EVE New Citizens Q&A

If I'm in a stealth bomber, and I fire a volley of missiles, will they still do damage (hit their target) if:

1) I lose my lock after being jammed/ECMed by another player
2) My ship is destroyed before the missiles hit

I can't seem to find the "rules" for these two scenarios after extensive searching

Really? I thought missiles still did damage even after you were destroyed as long as you fired before you died?

While this is supposed to be the case, never count on it. I recently had a flight of drones continue to shoot at me for several minutes while I scooped loot from the wreck of the prophecy that had controlled them. Drones can be very buggy.

You'll see the same thing with turrets sometimes. The ship on the killmail isn't recorded until the other ship dies, so if you switch ships or are floating in your pod the killmail will be inaccurate. I've seen a crow on a killmail with rapid heavy missiles for example. It doesn't mean the drones continued fighting though.

Actually, this would be a interesting advanced drone 'twist'. Maybe make this an actual skill... AI Drone Reprogramming. Let them continue to attack after the launching ship leaves. This isn't a dissimilar behavior from what NPC "Drones" do in their little nastiness, or even Sleepers. Call it a Sleeper technology. Make it another step past the Advanced Drone skills.

Advanced Drone AI reprogramming:

Level 1:
Your drones continue to attack the same target until they are destroyed themselves.

Level 2:
Your drones will protect your 'wreck' or last departure point, attacking any non-blue non-purple that comes within 3,000 meters of it, even if it is tractored, for a period of 5 minutes.

Level 3:
Your drones will Loiter near your wreck and engage any hostile within a 5 km radius of the wreck or last departure point for 10 minutes.

Level 4:
The drones will Loiter for 20 minutes and engage any hostile within 10km of your wreck or last departure point.

Level 5:
Your drones are able to work independently. You can set a protection object (Asteroid, cargo container, station, citadel, etc.) and order them to engage any hostile target coming within 30km of the object or attack if attacked from any range they will engage the attacker.

This opens up a myriad of uses for drones. Perhaps even letting non-drone races use drones defensively (from cargo bay) and a whole host of other options. Most drones are pretty easy to down, but yeah, in the case of the heavies and expensive critters, they could be a formidable force. Then again, uncloak and smartbomb them to death would probably be the easy solution for massed drones. So, it could be balanced if done properly.

Then it wouldn't be a bug... it would be a "feature" LOL!

This new system would not happen to be called skynet or cyberdyne would it?