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Exploration in Odyssey will change in many different ways. Not only is the whole process of scanning being overhauled, but also the way gameplay in exploration works and looks will differ a lot from what you might be used to.

The Discovery Scanner is basically a new visualisation of the former on-board scanner, with a few additions. Every time you enter a system the Discovery Scanner will start to search for cosmic anomalies and signatures. You will see a scan sweep moving from one side of your screen to the other and further all around the system.

At any time you can hide the Discovery Scanner via the new radial menu for scanning (read more about this in section 9.).

Scanning is becoming a lot quicker and easier ([http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/team-super-friends-do-odyssey/ Dev blog source]). Basically, the new discovery scanner will show you all signatures that are available in your current system, but only the very rough location and no signal strength whatsoever. To be able to interact with them you have then to, as you are used to, pinpoint these signatures down to 100% signal strength. This process, however, is changing in the following ways:

[[File:scanwin_orange.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Window: Medium Strength / Idle]]

Signatures and Anomlies are being renamed, to make it more clear what they are. Wormholes and combat sites will now allways show which group they are in, when you discover them (no more Unknown). Also, former Gravimetric and the currently static Ice Belts, will become cosmic anomalies and both be known as Ore Sites.

Also, as reported in [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=237815 this thread], T3 cruisers are no longer allowed to enter 3/10 and 4/10 DED sites. This change is expected to go live with Odyssey, but has not been confirmed yet.

The way you run data and relic sites is much different from what you might be used to. I will go through this feature in the order of how you will actually interact with it once it's on Tranquility. Note, that the art for the profession containers also got an overhaul, which you can read more about in section 8.4.

[http://youtu.be/gNbGU07GgOo?t=6m22s YouTube video of hacking example]

Decryptors, which you can find through exploration and are used for invention, will be reorganized quite a bit. They will now be put in their own market groups (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente and Minmatar Decryptors), be renamed and also get some additions.

* Optimized Cryptic Augmentation (NEW): Probability -10% / Max. Run +7 / ME +2

Odyssey will introduce a brand new feature and incentive to travel to low sec space. You can now farm special new NPCs for special new tags that can be used to raise sec status, but most importantly can also be traded. This allows for pirates to basically pay other players, so they don't have to spend their own time on the sec status grind, essentially opening up a new market and business branch in the New Eden sandbox.

The theme of this feature are the pirate factions, also looking into clone mercenary technology, with the space police will rewarding you for interrupting their business.

Each of the five pirate factions that populate low sec areas (Angels, Blood Raiders, Guristas, Sanshas and Serpentis) will get 4 new NPCs: the Clone Soldier Trainer, Clone Soldier Recruiter, Clone Soldier Transporter and Clone Soldier Negotiator.

Each of these NPCs will allways drop one of the new tags.

There will be four new tags, one for each of the new NPC types: the Clone Soldier Trainer Tag, Clone Soldier Recruiter Tag, Clone Soldier Transporter Tag and Clone Soldier Negotiator Tag. These tags can be freely traded on the market.

You can use these tags to increase your security status.

There will be a new station service, unique to DED and CONCORD stations in low sec - the security office. There are 45 of these stations and you can highlight them on your ingame starmap (World Map Control -> Star Map -> Stars -> Services -> Security Offices). Using this service will prompt you with a new window. In this window you can drag a slider across a security status bar from -10 to 0. The tags and ISK (there will be an additional ISK fee) cost will adjust according to your current status and the status you dragged the slider to. If you have the required items you can then press the "Exchange Tags" button and your sec status will get updated.

As you can see from the screenshot above, each tag type can only be used in a specific band of sec status. Each tag gives a bonus of 0.5 sec status and they are distributed like this:

Increasing your sec status above 0 is not possible with these tags.

Currently, CONCORD Standing and Sec Status are the same thing. They will get split in a three step process when the patch goes live, like this:

All gameplay systems that affect security status will then use that newly created database attribute.

This will also fix the mechanic of Cycle Ratting, which could be abused to accelerate the rate of sec status gain. This will no longer be possible.

T2 Production will be expanded with two new intermediate materials, four new composites and adjustments to the composition of Microprocessors, Capacitor Units and Reactors. This will make R64 minerals much more important (which is one of the goals). Because of that, 227 existing moons of low and nullsec will be newly seeded with certain types of those minerals. Also, the time required to complete a moon scan will be reduced.

Here are the details:

Here are the details:

Also, Ore Sites (formerly known as Gravimetric) will now be cosmic anomalies and therefore able to be pinpointed directly by the scan sweep of the new discovery scanner (see section 1.1.).

Ice Harvesting will be made a bit more lucrative and dynamic. Ice Belts will become cosmic anomlies, that respawn allways in the same system four hours after they have been completed. These anomalies will be located in the same solar systems they are currently in, with the exception of some Clear Icicle belts.

The amount of ice found in these sites will be tuned so that in the future only 80% of the market demand can be provided through high sec.

In addition to this, the composition of Krystallos is going to change to the following values:

Also, ice harvester cycle time will be reduced by 50%, doubling the yield over time.

Here are the details:

All of the high level (combat) anomalies will have warp disrupting NPCs added to them. Also, sanctums and hubs will see the following tweaks to balance them out more.

Player Owned Structures (POSes) will get some love in Odyssey. These are all changes that should help managing the every day life of POS operators and especially enhance the experience of players and corporations living in wormhole space. Please note that the following list of changes has not been 100% confirmed to be shipped on June 4th. Due to technical difficulties the ancient underlying code provides, some of them might have to be pushed back to a later patch.

Here is what will be added:

Heavily connected to the ship tweaks will be the overhaul of associated skill requirements and ship skill progression in general. More info on this can be found in section 7.1.