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CCP Bayesian, you owe me a new mouse. My left click is almost completely burned out due to the hacking mini game and can spew. Here is the mouse I use.

Frigates in the hubs is an issue for lower skilled pilots who used to run them in nagas and talos, this character specifically is my ishtar guy and normally would be doing some pve when theres no warfleets out but is also my Oneiros guy so is actively deployed to a warzone.

After Odyssey I tried Forsaken Hubs and didnt have a problem running them, although the payout seems to have decreased slightly, perhaps caused by the addition of elite frigates vs. whatever was there before and I also tried Sanctums, which according to patch notes were supposed to be buffed slightly? I didn't notice any remarkable differences there either which left me feeling a bit disenchanted with ALL the changes given that Sanctums take almost twice as long to run than a hub.

Whereas before, during wars I would actively jump clone back and forth to get some pve in during downtimes, with the changes to 0.0 anomalies it just doesnt seem worth it.

Honestly the bit about forsaken hubs was just sad. Yes the frigate change would make a difference and the fact that the entire West side of the map (where the hubs are) is in Fountain trying to destroy each other.

Next you'll have a dev blog telling us more ships are blowing up since Odyssey, I wonder why that would be...

Seriously though how bout some war stats.

There needs to be a much larger number of sites to find. Currently a small number of people (literally like 10 people) can completely consume all the exploration sites in an entire region. Needs to be more sites and they need to spawn more rapidly. Also hacking/data sites are pretty unrewarding on average, I'm happy when I find an archaeology site but not so much a data site. Probing changes and the minigame are pretty great though.

I don't mind loot scattering, because literally half the cans contain garbage anyway and while the goal may have been to encourage teaming, it ends up being an extra layer of decision making/a reason to fit a cargo scanner. If you were guaranteed time enough to be able to collect all the loot spew, then order wouldn't matter, it'd just be brainless clicking. At least there's a little snap decision making required as it is.

I don't think I saw anything other than green spewing 'cans' from the 2-ish data sites we ran in our class 2 wormhole.
I'd be interested to know the 'drop chances' in different regions of K-space, versus the different classes of W-space.

I'd be interested in seeing the severe drop in WH grav sites being run since they became insta-scans.

Just saying that it's all we do anymore because it's fun, as in it's enough on its own to entertain us. There's other things that are fun too, it's just our favourite now and pretty much the main thing we do.

Just letting the devs know that the new system is something new players have enjoyed most out of the initial moneymaking careers (high sec missions, low sec ratting, mining, and trading).

What I want to see are numbers of mining ships killed, then number of players in nullsec, then total players in game.

Bet the first goes up sharply after Odyssey, the second falls sharply in week 2, and the last is now falling as subs taper off.

This patch dumbed down pvp because you no longer need to scan down ore sites to find miners. You only need to be able to warp to them faster than they can react, which works well if you are in an interceptor and they are not using third party alarm programmes to warn them and take them to warp at computer speed. In short, the 'scanning' changes meant miners getting slaughtered - so much so that whole alliances have indeed exited nullsec.

From my perspective, Odyssey has equated to unacceptable delays and loss of service, removal of skill from exploration, increased slaughter of miners, and a continuation of the trend towards an overall dumbing down of the game. As I commented ingame to friends, hurry up and give us playable pandas already.

Thanks for the r64s and the new hafnium bottleneck, now that the major alliances have something to fight over all the independent alliances in null have been pretty much completely screwed, many of whom have like Solar wisely did pre-patch, now exited nullsec to the huge detriment of the game. Come on CCP, stop patting yourselves on the back for what from your own statistics shows a peak corresponding to novelty trial, and then a quick slip back to 'ho hum bored now' gameplay.

Odyessy to me is currently stacking up as a massive failure and own-goal. The nullsec changes have done only one thing - made it impossible for anyone who does not have capitals to play there. Yes there have been massive capital ship losses lately - but that's all good, when the war is done we will likely see *only one* alliance ruling all of nullsec, and most of nulslec will be just as it was before the patch - empty of players, with a few extraction POS on the good moons every 12 systems. Seriously CCP, fix the map or watch your market share slip away to new space empire games who have better maps to play on. It is a truism of online games - bad map makes a bad game, and the current map has been hurting this game for years. Stop window dressing the rotting mannikin, and fix the map. You should not need 8 jump cal 5 jumps to get to various parts of nullsec. If you want real exploration and real player movement to null, fix the map.

I used to regularly run forsaken hubs before Odyssey. Since Odyssey, I've run zero.

Or maybe even play the part of the game you're blogging about!