Player Features and Ideas Discussion

First,
id like to state that if rogue drones were designed to be the poorest npc to rat, then this post doesnt matter. But, if all npc were supposed to be equal, then we have an issue.

In bounty rat space, a sanctum will yeild between 28 and 34 mil depending on if you do the ring or the station. So you fly in, kill everything, and then you get a bounty tic that adds up to 28-34 mil when youve completed it. if you go back and salvage and loot it all, its upwards of 40 mil, sometimes higher depending on the randomness of valuable loot drops. Of course salvaging increases the time it takes to rat.
We move to drone space, where you have to salvage everything in order to get paid, which to completely salvage a sight, focusing on nothing but salvaing, takes about 8 minutes per sight. So, The average horde, equivilent to a sanctum, yeilds 29.2 mil in compounds and alloys based on jita prices. Seems fair. However, lets break some things down.
I can run 4 sanctums in an hour in my tengu/thanatos combo
I can run 4 hordes in an hour in my tengu/thanatos combo
So, in bounty space, in one hour i make approx 120 mil, a little less but approximately.
In roge drone space, i have to spend the first hour killing, then almost another 40 minutes salvaging, warping sight to sight, docking and unloading. that extra fourty minutes is atleast another 60 mil in bounty space. In addition, if it were apples to apples and i salvaged bounty rats, that fouty minutes of salvaging would give me an extra 40 mil in loot and salvage material. So, its like a compounded deficiency for my effort.

On a final note,
Drone sentient spawns, are the worst in the game. I actually loose isk by having them come up. They yeild drone components worth less then normal compounds and alloys, and their salvage is worth less than a single armor plate.

My resolve, drone hordes should be worth 40-43 mil per horde to compensate for the increased salvage time and lack of extras like modules.

Anyone else have thoughts on this.

Move?

Serious note though the sanctums I have ever run have only yeiled 24-30mil(both types, I usually get 24/25 out of ring barring faction spawn an 30 from the other one) so can you tell me where your 28-34 ones are?

Like a lot of things in EVE you either like it hate it or do something else.

The perceived worthlessness of drone rats and the drone regions made the DRF the pwnwagon it is today.

to OP: have you ever heard about T2 salvaged materials? You know: when you see Sentient drone you got luck. It can be small luck or it can be great luck.

Let's say: i personally once got 6 capacitor consoles from 1 sentient BS from horde. This is like 120mils. And i'm not one who have had such luck.

Other rogue drone bonus: living in dronelands means you don't need to haul low-value minerals from Jita or mine veldspar to build ships. You get minerals from rogue drones.

CCP Spitfire while I thank you guys for posting here, you need to make up your mind about F&I, either THE POSTS SHOULD GO THERE ... or they shouldn't!

As to Drones, I think they should be SALVAGE

Uhm, good point. Apologies; we have been a little preoccupied today.

Sorry to sound like such an ashat.

I get the preoccupation, it's tough losing coworkers, really tough.

I really dont see the connection, other than in name, between player drones and npc rogue drones.

I confused your thread with the other thread spitfire linked.

Are drones more work than normal belt rats, yes. I think that belt rats are the problem though, they shouldn't pay bounties except in empire, they should be tags instead.

That would make this system more equal, although not likely in the direction you want.

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