Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Data sites are pretty sad at the moment and I have talked to many people about them and so far even the folks that come visit nullsec and do nothing but probe relic and data sites all day and avoid pvp like the plague say that data sites are not worth uncloaking for.

After doing some of them myself and doing some relic sites in comparison, I agree with them and a possible solution just came to me:

Relic sites can sometimes drop blueprints for t2 rigs and the t2 salvage, so how a redistribution of those blueprints. The relic sites would still drop this nice salvage but data sites would have the blueprints for the t2 rigs that relic sites have now.

I do not know if those copies are sold or not, since I make rigs for my corp and alliance buddies but I think it would be reasonable to put the copies into data sites, so people will want to farm them too.

What do you think?

Ouuh okay. I did find a 2x t2 medium trimark copy and I already had the salvage, so I thought that would be something to desire.

I remember reading this as well. IICR, was about the time they redid the spawn rates/ranges for escalations that they redid the loot tables for data/relic sites, if that helps narrow down the time frame. I may have the time wrong, but that seems about right.

So did I and you know me for being very observant. I ran a couple of data sites but all I got was some datacores, cosmos module components, carbon (???), and one faction data+relic analyzer (from shooting a relic runner).

So all in all wasn't worth my time.

The best option for data sites, in my opinion, would be for meta modules to need to be built and some of the components necessary for the build would only come from data sites.

Glad I collected all those small AAR prints and Drone AI's over the past few years. Cashed in very well this year.

Otherwise I have stopped doing data sites almost entirely.

CCP should look at materials for new items and structures and backfill some with drops from data sites to both balance the market and encourage the sites to be run. Win-win for exploration, markets and pvp.

The economic difference between Relic and Data sites is that Data sites drop a larger percentage of the valuable materials needed, thus saturating the market and reducing the need to run data sites. Data sites should drop a small amount of valuable stuff that you can only get from Data sites, and that would fix the problem. It's the way to balance any every resource supply in a game.