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Abandoned research Project (celestial Beacon)

Author
Elric Darkmoor
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-06-08 15:37:20 UTC
Greetings

I was wondering if anyone could tell we what this is.
I have warped to it twice, each time there has been 4 frigates and 4 cruisers.

I blow them up and nothing else happens.
They don't seem to drop anything special so far.
Only thing i can find out about these are from June 2010, saying that they are "incomplete Plex's"

Any Clues or Hints. Maybe i am googleing the wrong thing?

Thanks
Gritz1
Ice Fire Warriors
#2 - 2012-06-08 17:31:41 UTC
Occasionally the one I go to in low sec has a faction spawn which can drop some nice loots. I'm not sure if they will ever turn into anything.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-06-10 04:23:57 UTC
Back before the upgraded graphics (Nebula and Planets) there used to be various items situated near planets, just to add more visual eye candy to the game, sorta like tourist sites. They really didn't do anything other than enhance the game visually, no NPC's or loot available and not very many players knew about them, thus becoming wasted content.

With the graphics upgrade, CCP redistributed and added more sites throughout the Eve Universe. They also included some content (NPC's) and turned them into static 'Landmark' beacons that are all visually different. Basically it's a mini Deadspace pocket with various items in it along with a small group of NPC's. All the sites have a small chance to spawn a Commander NPC with an even smaller chance to drop Faction loot. Those sites have a long respawn timer intended to discourage farming.

They don't take long to complete and can be a nice little detour for a change of pace while traveling long distances. There's 753 'Landmark' beacons total within the Eve Universe.


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