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Mining & Salvage Drone Improvements

Author
Lithorn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-12-27 20:43:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Lithorn
I notice that salvage drones appear to have borrowed the code from mining drones which from a users productivity viewpoint suck! Eliminate this mandatory right click on the drone menu nonsense every time your salvage/mining drones completes a job, re-task the code to respond to the same set of keyboard shortcuts that logistics and combat drones respond to already.

Additional tweaks I would like see:
Salvage drone aggression - when your drones are set to aggressive they automatically "aggress" the next owned or abandoned wreck within a 25 KM range of where the last wreck they finished salvaging was located. Once all the wrecks are gone or there are none left within the 25 KM agression range then drones would return back to the ship depositing loot unless they are manually assigned to a different target that was outside the last known zone.

Mining drone aggression - Same basic idea as the outline for the salvage bots, perhaps add an option for targeting a specific type of asteroid such as only engaging the asteroids on your active overview settings (assuming you have custom mining overviews).

T2 Salvage Drone Invention - T2 would have considerably higher access bonuses, these would also possess greater base navigation speeds and more tank for salvaging in hostile areas.. The goal for this idea is to make salvage of advanced wrecks quick and efficient, this would benefit w-space salvage operations greatly and probably improve null sec salvaging productivity.

Cheers!
Ralitge boyter
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-12-28 12:37:08 UTC
Another smaller and much easier improvement is the changing of the position of the salvage option n the menu. Put it at the same (top) position as the engage option for combat drones.

Other then that I have to agree the current drone logic for the mining and salvage drones is at best insulting to the players the horible AI behind these drones is simply terrible and should be improved if nothing else gets done to them between now and the next expansion.
Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#3 - 2012-12-28 13:12:59 UTC
Lithorn wrote:


Mining drone aggression - Same basic idea as the outline for the salvage bots, perhaps add an option for targeting a specific type of asteroid such as only engaging the asteroids on your active overview settings (assuming you have custom mining overviews).
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Wouldn't that just result in people parking a hauler near a belt, releasing drones, then going to bed?
Sounds like you want to bot without the bot.

Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer / SpaceBum In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.