Lothar Katelo
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.11.05 04:14:57 -
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It would be cool if they added a few more hacking sites like this but with a few differences.
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One interesting thing that they can do is change it so that the clouds gave faction specific type of damage and if the containers were inside the clouds. The damage would also have to be proportional to the ship's signature radius so that it can be about equally difficult for both frigates and larger ships to run the sites. This site should be high value, and difficult to hack but not necessarily too difficult to scan down so that someone that isn't fit for exploring can still hunt the explorers, but would have a lot of difficulty completing the site.
Pilots would then have to give up something in their exploration fit to be able to tank the cloud damage while hacking, but they will also become more vulnerable to other types of damage. Even though they are more vulnerable, however, it would be risky for other pilots to just go in after them, if they are not also fit properly, and pilots that fit MWDs to their ships would not activate them because it would increase their signature radius and the damage received. Pilots can fit only target painters and be effective offensively, which would be really cool.
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Another cool thing that they can add is an alarm system in a different type of hacking site. The site can have the regular containers and an alarm system. Failing a container would trigger the alarm, which then would make the site available to warp to for anybody in the system for about 10 minutes. The security system would also send out an alert to pilots in the system. Imagine that type of mechanic in a WH system :)
The pilot can choose to hack the even more difficult alarm system first and disable it, but failing that would also make the site available to warp to and would alert pilots in the system as before. The security system would also decrease the number of hacking attempts possible for the containers to one. This site should be very difficult to scan down (only possible with high skills and good scanning equipment), difficult to hack and should have a high reward. |