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Around 9000m at the moment but that is subject to change

Almost impossible to tell until the content has been out there for a while - I did not include the full loot tables but to give estimates on the value of never before released items would be silly. However, these sites are not a career path and there will be no guaranteed amount of isk made.

I fully intend these sites to be tough and for people to really feel at risk :) it's just about continuing to balance both pre and post release until we are at a good point.

There isn't a problem when failure comes from mistakes or incompetence of the pilot, but when the game mechanics are the reason you're failing with no way to overcome it, that is a problem.

I should be failing because of my own bad choices within the mini-game not because the game randomly generates three restoration nodes in a row or sometimes worse. There are times when the game will start and not be winnable no matter the players set-up or skill. That's basically the same as having some cans just explode any way when we first activate the module.

The fact another Developer has even agreed this is a problem and could use some work makes it even more frustrating.

I'm a little concerned about the distribution of implant blueprint copies (BPCs) between the different security/wspace bands of space. Nullsec ghost sites do not have any "unique" implant BPCs -- it can be skipped completely and covered by low-sec and w-space areas, whereas even highsec has BPCs that can only be acquired within. Is there the possibility of the drops being tweaked so that there are a few implant BPCs that are exclusive to nullsec?

There is a possibility however, nullsec have a much higher drop rate of the BPCs than low sec and WH - so some of them will be nearly impossible to acquire in low or WH space. We will see how it goes after release - I will keep a close eye on what is dropping from which location and tweak as necessary :) Thank you for the feedback though, it's a very good point.

What's the total speed bonus from a low grade and a high grade set?

That seems a little unfair, to develop a feature that no matter how much a player invests into it they can always fail because the games says so.
To make them hard enough that only the top gun of the exploration world understand them would be interesting, but to have a feature where no matter what sometimes it just gives you the equivalent of a middle finger locks you out is from my point of view poor game design.

The entire chance of gaining rare items now goes though this.
Item has to spawn, game has to not be an impossible version, need to collect the right scatter container (in a regular site).

This goes back to why not just have some randomly explode and say they were trapped than making players go through the stress of having an unbeatable game. From our point of view this really comes off more as an unintended element of the game and it being far easier to say "you can't win 'em all" than going back and refining or iterating on a feature that needs it, which is often perceived as CCP's normal way of doing things.

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If this is also a case of not being able to win them all why is it ONLY NullSec and WH space which suffers? HighSec sites you can win them all no matter what with high skills.

I really like the idea of implants need things from all over the game to create. Adds a nice dynamic that is very much needed. And these things coming from the efforts of explorers.

Has there been thought of expanding this towards already existing methods to acquire implants?

Why is the most expensive module bpc only dropping in WH ?

Ascendancy Omega Blueprint Copy

Adding yet more income to the WH guys, vs those who provide all the content in 0.0 where isk vs reward is way out of balance as it stands.

I don't see a problem with the different bpc's in different area's, but putting the most valuable one into just WH's is simply bad.