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Hunting the new NEXUS Chip - My Experience
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2014-03-14 00:28:13 UTC
Arthur Aihaken wrote:
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Regardless of whether the Nexus chips ever actually drop in significant numbers ... or at all ... the threat of them being out there has forced Astero prices down by 20-30% :D

So the tactic did work.

And Nestor prices went up… Roll


Buffing the cap and doubling the RR range bonus may have contributed to that :D
Vhek Rikah
The Kingdom of Bretonia
#22 - 2014-03-14 01:19:55 UTC
Mr LaboratoryRat wrote:
The drop change of the bpc's are based on the tier of the sentient / commander npc. Your experiment has limited to hierachy's, radiances and independances. Please note that the base sig's of them are rly big and fall in the range of easy npc complexes like "bases" and such and most sentient drones in them are lower tiers with a low drop chance. Therefor you are drawing the wrong conclusions.




youre sure about the tier theory?

drones dont have regular ded sites like 10/10s and they are all pretty easy
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2014-03-14 01:23:09 UTC
Seems like the Astero version of the chips are starting to drop ...

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=329054&find=unread
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#24 - 2014-03-14 01:49:45 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Buffing the cap and doubling the RR range bonus may have contributed to that :D

Rampant market speculation, I'm sure...

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Vhek Rikah
The Kingdom of Bretonia
#25 - 2014-03-14 05:27:00 UTC
DAY2: http://imgur.com/BvGshsR


busy doing other things... was running one hierarchy which escalated to the last stage.. hierarchy mother dropped 278m worth of t2 salvage. got 2 full escalated hierarchys so far, the last stage dont have 'sentient' spawns and takes forever because you have to kill almost every ship
Smog890
New Eden Trade and Market
LinkNet
#26 - 2014-03-14 16:05:14 UTC
Vhek Rikah wrote:
DAY2: http://imgur.com/BvGshsR


busy doing other things... was running one hierarchy which escalated to the last stage.. hierarchy mother dropped 278m worth of t2 salvage. got 2 full escalated hierarchys so far, the last stage dont have 'sentient' spawns and takes forever because you have to kill almost every ship


Yeah we did all the escalations for it all 5 or so and nothing just 300mil in loot at the end. Worst drone land update! Still worst region to make good stuff sept bounties
Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#27 - 2014-03-14 16:31:40 UTC
Well, at least some people are running high sec drone anomalies now.

There a high-sec "island" in Devoid — the Enka constillation — that before Rubicon 1.3 hit would have (literally) hundreds of drone anomalies piled up in it. The scanner would look something like this.

But yesterday I went there to do some testing for myself, but found only one or two anomalies. So either there's other people out there just testing the high sec drone anomalies, or just maybe people are actually finding the BPCs there.
Salvos Rhoska
#28 - 2014-03-14 16:44:37 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
There a high-sec "island" in Devoid — the Enka constillation — that before Rubicon 1.3 hit would have (literally) hundreds of drone anomalies piled up in it. The scanner would look something like this.



"My God, its full of anomalies..!"

PvE v PvP <> Old School Exploration <> CODE Licenses <> CODE Special Agent
Vhek Rikah
The Kingdom of Bretonia
#29 - 2014-03-15 01:46:55 UTC
did a drone patrol today which is the equivalent to havens, no sentient spawned....

then i did a Hierarchy again and got it full escalated 4 sentients spawned.... no NEXUS chip... Roll


my conclusion:

Anomalies dont have guaranteed sentient spawns, Cosmic Signatures like Hierarchy have guaranteed sentient spawns, but so far they dont drop the NEXUS chip, the payout for Hierachy isnt bad fully escalated.
Ill extend the HUNT and keep reporting...
Divine Entervention
Doomheim
#30 - 2014-03-15 01:52:18 UTC
Cool. Flying around fighting an NPC hoping for a specific piece of loot to drop.

It's nice to see CCP is incorporating some aspects of World of Warcraft into EVE.
Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#31 - 2014-03-15 02:07:20 UTC
They're for faction ship BPC's - they're supposed to be rare. Stop whining and do missions for them if you can't cope with the drop rate.

CCP Fozzie “We can see how much money people are making in nullsec and it is, a gigantic amount, a shit-ton… in null sec anomalies. “*

Kaalrus pwned..... :)
Vhek Rikah
The Kingdom of Bretonia
#32 - 2014-03-15 02:07:37 UTC
i dont care about the drop or the isk, nor do i live in the drone regions... just wanna see if ccp has done it right.
sometimes its good to do something else for a few days...
xxVastorxx
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2014-03-15 11:32:34 UTC
I found a few in the Drone 10/10's as drops from the sentient or the stn you gotta shoot.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#34 - 2014-03-15 12:47:51 UTC
So the drop rate is few a day? From 10/10? Shocked

Why did I even bother...

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#35 - 2014-03-15 15:10:45 UTC
CCP be kind, buff the drop rate by 100, then if still to low again
Repeat until it becomes too common then take a step back.


You know just like you do with the system load
This way we can see if the issue is that people arent doing enough kills for the statistics to kick in, or if there is some hilarious overlooked piece that meant the loot drops didnt get connected properly.

The number of times that has happened to me in programming...

You dont know pain until you have to find the proper baud rate for an unlisted serial communications port after cobbling a port into existence in the first place.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#36 - 2014-03-15 17:27:22 UTC
Infinity Ziona wrote:
They're for faction ship BPC's - they're supposed to be rare. Stop whining and do missions for them if you can't cope with the drop rate.




A reasonable post...from Infinity Ziona?

Ok, who is hacking forum accounts again? And what did you do with the real IZ? Do we need to call Aussie police?
Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#37 - 2014-03-15 19:40:42 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
CCP, breaking things since 2003....
After all these years of watching CCP screw up patch after patch, I have to wonder if any of them could ever earn a living coding out in the real world.
My admiration, sir. Good eye. Good memory.

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