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How to control drone assist??
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Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#1 - 2014-05-26 16:54:38 UTC
I'm having a hard time getting drone assist to work correctly. After assigning assist, the support sentries just sit idle for a long time. Sometime later, they MAY decide to start fighting, but it seems like more on their own.

1) Is there a particular sequence or trick to assigning drone assist? (I don't think control range is the problem)

2) If I assign the drones to assist can I still call targets for them from the support boat, and then they'll go back to assisting the main when they are finished with the support boat targets?
Sentenced 1989
#2 - 2014-05-27 00:00:21 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
I'm having a hard time getting drone assist to work correctly. After assigning assist, the support sentries just sit idle for a long time. Sometime later, they MAY decide to start fighting, but it seems like more on their own.

1) Is there a particular sequence or trick to assigning drone assist? (I don't think control range is the problem)

2) If I assign the drones to assist can I still call targets for them from the support boat, and then they'll go back to assisting the main when they are finished with the support boat targets?




1) Assisted drone range is calculated from your ship. So if you assist your drones on ship which is sitting next to you and he is going to engage frigate 30km in front of you, your drones will engage on 30km range. If you assist your drones on ship sitting 50km in front of you and is going to engage frigate 30km in front of him, your drones will try to engage at 80 km and prolly fail if you don't have any range modifiers.

2) Assisted drones go to last aggression. If you assist your drones on ship who has guns and webs and if that ship starts shooting bs with guns and then webs a frigate at 5 km, those drones will go for frigate. Any offensive module is taken into account, and always they go for last one which aggressed, hence incursion drone bunnies (should) shoot first larger targets then web smaller, because if you web smaller and start shooting larger all assisted drones will go on larger target..

3) There is a delay as well, we noticed warriors to react really fast on aggro change, hobs take a second more. Larger the drone, more of delay (but shouldn't be like more then a second or two)

4) If target drones are supposed to engage is out of their range, they will sometimes engage something else in their range after short time period.

5) It is not possible to assist drones on ship which is outside of your control range, but he can leave the range after assist and your drones will still work (provided new target is in your range, for example: assist drones on frigate 10 km of you, frigate burns 80km in front of you and agresses battleship 40 km behind him, your drones would engage battleship because he is 40 km in front of you)

6) Sentries do have time between fire as well, so if they fired and killed enemy ship with their volley, they will "sit idle" till they are ready to aggro again

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Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#3 - 2014-05-28 13:00:28 UTC
Thanks for those details.

My drones don't seem to assist using this procedure

1) jump in the support domi and deploy sentry 1's

2) jump in main domi, deploy sentry II's

3) support domi assign drone assist to main domi

4) main domi start targeting and engaging drones


--> Problem: support domi drones just sit in idle. (targets are well within range at 20-50K)
Sentenced 1989
#4 - 2014-05-28 13:27:04 UTC
Shiloh Templeton wrote:
Thanks for those details.

My drones don't seem to assist using this procedure

1) jump in the support domi and deploy sentry 1's

2) jump in main domi, deploy sentry II's

3) support domi assign drone assist to main domi

4) main domi start targeting and engaging drones


--> Problem: support domi drones just sit in idle. (targets are well within range at 20-50K)





Hmm, your main domi has offensive modules? Like at least an civilian gun, or target painter?

Most people put target painter in this case (I'm assuming you have remote reps or something other then guns in high slots) so they can aggress stuff. Like I've said, assisted drones will follow last aggression, but pressing F (engage) on your main domi to send you main's drones on something doesn't count as aggression which drones follow. So you need to aggress with module for them to work.

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Lizo
PhenomCorp
#5 - 2014-05-28 15:34:18 UTC
I have another question about drone assit, do asisted drones aggro targets only whitin ships drone control range or within their own range. I ask because im using a stratios to drone asist a tengu the stratios has an aproximate drone control range of 69km but my wardens can hit up to a 100km
Sentenced 1989
#6 - 2014-05-28 15:50:44 UTC
Lizo wrote:
I have another question about drone assit, do asisted drones aggro targets only whitin ships drone control range or within their own range. I ask because im using a stratios to drone asist a tengu the stratios has an aproximate drone control range of 69km but my wardens can hit up to a 100km


Within your own ship range...

so to fully utilize wardens for example you need drone control range thing in high slot...

Skills alone can get you maybe 65 km max if I remember correctly...

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