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"Excavator" Drone Blueprint Question for Devs
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Cee Two
Radiant Blue Sun
#1 - 2016-11-05 15:16:23 UTC
The BPO appears to be "Faction" it has the green symbol on it. I for one have never seen a Faction BPO, only BPCs. Is this seeded as a BPO on Sisi just for testing and will only be a Loyalty Point based BPC on Tranq?

CCP I would like to know the plans for seeding on this blueprint. Is it a drop? Is it a LP Reward, is it just mis-labelled and will be a normal BPO?

I ask because ORE has a whopping 14 agents, all of which are in 2 systems in Outer Ring. Making it LP based will increase those cost of these 10x at least.

What is the plan here?
Iliilliliill Iliilliliill
Tranquility Tavern
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2016-11-05 15:32:58 UTC
Excellent question.. I hadn't thought about it.

Materials are in the 250k range EACH currently.. I'd hate to think if BPs will jack the price by 10x due to rarity.

I too welcome some Dev input on this.
almost fiction
Job Center Plus
#3 - 2016-11-05 18:38:14 UTC
They appear to be drops from the new Mining NPC spawns. You get a 'box' from the hauler which can give you a BPC.

Source: Eve vegas Game Design Video
TrippyHippy
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-11-05 19:49:10 UTC
almost fiction wrote:
They appear to be drops from the new Mining NPC spawns. You get a 'box' from the hauler which can give you a BPC.

Source: Eve vegas Game Design Video


Interesting.
Porcelina
Evil Young Flesh
#5 - 2016-11-06 01:35:14 UTC
So CCP really wants the rorqual to stay on grid. It takes forever for these slow mining drones to return to the bay and they are so expensive, you don't dare leave behind 1.3bil worth of drones.

I've been testing this on sisi. Horrible, just horrible.


RIP Rorqual... it was nice knowing ya.
Quriel Arjar
Doomheim
#6 - 2016-11-06 20:50:56 UTC
As if materials needed to build Excavator drones weren't enormous enough, from what it seems their BPC are going to be a giant pain in the bum to get.
I, for one, hope that something will change before the expansions hits. Rorqual + fit costs at least 3 bil (about 2.6 bil, if you build one yourself), 5 Excavator drones are currently 1.3 bil (and that's, if BPC was free), so the grand total is somewhere between 3.5 to 4.5 billion ISK of a killmail sitting in belt (unsieged) and mining a little bit more than a fully boosted Mackinaw/Skiff. I started training required skills to fly Rorqual when Excavator drones were an unconfirmed rumor and I am honestly starting to regret it now, seeing as people who rat in carriers get 50+ mil ticks for more or less 1/3 of the cost.
I am going to lose all my hope, if these thing turn out to be ridiculously rare drops from NPC and vastly overpriced in ORE LP store.
almost fiction
Job Center Plus
#7 - 2016-11-06 20:52:30 UTC
Yes hunting them on test server shows them to be a massive pain. The BPCs will be the bottleneck though and will vastly limit supply. This should make Elite drone AI price plummet from where it is now.
almost fiction
Job Center Plus
#8 - 2016-11-07 22:59:55 UTC
lol having hunted hauler spawns for the past 2 days solid on test server. if these things are the only source of harvester drones then my god theyre going to be expensive. only about one in three haulers dropped a strongbox
each hauler took at least 2 hours to hunt and then only one of the strongboxes i got dropped a harvester BPC

RIP harvesters hardly knew thee

(a wise man would make the strongbox drop from the defense fleet)

also elite drone AI is gonna plummet in price due to these BPCs being the bottleneck
Ncc 1709
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2016-11-08 03:24:41 UTC
try the ore lp store...
almost fiction
Job Center Plus
#10 - 2016-11-08 08:12:48 UTC
Ncc 1709 wrote:
try the ore lp store...


It's not on there on test server.
Doddy
Excidium.
#11 - 2016-11-09 13:22:51 UTC
almost fiction wrote:
Ncc 1709 wrote:
try the ore lp store...


It's not on there on test server.


You know excavator drones and harvester drones are completely different things right? Excavator drones = new mining drones for Rorqual. Excavators is what this thread is about

Harvester drones = ancient faction mining drones that are currently very expensive which ccp have added to the drop table for these new mining fleets so they can start coming in game again. Even if they are a rare drop it will increase supply which is currently effectively non-existent.
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#12 - 2016-11-09 14:47:56 UTC
almost fiction wrote:


also elite drone AI is gonna plummet in price due to these BPCs being the bottleneck



That makes no sense. No matter how many BPCs you find any number of them will increase demand on Elite Drone AIs, which are already the bottle-neck for "augmented" drones. No matter how you look at it, prices will at worst stay stable, and most likely go up.

tl;dr: buy Elite Drone AIs.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
Ncc 1709
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#13 - 2016-11-10 00:03:33 UTC
when i used to build augmented drones, elite drone ai's were between 2 and 5m each depending on the size of the stack.
once they got added to market, they crashed in value