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Fewer drones = less drone lag
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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-04-15 09:54:45 UTC
I want to see individual drones get buffed, and ships' drone bays shrunk. Drone ships already have huge +10% damage and HP per level bonuses to drones because drones are so weak. I don't think a ship balanced away from drones, like the Drake for instance, should be fielding 5 drones. It creates unnecessary lag. Why can't the drake get enough "dronage" from 2 or 3 drones?

Also, I'd like to see larger drones have their bandwidth cost be more in-line with their damage ooutput. The aforementioned drake could field a heavy attack drone but it wont, because 5 light scout drones deal more damage, travel faster, are harder to shoot down, and have far better tracking. If the drake could get more damage out of choosing larger drones to use up its bandwidth, then it would have an incentive to field smaller numbers of drones, which would also lead to less lag.

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Job Valador
Professional Amateurs
#2 - 2013-04-15 11:01:33 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Some nonsense about a missile boat being able to use drones better.

1/10

On the note of lag, sounds like a personal problem.

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-04-16 11:10:58 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Some nonsense about a missile boat being able to use drones better.
Funny, I don't remember saying anything of the sort.

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Job Valador
Professional Amateurs
#4 - 2013-04-16 11:20:27 UTC
Was just being sarcastic mate, no hard feelings.

On a serious note Trying to re-balance drones will be like trying to carve out a steak from a bull while he is well enough alive, looking right at you, and ready too rip you a new one. If you can get the mathz correct and lower the amount of drones on the field while still keeping them viable, more power too ya

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-04-16 12:02:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Reaver Glitterstim
I've already done that, but I can't get people to read my work. So now I'm trying a new angle: can we all agree that this is a problem, and that less drones with the same overall power would be a good thing? If so, I can submit my detailed solutions to anyone who wishes to peruse them, or just wait for CCP to figure something out. The first step is just admitting there is a problem.

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Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
violator2k5
Crescent Nova
#6 - 2013-04-16 14:13:33 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
I want to see individual drones get buffed, and ships' drone bays shrunk. Drone ships already have huge +10% damage and HP per level bonuses to drones because drones are so weak. I don't think a ship balanced away from drones, like the Drake for instance, should be fielding 5 drones. It creates unnecessary lag. Why can't the drake get enough "dronage" from 2 or 3 drones?


drones will be re-done eventually its just that I couldn't help but respond when I saw the comment about the lag. since you're a 2k10 character I doubt you've seen a domi fielding 25 drones in one go. They already reduced the amount of drones ships can release due to so called lag issues and it made a lot of old school domi pilots unhappy.

I'm hoping that they'll eventually release new drone skills to help curb some of the issues with drones