Test Server Feedback

There are no resources being dedicated to the clouds right now, the issue with them is known and hopefully we can get some art support to adjust them later on. Using the clouds is tricky, as none of them are perfectly spherical, which is how the damage is applied. The fire cloud and the plasma cloud are two of the very few clouds that come closest, but they're not perfectly spherical.

It's the Zephyr.

Same here. I hope this is just some sort of technical placeholder for now.

We're contemplating that these sites would require both hacking and archaeology to go through.

Disclaimer: I have yet to do these sites.

I like the premise of these sites thus far. Good feedback on there development. I wish to add a couple ideas for the next iteration to expand the choices players can make (for fitting and cargo space and time and difficulty of game play).

Mix of data and relic cans good. Also include materials to be salvaged.

Environmental hazards very good. Art department inclusion would be great but lets expand it a bit shall we? I like the idea of different cloud effects from benign to OMG!!!!!! Also make (some) of them harvestable (gas cloud harvester). Randomly place cans in the clouds. Now choose... tank the cloud or have the required skill and time to harvest the cloud to access the can and hack it.

You now have a cargo hold full of gas. Is it worth anything? Sell it for manufacturing or jettison it.

An experienced explorer will learn what needs to be done to disarm site defenses. Allow for a random factor to either allow a hack to fail with an exploding can OR spawning a (several) defense drones. These should also be damaged by the environment (clouds). Now the choices for the explorer are, fight the drone(s) or lead them into the damaging environment.

I like the idea of ship sig helping to determine level of damage inflicted on the ship. This also allows the choice of fitting for speed (mid and low slots), fitting to sig radius, fitting for tank, fitting for offense or, at the expense or cargo space, bring a mobile depot and modules for all contingencies.

Allow players that have accessed the second (third, fourth etc rooms) the ability to BM them and return directly. The explorer should have some advantages. Maybe allow prior rooms to disappear requiring the prey to break out the combat probes.

Soniclover, you guys have just opened the gates to new exploration content that can allows a huge amount of iteration. True, some mechanics might need changing but these would be changes that could be applied to other PvE content. Bottom line, this is a great start. Thanks.

excuse me, I am a little bit confused, will you add sites only for frigs? I am running (yes, no kidding) sites in NESTOR battleship, will I be able do to em in it? Or you gonna add 3 types of sites? small, medium and large? Plz find solution for big ships)

Is the site location listing still valid, I am very eager to try out these sites so I can provide proper feedback.

But for now what I saw on YouTube for these was very good.

Edit: After DT I got on and did one of the sites, there was no loot in any of the containers so i cannot comment on that part.

I really like the idea of Hackable Locked Acceleration Gates,. +1 on that would like to see more of this kind of thing.
Once inside the site I saw a visiualy pleasing site with a lot of content and fluff, a very different experience than the barren data and relic sites on TQ.
The container difficulity was an acceptable level, though im not sure about the unlimited(?) hacking attempts on some of the cans.
The security beacon functioned different than expected, I was expecting it to summon sleepers to defend the cache instead i was greeted with an explosion that sent my Astero into 28% hull from about 50% shields [Amarr Frigate 4, Adaptive Nano Plating, Damage Control II]. While this is not necessaraly a bad thing it can make doing the frigate sites in anything less than an Astero extremely difficuly if not impossible given the general lack of HP covert ops frigates have.

I would like to say these are going to be extremely fun sites and should be closer to the model, though not necessaraly as difficult, for future exploration sites rather than simply a high tier site.

I'm fine with this - it raises the SP bar to properly run these sites, and most explorers will probably train to Archaeology 5 and Hacking 5 - that's not a huge SP requirement, considering there are currently no secondary skills. They will still need very good the Astrometrics skills, and to survive some of the hazards you'll also need to train a decent tank and core skills. So that's a decently high progression of skills to be able to run these properly.

I just want to make sure that these aren't confused with Data/Relic sites, and that it's clear that it is a completely new kind of exploration site. This was mentioned in the OP but everyone was referring to these as "new Data sites".

Looking forward to a lot more iteration with these! Hopefully the puzzles and environmental hazards can be randomly generated so they don't become predictable after a few runs.

Will update with a list from today.