Player Features and Ideas Discussion

After doing a whole region of radars and mags,I have about 50mil in loot. I think it was 4 radars and 3 mag sites..Anyway its crap, because it also screws up my chance for a drop on complexs. So to sum it up quickly.

High sec: Radar/Mag payouts are probly good

Null sec: Radars need a little help/Mags are good...Ive had a high level mag drop 200mil in loot.

Low sec: A single high level radar/mag should drop up to 100mil in loot..This is not happening

This for amusement value.

AFAIK the rewards are graded null > low > high.

After doing roughly the same number of sites you've done (EDIT - but in high sec) I had 15mill in loot so I wouldn't fret too much.

It's the only time I've done high sec mag and radar sites as I was a little depressed after a day's play so I might have just been horribly unlucky. I'm used to wormhole radar and mag sites so it was a massive disappointment.

I guess high sec needs help too...For the time it takes to scan and do them they are worthless

Last few days I've been doing nullsec radars ( about 20 total ) and the result was truly abysmal ( not that something has changed since my last visit in zero sec ).
When you take into consideration inherently high risk of travelling through zero sec ( been camped four times in one day ) and considerable amount of time that some sites take it just doesn't look nice.

Nullsec radars have higher chances of dropping the best decryptor and ship interface BPC but it still happens rarely.
From those 20 radars I got 4 such decryptors and 2 BPCS ( 6 runs total ).
You get much more datacores but it's just gravy.
Decryptor drops ( the good stuff ) in nullsec are terrible. Usually you get maybe 2 - 3 from one site and the funny thing is that its mostly the low grade decryptors while good decryptors are dropping from hisec radars.

Lowsec radars are more tolerable but still worse than hisec ones. Most sites require more time to finish. Greater distances between containers and much more rats.

The proportions of radars I did in hi/low is about 15/85. The best radars I had were in hisec ( 50mil from single site ) and it happened 4-5 times while in lowsec I never had better drops ( max was 40mil and that happened only few times ).
That is plain bad.

The problem with lowsec radars is that they drop data and tuner interface BPCs and those are totally worthless because they are not consumed by invention ( not suggesting that they should, just stating the reason for their worthlessness ).



When it comes to magneto sites it is much better ( Serpentis space being a notable exception ). The profitability proportions are acceptable ( for every faction except Serpentis - yes I said that twice, guess why ).



Suggestion :

Hisec radars
- higher chance of getting low grade decryptors ( 0.6 and 1.0 ) low chance of getting 1.1 decryptor

Lowsec radars
- lower chances of getting data and tuner interface BPCs ( seriously - anyone doing lowsec radars have hundreds of those BPCs in their hangar, me included )
- higher datacore drops
- low chance ( or rather risk ) of getting low grade decryptors ( 0.6 and 1.0 ) higher chance of getting 1.1 and 1.2 decryptors and very low chance ( just like it is now ) of getting 1.8 decryptor

Zerosec radars
- higher datacore drops
- extremely low risk of getting 0.6 and 1.0 decryptors, high chance of getting 1.1 and 1.2 decryptors and low chance ( just like it is now ) of getting 1.8 decryptor