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[Drones] Focus Fire on Salvage Drones

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Asshin Riraille
Fraternity Academy
Fraternity University
#1 - 2014-11-14 14:15:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Asshin Riraille
I think Salvage Drones should affected by Focus Fire setting, causing them to savage up to [number of Salvage Drones in space] closest wreck simultaneously, if it turned off.

While the focus fire not active Salvage Drones should select target like that:
-First it try to search a player owned(or abandoned) wreck that not targeted by other savage drone.
-If the first option fails, it target the closest player owned(or abandoned) wreck.

So it would mean, that if you have 3Salvage Drone in the space, and press "F" while there are 3Wreck nearby, then the 3Drone start salvage the 3closest wreck(one drone salvage one wreck).

If there are 2wreck while you have 3salvage drones out, then the closest wreck would be salvaged by 2drone, while the second wreck salvaged by one drone.

Or while there are 3salvage drone out, and there are 5wreck in Drone control range( 1km 3km 4km 10km 13km):
The 3drone starts salvage the 3closest wreck(1km 3km 4km).
The first drone finish salvaging, and it target the closest valid target witch is 10km away.
The second drone finish, and targets the wreck in 13km away.
The third drone finish, and it targets the wreck in 10km away since there are no free wreck, and it's the closest.
Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#2 - 2014-11-14 17:31:14 UTC
Sorry to wake you up from your hazy dreams, but if I read your dreck correctly, you actually want the salvage drones to work worse.

Which is bad, so pleased delete your abhorrent idea.

Just in case you don't know, when several salvage drones salvage the same wreck, you have a higher overall chance of getting something. If you instead spread out your drones, you will just have to wait an abnormally long time, thanks to the rather low success chance per drone.
Gawain Edmond
Khanid Bureau of Industry
#3 - 2014-11-14 17:36:08 UTC
you have the same chance of getting something if you have 1 or 5 drones on a wreck the chance of getting something is really a chance of making the wreck vanish not of getting something from it which is decided by the server when the wreck is created