I could get used to this whole "CCP actually working on features for Eve Online" routine.

I could get used to this whole "CCP actually working on features for Eve Online" routine.

reviewing the average payout for anomalies and increasing their values. You will see more NPCs in anomalies and, best of all, more ISK in your wallet!

--- This change involves reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume...

Also...

--- CCP Punkturis has added a minimise function to pop-up messages in dungeons.

Nice.

Punkturis, is there any chance you could also have a look at the 'close' ('x') function on normal windows... it currently seems like a 50/50 chance these days that when you mouse-over it, that it's going to vanish just as you're about to click it, then you have to move the mouse away and back again to get the 'x' to re-appear... Frustrating :(

Damn all these edits... too many questions... ;)

Can you guys say something about the 'distribution' of all this new stuff...? Is it being confined to Null, for example?

In an on-going commitment to iterate on existing content...

there was a whole megathread on the close window issue, it's been fixed now \o/

--- This change involves reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume...

Throughout the game...??? Ooh... interesting.

--- Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them.

Just DED complexes, or similar things, like Wormhole sites...?

but whatever will we do when they run out of things to work on?

Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them. This will stop players cloaking within dungeons to stop them from despawning and by extension, respawning elsewhere. This feature will greatly help players who run exploration sites and also alliances who have upgraded their hubs to have more exploration sites.

Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them. This will stop players cloaking within dungeons to stop them from despawning and by extension, respawning elsewhere.

Holy hell are you ever full of yourselves. It should read:

As per the 4 week old corporate policy of not completely ignoring the years of work that has gone before ...

Just sayin' ..

Otherwise good stuff .. now when do you plan to announce stuff that matters like revisions to sovereignty and other big ticket items?

If a player is already receiving the max ISK per tick he can with is skills, this is, he maximized the isk return on anomalies, more NPC's are not going to help anything. You just have more rats to kill and will take longer to finish an anomalies since you cant kill them faster! In the end, you get same isk but spend more time on same anomalies! If you really wanna boost them and make us raise more isk, you need to boost the bounties on the individual rats!

And I would suggest giving a 'bigger' buff to the low-end anomalies like hub's and stuff like that to make the crappy space and crappy anomalies less crappy but keeping the hing-end anomalies the gold mine!

--- This change involves reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume...

Throughout the game...??? Ooh... interesting.

--- Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them.

Just DED complexes, or similar things, like Wormhole sites...?

Team BFF - another great job it seems : )

It would be nice to know if there is (are) any other plans though and details just because I think most will point out and I will have to agree (plexes and anomolies) have felt neglected for SO LONG.

I remember being part of that big long discussion thread a few months ago as to the major things so any other details or plans would be great to know and (or) some more examples of what to see.

I think a lot of people, myself included, don't really know what to expect as far as plexes and anomolies in general anymore so any extra details or examples to "wet our whistles" and get the word out would be appreciated for those of us who do not live on Sisi.

Low sec? WHs? or just null included in this?

Thanks and great week.

Grady

There will be another blog out next week from Greyscale that goes into a lot of detail about the changes to anomalies this Winter :)

CCP Punkturis has added a minimise function to pop-up messages in dungeons. This allows you to worry about the combat without missing out on the storyline. Gone are the days of being halfway through reading the information, only to realise that you are being attacked already and having to quickly close it. This is a continuation of our battle on little things to make your life easier!

Nanana, dear CCP, i've got your numbers there, you just want to keep your customers extending their subscriptions. It's way to obvious by now. All these nice changes, improved and new features. I ve got your numbers a while ago on this.

Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them

Could we please have each and every hackable container spawn something, even if it just a single piece of metal scraps?

I hate having to open, close and open again a container to double check if the server is lagging or the container really is empty.

Ok, no one else has commented on this, so I might be off base. I haven't found a lot of exploration sites, but does it makes sense to despawn a site minutes after it is completed? How many minutes? What f the completion trigger is hit, and you no longer have time to run to a station, swap into your trusty Noctis, and return to salvage/grab loot? Is that at risk here? If it is, then I'd suggest a 30 minute despawn timer. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Little known fact: exploration containers are never empty.

If a container shows up as empty, let it lock itself again, and try again. Repeat until it spits something out.

That's probably a mechanic worth considering changing. Increase the access difficulty instead of not showing it's contents.

I'd never heard of this, and will test it next site I run. If it's true, then that crap needs to be dropped immediately. Especially with the new despawning mechanic coming up.

the popups are still a bit suboptimal.

It would be nice to merge all messages in some kind of logbook. Every time you get a message a small notification appears on screen (in a corner, not right in your face) or something like that... This would also make it easier to follow the story of escalations.

The site despawning doesn't actually despawn the wrecks. Wrecks stay in space 2 hours, I believe.

Now if you want to make those sites even more valuable, a non-five second fix is this:

Make data interfaces consumables. 5/10/15 percent when used for small/medium/large tasks. Same amounts as R.A.M. is used in manufacturing T2. And increase the drop rate of parts & BPCs to keep the demand from spiking too high. Double or triple what it is now. It won't be a problem if you make the volumetric change suggested above.

just make sure to bookmark a wreck in each pocket.

CCP Soundwave hinted at the possibility that they would remove Mineral Drops form Drones to facilitate more profits from mining and replace the drops with regular loot and bounties.

Is there any chance that the new Faction Items will be Drone Loot?

minimize? really? as in, instead of pushing this big button in hurry, i can push that small button in hurry. how about making it appear minimized and then i can pop it up, if i'm interested?

This what I think ccp may be heading with this topic of re-balancing 0.0 if not take close look....

I do agree, all space should not be the same and should be fought for! with SECURITY LEVEL's...


0.0 - (1) top complex worth (30 million), and fell down to other levels.

In between, should fell other calls of the rebalanced.

-1.0 - (5) top complexes worth (50 million) each complex, and fells down to other levels.


I think point is with each level of sec makes the worth of all complex in system to be worth. All systems should be upgradeable to all levels. Which I like idea of looking at all options and changes.



""PVE COMPLEX ISKES OUT PUT ------======------- SEC LEVELS""

""ALL COMPLEX LEVELS ----====------ DON'T MATTER SEC LEVELS""

... reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume ...

CCP Bettik has been going spreadsheet crazy; reviewing the average payout for anomalies and increasing their values. You will see more NPCs in anomalies and, best of all, more ISK in your wallet! A more detailed blog about the Anomaly rebalancing effort, by CCP Greyscale, will be published next week.

Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them. This will stop players cloaking within dungeons to stop them from despawning and by extension, respawning elsewhere. This feature will greatly help players who run exploration sites and also alliances who have upgraded their hubs to have more exploration sites.

Absolutely, positively 100% against this idea. Data interfaces are computer hardware/software that should NOT be a consumable in any way. By making them such, you'd drive the price of all T2 parts/rigs/ships through the roof.

Many many many hugs from the Exploration channel GÖÑ

CCP Bettik has been going spreadsheet crazy; reviewing the average payout for anomalies and increasing their values. You will see more NPCs in anomalies and, best of all, more ISK in your wallet! A more detailed blog about the Anomaly rebalancing effort, by CCP Greyscale, will be published next week.

You say you're increasing the value of anomalies, but more spawns in a single anomaly will effectively decrease their value. The hourly income will remain the same, (assuming the spawns aren't bigger) but since completing an anomaly will take longer, you'll have less chances at escalations or faction spawns. I do realize this dev blog doesn't go into much depth on the subject and you may have thought of this already, but if you haven't please take this into consideration.

RADAR SITES

Right now, the components for making data interfaces are listed as 1.0 m3 in volume. But when you build an actual interface, that is ALSO 1.0 m3 in volume. Either the manufacturing process is REALLY good at compression, or there's one hell of a lot of wasted packaging on those parts. And schlepping those parts around when running a site is a pain in the patootie.

Please make the volume of the parts 0.01 m3, and you will instantly make the sites that much easier.

Now if you want to make those sites even more valuable, a non-five second fix is this:

Make data interfaces consumables. 5/10/15 percent when used for small/medium/large tasks. Same amounts as R.A.M. is used in manufacturing T2. And increase the drop rate of parts & BPCs to keep the demand from spiking too high. Double or triple what it is now. It won't be a problem if you make the volumetric change suggested above.

CCP Affinity and friends have been working on a lot of neat PVE changes and additions to benefit explorers and adventurers.

Check the blog out right here and make sure to let us know if you have feedback or questions.

It might not show up even on the second try... afaik it's all % based. Last time I had someone confirm this they got impatient and didn't recheck every last container more than once, but did get at least one container to drop loot that hadn't before.

Generally speaking, the no-show mechanic is completely inconsistent with how other stuff works in EVE, and hardly anyone seems to know it even exists.

I can't believe nobody has said a thing about the metal scraps change. Lemme break it down for you.

Right now, tritanium is a pain in the ass if you're living in 0.0. If you've done much trading/hauling/freighter running, you learn to put value on items based on ISK/m3. Right now, tritanium being around 3.3 in Jita, it's 0.01 m3 per unit, thus 330 ISK/m3. A single metal scrap (with perfect reprocessing skills) reprocesses into 500 units of tritanium, so about 1650 ISK, and at 5 m3, that means metal scraps are exactly as valuable (and easy to move) as tritanium itself.

Not anymore. Now, metal scraps are going to be 500 times more dense than tritanium. To give you a concrete example of what this means: A Rhea jump freighter has a max cargo of 367,968 m3, more if you use cargo containers; a Crane cloaky hauler has a max cargo (with rigs, mods, and cargo containers) of about 1200 m3. A Rhea fully loaded with tritanium moves just shy of 368 million units. That's the trit it takes to build about 130 Hurricanes.

Load up your Crane with metal scraps, and it moves 1.2 million metal scraps, or 600 million units of tritanium. That's almost twice as much as your Rhea.

You're welcome.

From one post:



In short:
700.000 m3 before this change = 1200m3 after this change (for the same amount of tritanium)

With regard to plexes despawning, does this include any asteroids that might be in the plex? It would not be practical to leave a sleeper alive to prevent the despawn so that the token asteroids can be mined. The current inconvience of leaving a ship on grid to avoid losing the roids is anoying enough pleas dont make them despawn any easier.

Team Pink Zombie Kittens have re-balanced Magnometric sites and increased the values of these sites. You will now be able to get all sizes of T2 rig BPCs from the various sites as well as more salvage components. This change involves reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume, adding small and medium T2 rig blueprint copies and increasing the salvage components in spawn containers.

This is the same than afk cloaking, so either you complete it and respawns somewhere else either you tank one mob until you've mined your "stuff".

Unfortunately Covetors are not known for their tanks while sleepers are known for their DPS. Your idea simply is not practical. Perhaps the roids should have a despawn timer different than the site itself. If the asteroids despawn when the last sleeper is killed they might as well just not be there at all. This probably sounds like no-big deal to k-space residents, but in w-space we often can't be picky what we do. Each day brings us a new batch of things to do, occasionally that batch of items is not very entertaining and we end up mining after the sleepers have beeen killed.

Wh mining sites are hard to deplete before the regular timer and mobs usually don't respawn once killed. Sry I don't understand what are you trying to say there.

EDIT: Wh mechanics for gravimetric sites are not the same than for high/low/null sec, the usual timer was about one week a year ago but I can't say for sure it's still the same.
WH gravimetric sites not being havens sanctums or whatever high end fight sleepers sites alike are not submitted to the same rules.

At least the dev blog doesn't mention something about this witch implicates there are no changes for gravimetric WH sites.

Wh mining sites are hard to deplete before the regular timer and mobs usually don't respawn once killed. Sry I don't understand what are you trying to say there.

Ok, no one else has commented on this, so I might be off base. I haven't found a lot of exploration sites, but does it makes sense to despawn a site minutes after it is completed? How many minutes? What f the completion trigger is hit, and you no longer have time to run to a station, swap into your trusty Noctis, and return to salvage/grab loot? Is that at risk here? If it is, then I'd suggest a 30 minute despawn timer. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I was refering to cosmic anomalies such as "Frontier Command Post" (or perhaps it was "Frontier Barracks", i forget) which in addition to the sleepers and some structures which only seem to serve as decorations and obstructions to get a fleet tangled in, also include a few asteroids. The asteroids are of low isk value, but sometimes I am starved for trit. It would be frustrating if those token 4 or so veldspar asteroids were to despawn because the last sleeper had been killed.

I would like to see to see more of the DED gaps filled that were supposed to be filled allready:

Sansha DED 9/10
Serpentis DED 9/10
Guristas DED 9/10
Blood Raider DED 9/10

Angel DED 6/10
Serpentis DED 6/10

Those are all still missing AFAIK.

If "seeing more NPC's in anomalies" means that Commander NPC's and escorts will spawn more often, then that's excellent news.

Other than that, increasing the amount of regular NPC's per spawn wave just makes the anomaly take longer to complete. Cosmic Anomaly is supposed to be a quick, mini combat site. Not be all buffed up like the 'Unknown' Cosmic Signatures. If you want Cosmic Anomalies to get more player action, you need to increase either the chance of having Commander NPC spawn with Faction loot drop or getting an escalation to DED complex.

As much as I hate not getting bounties a regular loot on Drones, I'd hate more to see this change. Drone minerals are the best source of high-end minerals for highsec industirialist/mission-runners.

I do not believe metal scraps getting this amazing compression ratio is truly going to cause much of an effect on other compression methods as there is no player means to produce the scraps. Meaning the worst that can happen is the price of metal scraps trends upwards compared to its mineral worth, though this would be an isolated effect in the market.

I suspect the numbers in circulation would go up, as currently some will be left in wrecks as the price isn't worth the space. But even at that, it's still a fairly small number.

@ CCP
you want to remove mining from EVE???

...

I suspect the numbers in circulation would go up, as currently some will be left in wrecks as the price isn't worth the space. But even at that, it's still a fairly small number.

Punkturis, is there any chance you could also have a look at the 'close' ('x') function on normal windows... it currently seems like a 50/50 chance these days that when you mouse-over it, that it's going to vanish just as you're about to click it, then you have to move the mouse away and back again to get the 'x' to re-appear... Frustrating :(

would be nice if Grav sites despawned after a chunk of mining time. (though exactly how you do it is the problem)


I've scanned down a few where all that was left was one rock, with next to nothing in it (few hundred units)

I could get used to this whole "CCP actually working on features for Eve Online" routine.

Exploration dungeons will now automatically despawn within a few minutes of being completed, even if players remain inside them. This will stop players cloaking within dungeons to stop them from despawning and by extension, respawning elsewhere. This feature will greatly help players who run exploration sites and also alliances who have upgraded their hubs to have more exploration sites.

Team Pink Zombie Kittens have re-balanced Magnometric sites and increased the values of these sites. You will now be able to get all sizes of T2 rig BPCs from the various sites as well as more salvage components. This change involves reducing the size of metal scraps to 0.01 in volume, adding small and medium T2 rig blueprint copies and increasing the salvage components in spawn containers.