Originally by: Space Wanderer

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Originally by: BeanBagKing

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Wait, what? They didn't convey a change in formula at all, there was no "not very well" about it.

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That's not entirely true. The second I read that more than four probes would contribute to the scan results I set out to find the new formula. That was a more fundamental change than many people are aware.

Originally by: BeanBagKing

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So now that this has been noticed, instead of just posting "oh yea, woops" mind telling us how they changed?

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I doubt they will. They never released a single scanning formula. You'll have to wait until it is reverse engineered by players (i'm on it), as it happened with the previous formula. Only last time we were forewarned that scanning changes were coming, so we reverse engineered it on SISI and were able to post it as soon as apochrypha was released. This time I wasn't aware of the change, so gotta take a little time.

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Originally by: CCP Veritas

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They changed...a lot. We never released the details of the old formulas, I don't see any reason to change that. Consider it a fun puzzle, like sorting out quantum mechanics.

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Originally by: Herzog Wolfhammer

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As an explorer I say: Thanks!

I don't log in for an easy game. Never knew or cared for the formula anyway and exploration was getting too easy for the nooblings. That other game that gives quick gratification for little effort is always taking new subscribers so if anybody does not like it, contract your stuff to me.

Exploration got harder. Period. So there is no more un-scannable T3 but now it's not just any zit-popping griefer who will be able to scan one down. The phat loot sites that were originally hard to scan may well have gotten harder. So not just any monkey with 4 probes and lvl 4 in everything with a cheap launcher is going to get it.

Nothing here is departing from the concepts of the game: nobody is having an "I WIN" button, and rewards are not coming cheaper either. All good.

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Originally by: Space Wanderer

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Frankly, I find most of the replies in this thread disgusting.

When apochrypha came out there were many threads out there trying to find out the ins and outs of probing. The usual quota of "it's too hard!" (sic! ) was there but most of the people were trying to understand the new mechanics and it was a really fun discussion.

What do I see now? A single thread full of self-styled "explorers", some of them not even knowing the basics of the old scan formula, and crying to be spoonfed. In the middle of that, few voices that actually try to exchange information, drowned in the noise of people shouting "gimmegimmegimme".

I am seriously tempted to not write down the formula even if I mamage to derive it. But after all I am pretty sure that most of those who didn't bother to learn the previous the previous formula will bother even less with the new one (it's more complex) so it's probably not an issue.

Still CCP, I agree with those who say that this is your fault. You spoonfeed people, and then you are surprised when they shout "gimme" at every occasion?

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