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[IDEA about Drones] Ramblings, seeking constructive brainstorming
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Akriel Tanna
Havamalian Angels
#1 - 2013-04-19 15:50:57 UTC
Greetings,

I've been pondering about this idea for a little bit and I've finally decided to give it a try and see what you all think of it and if it's a crazy idea or something good might come from it or whatever.

I'd like to mention that my intention is to voice out some ideas and under no circumstance I'm trying to give a certain ship, race or whatever a nerf or a buff. Hell, I'm sure buried in the huge pile of mails stored in the Features & Ideas Discussion there might be something similar or exactly the same to what I'm going to explain for us to discuss and see if it should something meant to be tossed in the trash or it might be something interesting.

I was pondering if we could make Drones a real racial weapon group like turrets (energy, hybrids, missiles and projectiles) are at the moment. That way we could even split hybrid weapons into two sub-groups, giving Railguns to Caldari and Blasters to Gallente. That way we'd have Caldari with Missiles and Railguns, and Gallente with Drones and Blasters.

I admit I've always wondered why isn't there a module which is a hangar meant for drones (fighters/bombers too¿? I've no idea), but every ship has a certain Bandwidth and a certain drone bay and that's it. No way to mod that (other than T3 with their different sub-systems).

Why couldn't we just set a certain Bandwidth to ships (0-25 MB for example) and a certain Drone bay (0-200 I add this big number here to deal with Amarr big drone bays...but...I dunno!), and then add a new module group which would be Drone Hangars?

Micro Drone Hangar [+25MB, +50 Drone Bay]
Small Drone Hangar [+50MB, +100 Drone Bay]
Medium Drone Hangar [+75MB, +150 Drone Bay]
Large Drone Hangar [+100MB, +200 Drone Bay]
Etc..¿?

Maybe the hangars main purpose would be to repair your drones, making it repair a certain ammount every x/seconds on Shields, Armor and Structure?

Maybe the hangars might even slightly boost other drone upgrades fitted in the ship?

I was also thinking that if such module was created, drone ships might get their lost slot to install a Hangar, and that drone ships might receive a tracking/explossion bonus to smaller guns/missiles (point-defense), but...I think this last idea would be...tricky cause people would install bigger weapons and enjoy that improved tracking. However if it only applied to smaller guns/missiles... I know, I'm rambling.... What?

And to finish my TL;DR wall of text, I think it would be awesome if Sentry drones could orbit your ship (if you have a hangar installed...or not?) so that they don't have to sit like ducks all the time. One last thing I'd like mention, it would be awesome if drones' signature radius was lower. They're too big for being such little things.

Thank you for taking your time reading my ramblings,

Aky
Jonas Sukarala
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-04-19 16:01:39 UTC
intriguing not sure if making drones only usable on their individual race viable...
-perhaps the drones only communicate with their races ships drone control systems.
- its one way to differentiate drone ships from each other in a more meaningful way

missile drones would prob kill server so would all be guns
- amarr drones best range and heavily armour tanked
-minmatar drones fastest light tank falloff bonus would work well with a new drone falloff skill
-gallente drones fast high dps short range best tracking
-caldari drones solid shield tank good range and speed

They could also have long range variants per size like small sentries medium..

'Tech3 ships need to be put down, like a rabid dog drooling everywhere in the house, they are out of line' CCP Ytterbium Nerf missile range into place where is the TD missile change?  ..projectiles should use capacitor. ABC's should be T2 HABC and nerf web strength its still too high

Akriel Tanna
Havamalian Angels
#3 - 2013-04-19 16:14:02 UTC
That's true.
But I don't know how to show that "drone race" thing other than that. You're right, everybody should have their drones...cause everybody loves their drones ;-)

Hrm..maybe drone spec skills instead of that awesome 2% damage bonus would modify T2 versions depending on racial perks?
- Caldari: High Shields (or high shield resistances) and good range
- Amarr: High Armor (or high armor resistances), best range
- Gallente: High Structure and best damage
- Minmatar: High Speed and lower signature with good damage?

Aky