EVE General Discussion

I love exploration and always have, today I logged in from deep in nullsec to continue my exploration journey when I see that Odyssey has come out. Well first I try the scanning and I don't think it should have been changed but whatever I can deal with it so lets move on to the actual exploration. I scan down a relic site and get to work as usual, but I when I turn on my analyzer I see a minigame window pop up and I realise this is the beginning of the end. I watch a CCP video about how to do the new sites and try my luck at them. Keep in mind i'm deep in nullsec and this seems to effect the difficulty of the cans. Basically in a site with about 6 cans, 5 of them blew up because I kept failing the hacking minigame. Now what the hell is this? How is this an improvement over the old system? I understand the old system could get a little tedious, only a LITTLE tedious. This new minigame is the most frustrating thing I've ever had to do in eve online to this day.

It made me so angry I was smashing my computer table and swearing heavily. There is no real strategy to the game, you just click on nodes and hope you get lucky and uncover the core. There are serious problems here, like the restoration nodes which make the site almost impossible by constantly repairing any defensive nodes you haven't yet attacked. You literally don't have enough power to kill what you come into contact with when the restoration nodes are stacking repairs on every node. Not to mention that in the harder sites i'm doing the hacking board is HUGE multiplying the ill effects.

I was extremely angry initially, but now i'm just really sad that this is what CCP did to exploration. There were only 2 things in this game I truly enjoyed, PVP and Exploration, and I needed one to do the other. This is going to cripple me, I cannot do these sites effectively and am losing huge amounts of money due to the multiple failures. I really don't know what to do now, I love this game so much and looked forward to logging in every day, I have 2 accounts subbed via credit card, buy Plex regularly, and now I don't know what I'm going to do. I never liked pve and hated grinding in any form but exploration was my exception because it was dangerous and fun, such a different thing to do compared to missions or incursions. Now i'm in fear of losing that fun. Please change something about these sites, make them easier somehow, I've had so much fun in eve but this will hurt me badly.

Were you literally screaming at the screen?

Jesus christ why are you guys so unhelpful and sarcastic? Im serious here im at a loss big time, im really unhappy right now.

You will learn the hacking mini-game, eventually become quite good at it, expert even, and then you will come to the forums to laugh at the noobs who can't do it properly.

Of course, while you're learning you're going to lose a lot of loot.

Keep at it though.

Because your wall of text is.. um.. a wall of text? Try some paragraphs and stuff. For the children!

lol

His complaint was not unreasonable, but on reflection it did amount to, "I'm not very good at this because I've never done it before", which is easily rectified by... doing it some more.

lol best comment of the morning

Sounds like PEBKAC problems.

Please change the punctuation between 'have' and 'today' to a period. That should be a new sentence.

Edit: Also capitalize the T in today after making the aforementioned changed.