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So going to cruise around in my new sister's ship ghost busting

I am really beginning to like this term 'ghost busting'

So this is how you get the rare Depots, how do you get the normal Depots?

There is something Im not quite getting lore-wise.
If the empires are so concerned with these activities, why are they not placing bounties on the rats that show up? I understand you do not want people farming these sites, but:

They do not show up that often, so whatever is gained from farming will be small in the overall scheme of things.
You could make the bounties be smaller than usual, so farming would be less lucrative than other activities. All it would be is a consolation prize for blowing the site.

So please reconsider the "no bounty" plan, if for no other reason than lore consistency.

... So ... many... referances....

They do not want to encourage capsuleers to go to the sites - you are supposed to stay away, so why would they place a bounty on the heads of the pirates they never want you to meet?

Im hoping you go higher. I feel it should enough to put a covops frigate into structure, and a recon ship into deep armor. Scare us!

At the moment, I have it set to 9000 .. but I have feedback from my team that maybe that is a little bit much, especially as sometimes you get hit by 2 containers at the same time - we will see what it ends up at :)

Even though i'm probably never going to use these sites, it's always nice with new(and new) content!

On top of my head, one thing made my cringe abit, and is exactly why i dont want to touch these sites. - The new hacking system.
I like the minigame, i really do, i dont have any problems with -it- whatsoever.

However, i think putting hack/analyser modules in as a requirement in order to do these sites, a very very bad idea.
If you want to do any kind of exploration, and dont want to use a multi billion isk ship, you jump into a covert op.
This makes you very good at doing the hack sites, and useless at combat sites.
Vice versa, with pve fitted "dps" ships.
Someone is not going to do this with a normally fitted pve ship, which means you have to go back and get your covert op, this is a timesink, of more warping around.. this does not make it a better enjoyment - This is boring.
It's exactly the same problem the non-ded sites have, warping around for very little reward where you might get an escalation, or you may not, loot may drop, or it may not.
(yay for using 4-5 hours on a escalation chain, only to have it drop 3 meta 1 modules)


Also the double negative random factor of getting a site, doing a hack, which "might" drop something worthwhile. Sounds like an extremely random encounter.


As an explorer, who has done and used more time at exploration than what is healthy, i do not foresee this new content as being wildy used, and probably not hugely profitable, i know i wouldn't use any time on it. - And i love(well except certain exceptions) every aspect of the exploration game we have in eve.


But we'll see. And if i'm wrong i'll only be glad to be so.

That being said, i have one question for the devs doing content stuff. - When are you going to fix the current pve content that so desperately need a tune up?

For those interested, and have no clue on what i'm talking about... i'm refering to our current CSM Jester's blog.
http://jestertrek.blogspot.dk/2013/10/serpentis-prison-camp.html

Thanks for your feedback - I will definitely take it on board and re-evaluate as we go along.

With regards to the rest of PvE - this is definitely on my radar and I have had many talks with the CSM about it :) I can't say too much for now but in the new year I hope to post a blog with a bit more information.