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Drone control units

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ALI Virgo
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#1 - 2012-08-07 11:40:55 UTC
Make a drone control unit for battle ships. And or have a Drone ships that can use capital drone units at cost of tank. Glass carriers. Flying a super to fling a battle ship in high sec with only 5 drones. feels weird . make high sec more interesting please.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-08-07 13:04:36 UTC
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".
Velicitia
XS Tech
#3 - 2012-08-07 13:19:32 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".



You forgot "I don't wanna pay for it" Blink ...

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#4 - 2012-08-07 14:19:31 UTC
Velicitia wrote:
mxzf wrote:
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".



You forgot "I don't wanna pay for it" Blink ...


Tell me about it. As someone who is sitting here staring at the prices wishing I had the spare ISK for one, it almost makes me wish they had left the drone regions alone, lol.
Velicitia
XS Tech
#5 - 2012-08-07 14:45:17 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Velicitia wrote:
mxzf wrote:
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".



You forgot "I don't wanna pay for it" Blink ...


Tell me about it. As someone who is sitting here staring at the prices wishing I had the spare ISK for one, it almost makes me wish they had left the drone regions alone, lol.


lol, yeah ... I'm liking the margin I'm making on stuff I've had sitting around though (yay for not melting it down when the price tanked \o/)

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
A Soporific
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-08-07 15:25:01 UTC
We removed extra drones for a reason. Too much stress on the servers. There are more people now than then, so putting more drones back into the game would just bork things even worse.

I wouldn't mind seeing more drone boats. But I don't think that this is the way to do it. Needs to be thought through better.
Obsidiana
Atrament Inc.
#7 - 2012-08-07 16:36:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Obsidiana
A common request.
Obsidiana wrote:
The problem is that it just adds load to the servers without adding anything ... Never mind that when the drone changes were made drones were changed too. ... Fewer, stronger drones also are more cost effective if you loose your drones.
...
Moar Drones > More Drones

All too common.
Obsidiana wrote:
I really have to write a post about how moar drones are better than more drones.

Btw, you really missed out.
CCP Tuxford (2005) wrote:
• Moros' 5 drone per dreadnought level changed to 70% bonus to drone thermal damage per level. It also gets a drone hitpoint bonus, either static or per level
ALI Virgo
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#8 - 2012-08-10 10:24:31 UTC
mxzf wrote:
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".

I live in null sec and fly 8 caps.. relax dude it is just an idea
Tomytronic
Perkone
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-08-10 11:14:41 UTC
Another brilliantly thought through and justified idea. Excellent stuff ALI Virgo, I can see you're going to be quite the ideas man around here!
Nikk Narrel
Moonlit Bonsai
#10 - 2012-08-10 14:18:55 UTC
Make it so a Drone Control Unit costs the ship two hard points to mount.
(You still have the slots minus the one it took, but it cancels one of the other turret or launcher mounts making that slot a plain high slot)

Two of these would cost 4 hard points... Etc

It is possible with TiDi the drone burden would be negated. In any case, most ships would lose too much DPS to make this a practical choice.

(The rattlesnake could only fit two, but at the cost of all it's launchers, leaving 4 plain high slots for utility)

Upgrading Local to Eliminate All AFK Influence What if Local Chat changed, Hunting the Cloaked...
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-08-10 16:51:32 UTC
ALI Virgo wrote:
Make a drone control unit for battle ships. And or have a Drone ships that can use capital drone units at cost of tank. Glass carriers. Flying a super to fling a battle ship in high sec with only 5 drones. feels weird . make high sec more interesting please.


I would be for it, but perhaps not in the way you mean.

I would like all subcap drone boats to get access to drone control units. Same was as a stealth bomber can mount a CovOps cloak.

This would allow drone boats to be...drumroll please...DRONE BOATS! *gasp, someone in the crowd faints*

Not 50/50 split of turrets/drones, not 30/70 split of missiles/drones. A pure 100% drone boat, being able to use more than 5 drones, but giving up all of its high slots to drone control units to do it.
ALI Virgo
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#12 - 2012-08-10 20:31:56 UTC
Jame Jarl Retief wrote:
ALI Virgo wrote:
Make a drone control unit for battle ships. And or have a Drone ships that can use capital drone units at cost of tank. Glass carriers. Flying a super to fling a battle ship in high sec with only 5 drones. feels weird . make high sec more interesting please.


I would be for it, but perhaps not in the way you mean.

I would like all subcap drone boats to get access to drone control units. Same was as a stealth bomber can mount a CovOps cloak.

This would allow drone boats to be...drumroll please...DRONE BOATS! *gasp, someone in the crowd faints*

Not 50/50 split of turrets/drones, not 30/70 split of missiles/drones. A pure 100% drone boat, being able to use more than 5 drones, but giving up all of its high slots to drone control units to do it.



nice like bringing the old domie back
Mr Beardsley
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2012-08-11 05:35:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Beardsley
mxzf wrote:
Why? What justification at all is there for this? All you seem to be saying is "I want a carrier, but I'm too scared to go to lowsec to use it".


How about the justfication that drone boats suck for solo play? EVE is a sandbox, and that means we all build our own castles. You enjoy your lowsec fun and others enjoy not being ganked by PvP-averse pirates. Combat drones are virtually useless in PvP and not much better in L4s. What's your justifcation for wanting to limit choice?