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I've been thinking about this for a while and now with officers this kinda matters. Do/will drones have a home region?

No, you don't need to balance ISK faucets directly with ISK sinks, for several reasons.

First off, killing drone officers is a completely new occupation, this means players who are going to do it and use the ISK faucet would very likely have used another ISK faucet instead which they won't use anymore when they are busy hunting drone officers. So if the drone officer faucet isn't bigger than the alternatives' ISK faucets (and I doubt it is) then this change doesn't increase the overall value of ISK faucets in the game.

Secondly, even if this change increased the overall ISK faucet value in the game and created more ISK than before it would still not be a problem. Because it is balanced with a material faucet in the form of probably quite valuable drops. I'm pretty sure for each of the drone officer mod drops you'll have made less bounties from the officers than the mod is worth on the market. If I'm correct with this assumption then this change will decrease inflation (by a tiny bit) even though it adds an ISK faucet.

P.S. +1 for making drone sites in empire worth running.

It most likely went from 5% to 7%, because that is something that will see a meaningful amount of extra salvage, going from 5% to 5.1% would mean almost nothing.

Confirming. Those officer DCU's looks totally useless/wothless. I havent have cpu problems with carrier ever. But instead ive had power grid problems to fit 2 x capital rr with 2 x local capital reps and 3 drone control units. Soo while power grid is the issue why give cpu bonus?

Well it is imho. When you go in lowsec roam and go -5. Then when you come back to your drone region home your not getting your sec status back up w/o sec increase.. Which also means that yor f'd up next time when you fly your hauler to jita buy some stuff.. Being -10 or -5 in jita while flying your iteron mark v is not very smart..

Also are you saying theres something wrong with sec status ratting? And where it should be done instead? Maybe lowsec? Or hisec? I bet it will take while to get positive from -10 with hisec rats

Has there been a response from CCP on the uselessness of the officer DCU yet?

It should be +2 drones or a % to fighter/bomber damage if you ask me. CPU is useless.

Because nothing is happening with them. Even minor rebalances to those sites has historically been adverticed by CCP as some kind of big thing. Keeping that in mind it's fairly obvious, that they didn't buff the drone DED sites in any meaningful way and they will continue to be sub par sites.

And thats what buggs me. they make it sound like its such a great thing and get your hopes up. and then they give you a lame duck.

its like when boat calls a fleet and says hey "we got guys to shoot they said they are going to fight us this time" then when you titan bridge in its an ihub that needs to get reinforced. Dam you boat and dam you CCP.

Great stuff, as always. Wondering now if rogue drone faction mods are also in the works.

Three notes:

(1) I'm not sure a 2% increase in salvage value will change anything. Rogue drone salvage is infamously terrible, to the point where most folk don't bother salvaging the sites.

(2) As has been pointed out, the rogue drone complexes are awful from an income perspective, although they do make a nice occasional break from the anomaly grind. The only worthwhile complex is the 10/10, and even it pales in comparison with pirate 10/10 complexes. I think the big issue is the relative uselessness of advanced ('augmented') drones and of faction drones in general, and the lack of officer/faction drops.

(3) Not sure if this is still the case, but last I checked (back in April), the rogue drone exploration sites were mislabeled in the scanner window. For example, Abandoned Research Complex DA025 was labeled as 'Magnetometric' (requiring a Salvager/Analyzer); but the containers required a Codebreaker to open, so it should have been labeled as a 'Radar' site instead. I opened a bug report on this (ID 133645), but it timed out for lack of attention a week or so ago.

@CCP FoxFour is there some kind of master plan for the DCUs? Because at the moment they seem more or less pointless. Even as simple yes or now would help clear up some major confusion.