I would like to say thank you for working on new PVE content... i am happy to here you have new back room tools that should allow not only enhancements to current PVE conent but all the addition of new content!

big high five from me!

hello there CCP Affinity .

i don't do sites so i won't comment on that part;

what i will comment on is the implant set and the time when this set will become available:

atm, on test server small ships are warping so fast, that the d- scan is becoming almost worthless;
there are several topics right on this subforum, where ppl are complaining that small tackle just "pop" right next to your ship, at about the same time they appear on your d-scaner, or even faster in some cases;

so, adding such an implant set, right at this moment will imbalance things even more?!
now, if someone at CCP considered this scenario, and concluded this is a good thing for eve, i can live with that.
but i'm more inclined to think that that noone did, since this change is a bad one, esp for wh space, where d- scan is one of the most important surviving tools ppl have

So the implants give a 53.6% increase in warp speed. Im not really sure how the new warp acceleration works but my question is: does this affect warp acceleration as well or just warp speed?
In other words: is warp acceleration proportional to the ship type or the warp speed? i.e. do warp speed rigs and implants also affect acceleration or is it just a new fixed number for each ship class?

Two questions.

First, will the can blow up (or otherwise be inaccessible) when the spawn happens? Can I hack it while the spawn is present, if I can tank the spawn? Can I trigger the site, wait around 20 minutes, then fly in and kill everything, and then hack the can?

Second, what sort of spawn is it? I live in wspace; we make most of our living off of killing sleepers. My assumption is that the spawn will be of the already-known sleeper types, such that it will be equally profitable as those types in current PVE sites. (Please correct that if I am wrong.) Will the spawn be relatively nasty for the wspace level (like a radar site)? Will it be easy for the wspace level (like gas/rocks)? Or it will it be comparable to an anom at that level?

stfu and hrtfu... i hate entitled players like you!

When the NPCs appear, the cans will explode (and potentially do damage to nearby player ships)

They will be pirate spawns with no bounty - not NPCs there for farming

Another quick question: the cans will be scannable ?

Yes, they will.

Will they have normal loot and salvage? Specifically, for sleepers: will you implement a new type of sleeper (or perhaps a flag on existing types) that disables the normal generation of blue loot?

I don't see any problem with farming them, except that you seem to intend otherwise. Can you explain what the reasoning is?

They will have no loot - they will be standard pirate NPCs with no bounty or loot. The sites are freely available to everyone with a chance of very valuable loot - thematically the NPCs are there to stop you getting access to the loot and would rather blow up the containers than have you receive anything. When the timer expires, the NPCs will appear and a minute or two later the cans will explode - if you wish to take your chances and tank the NPCs to give yourself an extra few minutes to continue hacking then that is a choice you will have to make knowing that if they damage you too much, the exploding can may kill you.

because one of the rampant issue in eve is the inflation caused by bigger and bigger faucets

Yes, was announced at EVE Vegas

Good morning all!

I wanted to chime in on the implant set.


The set will follow the standard pirate high-grade sets.
All implants will provide a +3 in their respective Character Attribute.
We chose high-grades over low-grades due to the rarity level we wanted them to be at
The ingredients will be a mix of PI materials, some trit and items dropped from the ghost sites
The implants can be manufactured in all stations that have manufacturing lines and in Equipment Assembly Arrays
The current total bonus to warp speed is 53.6% with all 6 slots (Alpha-Omega)
The current stats might not be the final numbers as we want to look at over-all speeds and make sure it's not breaking something unexpected. (Everything is still WIP obviously)



Overall I believe this implant set will be a nice additional choice for you to make, but we obviously want to make sure things aren't breaking.

CCP Fear

Implant set is ill timed. The effects of the warp speed changes on the pvp meta are still unknown. Introducing a warpspeed pirate set at the same time has the potential to create a game breaking defect.

Why is this a high-grade set? The minor factions only got LG sets since - official explanation at the time - this was their first venture into advanced implant technology. Now the first player built implant will start as a HG t2 implant set?

Will the implant BPCs have proper skill requirements or the usual "well, here you go, Industry I. Congratulations, you can now produce 75% of everything that exists?" ******* the production profession had to endure over the last decade?

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what will be the isk sink to match the isk faucet those sites will create?

because one of the rampant issue in eve is the inflation caused by bigger and bigger faucets

There will be no ISK createt from this sites as you sell the items to players and not to npc's

there is still isk entering the system from a source not a player, theres no isk sink inherently attached, but i can imagine people losing these will be costly.

They will have no loot - they will be standard pirate NPCs with no bounty or loot. The sites are freely available to everyone with a chance of very valuable loot - thematically the NPCs are there to stop you getting access to the loot and would rather blow up the containers than have you receive anything. When the timer expires, the NPCs will appear and a minute or two later the cans will explode - if you wish to take your chances and tank the NPCs to give yourself an extra few minutes to continue hacking then that is a choice you will have to make knowing that if they damage you too much, the exploding can may kill you.

what will be the isk sink to match the isk faucet those sites will create?

because one of the rampant issue in eve is the inflation caused by bigger and bigger faucets

They will have no loot - they will be standard pirate NPCs with no bounty or loot. The sites are freely available to everyone with a chance of very valuable loot - thematically the NPCs are there to stop you getting access to the loot and would rather blow up the containers than have you receive anything. When the timer expires, the NPCs will appear and a minute or two later the cans will explode - if you wish to take your chances and tank the NPCs to give yourself an extra few minutes to continue hacking then that is a choice you will have to make knowing that if they damage you too much, the exploding can may kill you.

Pirates in WH??? I hope there is some good lore explanation for this, otherwise it will not make sense

Then... why isn't this thread in the Features and Ideas Discussion section where all the other new features had their debut threads posted? Having not seen the Eve Vegas announcement, If I had not come to the Test Server Feedback section I would have completely missed out on hearing about this new feature and it's discussion. Is this feature already running on Sisi? Why is this thread in the Test Server Feedback section?



New items? Perhaps unique to the Ghost Sites?
This would appeal to me.
I enjoy manufacturing odd/unique/niche things with odd/unique/niche materials.
It was why manufacturing storyline/cosmos items appealed to me greatly at first, until I found out I could only procure the BPC's through a mission once. I just don't feel like quite the intrepid explorer and artificer when I have to get the special BPC from... someone else through contracts :\

With unique ingredients I would very much look forward to building these but...



I think Mioelnir makes a damning point here.

i understand not having bounties due to isk faucet...

but there should be some sort of drops....

how about brining back alloys mixed with tags?

that way i can get commoditites wich can be traded for isk but no fresh isk added to the game.

i mean even when you do missions and fight navies there are drops and tags.

edit:

you can even make the drops from the npc's be components for manufacturing of the new items.

so npc drops components for manufacturing

the hacking site drops the BPC's...

Pirates in WH??? I hope there is some good lore explanation for this, otherwise it will not make sense

Is it part of the Kspace?

I have been working with CCP Abraxas and there will be a very good lore explanation for everything surrounding these sites and more :)