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What is going on with Exploration?!?
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Brink Albosa
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2014-01-24 22:52:20 UTC
There's a small loop I do near where I live and I still find the same amount of exploration sites as before. There are so many explorers now.
Malphas Vynneve
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#42 - 2014-01-24 23:17:44 UTC
Yeah, i've started giving up on wormholes, since every nullsec area of systems i check out have ben emptied already.

I actually went over a few systems from barle and found some really nice sites with about 80mil worth inside each.

Of course, i got caught in a 4 man gatecamp with bubbles...

but that's neither here nor there.
Charles Wu-Wong
Anti-Nub Incorporated
Centipede Caliphate.
#43 - 2014-01-25 14:27:53 UTC
Malphas Vynneve wrote:
That's a logical explanation, but every single time i've tried exploration since Rubicon, this is how it's been. And i'm from Barleguet, so i'd have stuck to lowsec if there was anything there.

Not only that, but i check Dotlan when i go into systems and half of them say no jumps within at least a day. But this has happened in every nullsec system i've popped my head into. Which is now 10 systems, still nothing but wormholes and combat sites.



...You do realise that there has recently been a drive by many members of our alliance (myself included) to push newbies into exploration? It's part of the reason there are less sites to be found, more people are running them.

If you want huge amounts of sites head up to Cloud Ring, it's literally empty for the most part.
Malphas Vynneve
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2014-01-25 16:48:35 UTC
I never actually said anything about where exactly i was exploring. I also mentioned that there wasn't much left around Barleguet.

So yeah, keep up with the conversation.

But thanks for the tip about cloud ring.
Little Dragon Khamez
Guardians of the Underworld
#45 - 2014-01-25 22:43:55 UTC
Malphas Vynneve wrote:
Before Rubicon, i could go out and spend 45 minutes and come back with anywhere from 30mil to 70mil. Now i spend 3 hours and don't find anything. Not one single data or relic site. Just combat sites and wormholes. This is really beginning to bug me.


I mean. The data and relic sites in wormhole space are showing up just fine, no problems there, but in a helios, i'm not even about to think about going for them, what with sleepers. But when i go through 7 nullsec systems, i should find AT LEAST one data or relic site. These aren't like 0.0 nullsec systems either. these are -0.3 to -.06 systems.

I don't know what CCP did to exploration, but they REALLY need to fix it. Exploration used to be my main source of income, now i spend days looking for even one data or relic site. I've already filed some support tickets, but apparently, they were ignored.

Has anyone else been having this issue?
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Have you been sleeping under a rock? Oddessy killed exploration by giving you a survey scanner that hands everything to you on a plate.

Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#46 - 2014-01-25 23:09:09 UTC
See what happened is the coke-head over in marketing (who never actually plays EvE) read a magazine article on the growth "casual gaming" and demanded that we add some kind of Peggle crap into EvE somewhere.

The actual developers, trying to worm their way out of this horrible decision being forced on them, went and stuffed his horrible ideas into the exploration mechanics, reasoning that it already kind of sucked so making it suck even worse would cause the least amount of grief.

Next year we'll probably see some sort of mini-game added to warp scramblers or something.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#47 - 2014-01-26 03:47:49 UTC
Katran Luftschreck wrote:
See what happened is the coke-head over in marketing (who never actually plays EvE) read a magazine article on the growth "casual gaming" and demanded that we add some kind of Peggle crap into EvE somewhere.

The actual developers, trying to worm their way out of this horrible decision being forced on them, went and stuffed his horrible ideas into the exploration mechanics, reasoning that it already kind of sucked so making it suck even worse would cause the least amount of grief.

Next year we'll probably see some sort of mini-game added to warp scramblers or something.



Yeah of all things to get a minigame. If they minigamed mining it would be the death of multiboxing and botting in such epic proportions that our planet would be a water planet from all those tears by now.

I don't hate the exploration mini game much, giving me something to do while the hack cycles, but lag during the mini-game drives me up the wall.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#48 - 2014-01-26 03:53:57 UTC
Malphas Vynneve wrote:

I don't know what CCP did to exploration, but they REALLY need to fix it. Exploration used to be my main source of income, now i spend days looking for even one data or relic site. I've already filed some support tickets, but apparently, they were ignored.

Has anyone else been having this issue?
X


grrrrrrrrr... Null Bears are taking all the good sites.

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
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