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Logistic Drones
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Xe'Cara'eos
A Big Enough Lever
#21 - 2013-04-23 16:46:41 UTC
in PVE scenarios, including belt rats, these days, they'd go straight for the drones, thereby reducing your tank, and then onto you..... the drones MUST NOT be able to auto-switch between repairing each other and repairing host.....
as there are no cap repair drones, this wouldn't give a carrier much more than LAR, not a huge amount of rep, considering, and logi drones will be smartbombed by any sane FC (at least, I'd hope so.....)
I can't see how this will cause a problem, at least not yet, please feel free to enlighten me....

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Antal Marius
Allied Operations
Mechanicus Macabre Immortale
#22 - 2013-04-23 17:38:50 UTC
I'm still for it, due to the laughable amount of HP repped by the drones. It's not so much a matter of it being your primary tank, it'd just be funny to laugh at people who rely on it as their main tank.
Mike Voidstar
Voidstar Free Flight Foundation
#23 - 2013-04-23 17:49:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Mike Voidstar
It's one of my pet peeves as well.


Not that the Logi drones would be super effective and allow anyone to do nearly anything they can not do now, the things are just not that effective unless you are using big ones on small ships. It just makes no sense that you cannot have a drone aid your own ship, but it will aid anyone else.

You should be able to put them on automatic, and they immediatly start on any damaged ally in range, including yourself or your own drones. As with current drone AI, they would not switch off their current target until it is fully repaired unless otherwise ordered.


Edit: Also, I'd love some structure drones. Every once in a while I or a corpie undocks with some structure damage unrepaired and I'd carry a flight just to fix that.
Mr Holla
PsyCorp
#24 - 2013-05-07 01:05:35 UTC
with Ships with big drone bays i'd carrier logi drones to repair betweens fights if am using buffer tank

this would be more of a small gank/solo thing :)

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Fer'isam K'ahn
SAS Veterinarians
#25 - 2013-06-01 23:17:29 UTC
+1

was just wondering about this myself, they should auto target, if not assigned, and they detect a friendly ships (host included) with less then 100% shield strength.

Hope any dev sees this, so bump up +++
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#26 - 2013-06-02 01:05:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
+1. When I trained for these I thought this is what they were for...now I just rep my young padawans.

Good post OP!

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