[quote=Jitamas]There seems to be a lot of confusion and speculation as to how the mechanics for officer spawns work. I'm not interested in speculation or theories I'm only interested in the facts that can be verified by CCP.

Speak for yourself

Perhaps CCP doesn't want us to know such things...?

Good point, However I would hope that someone at an official capacity could at least say what sec level systems allow the possibility for officers to spawn.

Its random, go out there and find them

Ask as much as you want, CCP will not divulge mechanics. The information that is out there already is plenty and still quite accurate.

Shh the adults are talking

Every time one of these threads pop up, they get the same response from CCP basically saying that they will never let us know the details, to prevent them from being abused.

or maybe Dave is your alt.

I had an officer spawn since the patch and they seem like they hit harder and are harder to kill compared to 2009. I ended up dieing to it and we ended up fielding a carrier to kill it.

never got 1 while chaining

The rats spawn in a cycle, each new spawned group having more bounty, until the cycle reset and you are back at the group with the lowest bounty. Special spawns, haulers/faction/officer, can only spawn when the cycle reset happens. If you just keep killing the group with the highest bounty, you will never see any special spawns.

Not necessarily I've had 17 officers over the last 4 years, all in stain. Granted some of those were old dump officers and only about 5 of them have been the recent incarnation. But 15 of the 17 spawned while I was chaining either a 21 belt, 11 belt, or 14 belt system.

But as a disclaimer I dont really belt rat anymore and I haven't seen an officer in the last 6 months.

But as a disclaimer I dont really belt rat anymore and I haven't seen an officer in the last 6 months.

Spawn rates are nerfed since ccp changed to dynamic spawns. The chance formula got adjusted on such a way that the chance of getting a "special spawn" is lower in total. This is why all faction candy prices are increased with atleast 30% and more populair mods, 50%.

I had a an officer in a 0.0 sec, they spawn in all null sec systems.

I don't recall the date, but officer spawns were made more difficult to kill around a year ago, maybe more.

In Incursion 1.2 the officer difficulty was increased to better reflect their pimp fits.

Did it occur in Delve, stain, curse, venal, or fountain?

I've had two officers in Tenal, so it doesn't have to be NPC nullsec.

It doesn't have to be NPC null, but I've heard it said that because of the "broken" true sec there that they're able to spawn in any system, while in non-NPC null they are (supposedly) limited by truesec.

I've had two officers in Tenal, so it doesn't have to be NPC nullsec.

As for the wheres and whens of their appearances, these are high-ranking pirates that have their own schedules and agendas. They didn't reach their elevated positions by being predictable.

Spawn rates are nerfed since ccp changed to dynamic spawns. The chance formula got adjusted on such a way that the chance of getting a "special spawn" is lower in total. This is why all faction candy prices are increased with atleast 30% and more populair mods, 50%.

I've had two officer spawns, but they were in -0.9 and -1.0.

In Incursion 1.2 the officer difficulty was increased to better reflect their pimp fits.

As for the wheres and whens of their appearances, these are high-ranking pirates that have their own schedules and agendas. They didn't reach their elevated positions by being predictable.

Umm... I picked up over half a dozen rather expensive Sansha & True Sansha modules off officer spawns in those dinky little "random scan" 0/10 sites that pop up in every system that almost everyone ignores. Meaning... yeah, I found a 10,000,000ISK officer thingies in 3,000ISK bounty ships before. Yes, hisec. Like 1.0 systems.

Hasn't happened in a while though... maybe CCP took them out? Sure was some nice treats, though.