EVE General Discussion

As topic says.

I too would like to have a faction control tower that costs 4-5 times as much as a normal tower, not 10-15 times as much.

Those blueprints used to be some "payday" drops like certain modules, high grade implants or pirate battleship BPCs.

Faction control tower blueprints haven't dropped in 2 or 3 years now, what ever happened to them? I haven't ever seen an answer on this.

No. That is just plain wrong. They haven't been dropping for 2 years now at least. Should be 3 now, Apocrypha seems to be the expansion they stopped dropping.

But thanks for replying without any sort of a clue.

The issue is that the blueprints are built with minerals rather than PI stuff, so they (IIRC) stopped dropping with Tyrannis.

2 years sounds about right actually. And CCP has made no mention of any possibility of putting them back in which, over the summer, lead to speculation that that would be one of the Aurum buys.

Considering they weren't going to factor in fuel saving costs for faction towers originally for the new fuel block system, I'd say CCP are pretending like they never added them to the game.

The google fu is weak in every single one of you.

Post 204 by CCP Dropbear

well, in this case.. chances are high that we might get them back with the summer expansion. Since they want to fix exactly this. wardecs and aggression mechanics.

So long as they're once again available, whatever. But LP store will absolutely crash the price on them, which means more of them used, which means each POS will be more likely to take Half again as long as normal to take down.

On the other hand, I wanna faction tower, so ultimately it's probably a wash if CCP goes expensive price point (drops) or cheap (LP).

Sounds like it pretty much means faction control towers are going the way of T2 BPOs

Cause unless they make them unable to anchor in highsec or nerf them into oblivion it is doubtful they are going to re-enable the drops.

Well, if the LP store requires pirate faction, plus 100M ISK, plus 100k LP for a medium tower BPC, that would put them in the same ballpark where they are today. Which would be a big ISK sink in addition to being another big LP sink. Or CCP could make that value even higher.

My hope is that they would set the values such that the tower BPCs from an LP store would work out to be about 1000-1500 ISK/LP. Or whatever ISK/LP number is competitive with the rest of the stuff from the pirate faction LP stores.

Adding them to exploration drops would also let people who don't live in the pirate faction areas a chance to get them. Adding them to faction spawns in appropriate null-sec areas (rare rat spawns in anoms?) would provide yet another boost to null-sec potential income without adding another ISK faucet. Having 2 or 3 possible sources (1 guaranteed via the LP store, 1 random drop in specific regions from specific rat types such as Sansa, and 1 completely random via exploration sites) might also address the uneven distribution stance by CCP.

And the materials costs on building them definitely needs to change slightly, to include some PI goods in addition to consuming a regular tower + minerals. Maybe even include some lesser desired T2 construction components.

I haven't had any coffee yet this morning, but if CCP doesn't want people to put up faction POS in highsec, why don't they just make the control tower item contraband? Or just flat out add a "Not usable in highsec" flag like bombs and cynos?