EVE General Discussion

If the box were owned by whoever killed the last rat and turned anyone else who took stuff out of it flashy yellow, we might get some actual fights over its contents.

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I normally run the Serpentis Shipyard sites and spam-lock 30+ ships every single time. It gets pretty repetitive. By my calculations, I make about 20m isk/hr from bounties alone, just a bit better than semi-afk mining. But I've also found two high-grade implants, which is nice. If Shipyards pop up in my local area, I go ahead and do them, but I can only tolerate a few before I get bored.

You aren't missing much. The carrot on the string is pretty weak due to the build cost of the dread being very high (40 Billion isk in materials). The only groups I can see this ship appealing to will be hi class wormhole dwellers (K-space dwellers will just use a super carrier and not be locked into siege) The bpc's will flood the market which will drive it's value down. As for the titan and super bpc's it's pretty much expected that account sharers will take those.

Serpentis Shipyard and Research Facilities have a can (make sure event container is checked in overview). It's the one site that has loot.

Haven't even bothered to log in for iti. No loss is what I'm getting from everyone

Can't really tell if they're fun or not. Like the Guristas, Bloodraider and Frostline event, the sites are heavily competed and therefore a rare sight to see on the overview. This makes it so 90% (my personal estimate) of the playerbase never actually gets to see one and complete it without interruption.

However I don't think that making the sites personal (like missions) or create more of them would fix it however.

Overall, I think the events are of bad design and doesn't contribute to the game, not even lorewise. It is simply CCP throwing us a stick and telling us to go fetch. But that's just my personal opinion.

Its like WoW or Guild Wars 2 dailies with monthlies as well. Grinding for trinkets.

Making the game like other MMOs won't stop declining player numbers.

I dont even worry about the can. if i get it i get it. If i dont i dont. Its actually becoming super grindy and i hate that about games. Been through 7 systems tonight and not one event site of any type, wonder where they went. Think i may be throwing in the towel on this one and going back to pew pew. Im not carebear enough to grind these for 40 days and 40 nights.



Hi i would like to trade these for the following:

Singularity Rocket Launcher and 1000 Singularity Rockets:
*5 KM base range
*Holds 10 rockets
*15 second cycle time
* 60 second reload
*Singularity Rocket - Creates a micro singularity at the point of impact instantly vaporizing any sub capital NPC ship it strikes( except concord) with a single rocket. Does not work on capital size ships , player ships, or structures.

Its a pretty reasonable design, in that

(a) if you can't play every day, you aren't penalized.
(b) there is a component of the income that people can't steal from you.
(c) there are 3 or 4 strategies in play (do everything, just do S+Rs, just "steal" from S+Rs, just capsule leech etc).
(d) the valuable strategy (implant farming) is exposed to a little bit of contention or as some may view it,"theft".

The issues are

(a) it broke badly when released (lack of crediting stayed around for days).

(b) one of the options for implant strategy farming (finding S+Rs in places where there is no competition) appears to be essentially identical in nature to ratting anomolies, but with 25% of the bounties, no faction rat, and the tiny escalation turned into a tiny implant chance, and you can't direct the chances of the implants to suit yourself.

The problem with tiny chances is that individual players can face unbound failures, ie if the implant drop chance is as low as 5%, then 100 can loots without a drop is going to happen to like 10% of the playerbase (the exact number I'll leave up to people that do stats). I'm currently sampling the loot drop chance at below 10%, don't know if thats the average, or if that is even a streak yet.

(c) the encounters are generally dull and just require a general dps ship, preferably with rat specific resists and damage.

(d) no cross over between encounters - there is a little cross over between tasks - ie occasionally you might complete a part of 2 tasks at once, but you won't need an object collected in 1 task, to do another or anything like that, there is no essential puzzle.

(e) the grinding component of the reward isn't very interesting - collected all up its basically half a skill injector and a bpc most people probably won't build.