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Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.05.20 15:43:00 -
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I'm an occasional explorer, I've ran C4 WH sites (relic/data) at the beggining of loot scattering, and it was painfully long due to the number of containers versus actual loot, with the time it implied.
I've finally decided to try my hand back at exploration for a few weeks now, I'd say around a month. Very occasionally, I run sites at about maybe five per week.
Like most explorers, with a cargo-scanner I know in advance what the loot is going to be, which allows for a quick comparison between loot obtained and total potential loot, after having ran a hacking.
As you can see, I'm no hardcore explorer, but despite that I'd say that I manage to gather around 75-80% of all the valuable loot there is to be had in a container.
It would be cool if the removal of the loot scattering mechanic -which is not really penalizing in terms of loot, its just an actually-not-fun mechanic- was done with the intent of keeping explorer's income stable. So I'd definitely recommend less than 50% nerf, more around 25% maximum.
Edit: 7o Matias :p
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Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.05.21 11:32:00 -
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CCP Bayesian wrote:
I'm personally much more of a fan of making the reward you get out proportional to how well you complete the hack. The idea floated by someone earlier of having to find 'loot nodes' is along the same lines of future ideas for hacking (here and elsewhere) I have.
That would be awesome!
I'm entierly in favor of multiple loot nodes spread out on the "board" instead of one boss that you have to find. It would help ease the random (and unfair because you have zero way to avoid that with player skills/knowledge) side of having to find THE boss to get all the loot.
It happened to all of us I think to clear all the board but two or three nodes protected by firewalls... with the boss hiding behind one of these.
I'd suggest you remove the boss entierly and instead spread out multiple loot nodes on the hacking minigame. It would actually reward higher skills beucause you'd have an incentive to push the hacking at the limits of your virus to find as many loot nodes as possible. Way more interesting in my opinion. Of course you'd have a button available to disengage the hack as soon as you open at least one loot node. (or two or three... it could even be dependant on the T1/T2 module and/or an implant)
When you dissengage, you get a reward proportional to how many loot nodes you opened. Could I even dare to suggest that two unused bonuses could equal a bonus loot node?
On an not entierly related topic -but since we're talking about the hacking minigame lets push it forward to improve it :D- why not letting the player get a brief hint of the distance of the closest loot node every time he clears a node? (empty node or kill of an ennemy node). So, say, if I click a node, I'd get a floating "2" for only a second that would indicate that the closest loot node is two "jumps" away.
It would help add a slight element of player skill (here: deduction and memory) instead of just randomly clicking the damn thing...
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Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.05.21 15:51:00 -
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CCP Bayesian wrote:Could we move discussion of improvements to the Hacking mechanics elsewhere. This thread needs to stay on topic so we can collect feedback about the changes we're making right now.
Sorry, my bad :D
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Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.05.26 12:36:00 -
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CCP Bayesian wrote:The loot in the cans is currently setup to be 70% of the value it was after Odyssey when we doubled the loot to account for the Scattering.
I would've been more in favor of 80% given the average ratio of loot obtained versus total loot in the can, but its nice to see you making a step in the right direction and taking our feedback into account nonetheless :)
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