Dev blog: CSM Winter Summit Minutes & changes to election process

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Thank you.

Larrikin asks about feedback regarding the roaming NPCs in high sec. The CSM hasn’t heard any
feedback in that regard.

Oh really? They have not? h

CCP, get a handle on the NPC miners already

17 belts across 3 neighboring systems completely wiped out. There were 15 NPC retrievers still just sitting in an empty belt. I warped to another belt that was already completely empty and before I warped out there were 10 NPC miners warping in…TO AN EMPTY BELT. The next belt there were 10 NPC miners just sitting there in an empty belt, along with 3 rats. Why do the rats not attack the NPC miners? The rats are Guristas Pirates. They are directly opposed to any and all NPC mining corps that…

NPC Miners

It is now a little over 6 hours since reset and the NPC miners have killed 35% of the belts in the system I mine. I run them off and they come back in 10-15 minutes. How do you deal with NPC miners? Will CCP dial them back or nerf them? Why do the belt rats not attack the NPC miner fleets? If NPC miners can take the ore, the belt rats should be able to attack then since they are different factions. As a solo miner they are killing my mining and indy game.

Or is this about the FOB NPC frigate spawns on gates and so on, that can be abused to get freighters killed without players shooting at them? Which is an absolutely great mechanic by the way.