First Impressions of Datamine

Well, after a few hours in Datamine, I gotta say...

I LOVE IT!

The Collective Death Squad and the Zion Zerg were going at each other and anyone they could find, which really kept me on my toes those few hours. The $info...  And I discovered that Master Shadow is my best friend. I've only died once, and that was when I first went in and was being a noob by going by myself with Duelist loaded... >_<

What do you people think?

It's not to bad, I realized the Archivist Proxy takes way to long to send people.

I also now think Master Shadow needs to fixed, like give shield jamming a chance to bring someone out of Shadow.

I don't need info so I don't datamine, for now theres plenty of people to kill,

but what happens when everyone gets bored and now one goes in there anymore?

It's not to bad, I realized the Archivist Proxy takes way to long to send people.

I also now think Master Shadow needs to fixed, like give shield jamming a chance to bring someone out of Shadow.

I don't need info so I don't datamine, for now theres plenty of people to kill,

but what happens when everyone gets bored and now one goes in there anymore?

SampleNow wrote:

It's not to bad, I realized the Archivist Proxy takes way to long to send people.

I also now think Master Shadow needs to fixed, like give shield jamming a chance to bring someone out of Shadow.

I don't need info so I don't datamine, for now theres plenty of people to kill,

but what happens when everyone gets bored and now one goes in there anymore?

I'm guessing the info farming will keep people coming back in.

I also now think Master Shadow needs to fixed, like give shield jamming a chance to bring someone out of Shadow.

Wehirio wrote:

SampleNow wrote:

It's not to bad, I realized the Archivist Proxy takes way to long to send people.

I also now think Master Shadow needs to fixed, like give shield jamming a chance to bring someone out of Shadow.

I don't need info so I don't datamine, for now theres plenty of people to kill,

but what happens when everyone gets bored and now one goes in there anymore?

I'm guessing the info farming will keep people coming back in.

What happens if the info was nerfed? the info you get from tapping is nice but say it was nerfed, i dont think the free for all would keep eveyone in the datamine. Would be nice to see a boss put in there with some epic lootz or maybe some quest.

Yeah jard hopefully that's something they have in the pipeline, But dont forget this new area has opened up a lot of things for the devs  IE story based bosses and other things. Or of course i could be dreaming

A boss and rotating rare loot would keep Datamine interesting for a long time.

TC Death Squad?  I love it. 

A boss and rotating rare loot would keep Datamine interesting for a long time.

They did good roaming around killing at random, I'll definitely give them that Satta, but some of them took things way to seriously.

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Well, I was not there and cannot speak on that.  However I think you would agree that TC has taken alot of hits as of late.  There is bound to be blowback.  All in all that is nothing compared to what we have to listen too from the haters.

However everyone is having fun and that is how it should be like.  Now if the Devs can create something that will keep datamine attractive then they will gain and keep alot more accounts.  Alot of old heads are coming back around to check this out.

~ A Phavor Phrom Phluff ~

Any of you on Myspace... could you leave 'phirst impressions of Datamine' as comments on the MxOSpace Profile?   http://www.myspace.com/mxospace  So new people can see what we're all saying.   I think that would be a big help.

/phormalcurtsey

However I think you would agree that TC has taken alot of hits as of late.

Satta wrote:

However I think you would agree that TC has taken alot of hits as of late.

Which has nothing to do with acting a fool cause someone won't sit still and let you gank them 8/1 " width="15" height="15" />

I think there was an entire thread dedicated to this topic.  Instead of complaining on DN1 for whatever purpose do what Mave does and just say, "Learn to root noob."  LOL!

Also /ignore is my best friend.

would be a thousandfold better if the buildings were enter-able, but all in all it's good stuff.

Agreed even if the layouts are the same as the others, Entering building would be very nice but that patch for that will prob be a bit high, Hence this patch was not that big thats prob down to the fact that you cant enter buildings , But whatever im happy as it is for now

Going back to what Satta said, Damm yeah theres a few faces in there i anit seen in 3 years !!!!

Good to see all you guys back , Hope you stay

Datamine is awesome. I haven't explored the entire area yet nor tapped nodes (though I hear they grant a ridiculous amount of Info per tap), but I did PvP for about an hour and it was a lot of fun when everyone is red. The FFA will freshen up some of the stale PvP we have been seeing at Mara for over 3 years now. Though it's kinda tough to auto target.. usually I just tab through targets, but when most of those targets are your own Faction, it gets kinda tough.

I think what makes Datamine so great and unique is the amount of uneven terrain. Actual hils, bridges, broken streets, buildings, etc. Like Puck said, it would even be sweeter if buildings were accessible, but that's no biggie really seeing as the area itself is huge.

Hopefully Rarebit and the gang expand on this and like others have said perhaps add a unique boss or some sort of quest for some new and rare loot, which will be a lot harder to aquire since it's FFA, so only teams can compete with the boss/quest and other hostiles. Territory battles would also work!!

They did good roaming around killing at random, I'll definitely give them that Satta, but some of them took things way to seriously.

Protip: If one person laughs at you and keeps running, their probably just trying to get a reaction from you. Sending them tells just lets them know they won " />

tell.

You broke my shield and I said "nope"

Shame on you for trying to camp the entrence to 01 anyway " />

Yeah having accesible buildings would be cool.  Imagine you are just chilling in a building looking out the window and you see a dataminer run by.  The hunt is on.  Alot of place to have ambushes, or territories to hold onto.  A boss on the helipad or in the lake or something.  Rotating loot that is hard to get.  Maybe even a way to tally up kills to death ration in just that construct.  I am telling you if just these simple things were done their subscription base would explode and stay that way for a while.

Without these additions I don't know how long datamine will hold everyones attention.  People will soon get tired of the TC death squad ganking everybody and will only come in when nobody is there to datamine.  They will then go back to Mara doing whatever it is they do over there.

NightTrace wrote:

tell.

You broke my shield and I said "nope"

Shame on you for trying to camp the entrence to 01 anyway " />

You and mittens weren't doing the exact same thing? Plus for the record, that night TC were fighting each other for fun, staying near the entrance protected us for opposing org members. But look, this isn't an argument. If you think sending smack talk in tells is lame, just don't do it your self. Thats all.

NightTrace wrote:

tell.

You broke my shield and I said "nope"

Shame on you for trying to camp the entrence to 01 anyway " />

You and mittens weren't doing the exact same thing? Plus for the record, that night TC were fighting each other for fun, staying near the entrance protected us for opposing org members. But look, this isn't an argument. If you think sending smack talk in tells is lame, just don't do it your self. Thats all.

Ahem, Me, Nighttrace, and hostileintention. We was just hanging out anyway. that Alt f4 was funny as hell though " />

Without these additions I don't know how long datamine will hold everyones attention.  People will soon get tired of the TC death squad ganking everybody and will only come in when nobody is there to datamine.  They will then go back to Mara doing whatever it is they do over there.

imax wrote:

NightTrace wrote:

tell.

You broke my shield and I said "nope"

Shame on you for trying to camp the entrence to 01 anyway " />

You and mittens weren't doing the exact same thing? Plus for the record, that night TC were fighting each other for fun, staying near the entrance protected us for opposing org members. But look, this isn't an argument. If you think sending smack talk in tells is lame, just don't do it your self. Thats all.

Isn't this the exact same thing you people gave DW flack for, yet it's perfectly okay for you to do? ::confused::

And he sucked at insulting.

I'm impressed that they put this thing together, being so short on staff and all, but I have to be honest with you, I'm not that thrilled with Datamine.

If you look at it for what it is, it is a new place, to do the same old content.  PvP which has been around since....mid beta or so, and the datamining stuff, which has been around for almost half a year.  WHile bigger, and better, the construct itself has no distinguishing content, and nothing unique but its look and FFA pvp ruleset.  Until some unique content gets added, it'll be nothing more than another construct that will be abandoned in 6 months.

Though it's kinda tough to auto target.. usually I just tab through targets, but when most of those targets are your own Faction, it gets kinda tough. 

 Territory battles would also work!!

It is tough to autotarget, and I'm always like "****, I'm MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERED! Oh wait, it's just some Machinists (which... may or may not get me out of danger)"

And Territory Battles would be 'Hella Leet'.

Truthfully, I love this place. It's fantastic.

Though everyone needs to adopt a rule: Shut up and PvP!

I get that some folks are there to datamine and make some quick cash, but that 10x info boost isn't free, y'know... we were getting some pretty heavy hate messages after killing some miners. Some even cursed in Spanish!

I get that some folks are there to datamine and make some quick cash, but that 10x info boost isn't free, y'know... we were getting some pretty heavy hate messages after killing some miners.

Admittedly, it bugs me when someone notices that you're fighting a data mining spawn and ganks you.

But if you're just tapping a regular node, you can stop, drop, and roll into combat pretty easily.

I thought this was Phase 1 of Datamine...

Roukan wrote:

I thought this was Phase 1 of Datamine...

Fixed.  phase 1 is so that we get the new place to check out. I can only dream of what's Phase 2. " />