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NO WONDER I DIDENT FIND ANY IN MINMATAR SPACE! lol

WTB circadian sleeper miners in null that call drifters that go DD green. Preferably with hax jumpy DD off the keepstar.

With the changes to how boosts work, will an orca in the belt boot the output of NPC miners?

Boosts only affect your fleet, so no.

Seems the issue I raised originally is already covered, so in that case, this all sounds absolutely great and I'm super exited to see where you're going to be taking this.

I look forward to the day where I can send out my own NPC mining fleet.

Soo found some. Attacked them and holy darn. The defense fleet can do some damage. https://gyazo.com/f0bda84e8c146a714132664c987fe3d5

More note after testing. Attacked a Caldari (Poksu) spawn.

Scram working fine to stop hauler leaving. However after the initial warp out of the miners the one you have tackled won't warp out even if scram is dropped (Grr ECM).

The Logistics Frigates (Bantams) would only logi one another and nothing else, so I could murder all other ships and just have two logi flying around doing nothing. It seemed they're setting orbit on me and then only repping things in range.

Killing a Skiff gave a -0.0571% standings loss (information more for players than CCP)

NPC's may not use normal NPC defence profiles? I was hitting Caldari ships for the same damage with EM missiles as Thermal.

After salvaging the Skiff wreck then opening the can it spawned a ghost wreck in space/overview which couldn't be interacted with.

Exhumers continued to show on overview and as brackets in space at 77.9 AU away, Even when warping around system they continue to show.
Warping out of a belt and back in changed the ships which were there. Left with 3x Kestrel 2x Bantams and came back to see 1x Kestrel, 2x Griffin and 1x Condor in the belt (these are the ships I had killed porevously. They were not killable/targetable but would show on overview and flying around in space) EWAR icons from Condor's (Target Painters) even when not being targeted/attacked.
This issue was fixed by docking or relogging, I am not sure which as I did both.

I support having defense fleets loot the player's wrecks, but only if the defense fleet is the only thing on the KM.

From there, just let them carry that loot in a table for the corp/ship type that looted so that next time someone pops one they have a chance at it.

Curious about these "positive interactions" though.

Could you convince these corps to sell to your buy orders, haul stuff to station for you, bribe them to defend your own operations in they're in the grid, etc?

I'm imagining a system like the old SWG rep, where if you busted ass to get really fatnastic standing with, like, tusken raiders by shooting a shitload of jawas, you had a unique tool in PVP that other players may not have by giving you the ability to take cover in a group of them without getting shot at, however gaining faction with one group always lowered it an equal amount with another.

in losec especially this could create some really interesting scenarios, where you might actively dscan around for friendly fleets in which to park your own mining ship to help defend against ganks, or panic dscan belts if getting hunted and suprise your attacker/target with some unexpected allies. This would be inappropriate for null, but for low I can see it being a rational thing to have.

You could also give them LP trade options, basically "cash in" standings for empire LP. So you drop your standings on purpose with them by .1, as long as it wouldn't drop you to negative, and get X amount empire LP, basically "calling in a favor" with your special capsuleer status.

As for the belt decay issue, I think that's a good thing. It incentivizes either finding new belts to mine, or having to aggressively remove the rats from your preferred belts, which may create a new pve mercenary industry for hisec people to do something other than incursions.

I know it's been mentioned by others but is there a goal to this content other than adding world activity?

As others have mentioned right now there isn't too much of a risk/reward scenario for this content. Just T2 salvage and mined ore.

I am not entirely against there being nothing special as I would hate to see Empire become as "farm the NPCs for their special drop found no where else" but at the same time I wonder who will actually engage with this content if there is nothing gained from it.

Even the lore and RP people amongst the community are still gamers and think in terms of ISK/Risk/Reward.

Some more answers that we can answer right now:

They will spawn in High, Low, Null security space. But not wormholes.

The spawn is not definite, meaning they won't always be in the same system at the same time every day.

NPCs will scale with system security.

NPC fits are completely different, they reflect player ships much more than before. Ultimately, they're fit for PvP.

There can be overlap from different mining operations, the primary goal is gathering ore.

There is an incentive to attack them. More information from CCP Larrikin at EVE Vegas this weekend.

Some issues:

• Overview and brackets being broken is a current issue on Singularity.