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Beldaws
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Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.30 12:40:00 -
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Ok, we have a MAJOR problem!
The patch has removed Stront from the building requirements for the new scanner probes. Stront isn't a Tech2 component. I understand removing Nanotransistors and Hypersynaptic Fibers, but you weren't susposed to remove Stront!
I've invested Billions in Stront to build these probes and have tons of probes on the market that I paid over 80k to build which now can be build for 20k. I don't mind you taking away the Nanotransistors and Hypersynaptic fibers because I can use those for other things, but what the heck am I going to do with billions of isk worth of now useless Stront! I won't even be able to sell the stront for what I paid for it. Now that the probes don't take stront, the stront prices are going to crash. Either way I'm going to loose billions on this goof up.
Please put stront back in as a building material for the new probes.
Patch Notes:
"Tech2 components required for the production of the new scanner probes (Sift, Comb, Pursuit, Quest) have been removed. Mineral requirements have also been reduced and balanced accordingly."
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.30 18:15:00 -
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No way! This is clearly a bug. If you look at the other probes sold by the NPCs they have had the T2 components removed from their build requirements but they still require Stront.
This bug needs to be fixed ASAP!
 Originally by: Jiekon
Originally by: Glaive
Originally by: Beldaws
Ok, we have a MAJOR problem!
The patch has removed Stront from the building requirements for the new scanner probes. Stront isn't a Tech2 component. I understand removing Nanotransistors and Hypersynaptic Fibers, but you weren't susposed to remove Stront!
I've invested Billions in Stront to build these probes and have tons of probes on the market that I paid over 80k to build which now can be build for 20k. I don't mind you taking away the Nanotransistors and Hypersynaptic fibers because I can use those for other things, but what the heck am I going to do with billions of isk worth of now useless Stront! I won't even be able to sell the stront for what I paid for it. Now that the probes don't take stront, the stront prices are going to crash. Either way I'm going to loose billions on this goof up.
Please put stront back in as a building material for the new probes.
Patch Notes:
"Tech2 components required for the production of the new scanner probes (Sift, Comb, Pursuit, Quest) have been removed. Mineral requirements have also been reduced and balanced accordingly."
AArrrgh! Tell me this is an unintentional error - although I've not spent as much on Stront as some people obviously have, I have however spent quite a portion of my own meagre wealth over the last week or so buying over 5000 units of the stuff. Since when is Stront classed as a Tech II component? 
No, this is intentional. All t2 materials and ice products were removed from Exploration Probes.
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.31 00:07:00 -
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Well, if I can sell it for the 5k a unit that I bought it for that's great. If not then I'll be whining to ccp like everyone else.
Instead of making the sites worth finding, they decided to aggrevate the players by making their items worth 1/4 what they paid to build them. Why not just put warp beacons on them to make the probes that I built totally worthless!
Originally by: Rangkai
Strontium being being lumped in with "tech 2 items" in the probes.. sorta sucks.. However, for those of you asking for refunds on what you spent. I found a way to get a refund without whining to ccp.
Put it on the market.
Overall, I am happy about it because now I can build and use probes cheaply and not get upset when I spend 10 mil on probes only to find a mission that has virtually no rewards.
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.31 00:43:00 -
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Well, then give me a list of what else requires Stront to build besides npc probes.
I need something to build to get rid of this stront and competing with a npc that has infinite supply isn't the answer.
I don't fly dreads, I don't have POS's that go into reinforced and I'm not going to sell it on the market for less than I paid for it.
Originally by: Jiekon
this is not a bug, it is by design.
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.31 01:15:00 -
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Ok, I just searched the Item Database and the only thing that you build with Stront are the @$%!@&* probes that are sold by npcs!
So CCP what do I do with the 500,000 units of stront that I have sitting in my hanger????????
Stront is already down to 3500 per unit and is still dropping like a rock.
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.31 08:52:00 -
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CCP, still waiting for an answer on what I can build with all my stront now besides npc sold probes.
Originally by: Beldaws
Ok, I just searched the Item Database and the only thing that you build with Stront are the @$%!@&* probes that are sold by npcs!
So CCP what do I do with the 500,000 units of stront that I have sitting in my hanger????????
Stront is already down to 3500 per unit and is still dropping like a rock.
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Beldaws
Gallente
Just Me and My Alts
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Posted - 2007.01.31 12:07:00 -
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Edited by: Beldaws on 31/01/2007 12:05:55
The bigger problem is that there isn't anything else to build with our stockpiles of stront. It's one thing to change the build requirements of something. It's another to not give you any other production use for your materials.
Sure, you can build the other probe types, but then you are competing with npcs that have unlimited quantities and unlimited sell orders and there is no profit margin.
You can't even sell your stront on the market because CCP caused the stront price to crash.
There have been plenty other build material adjustment that have been done and we have all lived with but at least we could use our supplies to build other items when it was over. Not this time though. CCP just leaves us with a hanger full of useless building materials.
So what is there to do but whine and complain? If I can't use it to build, I might as well use it to complain. Both have the same results which is just a big waste of time.
Originally by: ToxicFire
Sorry all but quit whining about the stront on probes issue. If ccp had announced it there'd have been mass whining from all the probe producers as well as jacking about with the stront prices before it hit. Also we all know that ccp has said things aboout alterations to costs and build reqs of certain items before and then failed to go through with it leading to alot more whining... tractor beam bpo's anyone I still got 50 of them. Its not gonna be a total loss you might have to sell off your current stock of probes at a small loss just to get the stock out and reclaim what you can to start building more and recoup the costs in your profit else where.... frankly your own fault for specialising in one product diversification is security in the trading world... egg's in one basket and that crap.
Always assume that the next day things could totally change, a good forecoming possible example of this is whats going to happen when/if they decide to make all asteroid belts exploration only content. Prices are going to be far more volatile from day to day simply because theres not a garunteed supply or someone might hit the motherload of a particular ore that makes prices drop through the floor.
Infact I think I quite look forward to mineral scarceities where big alliances reel in their ambitions and cautiously avoid war for fear of not having enough minerals to support losses.
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