Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Bump for a dev.

Bumpety bump till a dev gives thumbs up.

Yes it does feel that way doesn't it.
i'd love to see a more intricate drone management tab, whereby i can set in more detail how i want my drones to act under different circumstances. Instead of just "passive" or "aggressive".
Focus fire works the majority of the time for me but they do split themselves over multiple targets from time to time.
I'm not asking for drone to be buffed but to bring them up to date with better features, new skins, etc etc.
And for gods sake, give a bonus to drone effects! rather than just dmg. Would be great to see people finally making use of ewar drones other than the dam ecm ones. When was the last time you used a webby drone or tp drone??? I never have.

Drone ideas

- A Module that repairs drones in bay

- Salvage drones that work (I’ve still got problems with salvage drones sitting idle and not auto salvaging my own wrecks)

- Emergency recall skill; If a pos can activate it's shield in response to damage a drone should be able to automatically retreat to the drone bay if it's damaged to structure, (maybe start at 50% + 10% per level of skill)

- New Drone options; examples

Suicide drones basically a heavy drone with a smart bomb
EW Camo Drones that project false images to scanners/probes/and target map but look the same to visual inspection
Defender Drones that act as AOE Missile denial (thus if you assign them to "assist" a target they defend it from missiles rather than the launcher)
Afterburner based drones rather than mwd

- New Drone Controls

The ability to assign priority targets to drones (in a broad way) such that certain ship sizes are targeted first

Individual recall hotkeys

An option to have damaged drones float to the bottom of the launch list (ever recall a drone and accidently send it right back out?)


- Ship options

Sub carrier fighters/bombers; I'm not advocating insanity, but the idea of a micro carrier has been rattling around in my brain ever since the orca showed up. Why wouldn't someone jury-rig a support bay for a fighter into the smallest possible spaces? For example a Firbolg is only 5000m^3 while a thorax is 62 times that size. To keep it balanced drop the highs to almost nothing, and rely entirely on its drones. Essentially converting from a drone boat, to a parasite carrier.



Stupid over the top ideas.....


Micro acceleration gate that "launches" drones to targets (normal recall of course)
Micro Barrier generating drones (requires 4 or more orbiting a target) that optionally generate a shield or negates warp
Scout Drones in line with the MicroAccel idea, Drones that you can launch toward celestial targets that burn out reaching their target, but send back a window of the target overview. (To ID gate camps)
Structure repair drones that work on self?


I guess to sum it up what I really want is a parasite ship.

I want a space ship that is worthless on its own; absolutely zero gank, not a single hardpoint, which instead has everything focused on drones and tank.
With a UI that allows a little better fine grained control over the drone A.I. (Target Priorities, Damage thresholds, working salvagers.)

Warp scrambler drones, lights each drone applies a -.25 to warp strength.

Really any stacking effects that require a minimum amount of drones would be cool

Also can my my salvage drones "auto salvage" please?

AUTO Salvage option

...agreed! This would be great.

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