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Joe Tradez
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Posted - 2007.01.06 18:52:00 -
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Like many of the recent changes as well, it all comes down to them not wanting to create more objects to be tracked in the DB. If they dropped alloy and loot it would double the amount of entries in the DB.
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Ralus
eXceed Inc.
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Posted - 2007.01.06 18:56:00 -
[32]
 Originally by: ScreamingLord Sutch
Originally by: Admiral Chamrajnagar
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
This post made me LOL, thanks I needed that.
But the reason they lack bounties, is because they drop alloys, that can be directly refined for rare ore that in turn gives you isk.
NPC Battleships drop loot which can be sold for ISK or refined into minerals which can be sold for ISK.
So... why don't drones have bounties?
probably because the alloys can be refined into a lot of minerals that can be sold, remember the high end mineral markets crashing atm because of the drone alloys so you must can make quite a lot already off them
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Mila Prestoc
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Posted - 2007.01.06 18:57:00 -
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When you get 3m to 6m worth of minerals per BS don't cry about no bounties.
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Originally by: "Lord Violent"
EvE is slowly becoming a game for the stupid, catered to by devs as they lack ability to kill/survive anything.
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Sagnius
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Posted - 2007.01.06 19:00:00 -
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bounties are a direct cash injection into the economy, alloya are not, they just shift isk form one player to another.
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Fortior
STK Scientific
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Posted - 2007.01.06 19:09:00 -
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Originally by: Sagnius
bounties are a direct cash injection into the economy, alloya are not, they just shift isk form one player to another.
Cha-ching! We have a winner!
Besides, I think it's a great idea by CCP. The new regions are awesome for the industrial-minded groups, not so much for the PVP'ers. A new take on 0.0, very interesting.
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Natasha Kerensky
The Company
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.01.06 19:24:00 -
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Edited by: Natasha Kerensky on 06/01/2007 19:36:31
Edited by: Natasha Kerensky on 06/01/2007 19:23:44
Edited by: Natasha Kerensky on 06/01/2007 19:22:23
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
 Good Point
Cycler Drone Mk III
SOMEBODY GET WINTERBLINK OVER HERE NOW!!
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Nero Scuro
Caldari
Murder of Crows
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Posted - 2007.01.06 19:49:00 -
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Originally by: ScreamingLord Sutch
Originally by: Admiral Chamrajnagar
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
This post made me LOL, thanks I needed that.
But the reason they lack bounties, is because they drop alloys, that can be directly refined for rare ore that in turn gives you isk.
NPC Battleships drop loot which can be sold for ISK or refined into minerals which can be sold for ISK.
So... why don't drones have bounties?
Because you get more/rarer mins from alloys than you do from most NPC drops.
Admiral C. - directly refined for rare ore
Reading comprehension 4tw.
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Joerd Toastius
Octavian Vanguard
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.01.07 13:08:00 -
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The IC explanation is probably that CONCORD can't track drone kills reliably and so can't bounty them or offer sec status rewards.
The OOC explanation is probably a combination of the point above about not injecting cash, and CCP wanting them to supply minerals for people building stuff in the new regions. If the latter is true, though, they need to boost low-end drops considerably because currently it's not much different from anywhere else due to having to ship in all the low-ends manually.
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vinnymcg
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.01.09 12:31:00 -
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Hey guys im back on the tread.
Right now to make clear what ive been saying. Yes you kill are drone and eventually get paid a decent bit of cash when you refine the loot, this is nice but ied like a little cash to go with it. I'm not talking bout a lot just a bit, like 200k for the BS's.
Also I do think we should get a sec increase for killing the drones and it should be on par with all other sized ships in eve.
And yes most of you are right there drone drops are messing up the market is this a bad thing? well yes and no, Its bad for people living in the new regions as each week we make less and less money while the people in every other region make the same amount of cash but are now going to be getting cheaper ships, yes i know so are we but we have also have less money to buy em.....Is this a ploy by CCP to reduce inflation?
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Marcus TheMartin
Gallente
Tuxedo.
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Posted - 2007.01.09 13:53:00 -
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Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
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Altaree
Gallente
Red Frog Investments
Daikoku Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.01.09 14:29:00 -
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Originally by: Admiral Chamrajnagar
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
This post made me LOL, thanks I needed that.
But the reason they lack bounties, is because they drop alloys, that can be directly refined for rare ore that in turn gives you isk.
Damnit, he got my hopes up. I was thinking "Hey, a Dev is FINALLY going to comment on drones not being salvageable." But Nooo.... Not this time. 
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Redback911
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Posted - 2007.01.09 14:35:00 -
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LOL
This thread wins.
And please stop trying to make it serious again :-)
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vinnymcg
Vendetta Underground
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.01.09 23:11:00 -
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Originally by: Altaree
Damnit, he got my hopes up. I was thinking "Hey, a Dev is FINALLY going to comment on drones not being salvageable." But Nooo.... Not this time.
Actually if you read there entire tread you would have seen that i already said that there 0.0 drones are salvageable, all of em, im making a mint off the stuff too.
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Manufakturka
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Posted - 2007.01.14 18:00:00 -
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Originally by: Admiral Chamrajnagar
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
This post made me LOL, thanks I needed that.
But the reason they lack bounties, is because they drop alloys, that can be directly refined for rare ore that in turn gives you isk.
I recall SF story by Stanislaw Lem about intelligent washing machines who went bezerk, killed humans, eventually formed their own society and went on on space conquest:)
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Kala Veijo
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2007.01.14 18:41:00 -
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Drones dont have bounties on em because they aint evil. They just wanna exists in universe (allthought alone it would seem). So...
...Save a drone, frag Tiller instead.™ 
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Kala Veijo
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2007.01.14 18:41:00 -
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Drones dont have bounties on em because they aint evil. They just wanna exists in universe (allthought alone it would seem). So...
...Save a drone, frag Tiller instead.™
Warp Wind, CSM Chapter blog. |
Wibiq
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Posted - 2007.01.14 18:53:00 -
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Actually it's a huge conspiracy. The reason Condord doesn't put a bounty on drones is because they have a deal worked out with the medical facilities. Concord gets a cut from every clone that's spawned. It's also why they allow wars in Empire for a fee :D
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Gloria Stitz
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Posted - 2007.01.14 19:04:00 -
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Why would drones crave chocolate covered coconut fondant?
Thread makes no sense at all.
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Frezik
Celtic Anarchy
Anarchy Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.14 20:00:00 -
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Originally by: Kala Veijo
Drones dont have bounties on em because they aint evil. They just wanna exists in universe (allthought alone it would seem).
Krickit! Krickit! Krickit!
Drones drop fantastic refinable loot. Lvl4 Rouge Drone missions are some of the most farmed missions around for a reason. Giving them a bounty would be like giving the Raven nine hi-slots *ducks*
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keepiru
Supernova Security Systems
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Posted - 2007.01.14 20:11:00 -
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Try because 0.0 Belt Drone BS dropped - at the market prices the day Revelations went live on SISI - up to 7m isk worth of minerals (mostly high-ends) each, every single time, unlike 0.0 BS loot which is mostly useless crap with the odd bit of stuff that sells thrown in there.
They're all the same loot-wise (the loot spanws randomly so they dropped 4.5 to 7m of mins each back then), spawn most often in 3s, respawn as often as other belt BS do, and with that knowledge I'll let you work out just how insanely profitable they can be if you have a good way to shift stupid quantities of high-ends to empire 
You do, howoever, need a hauler alt as each BS drops up to 500m3 of drone ****e.
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.01.14 20:47:00 -
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Originally by: Thor Xian
CONCORD has to care about Rogue Drones being around for them to have bounties.
Then why NPC pirates in 0.0 have bounties?
CONCORD don't care about what happens in 0.0
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turnschuh
Eye of God
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Posted - 2007.01.14 21:07:00 -
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Edited by: turnschuh on 14/01/2007 21:04:00
Originally by: Venkul Mul
Originally by: Thor Xian
CONCORD has to care about Rogue Drones being around for them to have bounties.
Then why NPC pirates in 0.0 have bounties?
CONCORD don't care about what happens in 0.0
The reason why drones dont have bountys is because there is noone piloting them, normal NPCs have bounty because the ppl who pilot them are bad / pirates.
You cant put a bounty on a ship with no pilot.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.01.15 13:10:00 -
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Personally, I'd like to see drones begin to spread out of their newly-opened cage, conquering region after region, becoming the "wild animals" of EVE, reducing the Human factions (Empire and pirate) to just a few well fortified regions. One day
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James Snowscoran
Coreli Corporation
Corelum Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.01.15 13:15:00 -
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Originally by: Venkul Mul
Originally by: Thor Xian
CONCORD has to care about Rogue Drones being around for them to have bounties.
Then why NPC pirates in 0.0 have bounties?
CONCORD don't care about what happens in 0.0
They're not supposed to care, but I can assure you that they do. Try running missions for one of the pirate factions and you'll see what I mean.
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Xsag
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.01.15 13:17:00 -
[55]
Originally by: Lyria Skydancer
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
LOL
also LOL - ah yes random laughing in the office then followed by explaining the joke to non eve players all helps pass my working week  
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CT Tarantula
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Posted - 2007.01.15 14:57:00 -
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Originally by: Hllaxiu
Originally by: Thetys
for the same reason they do not have things to salvage :(
Actually they have loads of salvage materials, all of them in fact.
humz, tried to salvage a LOT of em... Never got any...they were however lht and med drones, perhaps the lower dont give salvage because they r too small??? Or is the salvage changed recently??? after a few missions that involved drones i tried to salvage em, nothing but a waist of time i stopped trying to salvage drones...
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.01.15 15:53:00 -
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Originally by: CT Tarantula
Originally by: Hllaxiu
Originally by: Thetys
for the same reason they do not have things to salvage :(
Actually they have loads of salvage materials, all of them in fact.
humz, tried to salvage a LOT of em... Never got any...they were however lht and med drones, perhaps the lower dont give salvage because they r too small??? Or is the salvage changed recently??? after a few missions that involved drones i tried to salvage em, nothing but a waist of time i stopped trying to salvage drones...
CTT
Salvage from missions is always pretty rubbish, and non-existant for drones, I think. The regional belt-drones drop plenty though, I gather.
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Veinfiller
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Posted - 2007.01.15 15:54:00 -
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mission drones don't give salvage, at least not in high sec. they're different from 0.0 drones.
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Carter Burke
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Posted - 2007.01.15 17:41:00 -
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Originally by: Fortior
Originally by: Sagnius
bounties are a direct cash injection into the economy, alloya are not, they just shift isk form one player to another.
Cha-ching! We have a winner!
Besides, I think it's a great idea by CCP. The new regions are awesome for the industrial-minded groups, not so much for the PVP'ers. A new take on 0.0, very interesting.
That is not the case. The alloy did not exist prior to the drone's destruction. Hence it introduces an item of value into the game.
While I understand your fixation with actual cash, the creation of the item still dilutes the presence of already-existing items which themselves have value. The ISK is simply a common currency that establishes a baseline from which to operate.
Note: I neither support nor oppose any suggestion made here, I simply wished to clarify a misunderstanding in the making.
CB
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Minsc
Gallente
A.W.M
Ka-Tet
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Posted - 2007.01.15 19:19:00 -
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While the amount of high-ends that drop from rogue drones in the new regions are nice, they need to seriously increase the low-ends that are dropped because there is far too little of them dropped and as someone said, the only viable alternative is to ship lowends in from empire.
Originally by: Sharkbait
please for the love of god read the dam stickies
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