anything happening with the FW sensor strength implants?

Still no implants for drones...

20% at low grade .. seems a bit high .. i hate too imagine how much you get off High grade....

its a little too pay to win for my liking...

Excellent changes.
But ofc it would be awesome if you go even further and add "+1 to all five attributes" to Omega implants (only works with full set). This way more people would use Omega's and also it would be the nice way to distinguish between elite master race and +5 plebs.

Edge: -17.4% reduction to booster side effects
Harvest: +20% mining laser range bonus

These are awesome! Two followup questions:
1. What about the rumoured 5th Genolution implant?
2. Will there be a +4 version of the Ascendancy implants?

No new Genolution implants in Kronos, but probably someday.

Yes, I've clarified the OP to state that the Ascendancy Implants are getting the same bump up to +4 HG and +3 MG, although they aren't getting a new low-grade set at this time.

Fozzie! Lowsec exploration. Does this mean ghost sites? Does this mean data sites? Relic sites? Some new site class? Also, are we pulling implants, or implant BPCs?

These implants will drop as complete items at this time, not blueprints.

And more information will be coming about the sites that these come from in the coming days. I can say it's a new development in the saga of the pirate research efforts that take place at the Ghost sites.

Can you make it easier to get the harvesting implants, its too cost ineffective at the moment. To be honest, mining range is not as great as it sounds.

And it sounds terrible!

These implants will initially be available exclusively through lowsec exploration.

These implants will initially be available exclusively through lowsec exploration. At a later point they will be added to appropriate LP stores.
The existing implants (high-grade and renamed mid-grade) will continue to drop in the same places as before and be available in LP stores at the same prices as before.

No new Genolution implants in Kronos, but probably someday.

Also, can we start buffing NPC nullsec now? Lowsec seems to be getting all the cool stuff.(Which is well deserved because of the terribleness it has been in for years.)

Null-sec doesn't need a buff... It's getting a huge industry revamp shortly.

Train reading to I. I referenced NPC nullsec. Not SOV nullsec. Once does not get upgradeable stations. One does.

Any chance you could make BPCs available exclusively through lowsec exploration instead of the implants themselves?

It's always nice when you give us something new to build.

+1

Any possibility of getting Crystals to work on caps, or having Slaves not work on caps, to balance out shield vs armor caps?

A Wyvern can get as much / more EHP than a slaved Aeon.

Hello again everyone! This forum section doesn't have nearly enough stickies in it yet, so let's add some more!

Any possibility of getting Crystals to work on caps, or having Slaves not work on caps, to balance out shield vs armor caps?

NPC null-sec doesn't need a buff, either.

Dont know if its mentioned, shield version of slaves

No new Genolution implants in Kronos, but probably someday.

Yes, I've clarified the OP to state that the Ascendancy Implants are getting the same bump up to +4 HG and +3 MG, although they aren't getting a new low-grade set at this time.

Hurray for new imants, more implants is always good.

Boo for still not creating a line of drone implants.

A rogue drone implant set could look something like this. This was of course based back when we only had 2 implant sets though.

Low-Grade Hivemind Alpha
Primary Effect: +2 bonus to Perception
Secondary Effect: +1% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Low-Grade Hivemind Beta
Primary Effect: +2 bonus to Memory
Secondary Effect: +2% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Low-Grade Hivemind Gamma
Primary Effect: +2 bonus to Willpower
Secondary Effect: +3% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Low-Grade Hivemind Delta
Primary Effect: +2 bonus to Intelligence
Secondary Effect: +4% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Low-Grade Hivemind Epsilon
Primary Effect: +2 bonus to Charisma
Secondary Effect: +5% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Low-Grade Hivemind Omega
25% bonus to the strength of Hivemind implant secondary effects.



Hivemind Alpha
Primary Effect: +3 bonus to Perception
Secondary Effect: +1% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +10% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Hivemind Beta
Primary Effect: +3 bonus to Memory
Secondary Effect: +2% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +15% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Hivemind Gamma
Primary Effect: +3 bonus to Willpower
Secondary Effect: +3% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +15% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Hivemind Delta
Primary Effect: +3 bonus to Intelligence
Secondary Effect: +4% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +15% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Hivemind Epsilon
Primary Effect: +3 bonus to Charisma
Secondary Effect: +5% to Drone Control Range
Set Effect: +15% to the strength of all Hivemind implant secondary effects.

Hivemind Omega
50% bonus to the strength of Hivemind implant secondary effects.

crystals should work

the 110% for the Omega..

Still no implants for drones...

Hey guys, look at all the new content we are making available ONLY in LOWSEC. Moar low to low WHs'? Have em. Unique implant sets? Why not. New Battleships? Have at it boyos. Ore refining? Didn't want those botters anyway. New modules? I'm sure the low-rats have enough cargo to haul em.

What about the rest of space, hmmm?

Hey guys, look at all the new content we are making available ONLY in LOWSEC. Moar low to low WHs'? Have em. Unique implant sets? Why not. New Battleships? Have at it boyos. Ore refining? Didn't want those botters anyway. New modules? I'm sure the low-rats have enough cargo to haul em.

What about the rest of space, hmmm?

What about the rest of space, hmmm?

Fozzie is it true what I have heard regarding cutting the supply of genolution CA-1, CA-2 implants due to too many people using what was initially designed to be a random fun implant set?

Well, good. But, where do the Halo implants drop?

Forget drone implants, WHERE ARE MAH HIGH GRADE SHIELD HP IMPLANTS!?
Armour Supers get slaves
Shield supers get mocked =/

#balanceshieldtanking
#muchluv4CCP<3<3

You're obviously oblivious to the absolutley **** state that non-fw lowsec has been in for years. These changes are much needed and appreciated.

Get in line

Although to be fair you can pop out of your wormholes and take advantage everywhere. Logistics, random fights, quiet areas to grind. And you reside in the gold frontier for the competent.


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These implants will drop as complete items at this time, not blueprints.

And more information will be coming about the sites that these come from in the coming days. I can say it's a new development in the saga of the pirate research efforts that take place at the Ghost sites.

cause a double booster nag needs more tank

Any plans to add HG sets for the sets that do not have them now?

Also any plan to do something with edge implants :D

I don't think there should be a pirate implant set that affect a weapons system, there should be drone hardwirings though.

Fozzie! Lowsec exploration. Does this mean ghost sites? Does this mean data sites? Relic sites? Some new site class? Also, are we pulling implants, or implant BPCs?

Nice changes but I would strongly prefer the HG were +5. I don't understand the point of learning implants (i.e. Improved) since the only gameplay these encourage is sitting in a station. Please allow us to play and interact with other ships (i.e. blowing them up) without losing training time.

I may have ranted about this in the past.

Edit: and thanks again for the buffs to lowsec. I hope the cumulative effect of all these new drops will work well.

Why are so many things being added to lowsec exploration rather than normal seeding, if you want people to actually use them they need to be readily available.

I get that you want to attract people to lowsec but the droprate on these should be good enough to make it worth it

20% at low grade .. seems a bit high .. i hate too imagine how much you get off High grade....

its a little too pay to win for my liking...

thinking about this.. have you thought about making these implants a little more mainstream?
they are only really available too the rich players .... how about making the LG and MG affordable .. say 50 - 200mil a set ..
they prob need a bit of a nerf though .. 15% max improvement i would say..

There are LOTS of things that are starting to drop in lowsec. Remember the tags for sec, plus the new Mordu's ships, plus the warp speed modules, plus these.

It MIGHT be enough to specifically attract ratters and explorers. We'll see. Regardless, I very much appreciate the effort.

Nice changes but I would strongly prefer the HG were +5. I don't understand the point of learning implants (i.e. Improved) since the only gameplay these encourage is sitting in a station. Please allow us to play and interact with other ships (i.e. blowing them up) without losing training time.

I may have ranted about this in the past.

Edit: and thanks again for the buffs to lowsec. I hope the cumulative effect of all these new drops will work well.

CA-1 and CA-2 are soooooooooooo great.
I use them 24/24.
Even if their cost is above 45M now...

Please change the requirements for Cybernetics on pirate implants:

Low - 3
Med - 4
High - 5

(caveat: I haven't talked to ccp about the design goals. This is supposition)

Why drop things in lowsec?

To get people into lowsec, looking for low volume, high value things. More people in lowsec, even if they're just passing through, means more targets for the people that live there. Which is something that's sorely needed.

Those Edge implants look completely useless. Thanks for the +4s though, now I don't have to complain about skill training when in my HG Snakes...

if you're paying irl money for implants you and team security are going to be having a chat at some point

so basically you'd better hope it's not pay to win

im just sad thet i cant use the whole set .. 2bil each for the other 2 ... no consistency here at all

im just sad thet i cant use the whole set .. 2bil each for the other 2 ... no consistency here at all

(caveat: I haven't talked to ccp about the design goals. This is supposition)

Why drop things in lowsec?

To get people into lowsec, looking for low volume, high value things. More people in lowsec, even if they're just passing through, means more targets for the people that live there. Which is something that's sorely needed.

Actually, the simplest thing to do would be to just remove +5 learning implants. Once no one has to worry about them any more, the problem is solved.

Talk to them about making the harvesting implants useful. Please, the range bonus is next to useless especially on the new updated hulk. No miner gives crap about mining range as the asteroids are not going anywhere.

Make HG +5 please.

Can you make it easier to get the harvesting implants, its too cost ineffective at the moment. To be honest, mining range is not as great as it sounds.

Harvest mining implants:

I've mentioned now As it was around a minute ago, no feedback yet.

Yield I suspect is unlikely.
Fitting requirements might be interesting, but possibly tricky.
Ore bay: I suspect is a 'hell no'

How would a mining laser cap usage change strike you?

Harvest mining implants:

I've mentioned now As it was around a minute ago, no feedback yet.

Yield I suspect is unlikely.
Fitting requirements might be interesting, but possibly tricky.
Ore bay: I suspect is a 'hell no'

How would a mining laser cap usage change strike you?

Its all down to availability.

CA-1 and CA-2 were last given out to all accounts Dec 2012 (2013? ... both? one of those) with random people getting one or the other.
CA-3 and CA-4 were promo items from the Collectors Edition (if I remember correctly).

Much smaller supply = much higher price.

I have sub-optimal (sub-standard really) skills and still never have a problem with invuln + extractors capping out. Cap bonus will be worthless to me, much less someone with optimal skills.

I think a reduction in CPU for mining modules, or a CPU and PG reduction for extractors, is the best way forward. No effect on yield, but significantly stronger potential tank...?

Almost as useless as the range bonus.

Secondary problem is they still cost a massive amount of LP to buy and the only ORE mission agents are in null sec making doing missions for them a less than desirable choice. If you could try to get them to implement a liaison in high sec then a legitimate discussion about harvest implants might be brought up.

Almost as useless as the range bonus.

Secondary problem is they still cost a massive amount of LP to buy and the only ORE mission agents are in null sec making doing missions for them a less than desirable choice. If you could try to get them to implement a liaison in high sec then a legitimate discussion about harvest implants might be brought up.

The aquisition of them and all ORE modules to be honest.

The only way I can see range being useful is if the asteroids moved. That would probably be a huge unlikely overhaul.

There are really 2 major mining boosts that people want:
Cycle Time
Yield

But i got to thinking, what if the implants for harvesting were like the Genolutions:

1. Fitting bonus
2. Yield bonus
3. Cycle time
4. Range bonus
5. Ore bay bonus

With these, you would gain a minor boost to each bit, making the ship generally better, rather than one specific potentially too effective bonus?

(Edit, did not read the post above me complete)

So, does this mean that all the low-grade implants in our heads become mid-grade? And therefore automatically +3 from +2?

We're aware that some implant sets are a lot less useful than others, but we're not going to change the bonuses provided by implant sets in Kronos. That's a task for later.

We're aware that some implant sets are a lot less useful than others, but we're not going to change the bonuses provided by implant sets in Kronos. That's a task for later.

We're aware that some implant sets are a lot less useful than others, but we're not going to change the bonuses provided by implant sets in Kronos. That's a task for later.

Bear in mind that with the changes coming in Kronos, you're getting a cycle time reduction, rather than a yield bonus, which can put more cap pressure in place.

Anyway, I've raised it as a concern, so we'll see what happens.

We're aware that some implant sets are a lot less useful than others, but we're not going to change the bonuses provided by implant sets in Kronos. That's a task for later.

bear in mind that until kronos, the cap gang link is also completely redundant and used by nobody.
all kronos does is give people a reason to actually use it.

An important note:

Later doesn't mean 'in 6 months or more' any more

With the new release schedule, it could be in [multiple of 6 weeks from a release date]

We'll see, I'll keep you to this post.

20% at low grade .. seems a bit high .. i hate too imagine how much you get off High grade....

its a little too pay to win for my liking...

Agreed.

hello CCP Fozzie,

are there any plans to add Hardwiring Implants for Drones to bring them more in line with Guns and Missiles?
Because though hardwiring right now it is possible for almost all weapon platforms to gain an extra 3-6% damage and 3-6% ROF while drones platforms are excluded from that entirely.

Does your Ishtar really need more dps? Last I checked it already gets BS dps on a cruiser-sized tracking-bonused platform.

And more information will be coming about the sites that these come from in the coming days. I can say it's a new development in the saga of the pirate research efforts that take place at the Ghost sites.

How much are these new low grades gonna cost?

Talk to them about making the harvesting implants useful. Please, the range bonus is next to useless especially on the new updated hulk. No miner gives crap about mining range as the asteroids are not going anywhere.

will med grade remain as drops in high sec from faction rats?

will med grade remain as drops in high sec from faction rats?

I hope that high grade drops will be removed, and med drops limited at the same time.

So no HG nomads planned? :(

Just had my hopes up.

Do these things actually drop? Not seeing any on markets ...

Why on earth wasn't that switched around!