From the Retribution patchnotes:

OK, it's not only after DT, if i choose one region and start flying around, we are talking about lot of asteroid belts and it takes me lot of time to check all the systems, flying with few ships and its not even RARE in comparing to year ago or more, they are vanished from the game, don't know but it sux. If i use a lot of effort and time i could find and kill at least 10 of them per day, now if i use the same or even more effort and fly tru double or even more systems/belts i can't find anything, that's not even close to balance or anything. I really like to sit in the ship and fly around hours by hours days by days and it was something that i really injoyed. Now i need to sit in one system and play with those for my taste boring anomalies. What can i say more

I really like to sit in the ship and fly around hours by hours days by days and it was something that i really injoyed.

Uhm ... and you still can do that.

You're either a liar, or you don't really understand what you are saying.

I rather think you're a liar.

If it was about flying around, you wouldn't whine about not finding valueable spawns after DT, (or ever)
because it wouldn't matter to you. They would just be a bonus.

Instead you show that it wasn't about flying around at all,
but just about making money.

Sure their are, i have had 3 this week. Maby they just don't like spawning for you :-p

Maybe they all moved to low sec. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Hi there,

Not sure where to post this,

After weeks of flying around and searching/testing i can confirm that ccp removed commander and officers spawns from the asteroid belts.

I have killed many many of them last year ( tons of commanders and at least 8 officer spawns) and that was my main isk income.

I know there are many pilots around who are doing the same like me, flying around after DT and checking the belts to find those commander or officer spawns.

Does anyone have any official links about this bad change

Please post more info if you know anything more than me.

I have had one officer spawn in the last six years...

Have to admit I haven't seen a domination rat in the belts for a loooooooooong time. Then again, I've only ever seen about two in the belts. Caught one on a gate once.

Have to admit I haven't seen a domination rat in the belts for a loooooooooong time. Then again, I've only ever seen about two in the belts. Caught one on a gate once.

So why would CCP nerf so much related to exploration and commander spawns? answer: PLEX
if you can make 400/500 mil a day you can afford to plex your account for the next month, this lowers paid subscription revenue and therefor needed to be nerf'd.

I heard officer could spawn in empire. You need to sit next to a gate, scan ever ship and sometime, one officer will spawn. Then, you need some ships and shoot hit before Concord shows up.

I am been reading this for awhile and noticed the change just as everyone else..

Here is my oberservation on what they changed.

1. Officers no longer spawn after downtime PERIOD... (we knew this aka - patch notes)

2. Officers are have been removed from NPC space, venal - curse ( delve + fountain unchecked)
This is the same bug that affects the spawns int he COSMO's area's, broken.
If there are officers in these regions, the trigger is the # of NPC kills / security of the system + activity last 24 hours.
So in NPC Venal/Curse the # of ratters is low enough not to trigger an event to spawn them. Belt Rat/Mission rats are not the same and therefor Mission rats dont effect the belts.

3. the OP was right in his earlier post, just flying into each belt had a 10-20 % chance in spawning a commander/officer since the spawns were reset at downtime, the odds were good to make good isk just looking for them BEFORE the nerf.

4. Only 45% of the belts in each solar system spawn rats that total no more then 6M in achievable bounties.

5. DED Plex's Major nerf if your looking to bank good isk not worth running, The drop rate of overseer effects to any loot is 80/20. My though would be to run 10/10 with friends as its quicker and if theres nothing going on, time better spent elsewhere

The difficulty finding them has tripled, with the scanning system everyone can find them easier so CCP had to make them harder to find thats simple. So the typical systems that are scanned each day have less and less of a chance of a new SIGNATURE. Systems that have not been scanned or have had signatures have higher chance of signatures/DED plex's

6. RELIC/HACKING sites... It used to be profitable to run relic or magnetometic sites cause you could get anywhere from 25 to 300 mil per site of t2 salvage. With the new system after hacking a can you get 30 sec to gather as many cans as you can before they disappear. Each can takes about 5 sec to go into your cargo, therefor you get about 6 cans total before you have to move on to the next can. Total isk value now less then 50mil per site.. Now hacking sites are a joke, they take up tons of cargo room in covert ops ships getting parts, and 90% of the time your reward is less the 10mil per site.

So why would CCP nerf so much related to exploration and commander spawns? answer: PLEX
if you can make 400/500 mil a day you can afford to plex your account for the next month, this lowers paid subscription revenue and therefor needed to be nerf'd.

I am sure CCP has market alts keeping the PLEX market value about 500-550M per 30 days.

So instead of spending a few hours a week to PLEX your account, you have to grind,. Lets say you had a real good system where you could make 20M per 20 Minutes in ticks doing anoms .. It would take you 1 hour to make 60Mil, or 10 Hours to make 600 Mil. If you could run a 10/10 plex and it dropped 1.2bil loot and you spend 2 hours, your isk per hour was good, so this was nerf'd.

I may be totally wrong, but since the patch this has been my observation........ So that being said let the trolls begin, unless CCP wants to confirm a bug or 2, or just plain say random is random, but you never get that random chance since we have set the bar so high.

-BC

So why would CCP nerf so much related to exploration and commander spawns? answer: PLEX
if you can make 400/500 mil a day you can afford to plex your account for the next month, this lowers paid subscription revenue and therefor needed to be nerf'd.

I am sure CCP has market alts keeping the PLEX market value about 500-550M per 30 days.

So why would CCP nerf so much related to exploration and commander spawns? answer: PLEX
if you can make 400/500 mil a day you can afford to plex your account for the next month, this lowers paid subscription revenue and therefor needed to be nerf'd.

I am sure CCP has market alts keeping the PLEX market value about 500-550M per 30 days.

CCP making less money due to people paying their account through plex earned by ingame mechanics is true at an individual level. Even then its important to remember that somewhere, somebody had to buy the plex in the first place.

1 player less after your post.

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