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Huh - the exhumers leave elite wrecks (large ones, at that). Just pulled some intact armor plates off of a Skiff wreck.

If everyone will excuse me for a moment, I have some things I would like to sell.

I've seen several different response fleets so far, most commonly an all-frigate sized one with ewar and DPS. The skiff I attacked resulted in a defense fleet that included some frigate logi (maybe the other frig ones had a logi and I just didn't notice it). I've seen one batch of frigates and cruisers, such as seen up thread.

The combat ships don't seem to leave any wrecks.

So far I've found plenty of them in high sec, but I did 15-20 systems in null and saw exactly zero (much of that was in Outer Ring, too).

I hung out with the skiffs for 20 minutes before engaging, hoping to see a hauler or some kind of activity, at least, but they pretty much just sat there and shot rocks like any proper AFK miner. :)

Will they show up on d-scan?

sooo Free ADM maintenance?

Has any thoughts been given to the depletion of belts by these NPCs? Players online in the last third of the day, right before the downtime, are going to have a serious belt depletion issue if these NPCs start taking asteroids away from the belts.

I really love the idea but I'm just a tiny bit affraid that adding new NPCs that, unless if killed, will basically make the ore dissapear, will create issues for miners.


Let me suggest:
Terrible - Red
Bad - Orange
Neutral - Blue (assuming it's the same blue than current neutral NPCs)
Good - Light Greenish Bluish
Excellent - Green

Having them turn White if friendly seems really counterintuitive to me. The orange to blue step is quite strong but at least we are used to the blue color for NPCs already... For the white color, there are no excuses as this one is primarily used for lootable objects.

As mention earlier, can you may be spawn more of them ? Is there any restriction regarding regions at the moment ?

Ps : don't forget to update your overview, those npc are new entries.

I was wondering, what if you are at very good standings with them, would their npc support fleet come and help the player if attacked? now that would make things interesting.

As per Paradox's quote below it seems right now positive standings don't matter.

The idea of NPC defence forces would be interesting though, however we already have CONCORD for pirate attacks (ganks) and there would have to be some kind of loophole where the NPC's won't help a player during a CONCORD sanctioned war (war dec) as otherwise it would give players a large advantage.
As someone with Caldari State and Corp standings through the roof I would love to have more recognition from NPCs in regards to that, however I'm not sure having the Empires send in fleets to defend Capsuleers would make for better gameplay.

Can you tractor beam their cans

Quick note before I dive into answers, not all the mining operations have started. I will be starting many more today. So it should be easier to find them.

Some quick answers for all the questions:

Yes you can loot their ore from them should you kill them to try and take it from either miners or haulers.

Attacking them will affect standings towards that corporation.

They will only appear in static asteroid belts.

We are aware of the standings colors for the overview, thank you very much for the feedback. We'll investigate this further.

Positive interactions towards the NPCs is absolutely on our sights. And you'll hear more on that from us soon.

All of the ships have the SKINs of their empire to distinguish who they belong to, take a look at them

They will flee under attack, but right now they instant-warp. This will be balanced in the next day.

Directional Scanner is interesting, thanks for raising that up!

Their aim is asteroids, and will not be venturing through wormholes.

They won't loot player wrecks, but if this is something you're interested in please let us know how you would feel about it.

They're not selling ore on the market, they use it for their own production purposes.

The default overview for General and All will be updated with all the new ships in the coming days.

I like where this is going, especially the use of standings. (finally)

I'd like some Dev comment on the issue of belt depletion, how much ore are these things going to take?

Also rather than just corporation standing I think there should be a faction standing hit for killing these or at least some of these like mission npcs. then players would have to balance competing for ore against eventually being outlaw to the faction.

Because lets face it, if the only downside to shooting these is poor standing to a corporation, they will just be massacred on sight.