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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2014.11.04 10:59:05 -
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Hello explorers,
We have a new exploration site headed into Phoebe that will begin to make appearances throughout New Eden shortly after the deployment of Phoebe.
As I have previously mentioned in the Polarized weapons post, these exploration sites do contain access to the polarized weapons along with some other loot.
CCP SoniClover is looking for some feedback on the messages seen in the dungeon and also the difficulty.
The sites are intended to be more difficult than most of the exploration sites out there, being a little harder to scan down and requiring some expert hacking/archaeology.
You will find some environmental dangers inside the site, so try to be aware of your surroundings.
I am going to list a few systems where you can find these sites, as they are quite rare. I will try to keep it up to date after each Singularity downtime.
You will be able to scan down the site, it is currently called "Small Sleeper Storage Site" but will change shortly to "Limited Sleeper Cache"
Zaveral
Yehnifi
Nibainkier
Kuomi
Arnstur
Bosena
C7Y-7Z
DKUK-G
AD-5B8
Atioth
CL6-ZG
SH1-6P
PBD-0G
IT-YAU
SE-SHZ
PF-QHK
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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2014.11.04 17:44:09 -
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These sites are aimed at the experienced explorer. Those who are looking for more of a challenge when scanning (they are harder to find than any other site that exists right now) and also the hacking requires some skill to be able to pull off.
If you try out the site, you will probably get that they are very hard and a 'new' player would not be able to wander into these without some serious skill.
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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2014.11.04 18:27:30 -
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Soden Rah wrote:CCP Paradox wrote:These sites are aimed at the experienced explorer. Those who are looking for more of a challenge when scanning (they are harder to find than any other site that exists right now) and also the hacking requires some skill to be able to pull off.
If you try out the site, you will probably get that they are very hard and a 'new' player would not be able to wander into these without some serious skill. Just for clarification... When you say 'skill'... Are you referring to "skill as a player" or "skills your character has injected and trained" ... And are you using the word consistently in the post. Because new players don't have top trained character skills kinda by definition.
Skill as a player, but thinking about the hacking involved unless you are extremely lucky at finding the system core, I doubt you could hack it.
And to answer the question on WH stuff. I will pose the questions tomorrow to SoniClover. This is just the first site of its kind however...
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CCP SoniClover
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Posted - 2014.11.05 11:55:38 -
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Thanks for the feedback so far. We're making adjustments to the small site as we speak, these should be out in Sisi tomorrow. Some of the things we're adjusting:
- Allowing MWDs
- Disallowing warping directly into deadspace
- Restricting site to frigate-sized ships only - the small site is aimed at that ship size, the medium and large will allow bigger ships. This is necessary because environmental damage cannot be scaled based on player ship, so we'd either had to choose between making the site completely lethal for small ships or insignificant for larger ships if we allowed any ship in there.
- The name of the site is changing to Limited Sleeper Cache
- Adjusting a few timers and damage for balance
- Editing a few message texts for clarity
- Adjusting the effect of failing a bit
- A few cosmetic touch-ups on the site.
- Adjusting the loot drops a little bit
We're aiming to get this out early next week. Expect a dev blog around the same time.
Thanks again for all your feedback!
Edit: Also, the no message stuff is do to with a pickle issue on Sisi, should be ok tomorrow. |
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CCP SoniClover
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Posted - 2014.11.05 12:23:27 -
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Michal Jita wrote:
What about where are they going to be spawning?
Being sleeper based majority of these should spawn in wormholes.
The SiSi list was showing them to be available everywhere in Kspace effectively nerfing WHs again.
The backstory for these sites is Sleeper activity in k-space, Sleepers have been collecting stuff of interest from empire space and couldn't always be bothered to hoist it to their space, so they dumped them in these cloaked storage sites. So they will be in k-space only. |
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CCP SoniClover
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Posted - 2014.11.05 12:26:44 -
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Kata Amentis wrote:
I think the problem with this is that we're very used to the "fluffy" clouds just being back drop, or a harvestable resource. The clouds in the site look exactly like every other cloud.
Would it be possible to maybe animate them so the plasma cloud had active lightning arcing through it or plumes/waves of fire in the fire clouds: anything that might cause a "ooo that might cause me damage" reaction rather than "oh, more fluff". The edges of the clouds are also quite hard to see, they fade out before the "edge" so you can take damage from what looks to be empty space.
When you get too close to the plasma chamber wreckage there is an explosion, a blast wave, all very obvious "hazards" the clouds are deceptive (can we shoot the chambers to trigger them? might try that next time).
There are no resources being dedicated to the clouds right now, the issue with them is known and hopefully we can get some art support to adjust them later on. Using the clouds is tricky, as none of them are perfectly spherical, which is how the damage is applied. The fire cloud and the plasma cloud are two of the very few clouds that come closest, but they're not perfectly spherical.
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CCP SoniClover
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Posted - 2014.11.05 13:51:51 -
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Samantha Calderon wrote:
Prototype Exploration Ship? Is that the Echelon, or a new kind of frigates?
It's the Zephyr. |
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CCP SoniClover
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Posted - 2014.11.05 17:00:05 -
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Ransu Asanari wrote:CCP SoniClover wrote:fixes What about fixing the cans that are accessed using a Relic Analyzer to use a Data Analyzer?
We're contemplating that these sites would require both hacking and archaeology to go through. |
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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2014.11.06 10:28:49 -
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Omnathious Deninard wrote:Is the site location listing still valid, I am very eager to try out these sites so I can provide proper feedback.
Will update with a list from today.
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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2014.11.06 14:57:25 -
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Circumstantial Evidence wrote:I checked out the highsec site in Kuomi.
Warping to the site: Other data/relic sites display a message hinting at what to expect, but no message was displayed on warping to this one. First warp would be a good time to inform players if their ship size (frigate / cruiser) is appropriate for the site.
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Some site loot seems to go against the Sleeper theme, I found a meta 4 medium neutron blaster.
I would prefer to see only "sleeper components" and related invention / manufacturing items.
Thanks for the feedback. I will look at the first point quoted above. I like that we should have some text to introduce this site before you begin, we should keep it consistent with the other sites.
And as for the loot, well... What are the Sleepers doing in known space? This is all new...
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