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I like this! ISK faucet (like everywhere else), but no longer a mineral faucet (like everywhere else), and something unique worth fighting over!

Given that *every* NPC faction HATES drones (except maybe Sansha, but that's because he's, well, a couple fries short of a Happy Meal), it would make sense to give a factional boost (but not security) for killing them. Also a potential conflict driver for the drone regions.

I'm not the only one to ask, but will drones now drop modules? Or anything? Will they all have empty wrecks? If they don't drop some kind of loot they'll still be less rewarding than shooting pirates (at least for those of us who have an alt in a Noctis following behind to salvage). About 11% less than pirates rewarding according to pre-nerf numbers anyway; I'd guess about 7% less than pirates afterward the loot nerf based on my records.

Will rogue drones have officer and faction spawns and if so do we know what kind of loot they'll be dropping?


Please answer this so I can decide if I need to get a larger chalice to collect drone region resident tears in.

Excellent changes!

-10% on the pay out of vangs are not so bad but Assaults would still need a boost, maybe of 10% on the pay out.

the bigger dificulty from Assaults to vangs, isn't actually the site, but the need for more people to remain for the duration of the sites, managing 20 people instead of 10, gives +10 chances to have to stop for replace grid spots.
especially with that assault Nation Consolidation Network, where you have a bunch of rooms and makes it take so long (and those sites spawn more often) it ends up being a terrible boredom task, compared with other sites.


Rogue Drones Bounty ... makes perfectly sense as they are a big threat to everyone in the game lore, and they had a bounty at some point (bounty of 0), but was removed ... but what will they drop ? someone suggested components for T2 drones ... it's interesting, but i don't think they should be the only way to get those components, after all, rogue drones are infected normal drones.


drones compound nerf ... rats loot nerf ... why isn't a solution to make shooting and looting npc's in to something fun and profitable, without colliding with mining, and still be at the level of other activity's ?
consider droop loot of useful things, that players can be happy to find.

i remember watching a video of a free online RPG game where an adventurer would proceed on the field vanquishing NPC's and one dropped the axe and the adventurer catch the axe and equipped it, because it was a better gun.
at that point, my first feeling was : "Me has to have Axe !" - then i realised i didn't even liked the game, to start with.
- my point with this little example ? -
it is very fun to loot useful things from npc's, that can improve you're combat performance (weapon / ammo / booster/ nanite paste)

yet, in eve, npc's tend to drop useless modules, that you only refine and remove some of the minerals needed

why some of those npc's don't drop some boosters that increase you're "damage" by +1% for 10 - 30 minutes, for example ?
or something else useful ?

because, until now, i only noticed solutions that included nerfing the bountys and drops of npc's until it was no longer fun or profitable, to waste time shooting and looting npc's.

I remember a time, quite a while ago, actually, before the drone regions existed.

I was a much younger pilot then, happy to have just qualified for a covetor, yet unable to afford the 550mil price tag for a hulk.

I was living in Dekline at the time, and my corp/alliance was using the Crokite in the area to help pay the bills. Zydrine was at 3400/unit, and once the corp took its 15% refining cut, anything you mined was yours.

I remember jumping into my brand new Helios, packing it full of Zydrine, and running it down to Jita. I made over $150 million per trip, which was big money back then.

The the drone regions came out, and the prices of Zydrine and Megacyte went into the toilet.

I fully support the drone region changes... just as fully as I DESPISED their initial addition. CCP destroyed the high-ends market years ago, and I'm glad to see they are fixing it now!

In fact this is a GREAT boost to newbies.

CCP can go advertise around how even in their 9 years old MMO a new player can get up to competitive levels instead of being doomed to be grinded by grandpa aged pilots.

I'm getting around to the questions ;) patience...

and we did have forum threads, CSM feedback + fanfest feedback

good point ! it is ridiculous such a expensive ship can't tank s**t +1