Player Features and Ideas Discussion

honestly, I think most people are having a similar problem. I spent 7 hours one day in a lowsec with like, 15 asteroid belts. we ratted the place all day and my friends went to other systems, and we only got one garmur BPC and three clone tags the entire time. I think spawn rates are naturally abysmally low, and, for the mordus ones- should probably be just mildly increase (if even only for a short time as like, a special event or something like "the mordus legion are increasing the patrols, they are on to the guristas") so that the ship becomes a viable ship to actually FLY and not be more expensive than a cap ship (IM LOOKING AT YOU NESTOR)

and as an addendum- this lowsec event is what encouraged my corp to play around in lowsec the past few days for the first time, and we made our first legit PvP kill- which was a proud moment for us all. So, I would love more incentive to be there- i.e. the reward actually being worth the risk. Getting 200mil in a BPC over the course of 7 hours to split between players is not really worth it =P

Low sec you're fighting against potentially 4-5 different spawn varities of which only one may spawn at a time and they each have a spawn rate under 2%.

Ok, now it's been 4 days. I've spent a few hours each day going through systems during low population hours. I must have checked well over 300 belts by now, still nothing, nothing from any of my alliance mates either. No fancy solutions needed, but pretty please, with sugar on top Fozzie, improve the spawn rates. At this point even the Garmur frigate is just a pretty comodity. Let these ships out there so they can be used for what they were built: PvP.

A ship that makes the Dramiel look common is reckless to undock. You won't be so happy about it when it dies to a couple of cheap destoyers looking for loot pinatas like you.

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Yes, I am sure he will be devastated by the loss of his space pixels.

I dunno man, I'm getting a lot more reports of people putting in great effort and coming up empty handed. Funnily enough I've heard of more Barghest drops than Garmurs. At least the frigs should spawn more often. Consider this: If the Garmur takes an average of say 20 man hours of searching through hostile LS space it's literally the worst ISK/hour in the game. Even if the ship went down to half the price it is on market today it would still be too expensive to see any real use in PvP. The spawn rates need to go up for the ship to actually be used by lowsec residents for PvP.

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Have you given any thought about adding or ceding stations for mordus in lowsec? I was very alarmed at your decision to place such a high value on their only station in nullsec for the new pirate ship skins and the mordus ships themselves; having a few more stations or even just some encounter agents might assist with providing more market stability and accessibility for mission runners.

Even if you keep it in lowsec to maintain the 'danger' factor that seems to be being pushed here for the sites and turning things in at the station. I would be amazed if whoever had the idea to place any importance at all for getting any of these new items from the mordus station actually understood the lengths people go in this game for piracy. Giving the station any usability at all with the mordus ships is a blatant freebee to the powers that control that area of space, as independent mission running from that station is probably one of the most hazardous things to do in pve outside of wormhole space.

...Are you actually serious? Every other ship in the game, EVERY SINGLE ONE is manufactured from the ground up, mostly from people with no interest in pvp. Why should these have to be any different?

If you chain belts all day long in lowsec you'll find them eventually unless the RNG really hate you.

I thought that precisely the extreme PvP risk was the charm with the Mordu's ships. Putting them in belts only in lowsec was an awesome idea. But they're not going to be driving much conflict if they spawn so little that only hardcore PvE grinders can find them. Perhaps they should spawn more in systems that see a lot of PvP activity even - rewarding PvP, rather than hours of mindless searching, just a thought.

In any case: the spawn rates are too low. These ships were made for PvP and nothing else. At the moment they're little more than commodities and dust collectors in rich assholes hangars.

Here's my Lowlife article on the matter.

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