Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yeah I left school over 40 years ago so have probably forgotten more than you currently think you know.
Just so your ego can get a further little boost, I was wrong..
Feel better now?

Regardless of whether it is 6 or 8, until the changes are available on sisi for player testing there is no way to know if we have another RLML, RHML situation being dumped on us.

Could you also try to put loot back into drones to make them useful again to rat? It would be nice if you changed drones in the drone regions to drop loot and bpc's like you have had with pirates, but add new 'rogue drone' pirate faction modules and things. It would be nice to see the Drone Regions become profitable again, and have t1 mission drones drop some added meta-level drone mods much in the same way normal mission npc's drop module loot.

Nestor prices actually went up, so I see this is working as intended.

So does this mean it's now useful?

So it's less bad? Not sure if that's a ringing endorsement, lol.

SOE LP was worth a lot before the ships existed at all, stands to reason that you could give the ships away and the LP would still retain value.

Yes we would like to keep the Nester price insainly high so our friends in null *wink wink can make a butload of cash off it before people realize its crap, its not like they had any foresight on what we were doing and made a rush for taking the worst region in eve besides provi.

/tinfoil

I think those 5 daily trades are suspect, too. It's not a stretch to suggest some are to establish a selling price and give the impression these are actually being sought after.

The Nestor would be decent at Rattlesnake prices and workable at the 600-800mil isk range. I'm shocked that I haven't seen some kind of downward trend in the price since the expansion. I have held the public opinion in PL that the Nestor would be a decent ship if the price was right. It seems to have been a mistake. If the price drops to a reasonable level in the next several months or so I could be vindicated. But at the moment the Nestor is terrible.

I have flown the hull into combat and I have a handful of killmails in one. That was before 1.3. My main thought at the time was how incredibly stupid I was being. The ship had under 200K EHP and I figured that even if someone couldn't defeat our fleet, they might suicide all their stuff to kill me. I hotdropped a Black Legion Talos fleet at one point and was sure my death was imminent. The Talos would stick around, blap me, and all die. Isk war won, and that bullshit. Instead they ran away. At least the warp speed buff is nice. The ship can handily keep up with a roaming armor cruiser gang.

My Nestor experience could have (and has) been replicated by sticking warp speed rigs on a T1 BS such as the Domi. I would not recommend duplicating it. At its current price, the Nestor cannot be sensibly used in PVP. I don't know why someone might want to use one in PVE over better cheaper options. And I just can't see why anyone would value it at the current prices if SOE LP don't need to be involved in its creation.

Why isn't the price dropping? Who actually wants these things at 1.5bil buy? I sold the one I was using and bought another carrier with the extra isk. Are things working toward some market saturation point where all the collectors have picked one up and then the price will drop? Are there just not enough drops in 0.0 to provide for the 5 to 10 purchases there are daily? Has the SOE LP price created some kind of psychological barrier people are unwilling to cross?

My belief prior to 1.3 was that drops would dominate the market quickly. The stupid 1.5bil buy orders would be filled by dronelands ratters and then a slow but unstoppable crawl towards a reasonable price would begin. It might take months but it would eventually settle somewhere people agreed the ships abilities deserved. But today, a week after the patch, the stupid 1.5 bil buy orders remain, and people are still selling at 1.6 bil. Who are these people and what are you guys doing with these ships?

I have killed 10 sentient battleships and received no chips, or any other loot of value. Though in theory this may have been a good change, I agree with the previous poster that the drop rate is too low.