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might I suggest ccp hire the geniuses that came up with the new wow expansion? 600,0000 new subscriptions and rising mostly by providing all players MORE content, specially for those vets that had played the game for years and quit.

Might have been posted before but the need skill text in red does not do its job as well as it should.

While red is suppose to make it stick out, for some it just causes them to skip that line when they are reading over the text.

That is why I think it would look better with just a "Note:" before the line or a box around the text.

The way the text reads now also misses an opportunity to remind the player the game has a market and that skill books can be purchased there.

Have to disagree with Obsidian Hawk here.
The way it currently is you go and look up a site guide, or you have to shoot EVERYTHING in the site.

Maybe introduce some non module related 'analyse area' effect (links off the Deep scan panel or something) which creates the pop up telling you what interesting notes you have found in the area. Give anywhere with rat wrecks a 0.01% chance of creating a sec related escalation, because hey, more people travelling and doing things other than missions or rating the same system continuously is good. Then any sig that would normally escalate escalates like currently also.

That means the players have to interact with the system, but it's not the current random shoot or read an off site guide.
All the pop ups are doing is integrating the off site guides into EVE, which isn't terrible.

Wow --- not at all excited to do data sites after this.....Really, we need a loot OVERHAUL for data sites, not tweaks - these are just......... tweaks. The whole rest of the gams is changing rapidly, but these data sites changes are more like 2012 eve expansion styles. Go big, you cant mess it up more than it already is......come on, you can do it !

All the other fantastic changes happening in the game got me excited about a new data site loot table....this is just......ugh

Question , what about data sites in C4 - C6 WH space? Poor C4 space.....

Today data sites in C4-C6 WHs have scater can value that is pretty much 50% of the same relic sites and they have 5 more cans to hack (time).

Data sites in high-end WHs have become the site trash of space unless you are going to cap escalate them. Why should a sites value be only because you can escalate it?

Besiged Covert Research Facilities are currently my main income source and are in my opinion in a perfect place right now in terms of reward, difficulty and most importantly FUN! If it takes you 25 minutes to do a besiged site, it's because you don't have enough DPS. They have a mean active tank so running them with your 500 DPS Ishtar is inefficient. I complete them in five minutes solo with a 1.2k DPS ship and earn on average ~20m/site just from bounties, ship skins, and covert research tools. It is way more if you count the 10 run Prototype Hyperspatial Accelerator BPCs, Omega implants, etc.

They're also very well designed and fun! There's three different NPCs (cruisers that web and point, battleships that web and point, and battleships with a huge buffer and 900k bounty) that spawn in a random combination, making the sites unpredictale. The web and point combined with the fact that they're anomalies and therefore don't need to be probed down, the short completion time, and the reward perfectly hits the sweetspot for a high risk, high reward player like myself. I've done everything from L1 missions to C5 capital escalations, and besiged sites are the only PVE activty I enjoy doing. Not the "ha ha! I'll get so much ISK from this I won't have to do it again for weeks" joy you get from capital escalation, but actual enjoyment from the activity itself.

The current difficulty also adds content for everyone else. I've killed a guy running besiged sites in a Nestor twice. I am running them in a Marauder myself. By increasing or decreasing the difficulty you'd either end up with people in Ishtars running them in five minutes instead of 25, or force us to fleet up several Ishtars to complete them as a group. Both options would stop our blingy battleships from undocking, and no one wants that!

Besiged sites are currently a very unique high risk, high reward PVE activity unlike anything else in Eve. Please don't try to change them just because you can't efficiently run them with your Ishtar like everything else.

I do approve of giving me and my Nestor friend more reason to undock by increasing the spawnrate, though!

-Tikktokk Tokkzikk

A much appreciated change, to be sure.

But things need to be removed from data/relic sites as well -

All things associated with COSMOS items. Since CCP abandoned the COSMOS aspect of the game few/no one bothers to use it as anything other than a (one time) standings gain grind. The items that you get for the missions are pretty much useless.

Thus the building materials for those items need to be removed from Data/Relic sites and moved to the COSMOS containers, and replaced with something that is more useful.

Rig components also need to be removed. There are countless sources to obtain rig components, they are pointless wastes of time in exploration content unless there is an increased chance for more rare (advanced) components. Standard components are just so much trash.

FINALLY a reason for solo explorers to enter wormholes other than as possible shortcuts. I've been wanting to spend more time in WH space but unless you have a decent sized group with you or you're flying a T3 there was really no point for someone flying solo.

Hi there,

I have some questions purely about the expedition changes.

Changes to expedition escalation percentages

The dev blog states:



I see from previous dev responses that you won't give us the actual percentage changes you intend to implement. While I understand why you don't want to give us precise numbers, could you please give us at least an indication. I.e., whether these percentages will be increased slightly, moderately or substantially. It is very difficult to give feedback when the dev blog simply states that you will increase a percentage by an undisclosed amount. Right now, all players can do is 'wait and see' in response to this change.

Changes to 'boss' loot tables

The dev blog states:



Could you please provide further details of why you believe a loot table revision is 'necessary' and what your goals are in relation to this revision. Again, it is very hard to give feedback on this proposed change when this level of detail is provided.

For example, are you revising the loot tables because you believe the percentages are too low? alternatively, are you revising them because certain sites are too easy (i.e. the serpentis 10/10) and their loot should be swapped with a correspondingly difficult site (the serpentis 10/10 equivalent expedition).

Comments on expedition changes generally

Obviously my comments above are pretty dry but I'm not opposed to changing expeditions. At present they are a criminally underused area of pve content. I say criminally because if they were viable from an isk/hr perspective, they would breath more life into nul sec. This is because they encourage travel and interaction with a larger amount of space/players than static anomolies.

I cannot disagree more strongly with the sentiments of Obsidian Hawk. Exploration in game should be just that, in game. I should not be required to leave the game to get to the next step in anything PVE related. Testing my google skills is not relevant to my serious business internet spaceships skills. A happy balance would be to give us some sort of journal entry with lots of text talking about a few different things "rumored" to have worked in the past, or some sort of vague hint. Expecting me to shoot everything once or to go to an external site is silly (wasting time shooting everything) or immersion breaking (going to google/wiki).

This.