Missions & Complexes

it has everything to do with the combat ability gap though, sorry i didn't make that clear.

I did 2 ded 5s on the weekend, i enjoy doing them, but it is a very different experience. Loot table in the serp one is about same value as the gso, but the 40mil+ OPE always drops - ie its probably net more valuable per run. There seems to be compensation in the faction loot table as well (ie drops more often to make up for it being a single entity).

However it took 1hr10 for one and 1hr45 for the other, such is the effects of other players on operational freedom. A lot of the time, was time spent cloaked. I like all that stuff, but its going to be a long hard road to redefine the game that way. Amongst other things, lowsec is too small for a signfiicant influx, and that is a far harder problem than one imagines to solve.

if they move ded 4 running to lowsec more, then they take 10 minutes or so, bit easier to find the window of opportunity for that.

I do some HiSec exploration in a Brutix hunting DED 4/10s or Radar sites with a core probe scanner (ok i'm a noob). But whenever I do find the sites I rarely get beaten to the loot dropper and have no trouble running the Serpentis site. Also I do the whole site not just cherry picking the rat with the loot.

As a low SP character this is likely a good change as hopefully there will be a lot more sites, especially coupled with the deep core probe removal in Odyssey.

Ok so I must be really mistaken, I thought the DSPs were to be removed entirely and would become Core Probes on Odyssey?

It just means that faction and T2 cruiser are going to replace the T3 cruisers, i don't think the change is going to have any major impact on the game, you can probably still blow up the GSO telescope before you reach looting distance.

LOL

This expansion is hilarious.

That is the most likely outcome of all this for pure highsec explorers. I think the more significant change is the new hacking/archeology site mechanic. You now have a realistic option of pimping a pure travel fitted hacking ship with no real combat ability and go solo in any area of space for good loot and low risk. Depending on the minigame difficulty it could also mean, that non-specialized ships start to increasingly abandon doing those sites, since the failure rate gets too high, which means loads of wasted time for little to no loot. We might end up in a situation where do-it-all exploration ships will be the minority and exploration gets divided into more clear specializations each with their own FOTM ships.

What does this accomplish? They aren't needed for these plexes now they are just shineys people like to use. You could restrict these sites to T1 (no faction) hulls only and it's still a race where you will loose to the better equipped and experienced guy.

Just another step towards making high sec explo sites "private" once someone warps to it.




The sites still spawn rats if you fail the mini-game.