Devblog: Exoplanets: The Next Phase Of Project Discovery

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Id like to offer my feedback after ive painfully reached lvl 250:

  • the tutorial is incomplete and not enough specific on how the mini-game works. No where it was clearly stated what we were looking for. you had to do tries / errors to find out how the stupid game works. It would have been easy, imo, to add some specific instructions like this somewhere in the tutorial:

    " look for:

     1- noticeble pitch / dip in the luminosity graph
 2- "V" or "U" shaped dip
 3- recognisable pitch / dip pattern
 4- same pithc deep and width
 5- do not get confuse between a real "dip" and the natural cycle of the graph"

  • the reward are not super incentive to play the game to be honest. I know that if im not pleased by the reward, im not forced to play the game. But there is no point for CCP to create a game a small numbers of players will play. If you add the scientific goal of that projet, it would be nice if a greater numbers of player participate. Hence en better reward tree seem the way to go.

  • the mechanic of the game itself is broken as it is way more productive to simply mark a sample as “no transist” and only focus ont the very obvisous one rather than actually really playing the game. May be some ideas could be looked at:

    1- remove the ISK payout on failiurs
    2- push up by a fair amount the payouts on success (maybe 1-2-3-5M ISK or what ever)
    3- remove accuracy score
    4- base payout only on “community consensus” or on “reference sample”

  • also, please could you fix your reward tooltip? its should be super easy for the most amazing devteam on earth that you guys are, to fix those tooltips to informe the player of what will really be his reward. A BPC isnt a BPO and it tricked many playing into playing the game while they judge that it wasnt really worth it. They find themself disappointed when they find out they were recieving a BPC instead of a BPO. Also, how is a player should know that he must absolutly dig in all the forums and internet externals info sources to make sure he has the correct info? anyway the fact that a player must rely on external information source to play EVE is an aberration itself.

my 2 cents.

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