Amethyst

I appreciate the efforts to get drops working as well as they are.  It's a huge job and very complicated. Props to Evermore and the team for their close attention to a mass of detail. My want list is getting smaller and smaller.  Most things I can find or at least I know definitely exist - but the following I cannot find. Either I'm unlucky, not hit the right mob/hulk, or perhaps they are just dropping erratically. I do methodically sweep all systems and kill 50+ of everything and I think I must know 95% of all hulk fields(?).   Maybe these are worth a look.  I left off L9.   If anyone has accurate drop locations of any of these or even better the looted item I will be eternally grateful.   I'd also re-iterate a plea for more rare ammo samples to drop on raids - spite, rage, claw, fangs, caster, smiter, stinger, spines, spit, etc.   Frenzied Missile Extender BooBoomba's Ritual Stick Tape Deck Playing Linnart Skinnert Aquila II IBWS 4 Hercules II IESS 4 Manticore's Twinge Basilisk's Fell Aura Armadillo Plate Basilisk's Fell Turmoil Manticore's Fell Barb Antlia Major III BTSE 7 Antlia Major III BTSE 8 DV-ER-X4 "Heater" Mk. VIII Gorgon's Dire Stare Hercules Major IESS 8 Sextans Major ISR 8 Spiderweb 8 Helix NGC 7 (L7) Most Appealing Laser Class H (L4) Most Stinging EMP Beam XZ (L5) Most Sultry Class E Laser (L4) Needlenose's Slingbeam (L1) Saturnus IC50 (L5) Lexington Max (L7) Sunburst XF7 (L7)

ComponenTT Not surprisingly, almost exactly the same as Efi.  Blood of the Dragon instead of the Steingerds with a longer effect (I'm sure he meant BotD?).  And I just wish I had a Hellbore instead of the extra bile but I just love the ammo stack size for the bile.   I also use the Black Power 8 as a generally good reactor to have fitted with it's bit of extra cap.  Interesting idea about the Foedius reactor - i may try it, but I'd worry about the low cap.   The Invincible Bastion makes life a little less worrying.    When Efi and I are raiding we rarely lose any of the team - what we have works well.   TT's are torn between build and battle. I used to CF 2-3x weekly to flip between building and fighting. I'm not quite maxed but almost there. When I look back I'm quite amazed as I made a TT just for ammo and component building hence the silly name!  My best advice is Fishbowl often, mine and fight with your TT on your wing, pass all your hand-ins to the TT for trade, and just pile all the SP you can get into skills.   Also - if you are not getting the energy you deserve educate your JEs and JDs to suck that energy out of the mobs whenever they can.   Oh - and it's a good idea for drivers to keep two groups close together when things are hot.  The area recharge across groups is a nice extra.

What I would find helpful is a drop-down in the Net-7 DB search form "All my toons/specific toon" so I can query what my individual builders can/can't do. You would also narrow down items you own/don't own so it wounldn't just be a builder's tool.

I don't run EnB on my Mac (which I use as a second machine for internet/vent/spreadsheet) but because I use Parallels I do know I have been advised that Parallels will not run with the latest Mac OS beta.  Mavericks is fine though.  Parallels will one day catch up.  VM is also an alternative.  Be aware you will need to obtain a Windows op sys to install into the Parallels/Mac partition and the way OS bloats these days you will very easily run out of disk space, either on the Mac side or the Windows side!! If you buy a Mac then get the largest disk and RAM you can afford.   I am a total Mac fan.  I only run a Windows laptop purely for EnB.

There are two ammo types.  One is manu L5 (but no visible recipe and absurd cost, non-trade), the other is L4 non-manu, tradeable.

As intended?   Build Cost: 1,436,499,968 Credits No build components displayed Not tradeable/storable.

And the MLP X7 Pegasus will get confused with the Pegasus engine! And then there is the Mastiff confusion.   I vote no change.  The names have been like this for 10 years.

I wish number of prints had a stronger effect on analyse percentage. It would be sensible to link the two.  If I had analysed 1000 items surely it must give me better skill at the terminal?

...Explorer's Force...'drops'...no builder....?  Any clues?

Trigger

Make it more random - timewise and location.

+1 Terrell I like this 'out of place' idea. You could spawn these randomly anywhere - really anywhere apart from the noob sectors. Add the 'drops something nice occasionally' and they become juicy finds.  There are many mobs not in game yet, or we could invent a series of new ones.  Rather than have them appear in the regularly patrolled areas, have them pop up in remote locations and wait to be found. Non-agro unless shot to protect the innocents!

Then there is mining. Once you can mine L9 fast you make good money from gas in Glenn ( if you dont refine it ). Personally I maximize the XP.

Things are better now.  Last year it was hard to get Miguel, Grupta, Bob, etc. I think you can get round and see these MOBs several times a day now.  There are still a couple that will always be camped but its a question of out-camping the other guy if you are serious about getting what you need. As for KSing - that is much less of a problem nowadays too - for the same reason. IF there is someone there first and already shooting the MOB most of us move on and try something else, or you can be polite and ask and wait.

RRRRR!

Sorry I dropped off the radar recently.  I've been sailing at sea since the beginning of Jan and make landfall tomorrow - TAHITI! Australia and Asia next. A tough life but someone has to do it. Loving being at sea again but missing the game.    Back in May. Fly safe!

Nicely put Overtkill.  A good post.

There is sometimes roids out of your scan range, sometimes above or below.  If you take too long I think this also ruins the bonus.  Fit a good scanner.  Mine fast, and concentrate on getting every last roid (have a plan to get to each methodically).

Yeah - despicable Eve.  EnB much better.

Example - applicant to Corp claims to be from London or LA but IP suggests they are in the Ukraine. Gank.

I would like to see this data too, even extend it to a top 100 to be more inclusive.  There were concerns earlier about privacy so I'd put in just those people/builders who are set to 'public'.

What race/profession is this for the novaflash?

And just who are you guys with cryptic names?  Welcome!

Interesting. As part of the Snowden leaks its appears intelligence is monitoring online games like WoW, 2nd Life and I'd guess Eve.   http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nsa-and-gchq-agents-spied-on-online-gamers-using-world-of-warcraft-and-second-life-8993432.html   We are a small close knit community and I think its unlikely we are harboring any fanatics of the bad kind.  I certainly know we have the good guys playing these games.  As a Director of the British Space Corps and our arms length manufacturing Harland and Wolff Corp I knew Vile Rat of the goons in Eve.  He was ex-SEAL and Info Officer for the Libya Embassy and was killed protecting the Ambassador.  BoB also had a large number of people from the forces of several countries.  I know our Eve management in several Corps were obsessive about our own security and infiltration of hostiles from Russia, Serbia and China. Our favorite act was to sucker in an obvious outsider, get them to fly their goodies out to sovereign 0.0 and then out them and gank them and confiscate their gear.   I hate to think the really bad guys are in there too.  I suppose its what happens when we play games in a worldwide manner.

Just to say a BIG THANKS to the GMs who helped resolve the mission hang-up for so many people.  Merry Christmas to you guys!