Both of the new exploration sites were successfully cleared. In conclusion, very disappointing and not worth more than a landmark.
These sites do not require probe scans and can be identified as beacons in the overview. (like incursion site.) Currently, these sites are only displayed as ‘Celestial Beacon’, and there is no way to determine the name of the site until you issue a warp command to the site. In other words, even the minimum content function was not properly created.
The Overmind Nursery Groves site is easy to blitz. Destroying and salvaging the target structure yields only one Enhanced Electro-Neural Signaler. This is the essence of “supercapital construction components”. Other NPCs have a salvaging value of only 10M isk and no loot.
The AEGIS Capital Ship Security Facility site has an extremely difficult level of difficulty. Only T1 Frigate ~ T3 Cruiser classes can enter, and all gates inside can be used. Also, similar to the SCC site, there is a limit on the number of people, and only one person can break into the site.
There are 8 AEGIS Gunstars in the first pocket on the site, which should be tanked for 1600 DPS. The last pocket lags very badly with a lot of objects and effects. In addition, you have to engage with a number of AEGIS NPCs, and their specs and AI are very poor like the early SCC sites.
In the last pocket, hacked items only give you capital construction components, i.e. poor items like Electro-Neural Signaler. Hacking is also very difficult, so ships without hacking bonuses are very easy to fail.
In summary, the site has no value at all due to the extremely difficult difficulty, the limit of the number of people, and the rewards that are too low for that. This is because items dropped from these sites are easier, safer, faster, and more obtainable from the Ghost Data site. The most disappointing thing is the quality of content design and balance that doesn’t feel like even QA has been done. If you don’t get a sense of how bad this is, it can be described as having the same level of risk-return as the Incursion Scout Site.
Overall rewards need to be improved and site balance adjusted. I hope the CCP understands that this site is of no value at the moment.