Missions & Complexes

I hope so, storyline mods are in general a really weird place. I'm really interested to see where they go from here.

the digital booster rockets MWDs were very interesting for a while thanks to the fitting reqs, but now the yt-8 MWDs have the same fitting stats, that said the digital booster microwarpdives still retain advantages, but if build components were more common I wonder where the price would move. I used to trade in and build these, and I sold off all my stuff because i worried about it retaining value, plus the sleeper profound research notes were getting hard to get.

also many storyline items are just completely inferior, either fitting wise or stats wise to similar cost faction mods. A lot of the damage mods are like that, worse stats than t2, might save a little on cpu, but use more cpu and have far worse stats than faction mods.

then there are the good mods, like the 'radical' damge control which saves the most on CPU and has pretty good stats. Or the Executive damps which are the strongest in game, with similar fitting/cap use to the muon damps. Smokescreen cloak is pretty good too, but with most ships having a 100% cloak cpu use with skills, and people in general having better skills these days its price isn't where it use to be.

I also have to wonder how many storyline BPCs are just sitting out there in hangars somewhere? I don't even remember what I did with mine after I ran cosmos. probably just dumped in jita or gave away. I do have a few randomly scattered around from looting ship kills. Also the relationships between various item stats, and build component drop rates would be interesting to look into.

Have you considered fixing the droprates for worthless modules? In many cases, they aren't undesirable, there is just way too many of them available.

Good start, especially reducing drop rates.

I'm glad I bought up all those comos BPCs for cheap over the years

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Data vs Relic for ghost sites, no real difference.

Data analyser for Besieged sites? Please no. As said by others in the thread, they already require a special set up to run safely and successfully, adding yet another requirement to run them will just result in more annoyance and danger.



I think you may be confused. Besieged sites do not require any analyser to run, please do not add the requirement for a data analyser for this site.

COSMOS materials really need to be sellable on the market.

Usually now when someone loots one of these obcsure items they just leave it in their hangar.

Very glad to see these changes moving forward. They are hopefully not the only iteration, but I think a good first step. And certainly when POSes die off to new structures, we will probably see some interesting adjustments thereafter.

Regarding the Data Analyzer use for Ghost Sites, this is something I encouraged, along with some of the other changes in here.

I know it's easier to have Ghost sites use both modules, but that easiness feeds into the whole "I only need a Relic Analyzer ever" feeling of exploration. If turrets could fire missiles, nobody would ever equip missile launchers, and if turrets lost that ability, it would feel annoying at first but would make more sense in the long run.

It's also wholly strange in terms of the context of ghost sites -- which are clearly not archaeological in any fashion, but instead are advanced pirate research facilities and data processing centers.

This stands out to me as the only bad change, forcing us to use that module. If you make the rewards in Data sites worthwhile, we'll fit it or drop a depot, but making this arbitrary distinction feels out of place.

Apart from that snag, I wanted to say thanks for improving Data sites and COSMOS drops. It's something that has been asked for many times and I'm glad to see it in game at last.

For what it's worth, I switched out my Data Analyzer for a Cargo Scanner. Scan the cans as I'm coming up to the first one, and if any are junk (or especially simply empty), mark the can and purposely blow it up at the first opportunity. The frustrations with a Red can having trash in it vanished almost immediately after doing so.