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LOL, cool hackers, if only......

Now Personally i think its a game for a tablet (or for a WiS activity where it would really be good), this is mainly being due to its format, a large black slab that obscures the screen, so I wish that the hacking window was nigh on transparent so immersion is not broken. I can see where you are going now with the blogs release, but it is a game within a game and change in the basic mechanics of eve.

I will miss the NPC guards (additional rig building goodies and occasional useful mod and mins), u don't need an omni tengu to solo a low sec site, a t2 cruiser can be fitted to do it with ease (even some t1 bs´s could do it). Making them safer diminishes eve in a way, its meant to be a challenging game, not a bacon conveyor belt you get reward but where is the RISK?.

May I suggest mining?

yeah cause when i think of the old mechanism (kill rats with setup that has no chance of dying, orbit can waiting for rng to come up "open sesame", open can) I think "FUN and replayable"

i am getting sad just thinking about not being able to orbit a can waiting on an rng anymore

i tried orbiting a gsc while rolling dice but it just wasn't the same

Is it more fun and engaging than PvPing on one screen while earning a bit of ISK from your alt?

All PVE in this game is repetitive and boring if you do it enough (because it is against the computer, not a thinking human). This annoying little game is no different - it just happens to be shiny and new. Sort of like the first couple of Level 4 missions you ran... they were scary and exciting. Then you did 10000 more and wanted to gouge your eyes out.

Congrats, CCP. You have completely destroyed hacking/archaeology.

The modules are not even required. Just right-click and select open cargo. Get bacon. One person on the test server hadn't even realized there was a new mini-game because it was not required to open the containers.

Honeypots are totally broken. They will indefinitely buff the defenses without limit, making the game totally and completely impossible to win. They are supposed to be repair modules, not infinite defense buffs. Only allow them to repair up to the original amount of the defense's HP. As they are now, you absolutely must pop them, which makes them into virus power sinks.

The grpahics were so badly bugged as to make the game almost unplayable. Lines and nodes didn't line up. Clicking would sometimes require dozens of attmepts for anything to change. When a defense of some kind would suddenly spawn, I would fall right into it because, OMG CLICKING!

When I was able to get to the core, I found it odd that by spam-clicking, the outer circle of the core would gradually shrink and disappear. Does this signify something? Was somethign supposed to happen? Also, as I got to within one shot of popping the core, the entire game would simply stop responding and nothing more would happen. I could still click on stuff. But nothing would ever change or give me any indication of success or failure. Message? What up? Did I just get back-hacked or something? idgi.

Right, now on to the good stuff. The tools look and work well. I would like to see an offense buff in addition to the HP repair, temp invulnerable shield, and attack tool. This would make a nice balance to the available tools.

I want to conclude by saying that I appreciate CCP's efforts on this. But this new game needs a lot more work. It needs to at least be capable of rewarding success properly, and not be completely optional and broken as it is now. Tie the elements together so that they are working as you want us to experience them. Right now, it doesn't work at all. I can't imagine releasing it as it is now. The forums rage would, however, be spectacular.

What "player skill" is being rewarded with the new mini game? From what I can tell by the few times I've payed it the mini game is just clicking on all the nodes you can until everything is blocked then just picking a "blocker" to crack, but since everything is random within the game there really isn't a "strategy" (or skill) to it.

Now it is more "complex" if you define complexity by having to make a few dozen more clicks (and mouse movements) to do the same thing you could before. Now to do a hacking site you must click on the can, move over and click Dscan, move back to click a node, move over and click Dscan, move back to click a node, move over over and click Dscan, move back to click a node, move over and click Dscan, move back to click a node, throw your mouse through the monitor. I though PI tought you guys not to make clickfests?

Now you did find a way to require more than one person to do this, by making the people who have been doing exploration (mostly solo players) feel they are loosing out in loot now.

If the site have a time limit will I get more time doing it if Time Dilation is active?

I sorta feel the dumping down from the new scanning change, getting this probes just right was a challenge.

On the other hand this mechanic is being used as a corridor to more accessible content

So I hope that the hacking does require some skill to compensate for this

I guess we will have to be un cloaked to hack?

it would be great to hack a pos/poco/station/ihub to get its reinforce timer.

should at least work great with poses. because you have to win the minigame and keep the hacking ship alive against the pos guns.

for sov stuff and pocos some kind of capital hacking module which requires a sieged carrier or dread would be nice :D
could be a nice role for blackops too.

There is nothing stopping people running these things solo still, we want to encourage, not force some cooperation.

If you like suspect flags stealing people's scattered containers sounds like a good way to get one. ;)