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Gecko ? Super drones?

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Solecist Project
#101 - 2014-05-06 10:48:55 UTC
Can I put this on a Tristan?
Is it worth it? :/

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia

Dave Stark
#102 - 2014-05-06 10:53:18 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Can I put this on a Tristan?
Is it worth it? :/

no.
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#103 - 2014-05-06 11:00:02 UTC
They make a good fit for battleships with 75 drone bay and 50 bandwidth. One Gecko for giggles and one flight of light drones for work. Then again, a pair of sentry drones would probably work better, at least in PvE.
Blood Viper Johnson
Gallente Federation
#104 - 2014-05-06 11:09:23 UTC
more then 2.2k dps with 7 gecko on my thanatos)))sweet for killing others ships
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#105 - 2014-05-06 11:19:30 UTC
ORCA

new hull tank rigs for super tank ... plus a Gecko in the drone bay


nuf said
Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#106 - 2014-05-06 11:33:59 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
They make a good fit for battleships with 75 drone bay and 50 bandwidth. One Gecko for giggles and one flight of light drones for work. Then again, a pair of sentry drones would probably work better, at least in PvE.


For me, it's the other way around, since I've never gotten the hang of using sentry drones. I tend to move too much and have to fly back to them every time I want to send them back into the drone bay. Sometimes I even completely forget those things can't move, so I just sit there and wait for them to come back. And then the rats blast them apart while I'm a hundred km away. It's a disgrace.

Heavy drones + navigation computer for faster movement works a lot better for me. Plus my drone ships carry a few medium armor drones, just in case the drones get a bit scratched inbetween pockets.

Put two of them on a Stratios and you never have to think about what drone is best against what rat ever again. Ideal for exploration using wormholes: Regardless of what region you find yourself in, your rats are always the optimal ones. This leaves a lot of space for utility drones, like ECM and armor rep drones.
Luscius Uta
#107 - 2014-05-06 11:54:32 UTC
I'd totally love to see a ship with 150 m^3 drone bandwidth to put those drones to the best use...doesn't even need to be a new ship as we know that Nestor needs more love Blink

Workarounds are not bugfixes.

Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#108 - 2014-05-06 11:56:39 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
It has the Firefly (fighter) as a variation. The stats appear to be a mix of fighter and heavy drone (more heavy drone than fighter though.)

The stats on it are obnoxious (32 damage of all 4 damage types (that's 4x32) plus a 2.05 damage modifier. Max velocity of 1,820 m/s, 1,010 shield HP, 0.53 tracking... edit: Volume of 50m^3.


Either it's a work in progress/place holder, or CCP has lost their minds. Hopefully it's the latter.


I too would hope that CCP has lost their minds.

Whose minds they lost... Who knows?

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.

Alek Ituin
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#109 - 2014-05-06 13:27:40 UTC
I think a big question we should be asking here is:

Can we get BP's for them in the future?

I either missed this or nobody has asked so far, but having Gecko BP's available would be amazing.

Dramaticus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#110 - 2014-05-06 13:44:58 UTC
I saved a bundle on my spaceship insurance by switching to Geckos.

The 'do-nothing' member of the GoonSwarm Economic Warfare Cabal

The edge is REALLY hard to see at times but it DOES exist and in this case we were looking at a situation where a new feature created for all of our customers was being virtually curbstomped by five of them

marVLs
#111 - 2014-05-06 13:50:50 UTC
I believe they said that in future they will be normal BPC for them.

Im w8ng for mini carriers now :]
Rain6637
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#112 - 2014-05-06 13:52:22 UTC
sold them all yesterday and felt like I left someone holding a 1.5 B bucket of ****

they continued dropping by the minute and now CCP Falcon says we'll get more

gg
Big Lynx
#113 - 2014-05-06 13:58:18 UTC
1100dps VNI ftw Cool
Medalyn Isis
Doomheim
#114 - 2014-05-06 14:07:51 UTC
These are very good drones. They are probably selling for a lot less than they are worth even on a pure performance basis.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#115 - 2014-05-06 14:09:12 UTC
Official announcement regarding them.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/happy-anniversary-eve-is-11-today/

Not saying how we will get the new ones aside from "community event", nor in what form, but apparently 8 more.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.

Medalyn Isis
Doomheim
#116 - 2014-05-06 14:09:27 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
sold them all yesterday and felt like I left someone holding a 1.5 B bucket of ****

they continued dropping by the minute and now CCP Falcon says we'll get more

gg

How did you get them yesterday?
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#117 - 2014-05-06 14:13:47 UTC
Medalyn Isis wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
sold them all yesterday and felt like I left someone holding a 1.5 B bucket of ****

they continued dropping by the minute and now CCP Falcon says we'll get more

gg

How did you get them yesterday?


Because EVE is in different time zones.

I got mine yesterday as well. They were released on 0001 EVE time, it's about 14 hours past that at this point.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.

Rain6637
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#118 - 2014-05-06 14:15:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Rain6637
the redeeming system?

sorry, it was "today"... 12 hours ago.

"yesterday" for me/ in the US

http://i.imgur.com/5z6cJ5W.jpg

dropped by the minute, sold straight to buy orders.
Medalyn Isis
Doomheim
#119 - 2014-05-06 14:18:13 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
the redeeming system?

sorry, it was "today"... 12 hours ago.

"yesterday" for me/ in the US

http://i.imgur.com/5z6cJ5W.jpg

dropped by the minute, sold straight to buy orders.

Ah yes, makes sense.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#120 - 2014-05-06 17:31:08 UTC
What da F is this S

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