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Drones and minerals idea
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Sri Bolyn
Disciples of the Void
#1 - 2012-01-13 00:53:25 UTC
Regarding Rogue Drones and their worth, why not:

1) Have a massive one off Rogue Drone Incursion (potentially with several live events).

2) During this incursion Rogue Drones go from a far off menace in the eyes of the Empires to an imminent threat and Concord applies the appropriate bounties.

3) Assuming the drones are defeated (wink wink) they fall back to the Drone regions to assess the related data. The first conclusion they come to is that the material they drop would be better served being processed into more weapons and mods for their own war effort. Now they would have similar drops to "normal rats".

4) This gives CCP the opportunity to change Rogue Drones in a way that makes sense and more importantly will be seen as fun (to some).

5) Appropriate faction loot would have to be developed...Drone mods etc...

6) and/or Maybe the drones abandon civilized living all together and become a wandering menace that randomly appear in belts and systems. These spawns would stack with pre-exisitng spawns meaning that you might be ratting/mining/incursioning/missioning or pvping have rogue drones warp into your area.

Thx for reading
SpawnSupreme
Hardly Mischief
#2 - 2012-01-13 01:52:59 UTC
i can see as an incursion drones can kinda cause some slowing in isk cuz you will have to haul the minerals and gear out but that is resonable fair and it will be mostly ran by thos who wanna build not bulk the wallet.

i fully support this idea and i had much the same idea just less people will do these incursions.

having them appear more areas than 1 is logical why not allow them to raid your occasional mine belt or where ever it would make sence drone ai would try to seed elsewhere or think like terminator movies the machines try to enslave and kill humans.
Sri Bolyn
Disciples of the Void
#3 - 2012-01-13 04:54:09 UTC
Yes, the idea would be more along the lines of Rogue Drones as a challenge/nuisance and less as an isk faucet. Having them randomly show up on top of normal rats wherever there is pve content would add a sense of menace and uncertainty to any endeavor.

Of course if you did this another rat type would have to be added to the drone regions instead of drones so that there is a means of guaranteed income there.

The idea here being to think of ideas to get away from drone mineral drops which are allegedly ruining the mineral market.