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CCP, When will you fix Drone Lands?
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Vel'drinn
Sanguine Vipers
#1 - 2012-08-01 16:44:19 UTC
While I understand that gun mining had to be removed so minerals come from actual miners, there is no indication for when the drone regions will be populated with content to be on par with pirate regions.

No drops, no officer or hauler spawns makes for a very dull drone region. Nobody bothers to salvage due to lack of drops. That random chance to get awesome stuff is a powerful carrot. 0% chance to get anything ever kinda kills any desire to PvE.

So when are you going to do something about this? People actually live out there (shocking!) so please don't stick this issue in the whenever pile of stuff to fix.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2012-08-01 16:45:44 UTC
Good news however is that nobody will attack you for your terrible space.
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2012-08-01 16:48:08 UTC
I think drone lands are fine.

If we make all space equal, we will kill the game.


ITs like socialism. It has never worked. Ever.

FC, what do?
Lilliana Stelles
#4 - 2012-08-01 16:48:27 UTC
Not all nullsec should be equal... it defeats the purpose of competing for prime realestate.

Not a forum alt. 
Spurty
#5 - 2012-08-01 16:58:18 UTC
Every region should have a purpose.

Not always 'Unique', but some purpose all the same

If not, why not just drop the region from the database?

Use those resources to perma-reinforce known choke point systems where big fights can kick off (because those regions have reasons for fighting to occur in them).

There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Vince Arron
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-08-01 17:03:57 UTC
highonpop wrote:
I think drone lands are fine.

If we make all space equal, we will kill the game.


ITs like socialism. It has never worked. Ever.


Yeah IRL armed forces never work right?
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-08-01 17:06:18 UTC
Vince Arron wrote:
highonpop wrote:
I think drone lands are fine.

If we make all space equal, we will kill the game.


ITs like socialism. It has never worked. Ever.


Yeah IRL armed forces never work right?


Depends mostly of witch part of the globe or country you fight, some we can safely say they never work Blink

brb
strenif
Perkone
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-08-01 17:10:04 UTC  |  Edited by: strenif
highonpop wrote:
I think drone lands are fine.

If we make all space equal, we will kill the game.


ITs like socialism. It has never worked. Ever.


Have you told the Canadians?

But on topic, if we looks at all the other regions what makes them different from each other? Different drops, different salvage, different ice, and different moons. We can all agree that the moons value greatly differs in value. Can you say the same thing about the value of the ice from one region of space to the other? Is the loot or salvage value from one area vastly different from another?

Things don't need to be equal but at lest make them equally different.
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#9 - 2012-08-01 17:11:34 UTC
highonpop wrote:

ITs like socialism. It has never worked. Ever.


aren't you an ignorant little ****

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-08-01 17:11:41 UTC
Vel'drinn wrote:
While I understand that gun mining had to be removed so minerals come from actual miners, there is no indication for when the drone regions will be populated with content to be on par with pirate regions.

No drops, no officer or hauler spawns makes for a very dull drone region. Nobody bothers to salvage due to lack of drops. That random chance to get awesome stuff is a powerful carrot. 0% chance to get anything ever kinda kills any desire to PvE.

So when are you going to do something about this? People actually live out there (shocking!) so please don't stick this issue in the whenever pile of stuff to fix.

now you understand why LoD left Droneland so easily don't you? Lol

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#11 - 2012-08-01 17:12:50 UTC
Dronelands will likely be quite popular with drone co-op fights in Dust. There might be something worthwhile on those plants not yet found which all other parts of space don't have.
Vel'drinn
Sanguine Vipers
#12 - 2012-08-01 17:15:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Vel'drinn
Spurty wrote:
If not, why not just drop the region from the database?


Agree with needing a purpose but some people live there. Let's just flip and switch and... Sorry IRC you need a new home. Your sov is for a new game play mechanic to enhance PvP. Cool

Personally, I don't care about regions being perfectly equal. Raw ISK is cool and all but it would be nice for the Drone regions to have a little more depth than that.

PvE in generally is boring as hell in null (and rest of the game mind you) but that's a whole other discussion. This is really about incentives. I would prefer different space with a theme over **** space.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#13 - 2012-08-01 17:16:15 UTC
How about:

Reduce T2 salvage from everything but drones, and increase its chance of dropping from all drones.

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Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#14 - 2012-08-01 17:26:39 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
How about:

Reduce T2 salvage from everything but drones, and increase its chance of dropping from all drones.


How about not having t2 rigs cost double what they currently do.
Arkturus McFadden
Anukar
#15 - 2012-08-01 17:54:07 UTC
It has its uses and EVE should never be fair.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#16 - 2012-08-01 17:55:19 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Good news however is that nobody will attack you for your terrible space.



They have the richest ore belts !!

brb
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#17 - 2012-08-01 18:04:15 UTC
I would say give the drone land some love in the form of ded drone sites. The drone region should be filled with these. DS in a drone research ore corp division with a unique LP store that offers special drone bpcs and materials for such through LP. Basically, make it have content similar to other regions, just drone specific.

Heck, drone epic arc with a reward of a special drone assembly pos array?
Garreth Vlox
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2012-08-01 18:15:23 UTC
Vel'drinn wrote:
While I understand that gun mining had to be removed so minerals come from actual miners, there is no indication for when the drone regions will be populated with content to be on par with pirate regions.

No drops, no officer or hauler spawns makes for a very dull drone region. Nobody bothers to salvage due to lack of drops. That random chance to get awesome stuff is a powerful carrot. 0% chance to get anything ever kinda kills any desire to PvE.

So when are you going to do something about this? People actually live out there (shocking!) so please don't stick this issue in the whenever pile of stuff to fix.


Maybe if your region hadn't been home to 23/7 botters for the last few years CCP would be a little more worried about your wallet.

The LULZ Boat.
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#19 - 2012-08-01 18:16:43 UTC
Posting in a "Fix my ISK faucet" thread...

...
Suqq Madiq
#20 - 2012-08-01 18:18:12 UTC
Azami Nevinyrall wrote:
Posting in a "Fix my ISK faucet" thread...


Quoting a "I have no ******* clue what I'm talking about" post...
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