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CCP Paradox
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Posted - 2016.10.26 16:52:05 -
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Hello spacefriends!
Starting from today, we (Team Phenomenon) have now enabled the new Mining Operations on Singularity. Some of you may have read the CSM minutes or perhaps have seen this teased on our Updates website, More Activity In Asteroid Belts.
This is a first stage at creating new procedural PvE content for EVE, to make the universe more exciting, vibrant and alive.
What you can expect to see across the universe, are NPCs mining asteroids inside asteroid belts. Due to the procedural way in which these spawn, it will be hard to recommend a specific system(s) to visit, so I would have to encourage exploration of the belts for now. These NPCs will appear in mining frigates, barges, and exhumers. Haulers will be coming to retrieve their ore when they are almost full, and the asteroids will deplete if mined out by the NPCs.
The mining NPCs will react to hostiles if you should attack them, and call in a fleet for assistance. This fleet will be composed of several roles, and will behave differently than you have seen before in the game. Expect to see their fleets made up of logistics, tacklers, and specialists in EWAR tactics.
All procedural mining NPCs will be flying ships denoted by a diamond (GÖª), for example you may see some of these in the overview:
Ducia Foundy Venture | GÖª Venture Minedrill Retriever | GÖª Retriever Astral Mining Inc. Iteron Mark V | GÖª Iteron Mark V Minmatar Mining Corporation | GÖª Scythe
Additionally, your standings against the mining corporation will be reflected in the overview, you will see the icons color change through the following gradient depending on current standings:
Terrible - Red Bad - Orange Neutral - Blue Good - Light Blue Excellent - White
We will be conducting a mass test at a later date, to test the NPCs specifically. Please look forward to it!
There will be more information at this years EVE Vegas, which begins this Friday (28th October) at 11:00PM EVE time, I would recommend checking this out. http://vegas.eveonline.com/
Thanks for reading, capsuleers. -Team Phenomenon
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Posted - 2016.10.26 17:13:16 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:Is this in all security class space? If so, will high sec spawns be smaller and less powerful, like belt rats? Will they be attacked by belt rats? Are you buffing the belts a bit to make up for the ore that will no longer be there due to the NPCs?
The current belt rats will not interact with these NPCs and vice versa for now. There are differences in the composition of the NPCs depending on the security status of the system.
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Posted - 2016.10.26 18:03:37 -
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Koopman van Luxe wrote:CCP Paradox wrote: Additionally, your standings against the mining corporation will be reflected in the overview, you will see the icons color change through the following gradient depending on current standings:
Terrible - Red Bad - Orange Neutral - Blue Good - Light Blue Excellent - White
Do the standings have any significant effect on their behavior? For example: Would having bad standing cause the defense fleet to preemptively warp in and terrible standing cause them to attack you on sight? Or slightly stronger fleets to warp in based on standing? Is there any benefit to having good standing?
Yes they do react to bad standings currently! Only negative standings at the moment will cause a reaction from them. I forgot to include this in my original post.
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Posted - 2016.10.27 10:34:51 -
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Quick note before I dive into answers, not all the mining operations have started. I will be starting many more today. So it should be easier to find them.
Some quick answers for all the questions:
Yes you can loot their ore from them should you kill them to try and take it from either miners or haulers. Attacking them will affect standings towards that corporation. They will only appear in static asteroid belts. We are aware of the standings colors for the overview, thank you very much for the feedback. We'll investigate this further. Positive interactions towards the NPCs is absolutely on our sights. And you'll hear more on that from us soon. All of the ships have the SKINs of their empire to distinguish who they belong to, take a look at them They will flee under attack, but right now they instant-warp. This will be balanced in the next day. Directional Scanner is interesting, thanks for raising that up! Their aim is asteroids, and will not be venturing through wormholes. They won't loot player wrecks, but if this is something you're interested in please let us know how you would feel about it. They're not selling ore on the market, they use it for their own production purposes. The default overview for General and All will be updated with all the new ships in the coming days.
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Posted - 2016.10.27 15:03:34 -
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SurrenderMonkey wrote:
Do they spawn in null? I checked a -lot- of null belts and found nothing. I very quickly found half a dozen sets of the things along the Jita-Amarr pipe, though.
Response fleet ships don't currently leave wrecks - intended?
Also, and I should probably submit a bug report for this, the response fleet seems to engage before they become targetable. Even after you're redboxed, you still can't target them back for a few seconds.
Re: "They're not selling ore on the market, they use it for their own production purposes." - Is that just an RP explanation, or are they -actually- using it in a meaningful way?
Yes they will find themselves in null space, though at the moment there are just Caldari and Amarr operations, and I will be starting more this week.
No wrecks is intentional for now. CCP Larrikin is currently at EVE Vegas and will be talking to players there about this.
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Posted - 2016.10.28 10:28:32 -
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Some more answers that we can answer right now:
They will spawn in High, Low, Null security space. But not wormholes. The spawn is not definite, meaning they won't always be in the same system at the same time every day. NPCs will scale with system security. NPC fits are completely different, they reflect player ships much more than before. Ultimately, they're fit for PvP. There can be overlap from different mining operations, the primary goal is gathering ore. There is an incentive to attack them. More information from CCP Larrikin at EVE Vegas this weekend.
Some issues:
- Overview and brackets being broken is a current issue on Singularity.
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Posted - 2016.10.28 15:07:32 -
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Circumstantial Evidence wrote:CCP Paradox wrote:* The spawn is not definite, meaning they won't always be in the same system at the same time every day. This choice of words makes me wonder if you plan only one spawn per system per day. A low spawn rate could address concerns about NPC's stripping belts, or how profitable it will be for players to "farm" them.
It was more against the case a previous player mentioned, for competing with the NPCs directly after downtime. They will not be a low spawn rate, but they will spawn in such a way we simply cannot predict it. If this was the case, then we're not making the universe feel alive, but predictable instead. This would not be our intention.
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Posted - 2016.10.31 10:46:10 -
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Lavayar wrote:Watched EvE Vegas presentation. Mining Operations will drop random lootboxes?
CCP are you mad? If it was decided for EVE to become free-to-play, it is not the reason for using the worst practices of free-to-play.
This is simply a step of; Instead of dropping all items inside the wreck, they will be inside a box. You can then open it or sell it to someone else, perhaps for a higher price of the contents. A gamble at the discretion of whoever opens the box. There is nothing else involved in this process.
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Posted - 2016.10.31 15:09:57 -
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FearlessLittleToaster wrote:CCP Paradox wrote: This is simply a step of; Instead of dropping all items inside the wreck, they will be inside a box. You can then open it or sell it to someone else, perhaps for a higher price of the contents. A gamble at the discretion of whoever opens the box. There is nothing else involved in this process. I haven't gotten a chance to watch the Eve Vegas presentation yet, so posting here. So I am completely 100% clear, the wrecks will drop a box which can be opened without needing any special key? If that's all the loot boxes are I kinda like it... another way to screw with people. If you need some kind of widget that must be bought with Aurum or something to open them then this is an awful design and please don't do that.
Absolutely no key needed. They are exactly like the boxes acquired through the Shadow of the Serpent / Scope Network event.
Basically the loot goes into this box instead, and you get to open this yourself or can sell it to another player who can pay some ISK to take a gamble at opening the box.
CCP Larrikin also mentioned future possibilities involving the strong box, such as selling back to the NPC Corporation you looted it from, or handing it in for standings rewards. Both are future possibilities we can investigate depending on the feedback we get.
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Posted - 2016.11.01 10:20:02 -
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Regan Rotineque wrote:tried this out on SiSi last nite ..... was fun :) poor Thukker's.......
Nailed a retty then two others got away, then a small fleet of two ewar frigs and a scythe warped in to save them.
I see someone mentioned in thread before about D-Scan - would be very nice to have this available so you dont waste a ton of time going from belt to belt.
2nd - i could not find how to add the ships to the overview - nothing under ships or NPCs I could add specific ones by right click add to overview. But I missed the scythe at first since it was repping not attacking.
Im sure that is coming in an upcoming patch :)
Cheers
I like this CCP good add +
~R~
If you need to set up your own Overviews, you will find the groups that have a diamond before the name, like this:
GÖª Mining Hauler GÖª Mining Frigate GÖª Mining Exhumer GÖª Mining Barge GÖª Frigate GÖª Cruiser GÖª Battleship
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Posted - 2016.11.02 10:53:33 -
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Chan'aar wrote:So from the Vegas stream these mining groups seem to have a local base. A station belonging to one of the corps doing the mining.
Do the mining operation spawn where ever they have a station or is it just in their home regions?
So will we find Gallente mining operations from the Astral mining corp in Caldari systems where there is a Astral mining station or will there only be Astral Mining operations within the Gallente Regions?
Correct. The best place to find these is near stations belonging to that corporation.
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Posted - 2016.11.02 15:31:29 -
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I have now enabled the Guristas Production Mining Operation on Singularity.
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Posted - 2016.11.04 16:06:12 -
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nate albush wrote:ive seen some others fight the npc spawns but i cant seem to find one because ive been looking for more than an hour and havent seen one. you need to increase the spawn rate because if its like this on the main server its going to take like 10 times longer find even one of em The best place to find the high-sec mining ops is near the stations of those corps running them. The list of high-sec corps with mining ops are >
- Amarr: Ducia Foundry
- Amarr: Joint Harvesting
- Amarr: HZO Refinery
- Caldari: Deep Core Mining Inc.
- Caldari: Poksu Mineral Group
- Caldari: Minedrill
- Gallente: Astral Mining Inc.
- Gallente: Material Acquisition
- Gallente: Allotek Industries
- Minmatar: Minmatar Mining Corporation
- Minmatar: Vherokior Tribe
- Minmatar: Thukker Mix
Cynical Komercisto wrote:CCP Paradox wrote:I have now enabled the Guristas Production Mining Operation on Singularity. Do these only spawn in a system with a guristas outpost or any system that normally spawns guristas rats? The best place to find them is near Guristas stations.
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Posted - 2016.11.04 16:37:04 -
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As of today on Sisi:
- You'll be-able to see the Mining Ops on your directional scanner, or probe them down.
- We've altered the coloration of the MIning Ops NPC standings bracket coloration to better follow player overview standards:
Red/Orage = Hostile White = Neutral Light Blue/Dark Blue = Friendly
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Posted - 2016.11.04 17:21:25 -
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Henry Plantgenet wrote:CCP Paradox wrote:Lavayar wrote:Watched EvE Vegas presentation. Mining Operations will drop random lootboxes?
CCP are you mad? If it was decided for EVE to become free-to-play, it is not the reason for using the worst practices of free-to-play. This is simply a step of; Instead of dropping all items inside the wreck, they will be inside a box. You can then open it or sell it to someone else, perhaps for a higher price of the contents. A gamble at the discretion of whoever opens the box. There is nothing else involved in this process. Will we need to purchase keys to unlock these boxes?
Please see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6692756#post6692756
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Posted - 2016.11.05 13:04:09 -
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Grookshank wrote:CCP Larrikin wrote:As of today on Sisi: - You'll be-able to see the Mining Ops on your directional scanner, or probe them down.
- We've altered the coloration of the MIning Ops NPC standings bracket coloration to better follow player overview standards:
Red/Orage = Hostile White = Neutral Light Blue/Dark Blue = Friendly Umm...they don't mix with the players ships on dscan/probe scan, do they? So if I now have NPC enabled on my overview, the will also show up on dscan? That is not good.
They are denoted by the GÖª symbol for their ship type, but since this the D-Scan is integrated to your overview settings you have full control of what to show and not to show.
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Posted - 2016.11.05 16:15:28 -
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Michael Pawlicki wrote:Have the mining NPCs been enabled to drop the strongboxes, or is this not enabled yet?
Only the NPC haulers can drop the strong boxes.
Just to clarify, thats NPC Haulers that are apart of the new NPC mining ops :)
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Posted - 2016.11.06 16:19:56 -
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The Blood Raiders have now started their Mining Operations on Singularity.
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Posted - 2016.11.06 17:21:52 -
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almost fiction wrote:CCP Paradox wrote:The Blood Raiders have now started their Mining Operations on Singularity. Working on a Sunday? Thanks for putting so much work into these things. Only suggestion is the hauler spawn mechanic doesn't seem to be working all the time.
Haulers are spawning correctly. They come when the mining ships are almost full, empty their cargo, and then leave. It's a pretty small window of opportunity. It can take some time for the miners to get full on some ore, depending on what they are mining.
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Posted - 2016.11.08 16:53:05 -
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True Creations (Sansha's Nation) have now started their mining operations on Singularity. Be careful if you're by yourself, they have sharp edges.
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Posted - 2016.11.09 15:39:03 -
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I have now enabled the Salvation Angels (Angel Cartel) mining operations on Singularity. Have fun!
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Posted - 2016.11.09 17:20:24 -
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Not lost, they do wander to systems close by where they are settled. In this case, Doril is a few jumps away from one of their stations. Which means that mining ops can happen across Sovereignty so to speak.
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Posted - 2016.11.10 09:02:56 -
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Ncc 1709 wrote:are there any plans for Rouge drone mining ops?
Yes, but not for the Ascension Release.
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