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I did a couple Serpentis data and relic sites in highsec and lowsec and a data site in a C3 WH. My coherency was 90, my strength 20. There were a total of 14 easy debris cans, 11 medium rubble cans (WH cans were of this difficulty) and 1 hard remains can. I never had any trouble with the easy cans, I lost the minigame for 1 medium and 1 hard can, but succeeded on 2nd try for both. I usually managed to pick up maybe a bit less than half of the spew cans unless there were bugs as mentioned below.

The Good

• The minigame as such is alright, it could use a bit more fleshing out as in more different defences and utilities, but it's fun as it is. The balancing seems mostly ok too, though a bit of fine-tuning might be needed.

The Bad

• Anti-Virus Suppressors are too hard. The only way I could destroy them is using 2 utilities on them. I think they should at least die to 1 Secondary Vector used for the full 3 turns.
• The loot spewing mechanic is simply no fun at all. Twitchy dexterity gameplay + inherently laggy MMO environment = frustrating and annoying player experience.
• The loot was pretty horrible for all the sites, I barely got any of the regular items. I think out of the 14 easy containers I got exactly 1 spew can of regular loot. Also filling up my cargo with useless junk gets old really quick, how about making the useless cans just empty?
• Remove Small Arms from the loot table. Never try to sneak surprise contraband into my cargo! I mean it!

The Ugly (Bugs)

• Sometimes the colouring of the loot cans doesn't work and they just stay white for a minute or so till they suddenly get coloured. This makes the timing of tractoring very hard.
• Sometimes the tractoring of loot cans doesn't work even though the can was green when I clicked it, might be that this happens when the cans are at the edge of max range, so possibly lag related.
• With 3 Anti-Virus Suppressors on the field I managed to destroy one of them using 2 Secondary Vectors and my strength went back to full 20 even though the other 2 Suppressors were still active.
• Firewall description claims it has high strength, Anti-Virus description claims it has high coherency. It's actually the other way round.

Edit: By the way, all highsec and lowsec Serpentis sites had the cans on top of each other.

Might be a product of us having 2x the number of cans intended. There should be a Sisi update tomorrow and it should be adressed. Also, there is a scheme to the loot containers (based on name) which should help you once you get that down.

Can you allow them to have regular jet can mechanics then, stays in space for 1-2 hours

You are right. I confused it with t1 frig.

WHOA

faction pos mod bpcs too? :happysun:

Given how much foozie and whoeverelse is doing the balancing has been saying they are going to nerf the sht out of t3s they could at least make them cheaper.

If my billion isk ship is only as good as a 500 mill ship, it behoves one to make the ship actually cost 500 mill. Otherwise you'll wind up turning them into miniature revenants. i.e really pretty to look at but useless as hell and expensive as hell too.

Guristas Data Fortress
Still has colission issues. I suspect the destroyed station prop is wrapped in a single concave collision hull which causes the problem. See pic for what i'm talking about:

http://i.imgur.com/t3YXqj2.jpg

I got from the site one Esoteric Process otherwise only worthless crap.

Guristas Data Processing Center
Also still has colission issues. Easy to get stuck in the colission (good luck warping out when pirates hunt you).
And when loot spews out in the wrong direction you can't grab it at all:

http://i.imgur.com/GThLB8N.jpg

I got nothing of worth at all from that site. Two containers blew up. I found the hacking too hard for the data sites. Maybe bad luck. It happend a few times that antivirus strenght only reduced by 1 and kept doing so. Then you're basicaly screwed. Could be a bug!

To sum up my day. From 3 relic sites i got 1m isk on average. From 2 data sites i got 3m isk on average. Granted it's a small sample size and could be bad luck but others don't seem to get decent loot aswell. So going by these numbers loot has to be upped around ten fold to get back to old numbers assuming 15m average for mag and 20m average for radar on low sec tranquility sites.

It is a great change, it allows people to slip into W-space and run a couple of those sites and make a bit of isk. It maybe true it will caus the value of those sites to drop but that will coincide with the T3 nerf we will soon see.

As I was saying on last week's Space Hangout with Ali:

The idea of balancing it so that friends working together can be rewarded is a good one.

The feedback we are getting here is that the execution is annoying.

Imagine doing this over and over as a career.

I don't see it happening.

This execution will likely drive existing explorers out of the profession and become a curiosity only, as I don't see it as likely that many will choose this as their primary activity.

Making the exploration focused Odyssey likely to be the expansion that kills exploration as a profession. Surely this is not intended?

This

It uses the same tools so little redevelopment and will lead to much more enjoyable experience.