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That's the million dollar question, this has been constructed in a very modular manner so it's reasonable to let people hack almost anything that makes sense.

I imagine hacking an accel gate to a bonus room in a mission or anomaly could be pretty cool as another area this could be fun.

How will this mechanic affect the COSMOS sites like in Algintal? Can you get permalocked out of the Force Repeller Relic in Deltole for example or any of the cans in the other COSMOS systems?

Maybe failure will vent the biowaste recycling system instead of the cargo bay of the item being hacked

The hacking minigame in Deus Ex HR was quick, simple and had a interesting time limit if you hit a bad node and had to act quickly to get the hack to work.

It also didn't require much thinking (ie, just click on pretty much anything and everything) and it was at least spread out enough that it didn't become irritating.

From what I've seen on SIS I arrived at a radar site with around 6 cans to 'hack' - unless the mini game is quick, fun and simple its going to get very old VERY fast - especially since while your hacking your NOT checking DScan and if you don't pay attention you'll become easy prey to someone who IS paying attention to Dscan.

I'm happy to say that I will take another look once more progress has been made on the hacking mini game - but if it bombs you'll kill exploration over night because the mini game will be too frustating and time consuming to bother with getting your scanner probes out in the first place.

Ok, that explains the conflict between the dev blog an the test server.

the archaeology site should totally open a shell instead of the grid.

Also while Im thinking about it - how will the exploration T1 frigs work now?

How will the bonuses make things any better?

Also I've read a bit of a mixture of if there will be rats or not. Currently exploration is one of those grey areas where people struggle to find a decent ship for the job - the T1 / T2 frig is essentially a piece of paper with a scanner attached to it with no hope of any rats, so seems a little pointless to have a ship to do the scanning part, hacking part and then if rats come along its "run away!" like your in the holy grail.

Either have rats or don't - but know that if you have rats you may as well write off the T1 scanning frig as it'll become redundant to other ships who can do its job better (ie, tank & kill rats in exploration sites)

The other options are fit out another ship for the job (which kinda defeats the point of having the scanner ship in the first place if its only useful in a gang), scan the site, BM, switch ships and come back (which kinda sucks) or bring a T3 ship which has the scanning bonus and the gank / tank for the rats.

BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT COMPUTERS, WHEN HACKED, SUDDENLY EXPLODE YOUR ROOM INTO CANS.



Other than that stupid part, cool beans.

Yes, all the other UI will still be accessible whilst you hack the system.
We thought about removing the Overview completely while you play the game just for laughs but thought you might not like that.

From a low sec pirate perspective...

I liked rats because they force the explorer to bring out something a little bigger than a heron or magnate to run the site - meaning they are often worth probing down.

With no rats, there will be very little risk factor, as most people will have no problem flying around in a t1 fit heron running sites. I hope they provide a risk vs. reward to entice shiny ships into low sec exploration. Let the herons comb through hi-sec all day...