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CCP Fozzie
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Posted - 2013.10.31 20:14:00 -
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Hey guys, small change we're planning for Rubicon that we wanted to let you know about.
At Fanfest this year a player chatting with CCP Masterplan mentioned that there was a lack of good exploration content for new players who decide to go pirate early in their EVE careers. Being locked out of high sec means being locked out of most new player friendly combat exploration. It's something the team has been thinking about since.
So for Rubicon we're making a fairly simple change that will expand most of the highsec combat exploration content (combat anoms, DED complexes and unrated complexes) into lowsec as well. This content will exist alongside the existing lowsec stuff. The new sites will not replace any existing lowsec content or reduce the spawn rate of any existing sites. They will be in addition to the existing spawns.
At the current numbers we have them spawning half as often in lowsec as they do in highsec, and those numbers may increase either before release or in a subsequent point release, depending on the demand we see.
This will mean that those of you running lowsec combat exploration will find new types of sites on your scanner, and many lowsec systems may have a lot of sites. We think that with the scanner it should be easy enough to avoid anoms that aren't worth your time, and many players both new and old will be interested in the loot gained from the 1/10 and 2/10 level signatures. We also like the flavour of low security space being absolutely filled with lots of pirate installations of many shapes and sizes.
This change will be on Sisi after the next update, and we look forward to hearing your feedback.
Game Designer | Team Five-0
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CCP Fozzie
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Posted - 2013.10.31 21:44:00 -
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Querns wrote:Do the list of sites being added to lowsec include the highsec versions of the "ghost" sites? The ones with the pieces-parts and BPCs for Ascendancy implants?
No, although lowsec gets its own set of Ghost sites.
Game Designer | Team Five-0
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CCP Masterplan
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Posted - 2013.11.01 09:04:00 -
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Look at Fozzie posting this news in the evening when I'm not paying attention! Thanks to a few people at fanfest making compelling arguments (and appealing to my low-sec pride), we hope you'll like these changes.
"This one time, on patch day..."
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CCP Fozzie
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Posted - 2013.11.01 13:39:00 -
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To answer the question about the removal of the static sites, we have no plans to reintroduce any static sites with loot worth farming. Using the exploration system spreads out the sites and prevents easy farming.
The issue from before wasn't the 1/10 and 2/10 plexes being in lowsec, it was them being static. That's why we're bringing the non-static spawns to lowsec now without compunction.
Game Designer | Team Five-0
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