Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Information is available IG. Board ship, show info on boarded ship, and you'll see current stats, with skill and fitting. Search for the drones line, and there you go. Available IG, but annoying to search for, indeed. It should be shown directly in the fitting window.

Someone recently posted a thread asking for the drone control range to be shown in the title bar of the drone window.

I'd like to see it there and in the fitting windows somewhere.

+1

Not only the control range. The optimal/falloff should also ideally be shown. Also bandwidth usage because iirc it isn't shown on there anywhere, the only thing fitting window shows is the drone bay usage and max.

Before I start on this I support the requested changes as they are long overdue.

That said.
As the others have stated control range is available just burried.
Targeting range for your drones is exactly the same as targeting range for your ship, since it is the ship that locks targets not the drones. Based on my experiences even when set to aggressive mode they will not attack anything that is outside your ships targeting range, if anyone has noticed a different behavior please explain what you have experienced.

That was me, and the thread disappeared into the nether because CCP has a million sticky threads taking up the first page, and no one looks beyond that.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=450594&find=unread

And I still say no to this, for all the same reasons I posted in Joe's thread.

After the modules have been fitted to your ship, you can click show info on your ship, and it will show the control range in there somewhere.

However, doesn't mean it can't be on the fitting window, or title bar of drone control window.

So you want EVE to be less informative and intentionally designed to be as unwieldy and difficult to use as possible. Probably because you feel it gives you, as a bittervet, an edge over any newcomers to the game. Pretty crappy reason but kudos on your honesty.

Sure, you go ahead and believe that.

Then again, you might not understand how some people would rather keep EvE a game that requires a modicum of intelligence to play.

Without target lock you cannot order drones to attack, so it makes sense that you will see a red box when being attacked by drones.
The real question is that red box because of the drones or the ship controlling them?
Never been attacked by drones set to aggressive mode so you may be right and you get a red box from the drones themselves.

The scan resolution is required for you to be able to lock and attack any drones that are attacking you, so all by itself that is not proof that drones can or do lock their own targets. However given the way they work while in aggressive mode they must have some form of targeting. Even if we accept this as true and based on all available information their targeting range would still be limited to that of the controlling ship since the drones themselves have no targeting range listed in their specs.

You have to separate standard drones and fighters / bombers when dealing with control range issues.
Never flown a carrier but friends tell me that fighters and bombers only have targeting and range issues as a function of ordering them to attack. Once the order has been issued they will continue to follow and attack until they or their target is destroyed.
Standard drones on the other hand will fall idle and stop dead in space once they are beyond control range. And once idle in space they will stay that way until they are destroyed, pick up or you fly back into control range and reconnect to them.