Henry Montclaire
Vortex Research Dalek Asylum
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Posted - 2013.06.01 09:06:00 -
[1] - Quote
The frustration with spew cans is itself a symptom.
A symptom of these sites being utterly WORTHLESS.
I'm sorry, I want to be positive, I really really do. But I've just spent four hours flying through null sec on the test server. Four long, horribly horribly boring hours. Before that I spent another hour and a half with a buddy in low sec. In low sec, our biggest find from a hacked site was a grand 10 mil worth of data stuff (mind you we were able to collect all the cores).
Seeing how pathetic the haul in low sec was, both today, and when I tried it in the past couple of weeks, I decided to check out null sec. Surely that would be worth some isk?
So, after four hours of flying through I don't know how many null sec systems, half of them NPC null sec, and half player, I found a grand total of one data site and no relic sites. In this one data site, due to the absurd difficulty and my own bad luck and poor skills I managed to blow up four of the five cans / structures. Each of these hacking points was about 50kms + away from the others, making each one take a small eternity to get to. The one I did successfully hack awarded me with less than 1 million isk of loot.
After that site, I could not find another. I searched, for hours, through empty systems, and not a one showed up on the system scanner.
So at this point, I'm a bit pissed off, and a bit worried. Pissed off because of the colossal waste of time the entire frustrating effort was. Worried because the reward is NOWHERE NEAR high enough to justify the risk. Spending that much time in null sec on live would be incredibly dangerous. You would have to dodge gate camps, bubbles, and hunters. You may have to abandon a site mid hack, blowing up or abandoning precious loot to escape a hostile. There is no guarantee you will be able to get your loot back to high sec to sell it off.
About the only thing I could imagine funding with exploration at this point is an imicus. With my glorious findings, I could afford to buy an imicus. An imicus with all T1 fittings, and no faction probes. There is no way I would doom one of my beloved proteuses with low or null sec exploration when this goes live. Maybe there's a magic jackpot hidden in some data site somewhere, but the chances of finding it are so frustratingly low, with luck coming into play in so very very many places, it's absolutely absurd.
If gold was worthless and impossible to find, there would have been no gold rush.
The reason the spew mechanic is irritating is because the player can't help but feel that the loot that might have made all the trouble of finding that site, hacking the data mainframe, and clicking on those little cans worth it just despawned somewhere.
Maybe I'm just being stupidly, absurdly unlucky. Maybe most people are pulling 100+ mil out of each data site in null sec, and are finding one every two to three systems. Maybe even low sec sites are worth 60+ mil on average. But I can tell you that that has not been my experience, and I've been deeply frustrated by the entire ordeal. And it was an ordeal.
It can be fixed. Increase the frequency of sites, and increase the worth of all the loot. Don't bother spewing cans that only drop a freakin' hydrogen battery, because sucking in something worth a grand total of 1 isk is NOT rewarding. Give people a REASON to risk their ships in low sec and null sec. I WANT to do exploration. I want to enjoy it! But it's just plain painful at the moment. |