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Greetings Capsuleers.
We will be adding a Desolate Asteroid Field beacon to every single system in Nullsec. This will act the same as an ‘Asteroid Belt’ does in terms of NPCs spawning at the location, any NPCs in the system that could show up in the Asteroid belts can appear at the Desolate Asteroid Field beacon.
- This means that it will be possible for players to raise ADMs in systems in nullsec with no regular asteroid belts present without having to rely on random anomalies and gate rats.
- This means that players will be able to find the highest tier officers in this location in Curse which currently has no asteroid belts.
As a result, we are rolling back the change we made which allowed asteroid belt NPCs to appear on gates. The expected effects of this change are.
- Players should encounter NPCs on gates far less frequently.
- There should be no more instances of ‘hell spawned’ gates where an asteroid belt NPC spawn could share the same gate as a gate rat spawn.
It should be noted that this is not removing rats from gates entirely. There will still be the usual gate rat spawns.
This is available for testing on our public test server, Singularity now. Details for how to connect to SISI can be found here. Please note: Some systems that were not loaded before we updated SISI will not have asteroid spawns at all. This is not expected to affect Tranquillity when we release this officially.