I particularly liked the idea of telling people what fat loot they didn't manage to scoop, just to twist the knife.

To make it feel more immersive and hackish can we have an optionally used command line added to the minigame ui? It could have basic commands to play the game in addition to the point and click:

ls - list adjacent nodes and the contents of the current node
cd node - move to an adjacent node
rm core - destroy a core
./utility - use a utility
tar datacache - decrypt a datacache

etc.

I'm not understanding this, or what I'm supposed to do with this. Where am I starting? Where am I ending? Do I just click randomly on it? Is it a 'how many clicks to the center of the ship' sort of thing? Or is it a click-drag sort of thing where you attempt to link as many nodes as possible in one click?

Even better, make whole eve playable from a console! This is the future, nobody clicks on things in the future.

I'm curious to hear CCPs opinion of mining which is pretty much a "sit and wait" activity, at least in high sec, where you settle down and flick on the miners and tab out or sink into a good book or whatever while you wait for the asteroid to deplete or cargo bay fill up.

We were actually prototyping a lot of new ideas for mining. Hence the team name Prototyping Rocks both because errr, we like prototyping and were looking a mining when the team formed. ;)

At Fanfest this year I gave a hungover presentation about our prototyping and demoed a bunch of Mining prototypes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qmUIDlMmQE

I'm intrigued at how CCP comes up with what features need more interaction, and what needs less. Salvaging gets more passive with the addition of salvaging drones, while hacking and archaeology get more interactive with this new mechanic. Mining is as yet, untouched for 10 years now.

Should throw this into dust hacking. Hold still a few more seconds little tin man while I lock on.

Again, are COSMOS and wormhole sites hacking mechanics being changed too?

So there will be helpfull sound cues? I like it but as I notice sound often just quits in EVE & I play with a few deaf pilots so I hope the aural element isn't 100% indepenant.

ALSO: EVE HAS SOUND

As it is right now, there is a chance that a hacking/archeology can will be completely empty. Is there going to be any change to this, or is there always going to be a loot barf?

Also, I'm assuming you are going to change the "Loot Jettison Imminent" to "Cargo Jettison Imminent". (immersion/EVE is real/etc.)

We were actually prototyping a lot of new ideas for mining. Hence the team name Prototyping Rocks both because errr, we like prototyping and were looking a mining when the team formed. ;)

At Fanfest this year I gave a hungover presentation about our prototyping and demoed a bunch of Mining prototypes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qmUIDlMmQE

Alright, question: If you start hacking and then activate your cloak, what will happen?

If I play the hacking minigame and fail, then start again on the same site: will it be the same game, with the same node layout, the same firewalls, and so on? If someone else comes into my site and hacks the same site: will they see the same game, with the same node layout, the same firewalls, and so on?

Please please let us hack abandoned POSes, POS modules, and anchored cans. (It's annoying to remove a dead POS from a WH system, and even worse removing one from HS.) I'm sure the Null Sec guys would like to be able to hack abandoned Sov structures, POSes and the like. FW could use some hackable site or modules as a break from orbiting things. Lastly it would be great to be able to hack player owned custom offices in LS, NS, and WH as it is it's very painful and boring for small groups to siege them. With things like active Sov structures, and Customs Offices there really should a timer, and multiple hack attempts involved. I can see massive battles shaping up around the structure, everyone reping the poor SOB in the hacking BS/Capital Ship, hero tanking bumpers....

Please remove the loot bukkake.

Maybe make it so that if I fail the minigame, the cans explode into space and I still have a chance of getting some loot if I fly around and collect it before it disappears. But if I succeed at the minigame, I get to access all the loot without having to chase it down.

You are hacking into a control system - i.e. not using normal access channels. The only way you get control of the loot is to trick the system into ejecting the goods. If you fail the hack, nothing happens.

its not like you're guessing a luggage password, limited to 3 numerals, and if you can't guess the number you just hit the luggage with a hammer.