EVE General Discussion

I'm actually somewhat impressed in the loot drops

instead of reprocessing t1 just for trit now I reprocess compressed chunks of trit

and I was pretty amazed when I was grinding a new agent's lvl 2 missions, I actually got a generic mission drop with an implant and another generic mission that dropped 2 hardwirings

I don't recall getting as much shiny stuff in low level mission drops before.

draft mode fail.

Heresy. Point me one positive Incarna feature. Besides CQ, wich I don't even use because IMO its a waste of gfx processor, I don't remember any. Enlighten me.

How is salvaging and looting more difficult? It's weird. The "loot all" button is still there. You only have to drag stuff if you want to sort it out and you had to do that before already. For a Noctis pilot its even easier as you don't have to press the button in a different window... you loot all and it moves to the next opened can automatically. Pull wrecks, salvage, open cans, loot all... where is the difficulty really? Doing it wrong, maybe?
The window don't close by itself. Yeah, that sucks when you're salvaging only one can/wreck. If thats the problem I agree with you, it could be changed.

Now I sincerelly didn't understood your diversity comment. The option is there, you don't choose it because it's not as profitable as it was before so there's no diversity? That doesn't make sense.

Still is a profession. People still do it. While I know it sounds crazy, they choose to do it. And. what's really crazy is they don't complain about the loot drops or the salvage. I know I don't. That would take time out of starting my next mission, getting more agent reward ISK, more standing with the corp and faction, and bounties. I guess I just don't see it as a nerf.

At any rate, if you don't want to salvage - don't salvage. But please consider the birds and the fish.

Good thing, then, that they've done nothing of the sorts.

They've removed silly sources of minerals and ensured that mining are the profession responsible for the gathering of those minerals. Without this change, no buff to mining would have worked other than to further the reduce the value of their efforts. They are also buffing mining with tiercide.

These buffs to mining have nothing to do with salvaging or ninja salvaging, neither of which have been nerfed in any way (unless you count the introduction of the Noctis, which wasn't so much a nerf as a new kind of competition).

By ensuring that the amount of minerals that is poured into the economy is much lower and only comes in the form of the mineral most in demand.

To be precise: nothing has changed in salvage anywhere.

What? They added a source of minerals to salvaging in triplicate, they didn't remove any. Metal scraps were few and far between before, now its ridiculous.

The amount of loot and salvage gained from NPC wrecks has drastically dropped within the past few months. As someone else pointed out, no need to fit up Noctis with Expanded Cargoholds to loot and salvage higher level missions. At least 1/2 to 2/3rds of wrecks in most missions are empty now. Doesn't matter if it's a Frigate or Battleship, most of the wrecks containing loot have 1x Metal Scrap, that's it.

Granted the wrecks with actual loot do contain high meta level items but overall the loot and salvage drop has been hit hard. The players doing level 1 and level 2 missions are feeling the big end of that nerf bat. It has always been common practice to loot and salvage those missions because that's where players get the ISK.

Sometime in the future I wouldn't be surprised at all to see NPC Hauler spawns and Drone Containers holding minerals being removed from the game. Also the option to reprocess modules into minerals. Not to mention changing Mining Lasers and Mining Drones to only work with ORE ships.

All the recent moves, the removal of Rogue Drone loot, removal of Meta 0 item drops, reduction of loot dropped from NPC wrecks, removing the Racial Mining Frigates and Cruisers, adding an ORE Mining Frigate and the so called buff to Mining Barges / Exhumers is basically an attempt to force players into mining ships.

Welcome to the future, either you pay a highly inflated price for minerals from the market or you take your chances in mining ships that have an extremely large Bulls-eye target painted on them.

EvE has some of its game mechanics changed to prevent botting and making overall experience better and people whine.
Don't worry, next patch will bring you Divas some new clothes. Nevermind the new missile effects, we all know what you want is a digital space dollhouse with a safe profession to pay the rent while your real money goes to the wardrobe.
I use to mission sometimes and you know what, it's still as fun as it used to be.

I think I am going to quit this game myself. Not because I was ganked /cry and can't make my ISK safely without having any sort of interaction with other player (in a MMOG ffs). It's because it's communitiy is so full of babies complaining about every little **** its not worth the trouble anymore. All this cry is because people want the game to be more PVE oriented. If everyone plays PVE then it's not different for me than be playing with a bunch of bots. This is massive multiplayer not single player or co-op multiplayer like Diablo. What the ****. Seriously, what the hell does single shard means to you? For me it means a lot.

Want minerals? Go mine. Of course its not safe solo, get into a corp and fleet up with some security, split the profit. This is multiplay. Be creative, stop whining because you used to type 1, 2 to win and now you have to type 1, 2, 3. The game is as good as it was before mechanic-wise.