- Eight new PCC missions.
New drops from Hive bots:
- Synthetic Silksteel (most hive ships)
- Cybernetics Grade FF (mostly Guardians, Leviathan)
- Hive Nanite Replicator (mostly Collectors, Assaults, Leviathan)

Many more diverse drops coming, tying into crafting and other areas.

+1

Has anyone gotten a new drop yet? i've killed 100+ collectors and haven't seen a replicator.

maybe collectors don't carry it

Most doesn't mean all and those easy pieces of junk would be the first thing I excluded

One day... those Collectors will come to 'collect', Waffles.

It's only from the Dynamic Hives, not the static bots. So I think just the Artemis Collectors in dynamic hive areas.

I'm going to completely re-work all the bots, and make them more consistent, but since this was kind of a "remember how to add in drops" experiment, I just stuck with what was there. Eventually the drops will propagate to the static bots as well.

Still working on the whole "veteran/ace" bot thing too.

wheeeee crafting announcement...I've a happy :)

damn now I've to clean my pants...

Good progress, though the new hive drops act oddly when loaded from the load / unload screen. They show volume and mass, but don't show on the ship half of the screen. Launch and redock, they can be unloaded from welcome screen.

They don't show up on the sell screen either , though they are listed in inventory.

Odd. It may be part of how I categorized them as "Special" cargo instead of "Trade Goods" or whatever. I'll see about fixing that on Monday.

I would prefer not relate manufacturing to hive drops. Except 'exotic' items, not sold, as the widowmaker, or a "Gunner AI computer"

Makes not much sense to build your economy, and production, depending on an enemy you wanna wipe out from universe...

For me, all hive drops should have a similar commodity to sell, much like FCC vs. Hive Fast Charge. An alternative, sometimes better, sometimes worst.

Makes not much sense to build your economy, and production, depending on an enemy you wanna wipe out from universe...

I don't think that's ever been stated, anywhere. Very little has been explained about the hive, except a few rumors about its origins. But, opinion duly noted.

For all we know, the Hive invented the infinite power cell, energy weapons (have you ever seen a bot with ordinance-based weapons?), shields, and advanced mining lasers. We constantly copy their technology, and never the other way around (other than the stuff we gave them when they were built)... just another reason to implement bug buckets :D

Alloh, stfu. Thank you, from all the rest of the players from VO.

You don't speak for me.

Anyway, locked as we have a shiny new update thread going now.

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