Hello

I made a small announcement last night on the 1.1 live stream but I'm sure many of you missed that so I wanted to make a post to let as many of you know as possible.

We've been thinking for awhile about the issue of cost to power ratio for the Sisters of EVE ships, and especially the Nestor. A lot of your feedback has been on this issue, with a large focus on how difficult it is to justify paying the price of the Nestor, and we tend to agree. There are a few reasons we ended up in this position to begin with. The first is that we wanted to set the high sec LP offers for these ships above normal pirate faction LP prices. This still stands and the reason is very simple; you should get a better deal for pirate faction ships when you take the risk of leaving high sec. The second piece, which ties with the first, is that Sisters of EVE LP is very valuable because of demand for Sisters Probe Launchers and implant sets. That means the ISK conversion on ships like the Nestor would never be worthwhile as long as demand for probe launchers was higher, which will likely always be the case. Last, we could have tried to make the Nestor powerful enough to justify the huge price-tag. We really didn't want to go with this option and create a ship basically in a class of its own which would cause a lot of balance headaches.

So, here's what we're going to do: starting in the next major Rubicon patch (which I don't have a date for, but is not very far off), Rogue Drones will start occasionally dropping nexus chips which you will be able to trade in at any Sisters of EVE agent for a one-run BPC of either a Nestor, Stratios or Astero. The chips will be called Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip, Rogue Drone 43-X Nexus Chip and Rogue Drone 42-X Nexus Chip respectively, and they will drop at a very similar rate to other pirate faction BPC drops in null sec.

This should provide a nice pressure valve for the prices on Sisters of EVE ships and also give a little boost to the drone regions, two things we are happy about.

Have fun out there and take care of all those new people this weekend

I would agree except Sentinent drones spawn in Hierarchies which spawn in ALL areas of Eve, not just drone regions. Just saying, I see drone site anomalies everywhere I go. When in Drone regions, I don't see Angel sites though. I don't see Guristas sites.

Hello

I made a small announcement last night on the 1.1 live stream but I'm sure many of you missed that so I wanted to make a post to let as many of you know as possible.

We've been thinking for awhile about the issue of cost to power ratio for the Sisters of EVE ships, and especially the Nestor. A lot of your feedback has been on this issue, with a large focus on how difficult it is to justify paying the price of the Nestor, and we tend to agree. There are a few reasons we ended up in this position to begin with. The first is that we wanted to set the high sec LP offers for these ships above normal pirate faction LP prices. This still stands and the reason is very simple; you should get a better deal for pirate faction ships when you take the risk of leaving high sec. The second piece, which ties with the first, is that Sisters of EVE LP is very valuable because of demand for Sisters Probe Launchers and implant sets. That means the ISK conversion on ships like the Nestor would never be worthwhile as long as demand for probe launchers was higher, which will likely always be the case. Last, we could have tried to make the Nestor powerful enough to justify the huge price-tag. We really didn't want to go with this option and create a ship basically in a class of its own which would cause a lot of balance headaches.

So, here's what we're going to do: starting in the next major Rubicon patch (which I don't have a date for, but is not very far off), Rogue Drones will start occasionally dropping nexus chips which you will be able to trade in at any Sisters of EVE agent for a one-run BPC of either a Nestor, Stratios or Astero. The chips will be called Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip, Rogue Drone 43-X Nexus Chip and Rogue Drone 42-X Nexus Chip respectively, and they will drop at a very similar rate to other pirate faction BPC drops in null sec.

This should provide a nice pressure valve for the prices on Sisters of EVE ships and also give a little boost to the drone regions, two things we are happy about.

Have fun out there and take care of all those new people this weekend

Oh, and Rise, another thing.

Way to go on letting market forces dictate economic costs.
Nice to see you let the game be a "sandbox", as you so like to say, except when you want to help out a null sec area, and nerf the **** out of another high sec income stream.

Why do the Sisters want drone chips?

edit: Wait, so the SoE ships' drone bonus comes from salvaged Rogue Drone technology? This isn't going to end well, is it?

wtb: rogue drone or fed navy DDAs

Woah, hold on here. The price of the strat is in a very good place.

However, the price of the Nestor needs to be more in the range of 1.2 bil to 900mil. Also, the astero could receive a 20% reduction in cost.

*This bias is brought to you by a player training his alt to run lvl4s for sisters, who currently runs relics in null on that same alt and would be more excited to see individual players fight in such sites. Also, my main fights in 10-20 man WH and lowsec gangs. I fully appreciate the power of the strat relative to that of other dps ships that can cloak.*

Any sites that spawn 'Sentient' Rogue Drone Frigates, Cruisers or Battleships can now drop these items.

I should say that while there may be some small initial change in the price of Sisters items on the market because of this announcement, the long term value of Sisters LP won't be affected because of the reason stated above: the LP:ISK value is controlled by probe launchers and implants rather than Sisters ships.

I just read Grath's confirmation of PL evac'ing to the Drone Regions.
Remarkably convenient for PL that Rise decides to gift the Drone Regions, and screw high sec.

I just read Grath's confirmation of PL evac'ing to the Drone Regions.
Remarkably convenient for PL that Rise decides to gift the Drone Regions, and screw high sec.

Confirming that Nestcats are on track to replace Slowcats.

Nah, but PL pilots will be soon be going ka-ching with every Sentient Drone drop.
The individual and alliance coffers will soon be brimming again.

But makes you wonder, whatever happened to all that rental income in the first place.
If the BOTLrd agreement was designed to protect PL's income streams, where is that all that ISK that they have been collecting so far?

Seems like a good idea to me. I still think the Nestor sucks, but at 800 misk it won't suck as much. Plus drone space gets a bump in value.

Nah, but PL pilots will be soon be going ka-ching with every Sentient Drone drop.
The individual and alliance coffers will soon be brimming again.

Any sites that spawn 'Sentient' Rogue Drone Frigates, Cruisers or Battleships can now drop these items.

I should say that while there may be some small initial change in the price of Sisters items on the market because of this announcement, the long term value of Sisters LP won't be affected because of the reason stated above: the LP:ISK value is controlled by probe launchers and implants rather than Sisters ships.

Any sites that spawn 'Sentient' Rogue Drone Frigates, Cruisers or Battleships can now drop these items.

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