EVE General Discussion

Why are these so terrible compared to their ded counter parts? Their ded counter parts you can make 50-100m a site, there is nothing indiciating that these sites "Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation" and others drop more then 1-2 million isk worth of loot.

What gives?

There is a tiny glitch chance of a crap Serpentis drop :P

Seem to remember they have some quasi valuable rocks in them, but its not worth keeping the DED alive to send in a mining vessel plus the pain of having to slowboat in and out with it past acceleration gates. Easier just to find an ore anomaly.

Drone alloys arent worth crap, and the bounties are a pittance.

Havent bothered with drone escalations/expeditions for years.
Iirc the ones I tried where long, awkward and low reward.

SoE missioners provide the bulk of SoE BPCs, so the rare token drop for those from Drone sites is not really competitive.

Ignore the Drone DEDs, and hope CCP metrics become obvious enough to prompt improving them.

I think there is a lot of potential there, but atm, its empty content till CCP makes use of it.

This particular 3/10 DED definitely needs more valuable loot, or I have really bad luck.

Serpentis loot drops there, rarely. Its in the can in the last room. But I have found only some cheap serpentis hardener few times, no deadspace loot at all. :/

I tend to run most combat sites I find, even ones like angel/blood lookouts where the chance of something valuable dropping is rather remote... but at least there's hope of finding something like a disruptor/scrambler in a possible faction spawn or the escalating sites.

However, as it stands there are two in which I have absolutely no intent on trying again, and they are the drone 2/10 and the drone 3/10. The only thing they guarantee is disappointment.

Two I ran didn't even have the final rat, nor escalate was pretty dissapointing. But I will keep that in mind.

Other than rogue drones 2/10 and 3/10 drop chips for SOE ships and drone modules, its known. And you can salvage Sentient drones wrecks, they give tech 2 loot.

But those two particular sites everybody is mentioning are not worth doing so you see them everywhere. There is no sentient drone and loot is spare change.

Yes, you are correct.

I remember only 5/10 had some OPE worth something. But its very hard to do, especially killing the drone mother in last room, it takes ages.

I keep telling people to just avoid the drone 3/10, people keep saying how they sometimes get a really awesome drop. I try to explain to them that it doesn't happen often enough to be worth it but most people don't understand that logic and do them anyway.

To me that means that they're wasting their time on something that isn't really worth it, which is good for the people who DO understand this and thus avoid those sites.

Haunted, Desolate, Chemical yard spawn Sentient Frigates and Destroyers which can drop Astero chips (50 mil). They can escalate and spawn more Sentients. Chemical escalations stage 2+ spawn Sentient Cruisers and can drop Stratios chips (200 mil).

I only run Drone DED 3/10 to despawn it, for any other site to spawn.

Yeah running the natural site spawns is a good idea to allow the system to spawn new sites. Miners need to follow this and often don't. They mine the profitable ore and leave but the ore site remains because it isn't cleared. Although now that I think about it I am not entirely sure if those have a trigger to clear them.