The amount of Anomalies and Signatures in a K-Space system is now visible from anywhere.
Combat Anomalies, Ore Anomalies, and Ice Belts show the exact type of site from within 1 jump away. At 2 jumps or further, only the existence of the site is shown.
And with that in the Patch Notes, CCP just introduces something that no one asked for and has not given a single hint of a reason why it was necessary to kill exploration and replace it with “block my entire overview with the Agency to look for sites”. Just wonderful
In an alleged AMA at EDU, @CCP_Hellmar says that he wants to shake up EVE and things need to be more dangerous. And then he greenlights a feature that makes null sec crabbing even saver (thanks to @Querns on reddit for pointing it out) because this useless feature makes it easier to see new signatures spawn around you and to easier figure out where people can possible attack from via a WH. Typical CCP feature that was not thought though and greenlit by a CEO giving lip servicing just to save face. This is disgusting.
“Combat Anomalies, Ore Anomalies, and Ice Belts show the exact type of site from within 1 jump away. At 2 jumps or further, only the existence of the site is shown.”
I am sure that the majority of reasons why this is a bad idea have already been elucidated likely with the following included. However I feel compelled to chime in. The end result of this will be the complete exclusion of outside explorers from running sites in the majority of nullsec regions if not much of lowsec. It shifts the advantage firmly towards the residents. And while that may seem like a good thing in some ways it demolishes an entire aspect of the game for very little reason.
Can we know the name of the dev that is pushing the whole “agency” concept? It is so dumb at so many levels I can’t even know where to start. Who even ask for such thing? Players? CSM? Problems are pilling and they add even more at the top. After read what jester wrote, limit of luck for CCP has ended. They create the problems in the first place, they creating more of them know, and when ■■■■ hit the fan they won’t even know what they did wrong. Where is feedback thread for such change?
This isn’t exploration anymore, it’s look at the agency window and set destination so is that also how the npe and starter missions are going to work from now on, Aura gets you to open up the agency tab and voila you are now an explorer?.
I know other games have been derided for being easy mode but sheesh, this is another questionable decision that I can’t work out how it adds value (apart for the farming) with what is essentially pressing a goto button, and got to say the lack of jesus features over the years combined with mostly rehashing the same content with not much more than slight variations and the instancing and now this, makes me wonder.
The amount of Anomalies and Signatures in a K-Space system is now visible from anywhere.
Combat Anomalies, Ore Anomalies, and Ice Belts show the exact type of site from within 1 jump away. At 2 jumps or further, only the existence of the site is shown.
Please revert this ridiculous change. Why should K-Space be made safer and more predictable? Cripes.
If I roll out of a static into a new system, the entire freaking region of potential content is instantly notified. Nice.
If I’m looking to cherry-pick relic sites like an evil man, I can now avoid dangerous pipes altogether if there’s nothing worthwhile up ahead. Great! Safe! Easy! My kinda EVE.
If I’m hunting those evil cherry-picking bads, I just launch the Agency and go to town. It’s not even funny.
For the love of Bob, nix this nonsense ASAP. Please.
Anomalies are not signatures. But it’s bad anyway, because bots and escalation farmers now know in which systems to jump, making it much faster and more efficient.
This is a bot and farmers heaven. This has nothing to do anymore with playing a game.
It does, but the result list is always limited to 30, so you have to filter properly do get a suitable result. Jump to SiSi and try it out. For day to day use it’s ok, because the results are accurate again (as long as you have less the 30 matches).
Btw…
He never said it’s going to be players, who will shake things up.
It’s going to be the Triglavians, I fear, who will add more destruction to this game.
Death Sentence, unless they really make them a playable race at some point…
