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"antivirus suppressors" are basically a "give up" find. Reduces your attack to 1... only counter I've found is to use two of the "secondary vector" utilities (damage over time) on them, assuming you find those and have enough spaces left to do something for a few "turns".

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it would appear that these antivirus suppressors are quite numerous in "serpentis mainframes"; info shards and comm towers seem to have none or one maybe...

Filed a bug report, we'll check it out, thanks.

We've reduced the number of cans and are looking at loot table again. In general though, the scattering and picking up of cans remains.

Yep, we're going through it again. The value you get from these sites should rival or be slightly above what you're getting today.

Ok, did a Data site.
Again loot was poor (but that has been addressed here)
The mini-game was challenging again.
3 spew can were at the site, 1 was successfully hacked the other 2 were destroyed.
It would seem there are a lot of very strong defensive software in these sites, one site I hit 5 in a row, each with a coherence of 60 and strength of 30.
Again my Virus Strength is 30 and Coherence is 125.

The loot in general is about doubled with some high valued things never dropped before added in to the mix.
So the intent is to make a single player get the same as currently on TQ plus some icing on the cake on avarage.
Hence two players, if the scoop everything up, should both be getting loot worth their while.

Could i suggest that you remove the junk from the loot tables (it is really disheartening to get them) and replace it with cheap forms of what are in the sites on tranquility, eg datacores for data and t1 salvage for relic. That way all collected cans are useful, with most being just steady isk income and a few being the "jackpot" ones.

125/30

Hacking is a bit more challenging but still just seems like random clicking.

Loot is still mostly NPC commodities.

And loot pinata is still terrible.

Hi there,

The issue with the +1 on the Hacking and Archaeology skills is a known issue. It should of course be +10 Coherency.
Another known issue is the one where your Coherence doesn't return to it's original value once the Anti-Virus Suppressors is destroyed. It should of course go back up to what it was originally.

Both will be fixed soon and most definitely before release.

Ran a Local Serpentis Mainframe in highsec with a virus strength of 20 and coherence of 90. Hacked both cans with ease, got ~17k isk worth of loot. Also ran a Local Serpentis Virus Test Site in highsec - again, the hacking was very easy but the loot was completely worthless.

I then moved to lowsec and did a Regional Serpentis Backup Server and a Decayed Serpentis Quarry (which are, IIRC, the 'hardest' relic and data sites you can get in serpentis lowsec). I was eventually able to access four of the six cans in the Backup Server and five of the eight in the Quarry. The hacking was much more challenging in this case, but I was able to get through OK-ish. The loot value for the two sites was around 28m, which is rather poor given that this was in lowsec and the hacking was fairly time-consuming.

A few other observations: in some cases, when you fail to hack a can at the first attempt, the game spawns an NPC cruiser that attacks you but allows you to have another go at the hack. I was running the sites in a tengu, so was able to just ignore the cruiser spawns since there was no way they were going to get through my shields; had I been in an exploration frigate or covops, the cruiser would have been dangerous and I would have been forced to kill it. It might be worth making the spawned NPCs tackle the player, since that would force you to deal with them no matter how tanky your ship. The hacking itself was alright - the randomness was a bit frustrating, but there seems to be at least some scope for strategy in terms of what route you pick and so on.

One concern I have with the new system relates to the relative strength of the T1 and T2 analyzers - the T2 versions are massively stronger (75 coherence/30 strength versus 50/20) and require the archaeology/hacking skills at V to use, so in effect, the gap between having the skill trained to IV and V is very big indeed. Might be an idea to introduce faction relic/data analyzers with similar stats to the T2 variants but lower skill requirements to enable players who haven't yet maxed out their skills to be competitive. The spew mechanic was alright once I'd gotten used to it - in an MWD-fit tengu with a bunch of nanofibers in the lows, I was consistently able to grab half the jettisoned cans without too much difficulty.