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Rogue drones should have some form of loot or modules.
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Spr09

Abyssal Echoes

Invidia Gloriae Comes

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#1 - 2012-07-24 17:19:13 UTC

I brought this up before, but I explained it really badly. So here goes.

Rogues drones are the absolute minimum compared to other rats right now. Their bounties are equal to other faction's rats, but they lack any modules or decent salvage compared to the other rats. They have faction rats too, but those don't drop any faction modules or blueprints, all they give are parts to make augmented and integrated drones, which after some searching seems they're really close to impossible to get, blueprint or drone.

My thought is to do the following:
1. Every faction, including pirate factions has faction modules, excluding rogue drones. Add rogue drone versions of all the drone upgrade modules, or blueprints to use the rogue drone components you get from sentient drones.
2. Add a second version of t2 drone blueprints that uses rogue drone components.
3. Have better salvage.

Dusenman

Sensible People

Sigma Grindset

Likes received: 38

#2 - 2012-07-24 17:31:35 UTC

I'm hit or miss on this one. For the most part a lot of people in null sec simply kill and then leave. So there isn't a great need to add loot to the drones. That being said I can see the need for some type of faction or office spawn as they are the only race that does not drop anything. But the question is what? What could you get from a drone that would be useful to us?

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Tomcio FromFarAway

Singularity's Edge

Likes received: 291

#3 - 2012-07-24 17:41:58 UTC | Edited by: Tomcio FromFarAway

Personally I would like if rogue drones drops were all blueprints for mods and drones. Those would require drone components ( from sentient drones ) and compounds ( lets make use of that, you can still get them in DED sites ).

Those mods would include :
Rouge Drone Damage Amplifier
Rouge Drone Navcom
Rouge Drone Omni
Rouge Drone Control Link

And lets get those improved drones back ( just make them really better than T2 drones ).

Additionally - implants for drones. Those could be dropped just like other implants but I would prefer if you could actually produce them from BPCs.

One more thing : new faction ship - Infested Dominix <3

All those BPCs and materials would drop from sentient drones/overseers.

All those mods/implants and ship would require both compounds and sentient components ( not minerals ).

In summary you would only get BPCs and components for production. That would make drones different from other factions and more profitable than now ( it would be less profitable from other spaces but we cant have equal spaces ).

Spr09 wrote:

all they give are parts to make augmented and integrated drones, which after some searching seems they're really close to impossible to get, blueprint or drone.

I'm not sure but I think that they removed BPCs from game some time ago ( they used to drop in radar sites in drone regions ).

Nagarythe Tinurandir

Einheit X-6

Likes received: 237

#4 - 2012-07-25 13:23:56 UTC

im supporting this thread. +1

no loot and underwhelming salvage...
3 drone squads yield salvage comparable with one mediocre lvl 4 mission (not blockade..), while one forsaken hub in angel space yields more then two blockades worth of salvage.
furthermore no differentiated anomalies like hidden / forsaken/ ... squads (hubs), effectively only the "normal" variant of hub, rally point, port etc.

i dont know about drone faction ships... i'd rather see new models for the pirate faction ships without a unique model (guristas, serpentis,..)
but faction drone upgrades sounds very good.
as well as a noticable increase in salvage. getting the anomaly differentiation whould be nice too.

maybe we can grap a dev's attention?

Ascendance Goonswarm Federation 5
Gunnlaugur Ascendance Goonswarm Federation Likes received: 5	#5 - 2012-07-25 17:03:22 UTC I got a cuple of faction spawns the other day, i think one of them was worth 8m in bounty + 200k in loot / salvage, and the other one was worth about the same but the loot / salvage was stunning 2m.... some thing really needs to be done for the drones Free bump

en Welle Shipping Inc. 1,380
Corina Jarr en Welle Shipping Inc. Likes received: 1,380	#6 - 2012-07-25 17:04:53 UTC They should all drop several drone AIs. Cause we can use more of them.