Live Events Discussion

While I understand that the alien nature of rogue drones in the universe is part of the reason that I, along with many others, seem to find them so interesting, I do wonder if the recent implementation of Drone officer spawns could possibly be the beginning of some degree of further explaination regarding them, perhaps even some form of less violent interaction between dronekind and capsuleers.

Having read TEA and the reports of the drone mind missions, it seems apparent that there are some drones out there that do not seek to simply destroy any ships nearby and make people into interesting organic processors.

much like the earlier thread concerning the EoM, i wonder if the Drones would ever have any capsuleer contacts ... perhaps even some NPC stations or space to call their own..

Though it is likely apparent why I am hoping this happens... :)

If you're interested in Drones & their back story, you *really* want to run "The Anomaly" in its L4 guise. It doesn't seem to be available everywhere, but i'd try Amarr space.

Unfortunately the text elements can't be shared in-site with fleet mates if you join someone running it.

i doubt they'd do the exact things you reference...

however, it does seem that the vast majority of drones are of a somewhat.... confrontational sort.

Not all of them of course.

I've also been somewhat obsessed with the rogue drones for quite a while now.

(and was pretty miffed when they didn't pick them to be the incursion bad guys, could you imagine them taking over systems, it would be a truly beautiful and nightmarish infestation.)

That being said, the drones coming to sentience is even more interesting. The whole Dronietta story was particularly interesting.

So i'm most certainly looking forward to some more live events with the buzzers.

One of the big problems with running Rogue Drone events is the inability to create characters with appropriate avatars.

The bio seems to indicate some sort of imminent violence between the rogue drones and sansha, that would make for a pretty epic live event

To be honest, the look of this character was heavily influenced by Romi (Andromeda)... Though i thank you for the compliment regarding her being a good approximation of a droneclone... that was the intent.

I do however agree with Eterne... it would be great if the assets were there to make drone-esque looking characters.. though the only way i can see that being possible at the moment is to put an interesting skin over the top of a DUST merc's avatar...

even then it's a bit of a leap of faith as to whether or not it would work... though referring back to the Andromeda tv series, the ship's androids did kinda look a little like DUST mercs.

Meh, just make an avatar and replace their Pic on the avatar pic Html server with a head on shot of an art asset from Dust like this.

I know, I know... that still leaves you with the humanoid "view full 3d portrat image"... maybe that can be the drone's "Virtual self image?"

I think a good choice for a rogue drone's representation would be the classic spess AI, SHODAN.

That's just what I think of when I imagine one's representation.

Didn't they upload slightly customised avatars for particular faction leaders? Might be possible to author your own image and put it on the image server if this is the case (and set it so you can't view full body).

EDIT: An example is Jacus Roden. If you look at him in game, you can view his portrait, but you can't actually see his full body (CONCORD stops you). This is different from normal agents, which you can do a full preview of.