The only people that can answer that for certain are CCP (you could check CCP_Phantom’s posts he may have mentioned it).
However after 5 days and over 100 hi-sec sites I feel confident in saying no, they do not.
Lol, I’m sure the event team has no clue about these relations as most of the player base. The drop rate is just standard (but sites are harder), and the price comes from the player market.
compared to the events like crimson harvest it’s far from standard. Just because sites are harder and done in longer time =/= drop rates are standard. 100 from old crimson harvest would propablly droped me 20 cerebrals while 100 of those 0.
Every day since Wednesday I’m running sites and the drop rate I estimate in the range of 1/5-1/10 for sites in highsec, which is similar to previous events iirc.
EDIT: Maybe the drop rate is borked in other spaces, if you are looking there. We know the spawns are different. @CCP_Dragon can you check?
Every day I’m running event and no drop so far, Tipa nobody will ever admit event is bugged. “Your week of playing is worth s*** because event is bugged”. Don’t tell me it’s RNG because it’s not, other players have similiar experience. If I had your 1/5 drop rate I would be swimming in cerebrals.
What other spaces? I’m in hisec as you are, even tried to change regions.
Then I have no idea what’s wrong, RNG can give you bad luck for 100 tries, but with the amount of acc I got, this seems unlikely though not impossible.
There was something yesterday and today, on both days I got my acc from a site with three spawns, no idea if this helps.
Once the Relic drops in a Stasis can take the Relic to the Quartermaster to be awarded points for the Booster cans.
I ran two sites with a Neutral in Null and we didn’t have any problems.
The Relic Can drop is random and there seems to be only three waves. If you loot the wrecks you can get the Damage Boosters as well as the Valkyrie Accelerator.
The first drop came after three waves and spawned at the station. The second came in the first wave after bumping the Delta Drifter BS. Once the Relic can stops the Sleeper waves seem to stop spawning.
I ran both sites in a Typhoon with Rapid fire missiles and never lost a drop of sweat.
I’ve been running sites in low-sec in a cap-stable HAC. I’m probably close to 40 sites done now with 3 accelerators. On the first day I also picked up 2 Valkyrie Merlin Skins, 3rd Day I got Valkyrie Male and Female Jackets, haven’t seen these items again, so I don’t know if it was a daily special thing or what.
I did 2 sites in Hi-sec and the drops were terrible, hardly any blue loot and few boosters. I really recommend finding a low traffic lowsec system, with a station to sell blue loot.
Sorry if this has already been said, but if you have spare relics (some sites I get 2) you can give one to the quartermaster when you enter the site which will cause the beacon to despawn and a new one to spawn (you can still take the gate and run the site as normal). You can then only be found by combat probes, and If you have one of those 100AU systems, you’re pretty unfindable.
I’ll shoot myself in the foot here, but Resbroko, couple of jumps from Hek is a very safe lowsec system to grind beacons.
I’m lowering my score from a 4/10 to a 3/10
Just witnessed a site pop up. Went to it, only person in system. No NPC spawns from any wrecks. Got the relic. Turned it in and went back and rechecked some wrecks and still no NPC spawns in a fresh site.
That’s unacceptable. Waiting a day for a site to pop up in sov 0.0, first one there and it’s completely dead.
Get rid of the ■■■■■■■ agency, this ■■■■ ■■■■■■■ sucks.
Edit: Actually no, I’m trying to be fair and baseing this off how the sites would be under normal circumstances but that is a normal circumstance and it’s broken. 0/10 event.
Yeah but I’m well over 80m skill points, and with the reduced skillpoints from injectors these acccelerators are still the better deal. (upto a point) Especially with bio 5 trained.
Yep, I’m done with the Agency mission this time around as well. Every site i go to… either has a few wrecks that I can salvage, or only ran into one mission with a few sleepers, and had to bail someone out of trouble… and only did the actual mission once…
Nope, an accelerator gives you ~20000 SP with max imps, optimal remap? A small skill injectors is 30000 SP above 80M SP, and now check the prices …
gain is not related to implants or remap
gain is (10+10/2)* 60*24 *(1+bio *0.2)
Max gain is 43200 SP with bioV, whatever your implants are.
comparing to large injectors, let’s say they cost 800M :
| SP range | accelerators for one LI | SP-worth of accel |
|---|---|---|
| 0-5M | 11.57 | 70M |
| 5-50M | 9.26 | 86M |
| 50-80M | 6.94 | 115M |
| >80M | 3.47 | 230M |
ALSO did several runs in HS, The Forge too. got total 3 accelerators from drops, in ± 40 runs(I think it’s more).
Never noticed an inquisitor.
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Have to check that, looks like I was wrong by factor 2 then …
I was just reading the metrics wrong. The drop rates are correct. It is just, as you pointed out, fairly low.
I will gladly admit when there is a bug and will try to fix it as quickly as possible. In this case, the drop rates are correct. Random loot is random.
If we feel the drop rates were too punishing, then we’ll adjust the next event so that they are less so. Normally we try not to adjust drop rates during an event unless there is a bug that needs to be fixed. With regards to the Inquisitor’s adjustment going out today, it is not bugged. We are adjusting the salvage due to economic concerns and improving the Inquisitor’s drops to (slightly) even things out.
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It’s ok, math mistakes happen. 
But yeah, thats why I’m buying these for that price range, it’s still the best bang for your buck at my skillpoint range. (I don’t even use skill injectors anymore, not worth it at over 80m sp.)
I have never seen one of these inquisitors out of roughly 300 sites run, 280 of them highsec ones and 20 of them WH/lowsec ones. I take it their spawn rate is below 0.01% or they only spawn in nullsec for some reason?
PS: Also the droprate for injectors is indeed FAR too low. I’ve done 300+ sites but still only have enough injectors for half a month tops with bio 5. 600+ sites to get a full set off these is just ABSURD. (Also skins don’t drop apparently, or it’s a cosmically low chance.)
So you telling that I had no drop from over 100 sites and Tipa having 1/5 is RNG? Change the rates when you do the next event, pointless to do those sites as I don’t care about ISK only SP because I’m so high SP right now that only cerebrals matter for me, and I won’t even touch those event sites when drop rates are that low. I’ll just bought them from the market, pointless to do the event in the first place…
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Second edit: overall site are good, random spawns with cool warping in effect. I would tone down BS spawns HP and maybe remove some of warfare effects (passive Gilas are flying everywhere) and I wouldn’t try those sites because of that in lowsec, too easy prey.
I think the rates are fine, rather than the drop like confetti of other events the value of these sites is in the blue loot and the salvage. I have made MUCH more isk out of this event than previous ones and I couldn’t care less about the accelerators.
This event is way and above those we have had previously … they (the events) were becoming easier and easier right down to Alpha Strike with its one rat ie “push F1 receive bacon”
This event is has much more meat to it, more like this please.