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Cobalt Sixty
Caldari Perkone
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Posted - 2010.03.25 01:08:00 -
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Edited by: Cobalt Sixty on 25/03/2010 01:10:13
Hi all,
Earlier today I found a Dread Guristas Saboteur in an asteroid belt in a 0.5 system. Once I killed the NPC I looted it and found it had only dropped a DG Copper Tag (meh) ... 100 Thorn Rockets and the crappy Meta I named Stasis Webifier.
No faction ammo, no faction loot.
Now I've been playing since Red Moon Rising (And briefly during Cold War before it) and not once do I ever recall finding an NPC Commander in a belt in High, Low or 0.0 security space that didn't drop something nice, other than the practically useless tag.
However, it got a little more odd after that.
Since Salvaging was introduced I've only ever gleamed Tech II Salvage components from Commander NPCs - whether they're Dread Guristas, Dark Blood, Shadow Serpentis, Dominations or Sentient Drones - I think Sentient Drones give drone parts now but before I remember finding drone rig orientated Tech II salvage parts.
After a quarter of an hour trying to salvage the wreck, I got one Tech I (or broken) bit of salvage material.
It was like having the commander spawn you have when you're not having a commander spawn at all.
I filed a petition to clarify what the hell was going on and of course I can't copy it here, but the essential notes are that:
- Both the loot and salvage tables are random.
- There is no guarantee to receive a specific type of item, or certain amount of such an item in these wrecks.
- This is normal and to be expected.
So to get to my original question, are Commander NPCs broken? This seems completely inferior to how they used to be, has something changed without my notice? Have CCP pretty much crapped on Commander spawns?
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Horchan
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.03.25 01:20:00 -
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Originally by: Cobalt Sixty So to get to my original question, are Commander NPCs broken? This seems completely inferior to how they used to be, has something changed without my notice? Have CCP pretty much crapped on Commander spawns?
They've always been that way. If you had better luck previously, consider it a bout of good luck. ---
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Dacryphile
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Posted - 2010.03.25 01:43:00 -
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Since when did deadspace loot drop from rats in high sec?
Originally by: Doc Robertson ...take a good look at this pic and tell us which one is you.
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Babelle
Ma'asei Merkabah
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Posted - 2010.03.25 01:55:00 -
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Confirming that 'Random' bad luck from an example of one = Broken.
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Boltorano
Fourth Circle Total Comfort
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Posted - 2010.03.25 02:18:00 -
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Yesterday I got a Low-grade Snake Omega from a Shadow Serpentis Watchman.
440,000,000 ISK implant from a 75,000 ISK frigate.
Broken indeed.
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Von Kapiche
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.03.25 02:23:00 -
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Last commander kill dropped a dark blood med neut, and that was in .6 albeit in an anom. I've had various lowgrade rat imps from belt commanders in .5 recently though, and I only go round belts when I'm bored & waiting for someone else to arrive. Just bad luck for you, I think. Maybe it was better in the old days, but it's not as bad as it seems right now.
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Cobalt Sixty
Caldari Perkone
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Posted - 2010.03.25 02:25:00 -
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Originally by: Horchan
Originally by: Cobalt Sixty So to get to my original question, are Commander NPCs broken? This seems completely inferior to how they used to be, has something changed without my notice? Have CCP pretty much crapped on Commander spawns?
They've always been that way. If you had better luck previously, consider it a bout of good luck.
A stretch of luck spanning across years, accounts and characters it seems.
Originally by: Dacryphile Since when did deadspace loot drop from rats in high sec?
I said nothing about deadpsace loot, I'm talking about (pirate) faction loot.
Originally by: Boltorano Yesterday I got a Low-grade Snake Omega from a Shadow Serpentis Watchman.
440,000,000 ISK implant from a 75,000 ISK frigate.
Broken indeed.
Please return my Commander spawn, obviously exchange the Snake for a Crystal, thanks
Originally by: Von Kapiche Maybe it was better in the old days, but it's not as bad as it seems right now.
I guess so, thanks.
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Boltorano
Fourth Circle Total Comfort
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Posted - 2010.03.25 02:45:00 -
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Edited by: Boltorano on 25/03/2010 02:44:59
Originally by: Cobalt Sixty
Originally by: Boltorano Yesterday I got a Low-grade Snake Omega from a Shadow Serpentis Watchman.
440,000,000 ISK implant from a 75,000 ISK frigate.
Broken indeed.
Please return my Commander spawn, obviously exchange the Snake for a Crystal, thanks
A few months back I killed a DG battlecruiser and it dropped 6 total meta 1-4 items. It's like it wanted to give me awesome loot, but the game wouldn't let it.
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triafrenum
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Posted - 2010.03.25 02:59:00 -
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Edited by: triafrenum on 25/03/2010 03:00:09 I got bored of 4's so I did highsec exploration for a while. 20ish dg frig and dessy spawns no dg items but 3 lg crystals and some valuable high meta items Most of the time faction spawns are complete crap dropping faction tags and ammo Spent a few weeks out in syndicate and got 6 shadow bs spawns bounties totaling 30ish mil and I got 6k ammo and 6 tags. You have just been very lucky in the past
Edit: Thats right i'm too cool for periods
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hgedsku
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Posted - 2010.03.25 03:33:00 -
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Random loot is random.
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aetherguy881
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.03.25 04:58:00 -
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I pulled a medium Pithum c-type shield booster and transfer today from a highsec plex. Both are valued at about 350 +/-25M isk on contracts.
It's all about luck and the untrodden systems.
Bad luck to you, I want more goodies! :P ------------------- Always remember this about EVE:
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Boltorano
Fourth Circle Total Comfort
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Posted - 2010.03.25 05:03:00 -
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Originally by: aetherguy881 I pulled a medium Pithum c-type shield booster and transfer today from a highsec plex. Both are valued at about 350 +/-25M isk on contracts.
It's all about luck and the untrodden systems.
Bad luck to you, I want more goodies! :P
Missing the point of the thread entirely, OP was about commander drops, not complex drops.
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2010.03.25 07:50:00 -
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I have an unused alt (training for missioning) who often used to sit at belts and mine for hours. The system rarely gets more than 4 in local. She kills about 1 of those spawns every 2 weeks. Never got a T2 salvage, but got 40M shield, low grade implants for 60M+, tags, faction charges and so on. Half of the times the rat won't drop anything particular, though. - Auditing & consulting
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Rivur'Tam
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Posted - 2010.03.25 11:20:00 -
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i been playing for over 6 years and i've had every faction spawn there is and half the commnders including 2 commanders in 24 hours and a record of 10 faction spawns in 36 hours and i can tell you that in the past 2 years more than half the spawns only dropped tags n ammo.
this was not the case in my first few years of playing them drops were always epic i dunno when it changed i think after the intro of faction ammo.
as you can tell i worked out how to get faction spawns reguarly and its not how they tell u n the fourms, i dunno if the loot table is random but the best loot comes from cruiser faction rats they tend to drop the most modules the price of the rat dose not go with the loot drop only the tag.
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Tasty Bit
Gallente UNITED STAR SYNDICATE
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Posted - 2010.03.25 11:28:00 -
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Originally by: Babelle Confirming that 'Random' bad luck from an example of one = Broken.
Sample size of 1 4tw.
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