Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As an active incursion runner I strongly believe this change will (negatively) affect incursions as it's not uncommon to see more than 70 drones(small and medium) at a single site.
On the other hand, heavy drones and sentries aren't used due to their slow dps application(heavies) or the need to keep moving(sentries).

Is it possible to have separate caps for sentries and small/medium drones? The current 50 for sentries and let's say 100 for small/medium drones?

Holy christ, every single time this happens, it's always the same pattern.

1. Bad players (BOB's remnants and decendants, usually) find an exploit that gives them supremacy.
2. The saner heads in the group point out it's an exploit or at the very least, overpowered
3. Bad posters and sockpuppets explain how it's totally not an exploit and that the CFC is just bad
4. The CFC either finds a way to defeat the exploit, or starts using it themselves to force CCP to fix it
5. CCP fixes it, usually about 6 months too late
6. 100 page threadnought with all kinds of buttmad sockpuppets, idiots missing the point of the change, people who have obviously never played the game in a PVP situation suggesting asinine mechnics changes to "spite" PVPers, morons who have never been to nullsec, et cetera et cetera.

Every. Single. Time.

But man, it's fun to watch all the buttmad pubbies and N3 sockpuppets in this thread crying. I especially liked the guy bitching that he can't PVP while in another room watching a movie now, that was great. :)

Have you considered allowing players to assign drones up to the target's max drone bandwidth? This way incursion runners can still stack lights/mediums on one player (up to a large number). You would be able to assign less larger drones and more small drones.

This would stop ****** results like an interceptor with 100 drones assigned to it, while allowing dedicated drone ships with high bandwidth to still serve the drone bunny role. You could also change the stats of some of the drone ships to increase their bandwidth above the usual maximum of 125.

I think this is a better solution than just having a max 50 assigned.

I can't put a number on it, but currently Dominixes are responsible for somewhere in the ballpark of 5 times the PVP damage dealt of the next most popular fleet battleship, if that's still the case in a few months this will have 'not worked'.

too late :) but good others came to the same conclusion.

wouldnt it make more sense to make the amount of asisted drones depend on the ship's bandwidth?.....i mean if i have a ship that has 125 bandwidth, and another that has more than that.....it doesnt matter if i send sentries or scout drones, the asisted ship will be capped at that amount and will only be able to control that maximum of drones.......

basically you're using your carrier or other ship to "share bandwidth" to the asisted player, but that bandwidth can only be equal to that of the asisted ship........this means that if a carrier asists another carrier, it could send all its drones for example, but if its an small frigate of 25 bandwitdh, you'll only be able to lend it 5 light drones........

i dont know what you guys think......

Three regions, at least, and that's assuming you don't fail cascade over getting your big shiny toys taken away. But lets not quibble, the important thing to remember is that N3 is terrible at EVE.

makes no sense since there are fleets who assist drones not only to droneships.

If you truly want to nerf drone usage, then look at what makes them overpowered. Omnidirectionals are going to become scripted, but that doesn't solve the problem either. What about having Omnidirectionals, Drone Damage Amps, and Drone Links STACK with one another so you can't get absurd tracking, damage, AND range simultaneously?