Atomic Option
Taggart Transdimensional
Virtue of Selfishness
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Posted - 2013.05.24 22:21:00 -
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I just tried a couple of sites in Sansha null. Hacking skill is only level 3  so it was expectedly hard. Found a site in a WH but wasn't equipped to clear it.
Thoughts:
- Love the hacking minigame. Agree with others that it still has some filling out to do, but it definitely has lots of potential.
- Didn't find an Archeology to try, but short of coming up with a completely different mini-game (probably way out of scope) you could easily differentiate it by flavoring them differently. Make one movement, sequence, and puzzle based and leave the other tactical virus combat based. Not sure how hard it would be to dynamically generate genuinely challenging puzzles for the logic and movement based version. Giving them different looking UIs and naming the elements of the minigame differently would help too.
- Agree that loot vomit isn't fun or sensical.
 It was an interesting idea, but I tried it and didn't care for it. One thing that could make it less annoying would be to have the loot not go far enough to require the ship to move or let the tractor beam reach far enough to hit any of the loot before it despawns. That way people won't feel they MUST always use a nano'd frigate to explore. It'd still require precision d-clicking and friends to get everything but would remove some of the frantic panic of figuring out which group of suicidal fart particles to go after.
As a sociable alternative I liked the "multiple people concurrently hacking increases loot" ideas posted earlier as long as it doesn't make solo play too inferior. I prefer to do PVE solo about as often as with friends because there's less time commitment and it can be more spontaneous.
- Shouldn't be able to re-cloak while hacking module is active.
- As Wasilah said, sites despawning when you warp out doesn't make sense. It kinda ruins the immersion. The site should despawn after all the containers are hacked AND you warp out. Loot should despawn with the site to get rid of the behavior we see in current DED sites where you blap the leader, BM the wreck, warp out, site despawns, warp back and grab the loot unmolested.
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