EVE General Discussion

Yeah, it would be better if they were more aggressive, but then all those solo carebears would be pretty up in arms that they can't survive. I would like to see them actually roam, occasionally leaving their given systems and hitting up random belts and stations, maybe catching afk haulers and battleships and such.

Ever since they came out with the Drifters I wanted to get one to land on a crowded Jita gate during rush hour and watch the chaos, but alas, it doesn't work like that, yet.

Just updating my description of how Circadian Seekers and Drifters spawn,

For context, a 'group' is a set of Drifters or Seekers that warp together and aggress independently of other 'groups.'


Systems with Unidentified Wormholes and the Jove Observatory will always have a group of one, two or three Drifters which warp between the Jove Observatory and Unidentified Wormhole.
This group leaves and enters the system on a set period which I have not recorded yet.

There is also a group of 3-5 Circadian Seekers which warp freely between the Wormhole, Observatory, Customs Offices, Stargates, and any Stations.


Systems with only a Jove Observatory have a single group or either: 3-5 Circadian Seekers; 2 Circadian Seekers and 1 Drifter Battleship, or two Drifter Battleships.
These warp freely between the Observatory, Customs Offices, any Stargates, and Stations.


Today was the first time I observed two Drifter Battleships in a non-Wormhole system.
I have not yet been able to confirm whether that roaming Drifter group also spawns in Wormhole systems.

Regardless of system, the Roaming Drifter-Circadian group will warp between the Jove Observatory, to its designated celestial structure, and back to the Jove Observatory again for the majority of the time.


Also on a sidenote, if you are attempting to follow Circadian Seekers or Drifter Battleships that have warped off, the direction they appeared to warp may be deceiving. Either as a result of off-grid (celestial) locations, or because of different warping mechanics.

For reasons you seem ignorant of, this thread is not a matter of staying safe in highsec.
It's about not using capitals to kill Drifters.

But regardless, player combat is a very minor reason why we are focusing on high security.
The rewards are currently the same regardless of where you are.
Lowsecurity is less convenient than highsecurity. And even more so if you're taking out expensive ships into warpable beacons for high damage PvE.

As for nullsecurity...

Jove Structure systems are very annoying to locate in nullsecurity. Distance between systems I found to be an average of 30 jumps.
And Unidentified Wormhole systems are outrageously hard to find in null. Average distance between systems was about 300 for me.

Both obviously require long jump routes if you're heading out with no information about their common locations.
This is with my experience, in circling the New Eden map at least twice since February, with around 3000 jumps.

I found about 6 Unidentified Wormhole systems in those 2 months in nullsecurity.
And then I found about 25 systems in just one month in Empire space.

With empire space, systems can be just 1 jump from the market hub.
And being relatively close to a market hub is important, especially if you're expending ships in the process of killing Drifters.



TL;DR: how about you actually learn a little about the topic first?

I now need to update my description again.

Drifters have begun roaming outside Unidentified Wormhole or Jove Structure systems.

That's right.
I saw a group of 4 Drifter battleships flying together today, in Amarr, on SiSi.

Expect this coming in Mosaic.

Well, there's quite a force here right now; the Drifters were killed an hour ago. Now we're simply waiting for things to happen.

Doomsday is 750,000 omni damage.
There are no hit factors. It doesn't matter what ship you're in, be it Titans, or Frigates.

Their turrets do 1280 omni damage, the RoF is 5.0 seconds.

Cant tank even half the damage of the drifter DD.,

I played on the testserver nad navy scorpion can do more EHP it seems than the rattlesnake. atleast with t2 mods. but that wasnt enough incl links.

I also had a shield repper toon, and drifters ignored the repper toon completely.

I can confirm in my tests so far as long as the repper remains entirely neutral they won't get aggressed.

Huh. Well that's weird, the bastion doesn't even put golem's resists significantly above the rattle's.

Not weird, missing one rig slot, and 4 low slots vs 6 on snake.