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Why do I find myself missing drone goo!?

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Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#1 - 2013-05-23 11:55:39 UTC
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.
Blod Bladelicker
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-05-23 11:57:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Blod Bladelicker
I find myself to be quite annoyed about that change. As a PvE'er(Until my skillplan is done) I find myself just skipping on drone missions because the income is worse than crap. average bounties + no loot = not worth my time.
Lexmana
#3 - 2013-05-23 11:58:20 UTC
What you thought was a fun option was threatening a whole line of profession so they decided to remove the option and buff barges instead.
Austin McLaren
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-05-23 11:58:35 UTC
I also quite miss it, was nice to look at in the noctis.
Super spikinator
Hegemonous Conscripts
#5 - 2013-05-23 12:03:54 UTC
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.


They removed it so that mineral prices would inflate, and so that high sec people could actually make isk since the alloys brought in a lot of low ends. The gun mine nerf was essentially the final nail in the coffin for null industry. The only thing I don't agree with is that they didn't add normal drop tables to the drones when they took the alloys out of them.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-05-23 12:06:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Debora Tsung
Lexmana wrote:
What you thought was a fun option was threatening a whole line of profession so they decided to remove the option and buff barges instead.


But... That Profession is excruciatingly boring. o_O

Those who did it (normal Mining) back then didn't want to do anything else anyways, why ruin (gun) mining for all the other guys?

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

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stoicfaux
#7 - 2013-05-23 12:19:17 UTC
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.

Drone poo is still available, but CCP (in their infinite wisdom) tiericided drones into six types: Procurer, Retriever, Covetor, Skiff, Mackinaw, and Hulk.

On the plus side, they also added loot tables to drones. (Pro tip, salvage the elite drones.)

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Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#8 - 2013-05-23 13:36:10 UTC
It was removed, along with meta zero loot drops, so that minerals would supplied by miners. It was done to make the mining profession relevant to eve.

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Brainless Bimbo
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-05-23 13:44:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Brainless Bimbo
drone poo still is available in game, i come across it often enough when doing sites, hint, its now packaged in cans.

already dead, just haven´t fallen over yet....
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-05-23 15:45:23 UTC
In order to prevent minerals being worth less than dirt.

Dodixie > Hek
Danni stark
#11 - 2013-05-23 15:49:41 UTC
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.


you miss it because it made minerals cheap and it was removed so mining was less of a joke.

or, something.

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Six Six Six
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-05-23 16:01:18 UTC
Danni stark wrote:
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.


you miss it because it made minerals cheap and it was removed so mining was less of a joke.

or, something.



I miss it because I made good isk from drones (alloys) except drone parts which were crap isk.

But I think I understand why they got rid of the alloys and don't have a problem with that, but they should have replaced them with more than just bounties.
Khemax
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2013-05-23 16:05:48 UTC
They did say they were going to give the drones some "normal" type loot tables but as ever it never happened.

Come on CCP sort this out oyu penalized a whole area of the map and never fixed it.
Spurty
#14 - 2013-05-23 16:09:13 UTC
Khemax wrote:
They did say they were going to give the drones some "normal" type loot tables but as ever it never happened.

Come on CCP sort this out oyu penalized a whole area of the map and never fixed it.


that area alone was very guilty and can remain punished until 2015 or something roleplayery

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floating in space
#15 - 2013-05-23 18:16:59 UTC
should I be complaining that asteroids don't have bounties?
mynnna
State War Academy
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-05-23 18:27:09 UTC
Super spikinator wrote:
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Can someone remind me why it was removed? I remember not being outraged or anything, but it was always a fun option to go gun mine something if I needed some minerals.


They removed it so that mineral prices would inflate, and so that high sec people could actually make isk since the alloys brought in a lot of low ends. The gun mine nerf was essentially the final nail in the coffin for null industry. The only thing I don't agree with is that they didn't add normal drop tables to the drones when they took the alloys out of them.

Quite wrong, actually. They removed it because it harmed nullsec mining as a profession.

The fact that it made low ends go up in price was not, I think, intended.

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floating in space
#17 - 2013-05-23 18:31:00 UTC  |  Edited by: floating in space
It harmed all mining silly goon, they also nerfed mission r̶e̶f̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ reprocessing shortly after so I'm pretty sure low ends were their target as well
Shadow Lord77
Shadow Industries I
#18 - 2013-05-23 18:33:28 UTC
It is because you are crazy. Mining is more profitable now with Drone poo gone.
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#19 - 2013-05-23 18:38:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Vincent Athena
Drones still have salvage. Maybe the new "capital rigs" with their higher salvage requirements will drive up salvage prices.

Edit: When CCP said they were going to remove Drone droppings I suggested they do not remove them, just reduce them by a factor of 10 or some other large value. That would make gun mining provide far less minerals than normal mining, but still keep some value in drones, and keep some variety in the game.

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#20 - 2013-05-23 18:39:08 UTC
Much easier to remove drone drops than fix the botting that was the real problem.

Mr Epeen Cool
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