Missions & Complexes

I did exploration during a long time before odyssey and a bit after during the can spread fest (so happy its gone)

In my point of view is before odyssey exploration was a really rewarding activity, after odyssey a lot less. So what change ?

Easy, now exploration is easy to do easy to start and safe (as lomg you take care). Even the scanning part is a lot more easy and while i love it become a non-combat activity it need to have more risk.

Because at the end the only real thing chamge in the exploration is it become more easy so a lot (but really a lot ) more people do it so the value pf the loot go down and no matter how you change the loot inside the site the value will jist go down because too much people can do it easely

Personally , I have hated that stupid mini game since it was introduced and its even more fustrating inside the sleeper caches when the hack is stupidly hard and you have 3 mins to hack all the cans.

They should never have made exploration easy mode , I spent months perfecting the art and skill training back when it was a real challange to scan sites down.

Thats what broke exploration, not the loot drops.

On a side note I do like the covert sites that pop up now and again there a nice challange

In my runs over the past 2 weeks I've given up on data sites (not currently in Serpent space for the Research Component farm fest) and it seems everyone else has done the same. Data loot needs another iteration since they are constantly ignored. Have a run through Null and see for yourself.

Dear CCP RedDawn,

Would you please officially confirm or deny the average number of exploration sites had decreased being compared to these numbers before BR & Serp events?

Also, is there any, even a little chance you ever implement escalations of exploration sites if a player had cleaned ALL of the cans in a short amount of time. It could be anomalies-like 1 to 25 probability decreasing if entire site cleanup takes longer time?

Thanks.

Any updates on this aswell :)?

Thanks for the answer, looking forward to it.

Missed opportunity in citadels. This stuff could surely be included as production materials?

Dear CCP RedDawn,

Thank you for responding.
Would you, please, pretty please, consider implementing exploration escalations in some still unforeseeable distant future?
(at least this approximatingly is how Abandoned Research Complex DC007 currently works)
Obtaining expedition is like winning a lottery, that brings some positive mood due to a rare but a nice surprise. Who does not like this?

Thanks

I haven't noticed a difficulty change, but the performance in the minigame is worse. It is lagging and you can't click as fast as before. This really sucks for hacks with timers (like ghost sites or sleeper caches) or if you operate in hostile space. I hope they fix this issue soon.