As far as I can tell by my own and my alliance' observations as well as by talking on Gallente militia-wide channels Mordu's legion spawns have slowed down drastically since launch. Several people, including me, had seen (and killed) spawns on lauch day but I have yet spoken to no-one who has seen one since. I have spoken to quite a few that spent all day yesterday looking for them, combing through entire regions and coming up empty handed.

As far as I can tell populated LS space is virtually void of Mordu's. Am I being paranoid or is there a problem?

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The contested sites don't seem to be despawning once the can is cracked either

We haven't changed the spawn rates of the Mordu's Belt NPCs and they are definitely still spawning.

We may tweak the spawn rates in the future but for now they're the same as they were yesterday.

Chaining belts is a thing that improves your chances of hauler spawns, clone rats and Mordus rats.

The more you know.

No, chaining gets you the same spawns over and over again. You have to kill everything to get new spawns. Nothing gives you a better chance at higher level loot, it goes in cycles. Chaining is the process of stopping the cycle to keep getting the same higher bounty rats respawning.

I find it quite useful just to pick a constellation, warp to the belts and just kill nothing if they're not what I want. Do this for each system in the chain and just cherry pick the good spawns. 15 min after the belt has been entered the old spawn leaves and a new one enters. Anecdotally I managed to find almost 10 clone negotiators in a few hours just from this process.

FWIW though I haven't seen commander spawn in many months, methinks maybe clone spawn rates are significantly higher on the ladder than they should be and are over-running everything else.

Here's a thought...even if Mordu's Legion don't have stations it might make sense for some roaming agents to be introduced similar to some of the agents in the SoE arc where they are sat in a ship in system at a beacon. They are mercs after all so don't need an office as such to provide missions and rewards. This would allow for the Legion ro have a presence anywhere that CCP chose (same goes for SoE and any other faction too guess...).

This could provide a means to introduce more difficult PvP style missions that take players into losec (or losec agents take players into null). This *might* encourage the more adventurous players to take the jump into lower security areas...

Chaining belts is a thing that improves your chances of hauler spawns, clone rats and Mordus rats.

The more you know.

Mordus legion does have a station, in pure blind, it has several mission agents going from level I to IV and an LP store.



There are already null agents for Mordus Legion, and you can hunt for their ships in lowsec, this seems superfluous

You have to kill all spawns for a new spawn. If you dont kill them rhey remain in the system.

I have found two mordus battleshipa and a frigatw so far. Its a patience and long task but rewarding

I take them out for pvp....

A ship that makes the Dramiel look common is reckless to undock. You won't be so happy about it when it dies to a couple of cheap destoyers looking for loot pinatas like you.

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I dunno man, I'm getting a lot more reports of people putting in great effort and coming up empty handed. Funnily enough I've heard of more Barghest drops than Garmurs. At least the frigs should spawn more often. Consider this: If the Garmur takes an average of say 20 man hours of searching through hostile LS space it's literally the worst ISK/hour in the game. Even if the ship went down to half the price it is on market today it would still be too expensive to see any real use in PvP. The spawn rates need to go up for the ship to actually be used by lowsec residents for PvP.

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We haven't changed the spawn rates of the Mordu's Belt NPCs and they are definitely still spawning.

We may tweak the spawn rates in the future but for now they're the same as they were yesterday.

would be amazed if whoever had the idea to place any importance at all for getting any of these new items from the mordus station actually understood the lengths people go in this game for piracy. Giving the station any usability at all with the mordus ships is a blatant freebee to the powers that control that area of space, as independent mission running from that station is probably one of the most hazardous things to do in pve outside of wormhole space.

I dont see why it should be made easier to obtain these ships with less risk, why do you feel things have to be made easier for people not interested in pvp hazard, when you are trying to obtain pvp ships?

...Are you actually serious? Every other ship in the game, EVERY SINGLE ONE is manufactured from the ground up, mostly from people with no interest in pvp. Why should these have to be any different?

Not actually true at all - virtually everything in the game requires some player to endure some degree of PvP risk.

-Most things you can build require some minerals that are really only found in low or null sec.
-All T2 requires moon materials, only available in .3 or lower, as well as morphite.
-All T3 related materials come from WHs, which involve significant risk of pewpew.
-I'm not aware of any high-sec source for any pirate battleship BPCs, and the cruisers are just barely available via 4/10s (unless that has changed).
-Some BPOs (e.g., barges) only come from null (and resellers).

People who want to build these things, but do not want to deal with the PvP risk, are welcome to buy the materials and blueprints from the market.

Same goes for the Mordus ships.

TL;DR: Bullshit.

Nobody cares that you're "very alarmed" by your own inability to farm mordus LP. That's the very definition of personal problems. Fix it yourself.

I thought that precisely the extreme PvP risk was the charm with the Mordu's ships. Putting them in belts only in lowsec was an awesome idea. But they're not going to be driving much conflict if they spawn so little that only hardcore PvE grinders can find them. Perhaps they should spawn more in systems that see a lot of PvP activity even - rewarding PvP, rather than hours of mindless searching, just a thought.

In any case: the spawn rates are too low. These ships were made for PvP and nothing else. At the moment they're little more than commodities and dust collectors in rich assholes hangars.

Here's my Lowlife article on the matter.

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+1 to increasing the rate, i've been in low belt ratting for litteraly all my spare time since the patch,
belt to belt to belt to belt to belt to belt to belt to belt to , nothing.
not even a wreck to show there had been one.