loot-O-matic 3000

Howdy Mates,

i finally got around to realizing my vision of the perfect foundry EC grind mission for the FEDs, now i need your help in getting it fully released.

If you feel like making some easy EC and helping me out at the same time please click on "become reviewer" on the Foundry Tab of your Mission Journal (J) and accept the conditions.
Now you should have a third category ("Review Content") available on your Foundry Tab. There you can find the "loot-O-matic 3000" until (afaik) it gets 5 positive reviews. after that it should be moved into the general foundry section and receive the full (dill) rewards, EC drops work already.

What's different compared to the "usual EC grinders"?
- using 3 spawn-points per map, close enough togethter to allow for easy cannon fire but far enough apart to reduce the number of kills NPC warpcore breaches cause. hoping this will provide better loot by having a higher percentage of the damage caused by the player himself.
- using asteroids & invisible walls to keep the NPCs within the killing-zone with their shields down

Thanks in advance,

Whisky

thanks Rex,

just finished updating the "Timid Creature" behavior on all NPCs and changed placement on map 1, hoping to further reduce Warpcore Damage to NPCs. alsways suspected this might hurt loot quality.

concerning NPC mix:
the NPCs i chose for this mission should have no level restrictions, so this mission should qualify for all low level chars with access to the foundry, even the new fed-roms coming in a few days
i plan on making another one with high level NPCs once we get this one full released. already have some ideas on what i want to try differently (placement, invisible walls ...)

just finished the last update for today (hopefully), removed the invisible walls on map 3 and changed NPC placement there. mission now qualifies for full rewards. created the secondary account i'm thinking of using for future foundry projects today. might just start the next one at K-7, with Borg

Howdy,

finished the next 2 missions in the loot-O-matic series. this time with the full NPC rotation, a resulting minimum level of 46 and new invisible wall placement.
Please check out loot-O-matic K-7 and the KDF equivalent loot-O-matic Ganalda. Both missions start in Sector Space in Eta Eridiani, K-7 at Deep Space K-7 and Ganalda at Ganalda Station.

hope you like it and happy looting
Whisky

i never observed elite difficulty to provide better drops in foundry missions, it just takes longer. in fact i just read that it might provide worse drops in foundry missions.

best to stick to normal difficulty for foundry farming imo.

every foundry mission that has an average completion time over 15 mins rewards dill (480 / 15 mins). with the latest patch you can only get that reward once every hour. during the foundry event this reward give a 50% bonus. on top of that some missions award the spotlight reward once per day, this is a fixed 1440 dill.

example my favorite spotlight mission "Betrayal of the Empire part 1":
Base award ~700 dill
spotlight 1440

normally this mission provides 700 + 1440 = 2140 dill once per day
during foundry event that comes out as 700 * 1.5 + 1440 = 2490 dill

I'm happy to announce that "loot-O-matic K-7" now qualifies for full foundry rewards (dill).

The KDF version "loot-O-matic Ganalda" could still use some reviews though.