EVE General Discussion

I got an officer spawn in a -0.8

So it's not just -.9 and -1.0

I had to have 2 people help me kill it. I was in an over tanked Maelstrom and still had to warp out.

just find the best true sec system with somethin like 10 belts, and kill everythin in that system, leave nothin on belts, wait till the hauler spawns come, then get ready for the officer to show, worked for me a few times, never got 1 while chaining

Not necessarily I've had 17 officers over the last 4 years, all in stain. Granted some of those were old dump officers and only about 5 of them have been the recent incarnation. But 15 of the 17 spawned while I was chaining either a 21 belt, 11 belt, or 14 belt system.

But as a disclaimer I dont really belt rat anymore and I haven't seen an officer in the last 6 months.

Lost count but I think I've seen/killed 7/8.

2 of those were after DT, can't do that any more.
The rest came from heavily ratting clearing all spawns.

What I do know is its random but chances are based on the amount of Spawns killed.
The more spawns you have (more belts in system) and the speed at which you can kill them helps improve your odds of eventually seeing one.

Now I don't know if anything changed with the Ratting chnages recently..I don't think it has but I havent done enough to quantify that with an answer.

It's hard to put fact to your questions, I do seem to see Officers in my experience at busier times like the weekends for instance.
This is probably due to the amout of additional ratters and the overall amount of rats killed in the system region.
Although I can not say for sure this is correct...just speaking from experience.

-0.86 is the border

I have cracked the secret of farming officer spawns on such a way that you can max out your chances. It's based on a few elements. Send me 100 mil and i reply in privet mail back exacly how the officer generating works. Information like this is not free.



Spawn rates are nerfed since ccp changed to dynamic spawns. The chance formula got adjusted on such a way that the chance of getting a "special spawn" is lower in total. This is why all faction candy prices are increased with atleast 30% and more populair mods, 50%.



This has been changed with the introduction of dynamic spawns


Semi Correct, think of zipping belts used to be populair (hint ;)). The higher the true sec the better the Tiers of special spawn's. These special spwans could be ether "Haulers, "Faction" or "Officer".

PS: my record is 7 officers in 5 days, old system 4*meta 12, 3*meta 13 officer
PS: it is actulay possible to get 2 officers belt after belt.
PS: now i stop, i have given away too much allready ;), for 100 mil i give exact detail mail on how it works

First off, I'm not looking to exploit the system to "farm officers". I am more interested in which sec level system officers have a chance to spawn in. I don't believe that is exploiting the system.

-0.86 is pure speculation and unverified, so I'm not sure what makes you think that it is exactly -0.86 vs. -0.8.



Which patch did CCP change to "dynamic spawns"? One of the last 2 or current one (Retribution, Inferno, Crucible)?

In Incursion 1.2 the officer difficulty was increased to better reflect their pimp fits.

As for the wheres and whens of their appearances, these are high-ranking pirates that have their own schedules and agendas. They didn't reach their elevated positions by being predictable.

I've had two officers in Tenal, so it doesn't have to be NPC nullsec.

It doesn't have to be NPC null, but I've heard it said that because of the "broken" true sec there that they're able to spawn in any system, while in non-NPC null they are (supposedly) limited by truesec.

Officer spawns are ultra rare & designed to be a group thing. They have spawned in -0.5 all the way down to -1.0
You can ask for data all you want, but this info is not collected in any database & people are not willing to share where they got it.

Tough **** sherlock.