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Salvage drones are great. Any other plans to expand drones?
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Ninevite
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-03-30 22:37:57 UTC
I think the advent of salvage drones will be a really great asset and add to the usefulness of investing SP into drone skills. However, I still feel that there is a real lack of useful modules that help drone pilots. Additionally, having used drone rigs in some of my PvP ships, I really feel the rigs were somewhat of an afterthought when they are created, as they give severe penalties (CPU loss) for very marginal benefits at best. Anyone have thoughts on this matter or know of any more drone development down the pipeline?
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-03-30 22:41:49 UTC
Drone damage modules should be coming out soon. Hopefully there is a devblog with info about them, like how much extra damage, stacking penalties of the modules, skills needed and so on =)
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DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-03-30 22:45:07 UTC
There's a module for drone damage coming up.
I hope it's med slot, that way a WTF gank Domi could achieve about 1800dps with a tech 2 fit, neutron blasters and Void, overheated.
The tank will be miniscule, but the space whale will have a nasty bite.
Ninevite
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-03-30 22:48:11 UTC
Wow, nice, that's really awesome! I had no clue. I'm hoping it's a low slot, would be great to pair with the new Ishkur buff =)
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-03-30 22:53:42 UTC
maybe they will have a type in each slot kinda like tracking comp vs enhancers.
Alara IonStorm
#6 - 2012-03-30 23:09:28 UTC
Ninevite wrote:
Wow, nice, that's really awesome! I had no clue. I'm hoping it's a low slot, would be great to pair with the new Ishkur buff =)

Just what we need, another reason to Shield Tank Gal Armor Ships.
Grey Azorria
Federation Industries
#7 - 2012-03-30 23:25:57 UTC
Ninevite wrote:
I think the advent of salvage drones will be a really great asset and add to the usefulness of investing SP into drone skills. However, I still feel that there is a real lack of useful modules that help drone pilots. Additionally, having used drone rigs in some of my PvP ships, I really feel the rigs were somewhat of an afterthought when they are created, as they give severe penalties (CPU loss) for very marginal benefits at best. Anyone have thoughts on this matter or know of any more drone development down the pipeline?

Sure I heard something about medium and light web drones if that counts, as well as the aforementioned drone damage mods.

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Serene Repose
#8 - 2012-03-30 23:26:51 UTC
Expand a drone enough, you get a frigate.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Kessiaan
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-03-30 23:36:51 UTC
Because I started out my EvE career as a miner, drones were the first combat skills I trained up. Still use a domi as my main PvE boat.

My drone wishlist:

1) Medium / light sentry drones
2) Droneships get a bonus to e-war drone strength. With the bonuses as they are right now there's no reason to use e-war drones on a droneship since the drones aren't any better than they are on any other ship.
3) Rebalancing of e-war drones other than ECM to be a viable choice. I'd suggest removal of stacking penalties combined with modifying their strengths to make a full set of 5 equal to an unbonused module.
4) Removing the useless 5m3 drone bay on ships that have it, and maybe giving them another midslot instead (including the rookie ships)
5) Midslot drone modules: damage mod, speed, tracking, e-war strength, RR amount, etc.
6) Maybe point drones, these might be a bit OP though.

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#10 - 2012-03-30 23:45:55 UTC
Ooh! Ooh! I know!

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DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-03-31 01:29:20 UTC
I wonder if the other ewar drones will be buffed.... and ECM drones nerfed.