Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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In Kronos we are making some improvements to the existing pirate implant sets, as well as adding a new collection of lower grade pirate implant sets that will be obtained through low-sec exploration.

The first change we are making is to rename the existing low-grade Snake, Slave, Crystal, Talisman, Halo, Nomad, Centurion, Edge, Harvest, Virtue and Ascendancy implants to mid-grade.
Next we are increasing the attribute bonus from existing pirate implants by 1. This means that all high grade implants will give +4 attribute bonuses, and the renamed mid-grade implants will give +3 attributes.

Finally we are adding a new set of pirate implants to take over the low-grade slot. These implants will give +2 attribute bonuses and their pirate set bonuses will be approximately 63-68% as strong as the mid-grade (formerly low-grade) sets.

For most of the sets, the set bonus provided by the new Low-Grade Alpha through Epsilon implants will be 2.5%, and the Omegas will provide a 10% set bonus.
For the new Low-Grade Snakes, the set bonus provided by the Alpha through Epsilon implants will be 5% and the 110% for the Omega.

This means that the complete set bonuses from the new low-grade sets will be:
Snake: 10.5% velocity bonus
Slave: 20% armor hp bonus
Crystal: 20% shield boost bonus
Talisman: -17.4% energy emission systems duration bonus
Halo: -9% signature radius bonus

Nomad: -17.4% agility bonus
Centurion: +20% ewar optimal range bonus
Edge: -17.4% reduction to booster side effects
Harvest: +20% mining laser range bonus
Virtue: +20% probe scan strength

The Ascendancy set will have a high-grade (+4) and mid-grade (+3) set but not a low-grade level at this time.

The FW sensor strength sets are a bit of an exception. The high-grade versions are getting the bump up to +4 attributes but the low-grades are remaining low-grade and will continue to give +2 to attributes.

These implants will initially be available exclusively through lowsec exploration. At a later point they will be added to appropriate LP stores.
The existing implants (high-grade and renamed mid-grade) will continue to drop in the same places as before and be available in LP stores at the same prices as before.

Any plans to add HG sets for the sets that do not have them now?

Also any plan to do something with edge implants :D

yay

now please make ultra-highgrade ones that let me have +5s and my pirate sets

any amount of isk as their base price will do (perhaps 10-20b a set), this should be reserved for the isklords of the game

I'd love these good changes a lot more if there was a way for w-space folks to swap clones at a rorqual or something... :)

And with that Fozzies lowsec following grew, for they freasted upon his wonderous gifts.

Still no implants for drones...

Make HG +5 please.

Good change. Also Santo is gonna have even more fresh meat pods on his board since the new low-grades might be pretty common.

20% at low grade .. seems a bit high .. i hate too imagine how much you get off High grade....

its a little too pay to win for my liking...

also how come we only got the 2 Geno implants for free and the other 2 are insanely priced multiple bill each??