So I ran about 10 ghost sites so far, from lesser to superior (5 of those). and here is my feedback:


1- these sites are complete garbage, literally, 2 cans are empty (or have 10x random mineral), a can will have 1x scrap metal, and the last can may or may not contain something, 5/10 times it was empty.

2- the risk vs reward is absolute garbage. the sites have very high risk with explosions and web/scrams, but the reward is most of the time garbage.

3- the rarity of these sites combined with the random and often low value of contents is not justifiable.

4- ghost sites are very rare, making their content expensive, having a low drop rate on a rare site will make stuff way too expensive. the game might not have a single full ascendancy implant set for months!

5- ascendancy implants are going to be ridiculously expensive. PVPers wont use them because of that, and the only PVErs who could need them are a niche of freighter pilots, and then again half of those afk pilot so they don't care about warp speed.

6- The above applies to the meta mobile depots.

are an interesting idea, but these implants are only a perk. their rarity will make them very expensive, which means pvp players are never going to buy them, and the advantage in warp speed is not big enough to encourage anyone to spend billions just to warp faster.

my suggestions to salvage this disaster:

1- make a GUARANTEED valuable loot in EVERY container, so that players have to make a decision which ones to hack and which to leave, since most of the time rats will spawn on the 2nd hack, OR bring a friend and encourage teamwork.

2- make ascendancy implants CHEAP, to encourage both pvpers and pvers to spend their isk on them.
3- make the meta mobile depots affordable.

The two points above can be remedied by a simple solution:
- make each site have 100% drop rate for 1 implant bpc, and 1 depot bpc
- make each bpc have 20 runs

the two suggestions above won't make the contents cheap because ghost sites are still very rare, and rats still destroy cans.

4- let the sites have random relevant faction content from the highest data sites. so a serpentis ghost site should have a percentage to drop every item that normally drops from serpentis data sites, such as faction tower bpcs and implants. maybe even a few faction mods as well.