Well its a good idea, so +1 on that.

-1 on the amounts though, that's nutty. 100 - 200 EM per hawk/flamehawk? Assuming a person can kill 3k NPC's a day, with a ratio of 10% being hawks/flamehawks, that's 30-60k em a day.... aka why bother with mining.

If Dan were to implement this, the values would likely be 5 or 10 EM per hawk/flamehawk, akin to how Rescued Scientists/Specialists grant 5 or 10 scientists.


All of that said, i cannot see Dan doing this, imo the whole reason for the upsurge in EM being required for more things now, and in vast quantities, is to get people to stop focusing on aph so much and to bring mining back to a reasonable level of usefulness.

Well its a good idea, so +1 on that.

-1 on the amounts though, that's nutty. 100 - 200 EM per hawk/flamehawk? Assuming a person can kill 3k NPC's a day, with a ratio of 10% being hawks/flamehawks, that's 30-60k em a day.... aka why bother with mining.

If Dan were to implement this, the values would likely be 5 or 10 EM per hawk/flamehawk, akin to how Rescued Scientists/Specialists grant 5 or 10 scientists.


All of that said, i cannot see Dan doing this, imo the whole reason for the upsurge in EM being required for more things now, and in vast quantities, is to get people to stop focusing on aph so much and to bring mining back to a reasonable level of usefulness.

Not exactly relevant to your idea other than an idea for more EM, but if raiding gives a chance at either Minerals or Artifacts, why not make hacking give either Research or EM? Makes sense to me, even though I hate hacking...

this would work better than the npc idea ... unless it was a new npc. the flamehawks are there to make everything else look better

Ok, maybe you can explain to me the logic behind an ethereal action like hacking a computer from a remote location rewarding you with a physical object...

whoever said exotic matter was physical ? it takes up no room in cargo ...

You know, I have to answer this one, since I only kill by using my fingers and all ... I've timed it several times, and if I CONSISTENTLY kill for a full hour it's 400 to 600 NPCs per hour. So saying 3000 NPCs a day means you kill 5 to 7.5 HOURS a day - of non stop NPC killing. Working any market (groups, auctions, etc) 5 to 7.5 hours a day will earn you the equivalent of WAY MORE than 30-60k EM! Besides, 3k NPCs a day is a huge and unrealistic assumption, since nobody kills that many -- and the very few who can, certainly don't do that every day. Anyway, it's not a perfect solution, but getting some EM (any EM !!!!) is better than getting absurd amounts of Crimson Obelisks from that thing SO... yeah, please implement it Dan!!!

And i have to call you a slacker then, compared to all the NPC'ers i know.

I can easily kill 20 NPC's per minute, that's 1200 NPC's every hour, and i can do that easily. If i get a good bit of 1 shot luck, i can get up to 24 per minute.

Assassin - 1 Shot
Charger - 1 Shot
Runner - 1 Shot
Mylarai Extractor - 1 Shot
RTC - 1/2 Shots
Sha'din Penetrator - 2 shots
Sha'din Shockfighter - 2 shots
Lazuli Harrower - 2 shots
Stryll Trapper - 2 shots
Assassins - 3/4 Shots
Flamehawks - 7 shots

Know your facts about other players before calling something unrealistic. Many, many players can do just as many NPC kills as i can, the fact is that they don't because they don't have the time or in most cases don't have the patience to NPC/don't see a reason to NPC(50+% of players are these type of person).

Lastly, i already gave you your solution, add more mining to increase your EM yield from mineral pull, and stop being a whiny biatch.

Also, stop doing purger mission/temp flux/LM that require EM if you can't afford to do it.

why bother with mining.

Exotic Matter = comes from only one source - mineral output
Crimson Obelisks = come from two sources - NPC and Artifact production

I still think the suggestion to change the drop the obelisks to exotic matter is the perfect solution to adding a little bit more Exotic Matter to the galaxy without affecting the common NPC pool (which would = less dark badges for everyone than if another NPC specifically for Exotic Matter was added).

P.P.S: This is for people who desperately need a few thousand EM to complete a legion missions and they cannot afford it - and their mining planets don't give them much EM either because of their level.

Should it not then be a case of them not selecting a LM task they cannot afford to do?

Fact is the majority of low ranks are smart enough these days to know what they can and cannot do.

As to you getting so upset, grow up. This is the internet, and if you cannot take what was clearly an attempt at internet humour, as shown by the smilies , then perhaps creating a forum thread(which as your own words suggest, doesn't even effect you, ) shouldn't have been your first port of call.

This is issues and support true, but how on earth can someone create a thread when said issue doesn't even affect them, and expect to be taken seriously.

Also, it's not trolling deary, it's actually saying to people, this is how you fix it so you can actually do things eventually that require mass amounts of EM.