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Dhaaka Vincatar
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Posted - 2006.08.07 23:10:00 -
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Until a few minutes ago I was under the impression that the Overseers in Worlds Collide only had a chance to spawn, similar to the random tough rats that drop faction loot on missons such as 'Blockade' and 'Gone Berserk'.
However, I recently read that they will always spawn as long as you spend a little while killing the rats in the second levels.
Is this true? If so, do I have to spend time killing the rats or can I just do other things and come back later?
And does the time I have to wait mean I don't get the bonus for completing the mission quickly. I would rather get the special drops personally, but it would be nice to get the bonus as well :)
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Iamruss
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Posted - 2006.08.07 23:21:00 -
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I'll be lurking this thread... hehe
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Dhaaka Vincatar
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Posted - 2006.08.07 23:23:00 -
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Creepy.
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Scythes
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Posted - 2006.08.08 05:36:00 -
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Edited by: Scythes on 08/08/2006 05:37:46 It appears to be totaly random. I have even killed half of each second stage, half of each spawn, or the entire thing and sat there tanking it with mostly NOS fitted and not been able to induce a spawn. 2 days have gone by with nothing, but 2 have spawned within 10min before(replicated the conditions the 2 spawned in 10min, to no avail).
I have, however, lost 2 gist tanked Ravens to the acceleration gate spitting me inside of the Battlestation and colliding me with the 2nd spawn causing entire stage aggro. Not cool.
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Brannor McThife
Caldari Brotherhood of the Ancients
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Posted - 2006.08.08 11:25:00 -
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Originally by: Scythes
It appears to be totaly random. I have even killed half of each second stage, half of each spawn, or the entire thing and sat there tanking it with mostly NOS fitted and not been able to induce a spawn. 2 days have gone by with nothing, but 2 have spawned within 10min before(replicated the conditions the 2 spawned in 10min, to no avail).
I disagree. Having farmed this for the better part of the last 3 weeks, I found that they are predictable. Their timer is activated once you enter one of the second stages. After that, go way, wait a few hours, and they'll be there. Most of the time they're nothing special anyway. There is also a timer for the Spies.
Originally by: Scythes
I have, however, lost 2 gist tanked Ravens to the acceleration gate spitting me inside of the Battlestation and colliding me with the 2nd spawn causing entire stage aggro. Not cool.
Not being condescending, but that is your own fault. Where you are when you activate the JG determines where you come out on the other side.
Warp from the left side of the JG (to the Guristas side), and you should be ok.
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Amiren
Caldari Balanced Unity
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Posted - 2006.08.08 12:33:00 -
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exactly what brannor said..
just activate the deadspace after every downtime, if you want to farm it a week.. just warp in, warp out and check it every hour with your scanners...
i did that mission a lot, the shortest spawn time for a overseer was 3h, the longest about 15h... i donŠt believe that taking out some / all / any ships influences the spawn time of the overseers...
but only waiting for a commander overseer which is possibly dropping nothing worthwile is a waste of time i think... you shoud go and kill this nice battleships, cleaning the whole complex brings about 33 mil isk... \_______________________________________________/
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Astralwind
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Posted - 2006.08.20 06:25:00 -
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I saw a Serpentis Overseer the last time I was in there, it was low bounty and had bad loot, are they supposed to do something more than that?
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MuffinsRevenger
EmpiresMod
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Posted - 2006.08.20 07:34:00 -
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Originally by: Astralwind I saw a Serpentis Overseer the last time I was in there, it was low bounty and had bad loot, are they supposed to do something more than that?
They can be
it's random though :)
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Leandro Salazar
Aeon Industries
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Posted - 2006.08.20 08:55:00 -
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They are pretty rare, and farming them is totally unprofitable.
I do it anyway because of that great moment of opening a commander can and the hope for something really good (and the usual not-so-great moment of finding only faction ammo and otherwise crap mods...) --------- ZOMG my sig was concordokkened! Link removed due to bad language on remote site. -wystler
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MaidMarion
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Posted - 2006.08.21 03:40:00 -
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I had a 3.5m overseer appear in serp side .. dropped me some nice loot .. then I went back later .. and it was there again .. so I killed him again and he dropped more nice loot. . then eve crashed .. then I lost mission cuz gm wouldnt reset it cuz I had already completed objective .. oh well it was a nice day at least, 3 named serp gear + 2k large serp ammo + a 425 proto rail.
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HippoKing
Caldari Beagle Corp
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Posted - 2006.08.21 12:11:00 -
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The overseer spawns seem to have either been nerfed hugely in their chance to be Commanders (in high sec) or that chance has been removed entirely. It used to be a pretty big chance (at least one of the overseers was a commander probably 1/2 of the time), but now it seems much, much smaller if it still exists.
I'm proud to say that I think that was my fault It happened a few days after this thread
Go go gadget forum whining nerfage
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Leandro Salazar
Aeon Industries
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Posted - 2006.08.21 12:47:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing The overseer spawns seem to have either been nerfed hugely in their chance to be Commanders (in high sec) or that chance has been removed entirely. It used to be a pretty big chance (at least one of the overseers was a commander probably 1/2 of the time), but now it seems much, much smaller if it still exists.
I'm proud to say that I think that was my fault It happened a few days after this thread
Go go gadget forum whining nerfage
My guess would be 1/7 or so currently. But it has been the same for me even when you wrote your whine. But back then I was farming in lowsec, now I do it in highsec. Maybe the chance was actually higher in highsec and has been nerfed?
Whatever happened, I find it quite okay atm. Give up a lot of mission profit for a commander chance in safe space. Fair trade. Good loot is so rare and crap is so common that it balances out to totally not be worth it for the isk alone. It is just worth it for the kick to me :) --------- ZOMG my sig was concordokkened! Link removed due to bad language on remote site. -wystler
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HippoKing
Caldari Beagle Corp
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Posted - 2006.08.21 15:08:00 -
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I can't say I know about the chances in low sec, I never ran it there, and never had a problem with it there.
It was (and still is with the respawn) obscene profit in high sec I have the problem with.
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Leandro Salazar
Aeon Industries
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Posted - 2006.08.21 18:15:00 -
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The profit really isn't all that great if you consider that you get no LP and have to idle a lot once the initial spawn is dead. And at least for me the few commanders I got dropped mostly crap, and even the two implants I got did not make up for the loss in LP or the possible gain I could have had from other even more profitable missions. For it to be really worth it you have to regularly find 200 mil loot items, and at least for me that does not happen. Maybe I am just unlucky though? --------- ZOMG my sig was concordokkened! Link removed due to bad language on remote site. -wystler
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Fliewatuet
Angelus dos Business
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Posted - 2006.08.22 02:43:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing The overseer spawns seem to have either been nerfed hugely in their chance to be Commanders (in high sec) or that chance has been removed entirely. It used to be a pretty big chance (at least one of the overseers was a commander probably 1/2 of the time), but now it seems much, much smaller if it still exists.
I'm proud to say that I think that was my fault It happened a few days after this thread
Go go gadget forum whining nerfage
I wouldn't be so certain of that... thats what is called random in there. Also the randomizer in eve is a bit fuzzy when it comes to a random occuring thing like the commander spawn in the worlds collide...
Some weeks, i get two or three mission types most of the time, two weeks later, my agent favors another two missions half of the time. Or let us take the time reward he offers me... one week, its almost always money, the next week i have to play with lots of garbage, carbon and freight containers.
Another thing that happened just yesterday. For more than a year, noone got an estamel spawn with an invul field in the loot. Now, yesterday, we got two of them i know of on the same day... its possible since its a random event but looks strange nevertheless.
So, what i want to say is that its just possible that in the week you tried the worlds collide, the randomizer started to like you ;-) - and now, he got enough of us :D
Damn all those randomizing, it keeps us from predicting things. ;))
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Infinity Ziona
Apostasia
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Posted - 2006.08.23 08:03:00 -
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I finally got a Overseer spawn 2 nights ago after a month of nothing. It dropped a Dread Guris Invul which was great -> 300mil.
But in that time I probably farmed 2 billion in iskies so the Overseers are crap in comparison to the bounties from farming.
You do indeed have to wait for them to spawn as has been said.
I wonder if they patched it out today to low sec only. Anyone got it after the patch?
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Infinity Ziona
Apostasia
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Posted - 2006.08.23 09:53:00 -
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Heh just after I posted the above message I got a Shadow Serp Overseer 4.8 million but it only dropped shadow hardners.
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