You'll come up with lore reasons not to employ some random idea you were already not employing but you can't answer the question as to why there are pirates in w-space?

2 months after this comes out, there will be comprehensive guides and doctrines to tackle this by the numbers; no danger, no skill. Fleets instaformed to run ghost sites, they will be resigned to the scrapheap of mundanity.

Refer to the history of scannable complexes, Wormholes, Incursions...

3. I will consider this - but it may end up in a point release if it comes in at all :) I will weigh out the pros and cons but definitely something to consider

That's just like, your opinion, man.

One shared by many...

Why is the most expensive module bpc only dropping in WH ?

Ascendancy Omega Blueprint Copy

Adding yet more income to the WH guys, vs those who provide all the content in 0.0 where isk vs reward is way out of balance as it stands.

I don't see a problem with the different bpc's in different area's, but putting the most valuable one into just WH's is simply bad.

Please don't. This once again makes the assumption that something that can cause conflict will drive conflict. That would only be true if the players involved want conflict. The reason most high sec players are in high sec is because they enjoy a play style that avoids conflict. If doing these sites gets you flagged, then doing them will become content ignored my a huge fraction of the player base.

If you want to see examples of this, check out the statistics of:
a) The fraction of missions that come from a high sec agent, but go to low sec, that are actually accepted.
b) The fraction of excursions that start in high sec but go to low sec that are actually completed.

For players who want conflict the game already supplies them with low sec, null and W. Please don't turn part of high sec into low, the game already has low.

I'm a bit confused on the implant math. What are the multipliers to warp speed for the full Low-Grade set and for the full High-Grade set?

I fully intend to look in to removing scattering from all sites, but that wasn't going to fit into this release as we also need to take a look at the loot tables for all exploration sites.

these are anoms, not sigs, so not exploration...exploration died when odyssey was released

They damage you both when you fail and when the timer runs out :)

Agreed.. Exploration has died with Odyssey.
Who wants to click away after clicking on the 'MINI' game on the loot your earned, just to maybe get 40% of what? the reward?
Dont get me wrong, I like the 'MINI' game, but the whole scattering thing is too much!

~Rain

I think some players are struggling with it because they think they're supposed to get all the loot, instead of enough loot for the time and effort spent getting it.

Chiming in for implant bonuses;

The low grades have a total of : 38.41% with a complete set
The high grades have a total of: 66.56% with a complete set.

For a lot of people, that leaves a sour taste in their mouths. I'm glad it doesn't appear to affect you or perhaps even spurs you on as a challenge, but try not to belittle or trivialize the negative effect, because it is very real for a lot of people.

You could always avoid reading them. I've never really understood the insatiable need - it undermines game content and sucks out all the fun if you're just following instructions to complete a challenge.

I always considered it cheating.

There's two answers to that. Well, three. The purely mechanical answer is just for more variety, but that's a copout. The first answer, which is safe and won't get me into trouble, is that the pirate factions use wormholes just as capsuleers do, and that there's such a glut of Ghost Sites in W-space that you're bound to happen upon some of them.

The second answer, which I'm going to phrase carefully because I know this'll come up again years from now, is this: Part of the long-term view with Ghost Sites is that the pirates are developing technologies that allow them to cross immense expanses - but at the moment, only under extremely limited conditions. (The upcoming Rubicon chronicle touches on this idea.) There is no guarantee that this development will mean pirates - or players - will eventually be able to, I dunno, cyno into w-space at will or something ... but it doesn't take a huge leap of logic to imagine that this kind of instantaneous-transport research might eventually be the cornerstone of new stargate technology.

these are anoms, not sigs, so not exploration...exploration died when odyssey was released

Can we please have Ghost sites to NOT use the rediculus mini-hacking game?

The only thing worse that waiting for your module to spin around for 5 minuts and then loot a container, is to have to wait while a friend solves this single-player game in a MMO and wait for containers to catch..
Also.. When you multiply the hacking game with the 15-20 containers you find in w-space sites... Lets just say that your current PI minigame is more fun.. (the hacking mini-game shows that your Dev's simply doesn't know the meaning of "fun" )

So please, no more singleplayer mini-game crap in EVE...... Ever...

On the gameplay side, the sites are designed for fast-paced, often dangerous action, and may reward you (if you are quick and lucky) with items that either complement the speed of your vessel or assist in claiming your own area of space while trying very hard to avoid detection.

Your objective, if you wish to risk life and limb (well ... your crew's lives and limbs) is to hack your way into the sites 4 research facilities...

is to hack

hack

http://xkcd.com/1112/

Eve should be more like chess. Where skill and strategy over shadow luck. Hacking stands in stark contrast to skill and strategy.

Fair enough, but at least there is a bit of skill required now, compared to the old version that required you to click a button and wait for a prize generated through random chance.

Do you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for how an archaeology-type activity could be made that involves both player skill & character training, that can be scaled easily, and doesn't require you to get out of your spaceship, and wouldn't have the solution posted to eve-survival.org within 5 minutes?

Not intending to criticise your point of view or anything - just stating that if it wasn't really difficult to do, it would've been done already.

An idea I would be open to (for an archaeology concept), is that each site contains clues to other sites, and over time, you build up a picture of a past event and potential treasures of some sort - basically a treasure hunt. Unfortunately, many players want their reward NOW and don't want to go searching around the galaxy for it. It also wouldn't scale well with thousands of players doing the same thing.

Were you thinking along the lines of still having the mini-game, but one that involves strategy rather than random clicking; perhaps an AI that actively reacts to your moves intelligently, forcing you to get creative?

Can we please have Ghost sites to NOT use the rediculus mini-hacking game?

The only thing worse that waiting for your module to spin around for 5 minuts and then loot a container, is to have to wait while a friend solves this single-player game in a MMO and wait for containers to catch..
Also.. When you multiply the hacking game with the 15-20 containers you find in w-space sites... Lets just say that your current PI minigame is more fun.. (the hacking mini-game shows that your Dev's simply doesn't know the meaning of "fun" )

So please, no more singleplayer mini-game crap in EVE...... Ever...