It's prioritized very highly, in that I am already working on this :) I am currently looking at the income made for each site and we will balance accordingly if we see an issue.

[quote=CCP Falcon]Good afternoon Capsuleers,

watch your market share slip away to new space empire games who have better maps to play on.

I love how exploration works, its pretty clear that it was meant to be easier and faster to scan down a site. But I do have 1 problem or 1 question regarding the hacking sites which seems to be odd in nature.

Questions to the devs : When you successfully complate a hacking minigame and those mini cans are release was it intended to have a "BIG" random chance of loot gathering ?

Before the patch I remember when you hacked a container, you had some loot in your can and that was it. THere was no chance of getting like the current system. Just think about it. you get around 6-10 cans when you hack correctly. At best your cargo scanner on those scans works with a timer of 5 seconds. Given the fact you have to target all containers, scan it, look at the items. At the end it doesn't give you enough time to get the item you want.

Personally, I would love to get a list of items so I can choose what I want. Either because of what I need for production or just pure profit. This current system has way too much chance in it and I don't personally like that since the original one didn't incorporate any chance at all...except for the success cycle of hacking the container.

Prop Wash, you tell me not to mistake correlation for causation and then go on to tell me how the changes we made caused the change in the number of people using one of the sites!

That aside we definitely don't see rising numbers as a compliment but it's one metric amongst many that we do look at to judge the success of a feature against our goals for it.

The changes to scanning aren't something I worked on directly or commented on apart from as an obvious confounding factor in the devblog, so it's not really a topic I can actually address.

It's really bizarre that some people are asking for the probing process to be made more tedious, as it was before this expansion. Forcing people to drop probes in every single system will not make people quit doing probing, it just makes those that do it endure tedious, repetitive, unrewarding activity.

e: I mean I guess some of you hope to drive away the majority of people currently doing it so there will be only a handful of players who can tolerate probing. You probably shouldn't expect CCP to bend over backwards to give you interesting content and at the same time intentionally make it repellent to the great majority of the playerbase but hey who knows.

And seriously there needs to be more sites, more frequently. Traveling 20 jumps through null sec and finding no data/relic sites at all is really pretty terrible and disappointing. At least I get a lot of practice running enemy gatecamps though.