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Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.03.27 17:14:00 - [1] We keep bumping our heads against a wall here.... Without better asteroids, we cannot build an economy in the New Regions. No Economy means no Players and no ability to defend space. I'd like to see Exploration fixed, but its the lack of low ends that is preventing development.
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.04.02 21:34:00 - [2] Bumping my head against the wall again.... Obviously, some of you posting have no idea of the magnitute of the problem So I'll try to illustrate it for you: We mined TWO ENTIRE BELTS that had not been touched for weeks, and our TOTAL Veld was.... 2 Million Units. 1 Million per belt. In 0.0. That were 'full' size. Now I want to see some of you build an economy with just 2 Million units of Veld. We can barely mine enough to make ammo for the ratters. Building Battleships or Capitals? Out of the question. The other issues can wait, but the Asteroid issue needs adjustments now.
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.04.03 14:06:00 - [3] CCP - If you haven't noticed - we actually have agreement amongst Enemies that the Drone regions are Borked. It takes a very screwed up situation for Enemies to agree on something. But, since you are still ignoring us, let's give you concrete problems to work on: 1> Moon Mining is pretty sucky as well. We do have some decent moons, but I have never seen an area with such an overall lack of Moon Minerals. I would say that the scan results yield about 2/3 of the mineable moons that other regions so. 2> Exploration is so limited that I can no longer get anyone interested in joining gangs for Exploration Complexes. Nothing but Asteroid Belts (with the same low-yield problem as all other belts), or the Drone Hirearchy Complex (Which does not drop anything.) No Archeology or Hacking sites at all. 3> In addition to Drones flying off from asteroid belts at 2k/sec, they also show up at our POS's and at our Outpost. I must admit its funny to see an afk person get popped by Rats while sitting outside our station. But I'm sure that's not what was intended. Its also a bit disconcerning to be fueling a POS while Rats are bumping the shields trying to get in and kill you.
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.04.05 17:30:00 - [4] Dearest Bob: Please invade our Drone Regions. We need you to declare that you intend to control all of the New Regions and move there enmasse. That seems to be the only way we can get CCP to fix problems with our areas. -PJ
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.04.09 14:41:00 - [5] Bumping my head against another 50-unit Roid.... CCP, lets try another tact here: You know how Empire-Based corps try to negoatiate rights to come mine in 0.0? How Alliances that control that 0.0 space can get extra income from leasing mining rights? Well... We are currently trying to negoatiate mining rights ourselves - with anyone NOT in the Drone Regions! Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that a 0.0 alliance is trying to get a 'Foothold in Empire'? Such is the depths of our desperation and frustration.
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.04.17 21:29:00 - [6] Miraxiam, If you don't care about this subject kindly stay out of this thread. Or better yet, come to the new regions and test it for yourself. I hereby promise to grant you safe passage in so that you can check out the situation for youself. Then I will promptly pod you for being such a putz when you're ready to leave. The Drone Regions are BROKEN! They are not 'different' or 'challenging' - they are flat out busted! In spite of Overur's fine example of Customer Service, we still have unanswered questions: 1> Why is there no ore in the Asteroids? 2> Why are there no Hacking or Archeological sites? 3> Why are the Moon Minerals the worst in all of EVE? and most of all... 4> What is supposedly so good in the New Regions that is supposed to make up for all of the inadequecies?
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.05.11 20:04:00 - [7] Bump. Thank you for a timetable on fixes. I was interested to see that someone else was having trouble with probes since the last patch.. I have spent 3 different days, for about 2 hours each day, trying to locate an unknown in B-U299. While it has occasionally taken an hour in the past, I have not been able to find this signature at all. I believe that something did get broken with the last patch. I may try another system this weekend to see if I can locate anything, since it is indeed possible that I've just been terribly unlucky. 3 days in a row... For over an hour each time...with full coverage on all planets. Maybee
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.05.31 15:42:00 - [8] The reason the Drone Regions have not yet been patched is because its taking Bob longer to get here than they initially planned. Therefore, it is our own fault because we haven't decided to surrender to Bob yet. Didn't you know that the purpose of opening up the Drone Regions was to allow us to spend our money building up infrastructure and finding the bugs so that Bob would have it all nice and ready for them?
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.06.07 18:02:00 - [9] Originally by: Annatar Well you move in a region that is intended to be toughter, you knowed it and moved there. And now come here and whine the to the Hell and back? That it should have additional to the benefit of the supply of enought zydrine that the whoule universe let drop the price, be stuffed with the benefits like any other space? com on, realise it you can't be serius. You people who don't live there really should stop posting in this thread. While our complaints may occasionally sound like a Whine, it is not. The mechanics of several normal functions are seriously broken. They have been acknowledged as broken. They just haven't been fixed. Its really as simple as that. I do have a theory on WHY they haven't been fixed... "God created the Drone Regions to train the Faithful" See, you can't make a living as an Industrialist, Miner, Trader or Explorer here. The only option is to be somehow combat oriented. So all our Alliances are filling up with PVP'rs. We're also very Anti-Bob. As the other Alliances fall, the leaches leave for empire, while those willing to fight on join up with a Drone Region alliance. In time, we will be all hardened PVP'rs, united by a hatred of Bob. Now if they'd just fix Exploration I can go find that Spice-Cloud thingy...
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.06.12 18:05:00 - [10] In the Ten Ton Hammer article, it stated that Revalations 2 will be the end of June. Is that correct, or will it be September like others have hinted? P.S. In light of the news that 'Exploration sites could not be found', can I have a few hundred mill in Probes back?

Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.06.20 23:58:00 - [11] I have been on 3 Exploration Complexes since the patch. 2 were 'Drone Patrol' and one was 'Drone Squad'. These types previously were broken, I believe. They now run properly. Drone Patrol had an Elite Drone that dropped one Eliete Droin AI. No excallations were triggered. The amount of Compounds dropped was still low, perhaps half what Belt rats used to drop. To my knowledge, no Hacking or Archeology sites have been found by our other explorers yet. All normal 'Unknowns' - no other types. Thanks CCP for the effort, and we'll continue to report on the game balance.
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.06.22 20:10:00 - [12] I can confirm the 'activate a miner or mining drone and get a spawn' report. But I have an even more interesting titbit of infomation: I was activating drone respawns with a mining drone in 5ed, and it worked just as it had the previous 5 times. This time, however, THE NEWLY SPAWNED RATS WERE DAMAGED. There were 2 drone bs's and 3 cruisers. one of the cruiser had no armor and only 25% structure left, another had 30% armor and full structure. All had full shields. Its as though the drones despawned, but when re-summoned an existing drone spawn was recalled instead of a new one being made. Hope this helps. Oh, yeah: "OMFG BoB haxploit (carebear whine), etc."
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.06.26 16:08:00 - [13] I appreciate that the Commander's loot is random. So far I've heard only of salvage components from Commanders. Has ANYONE gotten ANYTHING other than salvage from a Commander yet? That would be a good indication that the chance based table is working. CCP: We certainly do appreciate the attention we are now getting. We also understand that it is a process of discovery to balance things out. The frustration you are seeing is the result of 8 months of inaction or denial. /Rant On: maybee CCP should FORCE the Bob Devs to run a corp in the Drone regions for a month, and not play their other accounts. I'm sure everything would be fixed well before the month expires. And we could also have FAIR fights against Bob during the same month. /Rant Off:
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.07.03 15:13:00 - [14] Bump. CCP, the asteroids seem to be better, and many thanks for that. (I must be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome - thanking my captors for not beating me so much.) Exploration is still broken. It did get different, but it is still very poor in relation to...oh...The Rest Of Eve?
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.07.13 15:02:00 - [15] Its good to see some more attention. Please forgive all of us for our short tempers - 8 months of being ignored tends to do that to people. I can say that the Asteroid issue seems to be fixed, at least to the point that mining is possible. Whether it is comparable to other regions is another issue, but I don't have to clear out 4 entire belts to get enough trit to build a single BS anymore. I would say that Exploration is the next big issue we have. As stated, the existing Exploration sites are lousy/bugged. No Ladar or Radar sites at all. That translates into 'Don't do exploration in the Drone Regions.' However, the storyline promised us the Drone Queen in an encounter/exploration complex. Supposedly, its the 'richest complex in Eve, a 15/10 difficulty'. Obviously, the Drone Queen has been in hibernation for 8 months, as no one has ever found this complex. Can we get some confirmation that this site will actuall exist somewhere someday?
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.07.17 15:50:00 - [16] Ok, I've been in the Drone Regions since the day they opened up. We've laid out the bugs here quite convincingly, and CCP has addressed some while leaving others unanswered. Recently, the Asteroids are markedly better, and might actually be on par with other regions. Exploration sites are no longer bugged every time. I've actually seen an Exploration named drone and it dropped something other than normal minerals. These things are improvements, and are moving us closer to being a viable region. However.... The Storyline on the Drone Regions promised that the Drone Queen Complex was out here somewere. It was always intended to be a Exploration-only complex, with a supposed difficulty of '15/10'. It was supposed to be 'the richest complex in EVE.' Finding this complex, or at least the pursuit of it as a Corp/Alliance endeavor, is something I thought would add considerable spice to the boring existence out here. The reality is that the recent Encounter scanner displays 'Unknowns' just like the probes do, which makes it difficult to find things to explore in the first place. NO Hacking and NO Archeological sites at ALL! Current rewards for Exploration/Encounter sites are less than normal belt ratting and much harder to do. And, above it all, *NO ONE HAS EVER* FOUND THE DRONE QUEEN HIVE!** Now I'm not asking for the damm thing to spawn in front of my outpost each day promptly after downtime. I personally hope it is a very difficult and rare occurrance. What I am asking is confirmation that it DOES actually spawn and is not bugged. In other words, CCP, does it exist and is possible to find?
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.07.18 16:44:00 - [17] Bump I've read the recent Dev request that we start new threads, as well as the responses listed to that request. I agree that no new thread should be started, and that the request to do so is percieved as an attempt to CCP to wash their hands of the problems yet again. So....I'm adding to this thread again. In an attempt to focus on an individual problem, I'll confine this post to Exploration in the Drone Regions. 1> No Archelogy Sites. While there is a statement from CCP that this was intended, it quite simply does not make sense. It may be that the lack was intended as a balance for other things which were better than Eve average. However, if the thing it was balancing exists, I have no idea what that 'unbalanced advantage' could possibly be. 2> No Hacking Sites. Again, stated as intended by CCP. The same comment applies here as the one above. 3> No Gas Clouds. No reason given for their lack of existence. Obviously, its not bugged in the rest of Eve. 4> No Cosmos Sites. I understand that Cosmos is limited to some areas, and the Drone Regions are not on the list. However, this lack is pointed out so that an overall comparasion to ANY other region will see how lacking the Drone Regions are. Also, from a balance standpoint, it is another 'negative balance' area for us. 5> On-board Scanner sites merging with valid Exploration sites. Since all other areas of Eve have Hacking and Ark sites, they have chances of discriminating between an On-Board Scanner Enounter and an Exploration site. We have no such luxury and get 'Unknown' for everything we find. Please change On-Board Scanner sites to something other than 'Unknown' 6> Exploration sites not worth doing. The rewards for the Exploration sites found with probes are pitiful. Since we have nothing but 'Unknowns', we only get the poorest of the sites to begin with. Couple that with the fact that you will not get anything like Faction Ship BPC's or any other cool items, and you have a completely broken concept. As stated by many here, if you've ever done a Drone Region Exploration site, you'll never volenteer to do another one. The risk is high, the rewards pitiful, and you're better off doing Belt Ratting than any concievable Exploration site that we've seen. 7> No Drone Queen Hive. As a way of pointing out the broken encounter table, I'd like to focus on the supposed Drone Queen. Unfortunately, she does not seem to exist. Since all other regions had Complexes in the past, they certainly have the Complex-via-Exploration results now. We, however, have nothing at all. And the promised 'Richest in Eve' complex does not exist. 8> No Security Status change. While doing Exloration in any other region has some effect on your Security Status, we get nothing. Again, stated as intended, but there does not seem to be anything to compensate for this 'negative-balance' item. Now if you are a CCP Dev/Employee reading this, I cannot understand how you need more information that just given to fix the Drone Region exploration. No new threads will give you more info. If you fully intend the negative aspects to be the way they are, then please look at the supposed 'positive-balanced' items. Because we can't see them AT ALL!

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