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Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 16:53:00 -
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I'm glad we have links to dev shoes and no answers to any question brought up.
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Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 17:05:00 -
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CCP Affinity wrote:DaDutchDude wrote:Interesting changes which are already shaping EVE mineral markets today.
So a couple of questions: 1) Will Rogue Drones start dropping normal loot? 2) Will Rogue Drones salvage be increased? It seems today their salvage is quite below par. 3) Will you look into Rogue Drone exploration sites and escalations? Currently, their value is very low (who really wants 'augmented' or 'Integrated' drones?) and could use some new modules / blue prints / etc to be as interesting as the pirate faction drops. 4) How long will it take for the insurance values to adjust to the change in mineral prices? Already, the mineral prices have shot up significantly, and I assume the market will take months after this (if not longer) to adjust to the new realities. It seems a bit unfair if the insurance value for T1 ships lags so far behind players don't get compensated for these drastic changes. 5) Your blog doesn't mention this, but there's also talk about eliminating all T1 module drops from all NPCs. Can you confirm? And does that mean less loot, or will the entire loot drop table be revised to replace T1 drops with meta modules, and thereby reducing the chance for meta 4 modules? 1. No - Commander groups have loot tables, regular deadspace rogue drones don't 2. at the moment we have no plans to do this - but who knows! 3. We will definitely look into this :) not confirming we will do anything about it right away but it's definitely on our list of things to investigate 4. Pretty impossible for me to answer that and I am definitely not the person to be doing so - would need to be someone from research and statistics 5. confirmed - they will be replaced with metal scraps
Rogue Drones are getting bounties. Apparently metal scraps as well.
Will the bounties be in line with every other NPC faction? Assuming no loot tables and no salvage adjustment drones just became a big craphole of sec nerf. The silver-lining is nobody else is going to want to go there.
Will everywhere just become so homogenous in the set up that we just may as well join goonswarm, tell them they've won and end EVE?
I mean from the tone here its "we added drone bounties and didn't think of anything else until just now" It is difficult to tell what CCP is thinking as it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I understand removing alloys but the miners "getting love" seems to be a big ol' red herring. Any extra profits are simply going to get gobbled up by the increased price of everything. With the sec nerfs they'll be even less high end ore around and if you bother with industry index a force recon shows up and sits until its back at 0. |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 17:12:00 -
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EvilweaselFinance wrote:Ceaser Diez wrote: Will everywhere just become so homogenous in the set up that we just may as well join goonswarm, tell them they've won and end EVE?
Please contact our CFO, Weaselior, to discuss exciting new options for joining Goonswarm and/or renting space.
I have no sponsor so I likely would just end up out a great deal of isk. Granted I believe goonswarm saved this game from itself when they got involved. They're use to be "honorable" wars...HAH |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 17:21:00 -
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CCP Greyscale wrote:fenistil wrote:CCP Affinity,
What predictions do you think it will have on mineral prices? There are a lot of minerals coming from drone regions to empire. If drone regions will not supply the minerals any longer, and the demand stays the same, I guess it is safe to assume the mineral prices will increase? It would be an interesting thing to know what % of all minerals are being supplied by drone regions now. Our plan for this is basically to make the changes, see where prices end up settling and then potentially make further adjustments (to the game as a whole) to react to this. EvilweaselFinance wrote:CCP Affinity wrote:5. confirmed - they will be replaced with metal scraps Pardon? Could you elaborate on this, this is news. Just normal metal scraps, or will there be various types of metal scraps? Pulling all the Meta 0* loot out of PvE drops has been on our to-do list for a while, as it's damaging to both mining and T1 industry. With the changes to rogue drones going in, we're already committing to a mineral supply "shock" in this patch, so we decided when planning this release to roll in the Meta 0 removal at the same time so we only have to go through this process once. Due to the way that the loot tables are set up internally, it's *substantially* easier** to replace loot rather than remove it, so the solution we're going with for now is swapping all the Meta 0 stuff for metal scraps (the 0.01m3 version). *Ie, vanilla T1 equipment - your Cap Recharger Is and 1MN Afterburner Is and so on ** We have a chance of picking from a given loot table, and then ratios for each type within the table. If we just removed the Meta 0 stuff, we'd end up dropping WAY more Meta 1-4, which isn't desirable, and the only way to resolve this is to alter the table pick rates, which are authored on a per-NPC basis, which would mean recalculating and adjusting every NPC in the game. This isn't really viable within the scope of this release, and we don't want to push this change back because it means doing a "double shock" to mineral prices; hence the metal scraps.
Extreme appreciation for the clarification. |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 19:19:00 -
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Eva Volkova wrote:I will love to see how CPP thinks drone regions are balanced.
" The overall goal of all these changes is to make the drone regions more economically balanced." CCP Affinity
Drone regions where balanced in the idea Alloys where better than bounties. So we had worse salvage. We dont have any good complex. Exploration is null. We didnt have officer stuff because we didnt need it. Of course we didnt have haulers.
EvA
Because now you have the same bounties as every other NPC rat in the game! Joy & balance for all! |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 19:23:00 -
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Venix wrote:nestafarios wrote:So in terms of eve economy this revamping of trusec will have a positive aspect on the game?
When ships to mineral aspects are way off to begin with, example: (freighter) 6 months ago cost 450 mill to buy now costs 1.2 bill, drake and hurricane which were at 30 are now at 60+, so how is raping the truesec going to stimulate more mining and the EVE economy?
Mining indexes rely on the trusec status as well, Drones just having bounties and no other GÇ£lootGÇ¥ pers+¬ will have a rising effect on min prices and building prices, so the market will not come down at all but go even higher, how will this help the new player entering eve for the first time, Players from DUST514 who want to enter EVE will have a long time to wait before they can get into say a dreadnaught for air support, so they wont necessarily be willing to take that time will they? It already takes for ever to get into a place where the new player can afford to do anything, and how will this stimulate the migration to low, and nulsec?
Right now nullsec is not appealing to anybody but a large alliance, and even then the alliances charge an arm and a leg for the corp. to join, so the large alliances take the isk and the prime moons and leave the little guy to JUST mine or rat, which is the equivalent of doing level 4 missions in HS.
On side note, EVE politics is basically run by the big alliances who exploit their members into voting for their guy anyway (CSM) who only represent the interests they are lobbying for and the rest of the population gets unheard. I guess the long and short of it is that I donGÇÖt fail understand how this will make EVE a better sandbox. Represent all players and professions in EVE!!
I live in null sec and I am not part of a big ally. Just saying...
Where do you hold SOV? Whose your member on the CSM? What pull and sway do you have in the game? |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 19:30:00 -
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Venix wrote:Ceaser Diez wrote:Venix wrote:I live in null sec and I am not part of a big ally. Just saying... Where do you hold SOV? Whose your member on the CSM? What pull and sway do you have in the game? None, No one, and none again. You just have to be ballsy to live in 0.0. It is not for the casual player who doesnt pvp often.
You missed the point of the post. You need no balls to live in 0.0. You can nullbear just as easily as carebear. The little guy can make it in NPC 0.0 but thats about it. You want to hold SOV you're paying out the ass. |

Ceaser Diez
Shadow Operations Inc. CORE Alliance
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Posted - 2012.04.10 19:31:00 -
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Elijah Craig wrote:nestafarios wrote:... how will this help the new player entering eve for the first time...
It means the newbie who jumps into a Bantam in their first week and straps on a pair of Miner I's can actually make some decent ISK from mining to get started. 
Everyone who plays eve should be a miner! #1 profession for one and all! |
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