What happened to LTD Piracy? Is it ded?

[Treptower Park]

Just tried for 2 hrs in 3 systems. Agricultural Anarchy. NPCs with mining lasers would usually carry LTDs exlusively. And spawn quite generously.
Now the spawnrate has dropped sigificantly and NPCs with mining stuff will carry all sorts of stuff (Uraninite, Leipolidite etc) but no LTDs.

Stealth balance pass (aka Nerf)?

 

[Ory'Hara]

Are the systems in boom?

 

[Chaparral]

Were they large population systems?

 

[Treptower Park]

Dunno if they where in boom. Never looked into that. I made smth like 700 mil in the last couple weeks by going into random high pop, anarchy agricultures and interdicting ships w/ mining equip. Every ship had LTDs. Never seen anything else. Now they have all sorts of stuff but no LTDs anymore. Which is actually more "realistic" but still.... so sad. Also, it looks like it happened over night. Thursday night I was robbing away. Friday morning, in same system: nothing.

 

[J3DI]

Just tried for 2 hrs in 3 systems. Agricultural Anarchy. NPCs with mining lasers would usually carry LTDs exlusively. And spawn quite generously.
Now the spawnrate has dropped sigificantly and NPCs with mining stuff will carry all sorts of stuff (Uraninite, Leipolidite etc) but no LTDs.

Stealth balance pass (aka Nerf)?

LTD piracy being my main source of income ( currently sitting on 22.5 billion ) I decided to pop over to one of my favourite agricultural/anarchy hunting systems and check this out.
The system was in a 'NONE' state so I expected things to be slow.
I didn't intend to rob any ships. I was simply going to interdict & hatch break every ship I found that had mining lasers.
3 Asp Explorers, 2 Kraits, 1 Python, several Type-6's & Keelbacks, 3 Type-7's, & 1 Type-9, all had nothing but ltd's.
I must admit that I did rob a Type-7 and a Type-9 as recompense for my time.
As far as I can tell nothing has changed.

 

[Treptower Park]

Ah kewl. Thx for checking it out! Had no chance to go online and was worried to have to go mining. Good to know it was really just bad luck or wrong system states.

 

[CMDR Woland92]

Can you recommend a few good systems? I don’t think NPC spawn rates drop off due to other commanders’ actions so there’s no need to keep hotspots secret in the same way as void opals.

 

[J3DI]

Can you recommend a few good systems? I don’t think NPC spawn rates drop off due to other commanders’ actions so there’s no need to keep hotspots secret in the same way as void opals.

Look for anarchy agricultural systems with a high population that are in boom state.