Devblog: Spring Balance Update Incoming!

[Brisc_Rubal]

@Depopulo_Denuo

Our CSM’s have FAILED us. Elect me andI will make sure stupid ■■■■■■■ ideas like these are killed from the RIP.

I thought you just said you were quitting?

[Metal_Precious]

i’ve been here for 14 and I think this is nerf too far. Jump fatigue…nerfs listed as new content, skins as the only new content and now this.

[Luigi_mon-de-sound]

And why would you think that? Because capitals got bitched slapped?

[Eimar_Akytamku]

@Andromecin

you can’t reduce the rarity of materials when excavators require ONLY materials that can be farmed from specific regions, I highly doubt the drone regions are gonna call truce and let everyone come in to break what amounts to basically on a profitable item

You can reduce the rarity… by adding them to more regions? That’s what I was hinting at…

[Arrendis]

@Shidou_Asami

you can earn x amount of isk per month on ur account from Rats npc bounties

‘Awesome, I’ll just hand the carrier to a character on my other account, then!’

[Luigi_mon-de-sound]

Drone sites spawn in every region btw, it that most ppl think they are trash and wont run them.

[Arrendis]

If I could do an uninterrupted hour of mining Xeno? Half a billion.

[Depopulo_Denuo]

this didnt do anything. it hurts the small guy you dumb ass. They need to fix the scaling problem with rorqs not the isk per hr… its basically 45mil isk tics with top tier skills… and u cant move and unless u get a save fleet ur dead… so wtf r u talking about … this isnt going to hurt anyone that has a big mining fleet. At this point subcaps will be more viable than rorqs… why risk that isk for 80mil an hr? r u slow? 10 - 20 hulks with a booster rorq wins all day now… good job CCP.

[Andromecin]

throw out a rep nerf on top of a rep nerf and see how many more fleets wind up hunting them, before players just stop using them. then you’ll have to buff them again to make them more viable, till someone complains, and they get nerfed again. easier to make them require thousands of parts to slow production, while pvp eliminates the huge numbers already built than go through nerf and buff cycles every patch

[Nuke_Michael]

@Andromecin

throw out a rep nerf on top of a rep nerf and see how many more fleets wind up hunting them

they still need more of a rep nerf btw

[Suitonia]

I think he is referring to the BPCs which only drop from rogue drone data sites I believe (Could be wrong here). You can obtain the drone goop from all regions from drone cosmic sigs and faction spawns in the regular spawning anoms ofc.

[Makshima_Shogo]

Technically Drone sites spawn in all regions and are super profitable, I’m surprised the public haven’t caught on yet.

[Suitonia]

Rorqual + 20 Hulks sounds a lot more healthy to me than 21 rorquals.

[Brisc_Rubal]

@Suitonia

I think he is referring to the BPCs which only drop from rogue drone data sites I believe (Could be wrong here). You can obtain the drone goop from all regions from drone cosmic sigs and faction spawns in the regular spawning anoms ofc.

The elite drone AI is the expensive part, and I can see a tweak to that drop rate to try to help bring the cost down.

[Eimar_Akytamku]

@Arrendis

If I could do an uninterrupted hour of mining Xeno? Half a billion.

That’s rich spaceballs

No wonder Rorqs definitely wouldn’t need a nerf.

[Luigi_mon-de-sound]

Ikr, i got 200 mil from a independence the other day in imes

[Makshima_Shogo]

I just hate the damn escalation when you land inside the structure, receiving 100% damage while moving 0.01m/s. XD

[Andromecin]

I would agree with that, but they will definitely not do that, I doubt it’s ever even occurred to the CSM to look at the impact of build materials on market prices when it comes to excavator prices.

[Arrendis]

@uziel99

The fact that any empire region can even come close to, let alone exceed any nullsec region should say something.

That’s purely a factor of who’s doing what, where.

@stephan_Rin

so honest question here then have you or the CSM ever considered to nerf delve itself?

Right. Then we’ll just, you know… move. Maybe we’ll just retake Catch.

[Eimar_Akytamku]

@Depopulo_Denuo

this didnt do anything. it hurts the small guy you dumb ass. They need to fix the scaling problem with rorqs not the isk per hr… its basically 45mil isk tics with top tier skills… and u cant move and unless u get a save fleet ur dead… so wtf r u talking about … this isnt going to hurt anyone that has a big mining fleet. At this point subcaps will be more viable than rorqs… why risk that isk for 80mil an hr? r u slow? 10 - 20 hulks with a booster rorq wins all day now… good job CCP.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I think the whole intention is to turn it back to using (for example) hulks as the main component of a mining fleet, and the Rorqual filling the role of the mining commander providing boosts. As it was originally intended.