I bought a Nestor BPC via the LP store, built the Nestor, and it will likely stay in my hangar because the ship is gankbait at today's prices. I don't mind the loot drops if it means the prices drop drastically. Besides, like Rise said, most people do SOE missions for the launchers, probes, and implants, so it won't affect much in the long run.

Except the absurdity that having the SOE ships as offers in the SOE Loyalty Point store is pointless, when there is a much cheaper option available.

You could say that about every single faction battleship LP offer in existence outside faction warfare LP stores, both pirate and navy. They're all terrible deals that you would have to be quite stupid to take.

Finally fix the Nestor

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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

IMO the best way to fix the Nestor is;
Make the Astero a Destroyer, buff its HP a bit and give it a unique bonus of 20% drone damage and HP, leave the rest as is.
Make the Stratios a Battlecruiser, buff its HP a bit and give it back its 5th drone, leave the rest as is.
Have the Sisters of EVE offer a formal apology for the Nestor and decommission it, compensate the recall with a couple Stratios and Asteros.

Great, so now if you want to try and get SOE ships at cheaper than highsec LP prices you have 2 choices..
1; Run missions in the 1 system held by The Sanctuary (Goon space)
2; Run anoms (in Russ or Nulli space) in the hope of an escalation that may or may not drop you a nexus chip.

Nicely thought out.

I think I would rather see a low chance for a Nexus Chip drop from all pirate factions rather than this attempt to buff drone sites.

No what really needs to happen is to create a line of deadspace mods for drone drops. Starting with the Adaptive Invulnerability Field.

Then lower the drop rate for other regions to compensate.

No what really needs to happen is to create a line of deadspace mods for drone drops. Starting with the Adaptive Invulnerability Field.

Then lower the drop rate for other regions to compensate.

No what really needs to happen is to create a line of deadspace mods for drone drops. Starting with the Adaptive Invulnerability Field.

Then lower the drop rate for other regions to compensate.

Yea, cause all those deadspace mods you have to go out and obtain them yourself, solo.

I swear, some of you people are so out of touch that CCP could mail you a check for one million dollars and you'd ***** that it wasn't one million and one dollars lol.

The Nestor itself is a separate concern and this thing CCP is doing with drone sites is a BUFF to everyone because drone sites spawn everywhere. Get over it.

Yes buff drone sites with a ship that, for the most part, nobody wants and the Astero and Stration are already accessible enough from the SOE LP stores. Rather than actually make faction drone mods to buff drone sites with.

Lastly I don't know why you think whining is going to help here. Have anyone of you ever seen CCP, Rise, Fozzie or anyone else respond positively to whining?

This is a pretty great analysis. I'll have a look at getting some tweaks in to address some of the issues you raise.

Thanks for a really well-articulated argument, I'll update everyone if we can commit to any changes in the near future.

I don't see why a player has to spell things out to the developer before they can admit there is a problem with the nestor... Didn't Rise know the ship had bad cap regeneration and scan res when they made the ship?!

I think we can forgive Rise for this one since at the time he was distracted by debilitating effects sunshine and pretty girls on the beach in some far-off foreign hellhole.

I for one think he has a really tough time of it and can only applaud his fortitude in coming through this difficult time.

I imagine he is relieved to be back doing what he loves - raising the blood pressure of Eve players.

We knew that already, just look at their epic arc ending :P