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Fingapup
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:20:00 -
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Okay it's an alt post, but I trade and travel with valuable cargo... so call it gank avoidance.
I began playing my main in 04 and love Eve. It was a big buzz when I got a load of Frentix on one of my early missions. An even bigger one when I ventured into 0.0 and found 'burning' jump gates that I was told were 'Smuggler Routes'. For months , I tried and tried to find out what to smuggle and how to do it. All the while my drug stashes from missions grew, but no-one could give any answer about what to 'smuggle' in Eve. I mean proper 'illegal' stuff, not just BPOs and other valuables.
Okay, so you can't take certain dog-tags through certain parts of empire, but that's not really a hot ticket to illegal fortunes now is it? And the drugs? Well, they are best trashed or dumped on the market because there's still no damn use for them.
Then someone mentions boosters. Yay! After about two years of paying broker fees on the same consignments of drugs, finally, a drug based product that will open up my world of choice, professionally speaking... WRONG.
Boosters require drugs, sure, but NOT the drugs that have been kicking around in my hangars for nearly three years! No! Boosters are made from New and Shiny Uber-Drugs that have to be seeded and extortionately priced to make a Great Big Game Feature! Honestly GBGFs can really suck sometimes!
So, nearly half a decade on and I still don't know what the smuggler gates are for? And I still cannot fathom why CCP reinvent drugs when perfectly good ones are already in game and could be lab worked to prepare them for booster manufacture! Why make a usable game item redundant in that way?
Now, of course, I have to wonder if all those humanoids I have collected over the years will be any use for the much vaunted planet side activities and ships crews, or will there be more GBGFs to make them redundant too? And what about all the corpses and criminal DNA I have been saving for the promised Biology features?
Basically it looks as though smuggling was planned as far back as Beta, but it was overlooked when someone had another New Big Shiny Idea. Shame. It would be nice to have all those early traces of features either properly exploited or removed from the game entirely.
As an afterthought, I wonder how much lag is caused by redundant items such as these in hangars across the Eve universe.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:24:00 -
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Do hugs, not drugs!
Snuggle, don't smuggle!
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Corrisa
Corporation 35
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:27:00 -
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Those drugs are used in booster production. AFAIK you combine various basic drugs with other things in a POS and create more "advanced" drugs which are then used for boosters, not unlike tech 2 component manufacturing.
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Patricia Bateman
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:28:00 -
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I find your obsession with drugs disturbing, and after I have petitioned non-consensual PvP out of EvE, I shall be coming for you!
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Fingapup
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Corrisa
Those drugs are used in booster production. AFAIK you combine various basic drugs with other things in a POS and create more "advanced" drugs which are then used for boosters, not unlike tech 2 component manufacturing.
Are you sure about that? I thought I had checked all the skills to find which one would make my drug stash useful... didn't find any. My main has uber science skills and none of them mention the basic drugs that I have.
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Fingapup
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:48:00 -
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Originally by: Patricia Bateman
I find your obsession with drugs disturbing, and after I have petitioned non-consensual PvP out of EvE, I shall be coming for you!
It's not an obsession.. it's a lifestyle :)
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:53:00 -
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Originally by: Fingapup
Originally by: Corrisa
Those drugs are used in booster production. AFAIK you combine various basic drugs with other things in a POS and create more "advanced" drugs which are then used for boosters, not unlike tech 2 component manufacturing.
Are you sure about that? I thought I had checked all the skills to find which one would make my drug stash useful... didn't find any. My main has uber science skills and none of them mention the basic drugs that I have.
No, you're right, those drugs aren't used in anything. Boosters are completely separate.
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Fingapup
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Posted - 2007.08.05 23:55:00 -
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Yeah... there's a load of little redundancies like that in-game I think. It's like they had an idea, shelved it and then brought it back and forgot what they'd already prepared.
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Sasha Sen
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Posted - 2007.08.06 00:02:00 -
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The old school drugs were used for old school offers from agents, I had many junkie agents giving me offers wich included getting frentix and such. Never bothered to deal with those drugies though, and now the whole LP sytem is changed so the drugs are usless.
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Fingapup
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Posted - 2007.08.06 00:11:00 -
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Originally by: Sasha Sen
The old school drugs were used for old school offers from agents.
I never seem to have been asked for them back.. even by the agents that gave them. Maybe I was doing the wrong missions back then.
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