Afraid not. This statistic will be tracked internally but we'll be clear in our messaging in regards to its progress.
A visual progress stat is definitely something we want for future events like this though.

Wtth the Kronos release (to be published on June 3rd), we will see new exploration sites for you to discover and, eventually, to plunder.

The full story of these new exploration sites, the people and factions behind them, if and how you can profit there, why they contain exciting new modules and shiny new ship skins, is all explained in CCP Affinity's latest dev blog Sweeping Death and Chaos: New Exploration Sites in Kronos. Don't miss to read it!

So, while everyone seems to be having a shiny tin-foil hat contest, I have been getting blown up for the sake of science!

I have managed now to solo four Besieged Covert Research Facilities now in an active tank rattlesnake with no reps.

The magic numbers I seem to be finding are 85%+ to both thermal and kinetic resists, and deal kinetic damage (was using dread gurista scourge missiles and warden II sentry drones) and maintaining about 115km from the spawn point of the rats. The battleships have no issue hitting you out past 150km, but with 85-90% resists I was taking on average 68 damage from guns, and 108 damage from their missiles. Also I was managing to clear the sites with only 900 dps in about 4-6 minutes.

Out of 7 total sites I ran, they all had two waves, and I found one spawn variant.

Wave 1 - Two cruisers, one battleship
Wave 2 - One cruiser, four battleships

Variant Wave 1 - Three cruisers
Variant Wave 2 - Two cruisers three battleships.

Loot dropped:
Site 1 - DIED, site despawned before return
Site 2 - DIED, site despawned before return
Site 3 - Can despawned, possible bug or despawn timer?
Site 4 - Low-Grade Halo Beta, Catalyst Serpentis Edition BPC, Covert Research Tools x1
Site 5 - Ferox Guristas Edition BPC, Covert Research Tools x10
Site 6 - Thrasher Thukker Tribe Edition BPC, Covert Research Tools x8
Site 7 - Cyclone Thukker Tribe Edition BPC, Covert Research Tools x1


Hope this helps, and good hunting!

Did you test hisec sites? Are the rewards any better than those of hisec ghost sites?

There has not been any mention of highsec sites for Mordu's legion related events. Even after the second chain being unlocked, I believe they are lowsec only, maybe null as well.. But definately not one hint of these appearing in highsec, that I've read.

So... I don't believe they exist.

The Contested Guristas Covert Research Facility sites are cosmic signatures and will have to be probed down first.
The Besieged Covert Research Facility sites however, (once unlocked) are cosmic anomalies and will appear on the scanner like Ghost sites.

The Contested sites will then be disabled.

Fantastic addition!

I was considering writing a post about how disconnected the hacking and archaeology professions are within the whole Eve experience: locate/probe/hack/get loot/sell to market.
A great isk generator but after doing it for six months it becomes a chore and feels completely detached from the rest of Eve.

I was going to suggest/request if hacking/arc could be more seamlessly plugged into the game and for it to be bonded with lore - and you have already started doing that with this release...so a big thanks in advance.

I really hope you continue with this theme - maybe introduce chain sites (one site leads to another etc) where ancient artifacts can be discovered in relic sites revealing information about the location of hitherto unknown races or perhaps secret hideouts of famous figures...you get the gist...

Archaeology and hacking could prove such a rich experience if discovering artifacts/codes etc were blended with lore and perhaps with access to unique boosters/implants/blueprints as a bonus.

Making isk to make isk is all well and good but as real life shows money ain't everything - penetrating the hidden secrets of Eve via two awesome career paths in ways you are introducing here provides goals/aims to keep the player community interested.

Anyway, I didn't mean to write that much...thanks again and look forward to it

I have to add I think CCP is missing a great opportunity to mix career paths in the long term.

The way the Dev Blog reads it sounds like you collect data sequences then turn them in and get an escalation style event to go kill some ships and get a loot cache for completing the work. You can either sell the data sequences, or the escalation trigger or complete the entire chain for great victory.

Instead it's a one time event where as I understand we first do the exploration and at some unknown point and time they disable the exploration component and activate the combat component permanently.

Personally that's a bit of a let down and reading through comments it appears other members of the community are disappointed with that as well.

I think CCP has an opportunity to create a long term opportunity to combine to career paths in the long term and that opportunity is being missed.

...DAT BLOOD RAIDER SKIN

As this has been mentioned quite a few times, I would just like to say that the exploration site is a new style event we are running. The event gives quite a substantial reward and would break the economy if we kept it around forever. On a separate note, I love the idea of using exploration to obtain keys for other types of content and this is very similar to ideas we have had as a team about how we can improve exploration.

*golf claps* Couldn't be more suspicious CCP plonking this new shiny stuff in the center of Goon space. Granted, where it will be is NPC space but what surrounds that system.... GOON SPACE and what surrounds that space... EVEN MORE GOON SPACE!!

Honestly, a large majority of those not in Goons aren't going to be interested in making a death run through Goon space to most likely find Goon blobs camping your way into that system and IF by chance you make it and exchange your goodies for more expensive goodies you've then got to do the same death run out and hell, even Ceptors get insta locked easily enough these days.

If you didn't want to promote the conspiracy you hold the pockets of Goons like little munchkins you could of said "Hey, Mordu have shifted into a low sec pocket allowing equal, fair and easier access for ALL your player base to try out this new stuff your adding", but no... that would be silly of you. Along with the freighter/jump freighter changes (lol, make freighter and jump freighters more interesting to fly... nothing you can do would make them more interesting unless you fit cosmetic fluffy baubles and a bright colour pebble dash skin to them, did you not read the 125+ pages of pilots saying what a stupid idea this was? *points CCP to Specsavers*)

With the rage done, those two points have for me at least made this the worse expansion/update/whatever you call this farce to date.

I understand the concept of creating conflict situations but it always seems that as soon as you have something tied to a single system, you end up in camping situations that can only be overcome with blobs. This removes the ability for a lot of players who don't want to get into fleets to engage in the new content.

IMO, there should be 2 or 3 different systems as spawn points that are distances from each other so that no 1 party can camp them all at the same time ..

And no, I am not whining because I don't want to be in fleets, I am a nullsec alliance player...

We're going to start Kronos off with an event that'll see you assisting what's arguably the most honorable band of mercenaries in the cluster, Mordu's Legion.

Is it intentional the Guristas data sites appear in high-sec, too? Found three of them so far in 0.6 systems.

All of this whining about the LP store location and having to turn the data in...

As if a goon/CFC gate camp was anything resembling a threat...