking some before you can click some more) and some more less than underwhelming features of this revamped exploration.

I'm sure you made it modular so it can be improved on at a later date, but i've heard that song before. Sorry...

All in all? Very underwhelming, lacking in the "what's the actual point of hacking mini-game" department, all-in click-o-thon and then some.
I'd much rather have the current combat sites as they seem to give me more of a satisfactory feel than current SiSi mechanics. Again...Sorry....

I had a go in 0.0 yesterday with a Relic site using an Analyzer II module. My first impressions were wow this is different and fun, however my fun seemed to wane after clicking so many times to only fail at my attempt to hack the container. I would have to say that the amount of left mouse clicks seems to have increased dramatically in this little corner of EVE.

Previously you would only click one time on a can and let your Analyzer mod cycle until either successful or unsuccessful then click a second time to open the container and a third time to loot the container. So three clicks in all per container. Now after clicking a container to Analyze you then have to go through perhaps 50 clicks to try and hack the container. So after a few attempts at this my left-clicking ability was pretty worn out.

I really don't like the sound of my mouse clicks over and over and over again. I thought the whole idea was fun but you could limit the mouse clicking by making the triangular grid smaller.

I was imagining myself clicking to my hearts content while not noticing that local had spiked because the hacking game takes up a lot of my screenspace and being caught in the middle of my click click click game. I am sure a lot of people will die while doing this once it goes live.

When I was successful to hack a container I had no idea about the floating cans that soon disappear. They were rather small and the words that appeared when you hovered over the cans seemed very small. I think I got one can and was surprised to see it move towards my ship as if I had a magic tractor beam installed on my ship.

After all the trouble to hack a container and then find your goods floating off into space only to disappear because you cannot catch them all was a disappointment.

I have had my fun on SISI but will not be chasing cans or clicking aimlessly for hours on end to get a few scrap metals and some T1 salvage.

This explorer will be retired come Odyssey :(

It just seems a lot of hard work for little gain so I did like the hacking part but just too many clicks for my liking and I will not be chasing cans, can't I just pick up the loot like I did before?