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Hi. I just picked a mission on Aurora to extract blueprint by killing Custodian commanders, and I killed about 15 of them and still no blueprint. That ocured never before. I usually kill maximum 6 ships and blueprint come out. Also dozen other, previously found blueprints emerged from destruction of Custodians, so maybe there is some kind of bug, in what computer thinks that he already gave me a blueprint and thats why I am not getting it????
 

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Ghost division Kane said:
Hi. I just picked a mission on Aurora to extract blueprint by killing Custodian commanders, and I killed about 15 of them and still no blueprint. That ocured never before. I usually kill maximum 6 ships and blueprint come out. Also dozen other, previously found blueprints emerged from destruction of Custodians, so maybe there is some kind of bug, in what computer thinks that he already gave me a blueprint and thats why I am not getting it????

No bug, just bad luck ;P
 
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One more thing. If you accept the mission of gaining BP that must be found twice because that tech consists of 2 BP parts, mission will be acomplished after finding only one of them. You here nice music, which mean BP found. But than you come to hangar, and it say that you have 1/2 parts. I dont know if one can choose that mission again, but here is what i did. I stayed on planet anyway, and I continued to destroy Mantis units (that kind which was determined by mission), and after several kills, second part appeared. Nothing special, just a same part as before, which mean that there are no 2/2, 3/3, 5/5, its just that you must find 2, 3 or 5 same BPs to activate tech. They are all the same, so they are not parts of something, its just price that you have to pay if you want special tech in the game.
 

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White (standard) mission bp hunts in Antares and up recuire finding half of the parts needed for item. That is no bug, done on purpose (10+ parts in Draconis would be way too much for 1 day). About that 15 custodian kills, in Vega that is no problem. Sometimes you kill 1 mantis and get bp or kill 100 mantis for 1 bp. In higher systems you will be very lucky to do mission with only 1 full load of energy.
 

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Ive had the same problem, even in vega. I spent well over 15k energy 1-shotting cust commanders and didnt get 1 gold bp. In gem after about an hour of searching for GGB, i started counting the ammount of rocketeers i was killing. i got to 86 and stopped counting...still not one Gold BP WITH the >50% BP drop rate boost< mind you...not even one rare -- yet they say they increased the drop rate...How does that happen?? if i cant even get one in gem WITH the boosters, drac is gonna be a nightmare...or maybe the GMs dont like me so theyre just scrweing with me because i tell them about these problems in GM chat and in public and then they go silent and ignore me......
 

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Joe-Bob said:
Ive had the same problem, even in vega. I spent well over 15k energy 1-shotting cust commanders and didnt get 1 gold bp. In gem after about an hour of searching for GGB, i started counting the ammount of rocketeers i was killing. i got to 86 and stopped counting...still not one Gold BP WITH the >50% BP drop rate boost< mind you...not even one rare -- yet they say they increased the drop rate...How does that happen?? if i cant even get one in gem WITH the boosters, drac is gonna be a nightmare...or maybe the GMs dont like me so theyre just scrweing with me because i tell them about these problems in GM chat and in public and then they go silent and ignore me......

This is the trick i knwo about golds, move to another mantis, try C.C marauder or Technatoria Paralizers, I know why u got bad luck, but I hope you will find out why SS does these silly things later on ;P
 

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To the OP, i understand and can relate to your problems, i sometimes feel, more so since i've been in sol, that certain accounts are created with bad luck attached to them, mine being one of those. As soon as i got to earth i began hunting the SSB, i've found 2 in 5 days and i play a lot. A clan mate reached earth about a week after i did, he has got his SSB already, he still gets a SSB drop quite regular but when i squad with him hoping to get some of his good luck all what happens is he gets my bad luck and the rares stop dropping.

While writing this reply i had a thought, the only difference between me and him is i'm using a level 60 tank and he is using a level 45 tank, could his luck be attributed to being in a lower level ship?
 
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Hello Raider m8... it's not about having bad luck etc as it's a totally random algorithm that accounts for who drops what, when and where. Also note that a BP booster will only increase your chances of dropping an actual BP not in fact dropping a rare/gold BP.

As for SSB, hit R60 harvs at top of hill on Earth they drop good there and you get to smack a few harvies too for cry! Butthen you already know that...

Hope this helps m8... Stray
 

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Thx straydog mate, i will try that, only been up there once but will try again :)
 

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Ghost division Kane said:
Hi. I just picked a mission on Aurora to extract blueprint by killing Custodian commanders, and I killed about 15 of them and still no blueprint. That ocured never before. I usually kill maximum 6 ships and blueprint come out. Also dozen other, previously found blueprints emerged from destruction of Custodians, so maybe there is some kind of bug, in what computer thinks that he already gave me a blueprint and thats why I am not getting it????
As soon as you select a "pillage" mission the chances of a drop decrease in order to prolong the mission...otherwise it would be too easy (that said it makes Draconis missions a nightmare given the drop rate).

Ever noticed how you can kill mantis and the drops are ok...then select a "pillage" mission and the drops decrease. it is a built in handicap to lengthen mission time. You will see a drop off even if using a booster.

Some ways to avoid disappointment.

1 Never go to the location suggested. Choose a different area where you know same mantis are or same bp drops.
2 (Only good for basic bp missions where travel time is not prolonged). Check mission list for bp missions where bp drops from same mantis type (or area contains other mantis dropping bp's on mission list). Select mission and fly to area of choice. Kill mantis. If bp drops are different to those needed for current mission (but on mission list) fly to orbit, take mission for bp's dropped, reland and collect. This works only in lower systems where fewer parts are needed of course.
 
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