GM Megatron wrote:

Correct, we have set the NPC loot to be dropped undamaged.

Is this still the case?

I was fighting some Castels earlier today and only dropped damaged loot.

Crap, I knew I missed a post somewhere!

Thanks for the info

Correct, we have set the NPC loot to be dropped undamaged.

Is this still the case?

I was fighting some Castels earlier today and only dropped damaged loot.

I'd personally say instead that Drone loot drops seem like they're temporarily set unreasonably high, with the goal of getting new betatesters up and running quickly. I like the damaged loot - it makes sense, and can be recycled. I also like that equipment that is dropped is in assembled form - that's how it was being used.

Maximizing PvE income/hour from one form of play, particularly to the level that there's one "right" way to make money, doesn't make a game that's challenging and addictive.

True. My main issue was, that at the time I wrote this bots had 1/2 cargo they have now. So now it is nice. Altho now we need hauler bots.

So will you set all loot to drop undamaged?

Problems with damaged loot:
1, Is assembled and as such 5 times bigger then undamaged (packed) items. It takes up too much cargo and drastically reduces income.

2, Repairing is very expensive also reducing income.

As it is now I make about same amouth of money/hour killing "Drone" taking much less risk then killing "Rookie Mantis" which are much stronger and more dangerous. That is not ok.

I'd personally say instead that Drone loot drops seem like they're temporarily set unreasonably high, with the goal of getting new betatesters up and running quickly. I like the damaged loot - it makes sense, and can be recycled. I also like that equipment that is dropped is in assembled form - that's how it was being used.

Maximizing PvE income/hour from one form of play, particularly to the level that there's one "right" way to make money, doesn't make a game that's challenging and addictive.

Problems with damaged loot:
1, Is assembled and as such 5 times bigger then undamaged (packed) items. It takes up too much cargo and drastically reduces income.

2, Repairing is very expensive also reducing income.

As it is now I make about same amouth of money/hour killing "Drone" taking much less risk then killing "Rookie Mantis" which are much stronger and more dangerous. That is not ok.

Correct, we have set the NPC loot to be dropped undamaged.

Correction to that: the drones drop undamaged loot.

I personally would suggest the undamaged NPC drops. This works in many MMORPG I know (EVE,WOW,Lineage II, ect ...) . It seems to be a good solution.