EVE Information Portal

So someone finally realized how awful this is? Why don't you guys go ahead and go back and change relic/hacking containers to not use it again, as well.

While you're at it, maybe you could severely reduce the number of cans in deep wormhole space to make it so you can't clear an entire system's anomalies in the time it takes a specialized ship to clear one data sites cans. Or look at the relative value of wormhole data sites in general. If a Talocan doesn't spawn, they're barely worth the time to hack.

"As I mentioned, these sites are related to dangerous experiments, and the pirates desperately do not want the capsuleers to steal the fruit of their labors. When they realize that they have an intruder in their midst, they will blow up the research facilities, causing damage to everyone in the vicinity."


I got to say that this sounds truly awful. EVE should be about player v player explosions, not some random fail condition that you have no control over, can't see and can't even know its been triggered. Its like CCP decided to take the worst feature of other MMO's titles' raid events and graft it into eve. Also why the continuous push to make eve more twitchy?

Oh and doubling down on the horrible minigame.... well at least ccp is not spewing the loot - guess we can be thankful for small things...

This looks great. I'm super excited to see these sites in action and, more importantly, to see people losing ships to the can explosions rofl. One question: will the timer start if I warp to these sites while cloaked?

Also, the amount of people in this thread saying these implants are not very useful (or are only useful for pvp) are...yeah, not too bright. (E.g., one hint: look at the upcoming warp speed of freighters).

The counter to this argument (at least as it relates to Freighters) is that their Warp acceleration has gone down. So yeah, the warp speed has gone up, but because the warp acceleration is more inline to its size, the benefit only shows up when you are warping long distances.

On that note.. will the Ascendancy Implants only affect warp speed or will they affect warp acceleration too?

Sometimes, survival, in itself, is reward enough.

Besides, between disconnects and PvP, nothing in EVE is a guaranteed win. [tinfoil]If all of PvE in EVE carries a real risk of loss, then maybe carebears will become less avoidance prone towards PvP activities. Ergo, this is just a small nudge of behavioral modification to make EVE (even) more PvP oriented. There's a reason why tiericide hit the "cheap for PvP" T1 ships first. And just like the whole Somerblink scandal was just a way to generate attention after the initial round excitement over the F&I Rubicon announcements wound down, "ghostbusting" and the "OMG, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man just spooged all over my ship" self-destructing Ghost sites are all just CCP's master plan to ramp up the excitement (i.e. drama) in players (aka drama thriving drama queens) to break the concurrent user record when Rubicon deploys. [/tinfoil]


But if you must complain: We had Ghost sites and implants. How the hell did we get a Ghostbusters meme going instead of a much more appropriate Ghost in the Machine meme?

**start hijack**
The Dev blog about the depots is the one I'm waiting for since the depots were mentioned in the video announcement.
**end hijack**

You don't scan them down because they have a very low spawn rate. If they were sites people scan down, I take it that the cost of the implants would be too high.

An alternative, if most people want them to be sites you can down (I mean, they are supposed to be hidden sites, right??) is to slightly raise the spawn rate to keep the likely frequency they are run roughly the same.

Personally, I think they should be sites you scan down. It both fits the lore, and rewards people doing exploration. Maybe that means the spawn rate should be higher than it currently would be.

This poster does not understand risk vs reward.

"waah waah I can't get 100% of all the things in this site on every attempt, a bloo bloobloo"

Run hisec missions if you want perfectly reliable income.

Hurrah! USTZ players won't get screwed for once

It just means that they're easy enough for even a miner to do!

52k EHP.

[Procurer, Ghost Sites]
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Damage Control II

Data Analyzer II
Cargo Scanner I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I

[empty high slot]

Medium Memetic Algorithm Bank II
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I

Hobgoblin II x5