Rivr Luzade
Exclusion Cartel The Kadeshi
1737
|
Posted - 2015.08.01 10:52:05 -
[1] - Quote
Rivr Luzade wrote:It came to my mind recently that Relic sites should never again drop skill books. Skill books, especially the 10M science books, are very valuable and add significantly to the overall reward of a site. Skill books are also basically data and code that is implanted into our brains. It would be only natural to remove them from relic sites and have them drop exclusively in Data sites, making data sites more unique and actually worth running or at least give something for cherrypickers.
Furthermore, the mini games should be different from each other. It has been suggested many times and also agreed on by CCP that the grid should not consist of only one final node, but many treasure caches. Reduce the number of cans in the sites and have only a couple with larger grids that you need to explore fully to get to the good stuff. This could be applied only to relic sites as it makes more sense in my opinion to search through lots of different rooms/corners/caches in a ruin or rubble to uncover hidden treasures than in a databank where the good stuff is basically stored in one secure vault protected by counter measures.
Lastly, I would very much like to see CCP pick up the dropped project they demonstrated in the 2012 (or was it 2013) player gathering in Berlin. They demonstrated a rough prototype of actually entering a ruins (either in person or via a drone) and maneuver through a maze grid with counter measures and obstacles towards the treasure chest. Quoted from here, which also makes this thread redundant.
As much as it pains me, but CCP is neither willing nor capable of improving Data sites and they are more likely to just phase them out with the introduction of the respective new player structure where you can farm them instead of making data sites better. Personally, and as said in the same thread, I like data sites as they make me independent from the market and allow me to fuel my inventions without having to buy datacores or decryptors. If you are just after sales value of datacores and decryptors, you better ignore data sites completely. However, in my opinion, you should not sell them but rather use them for your own or your corp's industry ambitions. The more people that run these sites and decrease the dependency of your activities from Jita, the more valuable the sites become to your activities.
But this would again require effort and reduce convenience. It is after all so much easier to just import from Jita, bicker about lack of reward and demand changes to increase reward instead of changing behavior.
Station Tab :: UI Improvement Collective
|