Wormholes

Can you please explain what this blue loot is?

Incursions finally got nerfed?

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Sleepers leave wrecks containing Sleeper Components (called 'blue loot' because of the color of the items' icons) which can be sold to some NPC stations. The wrecks can be salvaged for Ancient Salvage Materials, which are used in Tech 3 production and can be sold to other players.
The blue loot can be sold to some NPC Stations and some regions may not contain any of those stations. So be wary when you sell the Blue Loot and check the prices carefully since in those regions often other players have set up buy orders for the loot at much lower prices.

Neural Network Analyzers can be sold for 50,000 ISK and drop in all Sleeper ship classes.
Sleeper Data Libraries can be sold for 200,000 ISK and drop in all Sleeper ship classes.
Ancient Coordinates can be sold for 1,500,000 ISK and can drop from cruisers and battleships.
Sleeper Drone AI Nexuses can be sold for 5,000,000 ISK and drop mostly from battleships.

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Blue loot is a ISK FOUNTAIN that injects as much ISK into the EVE economy as incursions do on a monthly basis
Between 8-10 trillion ISK 1/3 or less of what bounties inject. Difference between Incursions & sleeper income: sleeper income also on top of that gives ribbon salvage which DWARF'S incursion income ( no appreciable salvage in incursions )

There is one thing that needs to be nerfed if all these others go into effect.. AFK Cloaking. Not sure about Wormholes tho.

AFK cloaking doesn't earn anything, so it needs a buff.
Pretty sure money from NPC buy orders was not already "floating around."

Nerf Jove space too.

Its my understanding Jove space was nerfed when CCP laid off a bunch of co-workers after the Incarna fiasco late last year & WiS & WoD got axed

Not according to Dr E at Fanfest both are around 5%, no? http://d35dgn2pdc8wsn.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/04.jpg
I bet those cashing out blue loot is alot less then 5% & WH residents on top of that get nano ribbons which are worth ALOT more then crappy Concord LP which can only be worth while with overpriced 6% 'plants & Capitol faction modules unless you convert it at a 20%+ reduction to non faction warefare LP.
Hey CCP how about allowing Concord LP to be traded to faction LP at a 70% rate to even things out more?

You're exagerating. Blue loot isn't really worth that much considering all the costs associated with aquiring it and the number of players it gets spread around to in most cases. In some cases it is a Wormhole Corps primary means of immediate income for its members as the real Sleeper loot gets used in manufacturing as do the majority of other materials aquired in Wormholes.

Not speaking for the wormhole raiders here, just the Corps that actually live there. As for those other chaps, I'm sure they get what they get based on what class of Wormhole they are raiding and how long they spend there.

You also have to consider time investment here. Wormholers probably have one of the highest time requirements placed on them with regard to managing their POSs, mining Gasses, Scanning, and running Sleeper sites which aren't exactly as common as missions or even remotely frequent spawners. Then there is just general time spent scouting and watching and spying/surveiling, which accounts for almost half of any wormholers time in game provided they actually make an effort and don't just show up to blow up Sleepers.

In all, it has a high burnout factor for anyone that actually invests in it actively in game, and you want to take away the one relatively guaranteed payout for all that time invested. Good job.

I think the plan is to run some incursions in some wormholes, then when all the big shiny 5 billion isk incursion ships are all in those wormholes, they will sut. Permanently.