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Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:28:00 -
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So; I have just finished doing my 13th exploration site since the patch went live today. This was after finding out that there was no promised devblog on how to collect the loot or what loot will be dropped (check TMC if you want a useful guide).
As it stands; I have counted just how many clicks it has taken me to do all the sites and the total amount of loot gained from it.
For *just* the hacking minigame + loot collection of these 13 nullsec sites (good nullsec space too, mind you) - I have clicked 8,580 times.
For a grand total of approximately 65mil loot.
Speaking as someone who has once clocked up over 90 hours in one week playing CSS - I'm no stranger to lots of clicking.
Today, however, my finger hurts.
At an average of 165 clicks per can in a site (hacking AND loot collection) ; with an average of 4 cans per site AND making sure to collect all of the 'data' containers first, everything else second and scraps last - this new 'hacking' mechanic I would have to click 72,930 times to afford a single plex.
I won't be able to sustain 3x accounts from running these new sites. Neither will I want to. This decision is worse than the pointless Captains Quarters. Any game designer that thinks going from maybe a few hundred clicks a month to to over 72,000 is 'fun' is not a game designer of a game I want to play.
This doesn't even include the frustration of completing 95% of the hacking minigame only to find it impossible to finish. Or when you start and almost immediately find it impossible. Or when; after your second attempt at the same can, the can explodes giving you nothing.
Best bit - did you know that you have to click on the new little cans that explode? The ones that don't show up on your overview at all? Yeah; you also have to search through them as they fly away and flash at you to try and find the 'slightly less worthless' ones. Eve has always been historically great at searching through lots of quickly moving things in space and somehow managing to click the correct ones without having a static table of information on your overview amrite?
Dear CCP,
**** you.
Sincerely,
My finger. |

Natasi01
Hoover Inc. Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:32:00 -
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agreed yo |

Kordran Ke'Azir
PonyWaffe Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:33:00 -
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Sorry, but if you're only getting 4 cans, you suck the balls.
I'm averaging 6 with 7 occasionally attainable.
I've not worked out the full amount gained yet, but I've pulled about 70 mill in T2 salvage alone.
Stop grabbing the scrap cans, you scrub and go for all the others.
Also, stop bitching about something new that you clearly don't know how to use properly yet. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:34:00 -
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Kordran Ke'Azir wrote:Sorry, but if you're only getting 4 cans, you suck the balls.
I'm averaging 6 with 7 occasionally attainable.
I've not worked out the full amount gained yet, but I've pulled about 70 mill in T2 salvage alone.
Stop grabbing the scrap cans, you scrub and go for all the others.
Also, stop bitching about something new that you clearly don't know how to use properly yet.
Sorry - that was an average of 4 cans given how most of the 'mag' sites I've done have had a single can. Also; if I don't know how to use it properly - it clearly isn't noob friendly RIGHT?! :D |

Faife
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:35:00 -
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I like the part where CCP owes you a simple easy way to fund 3 accounts for free. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:39:00 -
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Faife wrote:I like the part where CCP owes you a simple easy way to fund 3 accounts for free.
Nothing to do with simple or easy; my 6bil nightmare/loki combo + knowledge, experience and effort of flying finding and doing mag sites in null used to be enough.
Now that is irrelevant; it has to be 72k clicks per account - skills needed? Basically none, ships needed? A frigate (I've been using a loki btw) Erm time needed? About 10 billion hours as opposed to the 10 I used to do a month. |

Korban Askiras
Character Purchase
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:42:00 -
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You should quit. Clearly they broke the winning of Eve. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:44:00 -
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Korban Askiras wrote:You should quit. Clearly they broke the winning of Eve.
It's the design direction I have the problem with - to think that going from X ease to Y ridonkulous difficulty for less than a 10th of what you got before is 'fun' especially when it's got almost nothing to do with skill or knowledge of the game. |

Ireland VonVicious
Vendetta Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:48:00 -
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I have clicked 8,580 times.
Really? You counted that?
You have too much time on your hands and CCP knows it.
Good thing they found a way to keep you busy. |

Korban Askiras
Character Purchase
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:52:00 -
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Well, I have a problem with people complaining about new features that "break my fun".
They removed rats from the Exploration/Data sites, you can do it in a Heron now, cheaply. The fact that it makes it non-elite for you and your 6Bill ship is irrelevant.
I am sick and tired of hearing people on channels and the forums griping about how CCP is making everything "HARD". Wahhh!!!!! You just want to warp in, open a can and collect 100M and warp out. But everyone else should have to work for it, right? Miners? PVPers? |

Cutsy Wutsy
Zerglingz United
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:53:00 -
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Kordran Ke'Azir wrote:Sorry, but if you're only getting 4 cans, you suck the balls.
I'm averaging 6 with 7 occasionally attainable.
I've not worked out the full amount gained yet, but I've pulled about 70 mill in T2 salvage alone (from 10 sites)
Stop grabbing the scrap cans, you scrub and go for all the others.
Also, stop bitching about something new that you clearly don't know how to use properly yet.
I don't know what sites you were doing, but you understand that certain null mag sites used to yeld me from 60m to 200m+ pre Oddysey PER SITE. If its Gurista or Serp sites you were doing, and you are happy for 70m from 10 sites then im just gonna stop exploration couse its hillarious how bad it it for is making.
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Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:53:00 -
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Ireland VonVicious wrote: I have clicked 8,580 times.
Really? You counted that?
You have too much time on your hands and CCP knows it.
Good thing they found a way to keep you busy.
I didn't count all of them, I counted half the cans in half the sites as a reasonable sample then multiplied it from there. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:54:00 -
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Korban Askiras wrote:Well, I have a problem with people complaining about new features that "break my fun".
They removed rats from the Exploration/Data sites, you can do it in a Heron now, cheaply. The fact that it makes it non-elite for you and your 6Bill ship is irrelevant.
I am sick and tired of hearing people on channels and the forums griping about how CCP is making everything "HARD". Wahhh!!!!! You just want to warp in, open a can and collect 100M and warp out. But everyone else should have to work for it, right? Miners? PVPers?
No dude, it has nothing to do with that at all. I could do them with a heron before actually. Only now it's worthless, time consuming and ridiculously click-intensive. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 21:56:00 -
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Cutsy Wutsy wrote:Kordran Ke'Azir wrote:Sorry, but if you're only getting 4 cans, you suck the balls.
I'm averaging 6 with 7 occasionally attainable.
I've not worked out the full amount gained yet, but I've pulled about 70 mill in T2 salvage alone (from 10 sites)
Stop grabbing the scrap cans, you scrub and go for all the others.
Also, stop bitching about something new that you clearly don't know how to use properly yet. I don't know what sites you were doing, but you understand that certain null mag sites used to yeld me from 60m to 200m+ pre Oddysey PER SITE. If its Gurista or Serp sites you were doing, and you are happy for 70m from 10 sites then im just gonna stop exploration couse its hillarious how bad it it for ISK making.
In case you hadn't guessed, I do know how the old sites used to work. I also did a mixture of the new radar/mag sites - enough to get a general idea of how they work and how the loot is distributed. Unless I'm missing out on one holy grail of sites that always drops tons of loot then my sample is enough. |

Cutsy Wutsy
Zerglingz United
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:00:00 -
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Staavross wrote:Cutsy Wutsy wrote:Kordran Ke'Azir wrote:Sorry, but if you're only getting 4 cans, you suck the balls.
I'm averaging 6 with 7 occasionally attainable.
I've not worked out the full amount gained yet, but I've pulled about 70 mill in T2 salvage alone (from 10 sites)
Stop grabbing the scrap cans, you scrub and go for all the others.
Also, stop bitching about something new that you clearly don't know how to use properly yet. I don't know what sites you were doing, but you understand that certain null mag sites used to yeld me from 60m to 200m+ pre Oddysey PER SITE. If its Gurista or Serp sites you were doing, and you are happy for 70m from 10 sites then im just gonna stop exploration couse its hillarious how bad it it for ISK making. In case you hadn't guessed, I do know how the old sites used to work. I also did a mixture of the new radar/mag sites - enough to get a general idea of how they work and how the loot is distributed. Unless I'm missing out on one holy grail of sites that always drops tons of loot then my sample is enough.
What. |

Korban Askiras
Character Purchase
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:05:00 -
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Staavross wrote:No dude, it has nothing to do with that at all. I could do them with a heron before actually. Only now it's worthless, time consuming and ridiculously click-intensive.
Worthless? I think not. If it were worthless, you wouldn't be complaining about it. Has the average ISK value of loot from a site gone down? It will if you fail a hack, yes, but not when it spawns.
Time consuming? Anything that makes money in the economy will consume your time. The most money-making endeavors seem to be rather boring, if you look at the averages. The exciting stuff tends to pay very little in comparison. PVPers who do only that almost *universally* have to have PVE alts and professions.
Click-intensive? Maybe, but if you didn't have auto-repeat on your pew-pew spitters, you'd be complaining about sore fingers in PVP, too, wouldn't you?
It can use tweaking, maybe, but Exploration is now 10x more accessible than it was before, which means that more people will do it. If anything, CCP is going to be more focused on balancing site spawn rates than mechanics of clicking, because sites are going to become more rare to find, effectively.
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Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:12:00 -
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Korban Askiras wrote:Staavross wrote:No dude, it has nothing to do with that at all. I could do them with a heron before actually. Only now it's worthless, time consuming and ridiculously click-intensive. Worthless? I think not. If it were worthless, you wouldn't be complaining about it. Has the average ISK value of loot from a site gone down? It will if you fail a hack, yes, but not when it spawns. Time consuming? Anything that makes money in the economy will consume your time. The most money-making endeavors seem to be rather boring, if you look at the averages. The exciting stuff tends to pay very little in comparison. PVPers who do only that almost *universally* have to have PVE alts and professions. Click-intensive? Maybe, but if you didn't have auto-repeat on your pew-pew spitters, you'd be complaining about sore fingers in PVP, too, wouldn't you? It can use tweaking, maybe, but Exploration is now 10x more accessible than it was before, which means that more people will do it. If anything, CCP is going to be more focused on balancing site spawn rates than mechanics of clicking, because sites are going to become more rare to find, effectively.
No you're entirely wrong. The amount of clicks in PVP even without auto-fire is nothing short of a fraction of the amount that the new sites need. Also - the new hacking sites are LUCK based so the total amount of loot has dropped significantly when you factor in if the site is actually possible/how likely anyone is to complete it.
Exploration is accessible yeah, it's also worthless to anyone with a char more than a week old.
I HAVE PVE alts, this is a PVE alt. It does other PVE things.
My problem,
As I have said,
The % amount of clicks required has increased so dramatically, whilst the output has also decreased drastically to render it pointless. |

Korban Askiras
Character Purchase
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:22:00 -
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Staavross wrote: THE ENTIRE POINT of EVE is to have fun. Not accessible to everyone but FUN and as accessible to everyone it can be whilst still being FUN.
This new mechanic is not FUN in any way. It is horrible repetitive and frustrating because of how luck and click intensive it is. Sure it's accessible. But no-one wants to ride the free, accessible ****** bus if you just get repeatedly poked in the eye whilst you ride it.
So go do something else. Let the more patient and tolerant players handle these enraging things.
Hacking a site is not really luck intensive if you have help. Have 3 people picking up cans next time, like the devs recommended in the videos. Further, it is not 'luck' if (just like with everything in Eve) you are properly skilled to the level that the sites are geared toward.
You watch, in the coming weeks, there will be sites with data popping up on fansites that list numbers of Firewalls in each pattern, Utilities, etc. When that happens (like it did with Anoms, Wormholes, everything else "grind" related), you will see that your 70,000 clicks is highly exaggerated.
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Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:26:00 -
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Korban Askiras wrote:Staavross wrote: THE ENTIRE POINT of EVE is to have fun. Not accessible to everyone but FUN and as accessible to everyone it can be whilst still being FUN.
This new mechanic is not FUN in any way. It is horrible repetitive and frustrating because of how luck and click intensive it is. Sure it's accessible. But no-one wants to ride the free, accessible ****** bus if you just get repeatedly poked in the eye whilst you ride it.
So go do something else. Let the more patient and tolerant players handle these enraging things. Hacking a site is not really luck intensive if you have help. Have 3 people picking up cans next time, like the devs recommended in the videos. Further, it is not 'luck' if (just like with everything in Eve) you are properly skilled to the level that the sites are geared toward. You watch, in the coming weeks, there will be sites with data popping up on fansites that list numbers of Firewalls in each pattern, Utilities, etc. When that happens (like it did with Anoms, Wormholes, everything else "grind" related), you will see that your 70,000 clicks is highly exaggerated.
Your argument "YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT AND TOLERANT FOR FUN DURR!!!""""
My argument: "Going from being patient to wait for a random drop to having to do a ton of **** for less than a 10th of what the random drop used to be, and you're much more likely to get nothing at all is less fun"
Also I forgot to mention - I was dualboxing and most of the time missed only 1 or 2 cans. I only counted the value of one character though, since the 2nd character got even less and going from 50-300mil a site on one character to about 80mil a site for two is silly. |

Kordran Ke'Azir
PonyWaffe Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:38:00 -
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Simple answer - stop crying about being completely **** at hacking/archaeology and go do something else.
If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. There's plenty more for you to do.
I've been playing around with this on and off since I patched and I've got 3-4 other people in corp doing it because it's addictively fun.
Don't take this whiny brat's "I can't do it so it's clearly not fun at all" attitude and try for yourself. It's not going to be for everyone, but there will be plenty opf people that do enjoy doing it. |

Staavross
Nex Exercitus Raiden.
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Posted - 2013.06.04 22:50:00 -
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Kordran Ke'Azir wrote:Simple answer - stop crying about being completely **** at hacking/archaeology and go do something else.
If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. There's plenty more for you to do.
I've been playing around with this on and off since I patched and I've got 3-4 other people in corp doing it because it's addictively fun.
Don't take this whiny brat's "I can't do it so it's clearly not fun at all" attitude and try for yourself. It's not going to be for everyone, but there will be plenty opf people that do enjoy doing it.
Please either read what I'm writing or don't bother replying.
My point is the design direction and how I feel let down by it. It's not that "I can't do it" clearly I can, you ******. My problem is that to me that isn't "fun" with friends. If your idea of "fun" with friends is to click a metric fuckton and then your friend clicks a bit to scoop up some **** then you Sir need to find some better multiplayer games to play.
My idea of 'fun' with friends is working towards something that is difficult yet rewarding. Of which the new hacking mechanic is neither.
It is, however, incredibly frustrating. |

Haulin Gneiss
sweet riders
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Posted - 2013.06.04 23:09:00 -
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Korban Askiras wrote:Well, I have a problem with people complaining about new features that "break my fun".
They removed rats from the Exploration/Data sites, you can do it in a Heron now, cheaply. The fact that it makes it non-elite for you and your 6Bill ship is irrelevant.
I am sick and tired of hearing people on channels and the forums griping about how CCP is making everything "HARD". Wahhh!!!!! You just want to warp in, open a can and collect 100M and warp out. But everyone else should have to work for it, right? Miners? PVPers?
Mute= Alt +f4. look into it. |

Ashterothi
Aideron Robotics
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Posted - 2013.06.04 23:31:00 -
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Staavross wrote:
THE ENTIRE POINT of EVE is to have fun. Not accessible to everyone but FUN and as accessible to everyone it can be whilst still being FUN.
I think I have found the flaw in your argument. Aideron Robotics is hiring for the Gallente Federation war effort! https://www.aideronrobotics.com/wiki/Applying |

Braldt Ironeye
Tri Dee Dana
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Posted - 2013.06.05 00:07:00 -
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Except from the Hacking in Odyssey Devblog found here.
"In other words, to remove the "sit and wait" aspect of Exploration gameplay and replace it with something interesting to do."
Call me mental, but if their own words are to say "we don't want you to sit there and do nothing while you wait for the module to finish", then why in the heck would they expect you to bring someone else with you?
You've gone from yourself waiting for the module, to your friend waiting for you to 1.) finish doing the mini-game, 2.) hoping it doesn't blow up in your face, and 3.) hoping the boxes don't fly off in the wrong direction, simply so they can double click flying little blips.
End result, someone is still ends up waiting.
Sorry, but the argument of 'just bring a friend to gather the boxes" doesn't fly. |

Haulin Gneiss
sweet riders
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Posted - 2013.06.05 00:12:00 -
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Kordran Ke'Azir wrote: it's addictively fun..
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Johan Toralen
Clockwork X3
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Posted - 2013.06.05 00:30:00 -
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I agree the clicking in nullsec sites is extreme. I wrote in the test forum they should go for smaller grid where more time is spent on thinking about strategic moves instead.
Your loot average sounds pretty low to me tho. I think you missed out on a lot of goodies because you have to get used to the loot spew first and learn which cans to chose. |

Mnemosyne Gloob
Acerbus Vindictum Stealth Wear Inc.
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Posted - 2013.06.05 04:24:00 -
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Staavross wrote:my 6bil nightmare/loki combo + knowledge, experience and effort of flying finding and doing mag sites in null used to be enough.
Thats sure some bling for just doing prof sites man.
Kinda agree about the klickfest tho.
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Markus Navarro
Osmon Integrated Robotics
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Posted - 2013.06.05 04:49:00 -
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It hasn't yet been said ?
Damn, I am impressed. I shall do this myself, some things are universal, and they must be done.
Can i have your stuff ?
I sell drones and drones accessories. |

Nav illus
Blackwater Swat. Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2013.06.05 05:15:00 -
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Push button, get bacon. simple. We get significantly less bacon now though..  |

Moth Eisig
The Trident Brotherhood
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Posted - 2013.06.05 14:25:00 -
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Braldt Ironeye wrote:Except from the Hacking in Odyssey Devblog found here. "In other words, to remove the "sit and wait" aspect of Exploration gameplay and replace it with something interesting to do." Call me mental, but if their own words are to say "we don't want you to sit there and do nothing while you wait for the module to finish", then why in the heck would they expect you to bring someone else with you? You've gone from yourself waiting for the module, to your friend waiting for you to 1.) finish doing the mini-game, 2.) hoping it doesn't blow up in your face, and 3.) hoping the boxes don't fly off in the wrong direction, simply so they can double click flying little blips. End result, someone is still ends up waiting. Sorry, but the argument of 'just bring a friend to gather the boxes" doesn't fly.
Not only that, but all the best loot is in just a few containers of a certain type. You can bring a friend into the site with you if you want, but odds are good that one of you will end up with mostly worthless loot anyhow, so why risk letting someone else grab the data containers? If the intent were to make sites more group friendly, it would have worked a lot better to even out the container content value. |
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