Ships & Modules

Started up this thread about drone's and ship fitting mainly.
1. I think the Proteus should have 1 more offensive subsystem or at least a slightly edited one. As with the 2 main gun subsystems 1(Dissonic encoding platform) gives you full gun bonuses and no drone slots for that subsystem.

2. (hybrid propulsion armature) with 5 guns and gives 100% (in terms of bonuses) to guns. But sacrifices 1 extra bonus for 2 drones.

3. I personally would like a new remake of the drone synthesis projector which could give you at least 1 more drone (making 5 drones like the Ishtar) and 1 more bonus. and getting rid of any guns from that subsystem. giving the player more drone options and more spaces for drone link augmenters and other kits like that.

And then finally making the hybrid propulsion armature a compromise between the both.

Now about the advanced drone commands.

this is an interesting topic i and many others i knew were thinking about.
i was thinking of better drone settings and command options. because at the moment the drones are lacking in terms of intelligence. i sat there getting shot (could take it fine with my tank) and my drones just sat there. i was jammed so i couldn't target anything. so this is what i was thinking the new drone command tag should include.

1. If Shield/Armour/Hull damage = x% return to bay
2. if owner is under attack automatically engage aggressor. (unless the drones were jammed too/or another target was provided)
3.when no specified target is given (as i frequently let my drone slowly destroy everything) go for priority targets (player can set. for example ( target aggressor when 1st priority is jamming 2nd if aggressor is webbing 3rd if aggressor is disrupting tracking )) and so on.
4 (could be another option group for remote repair drones.) if any fleet member has x% of Shield/Armour/Hull repair
5 apply for different drone repair type. (Armour amount will only apply to fleet members with Armour damage.)

now my personal input (doesn't have anything to do with above) cargo hauling drones not for between systems but between ships in drone control range. they carry something like 250-1000 m3 and are slow and not well armored. so i can put ore into the orca without breaking a lock or even stop mining. so as well as guard and assist there will be (only for special hauler drones.) a transfer. could only be used for ore or objects of the same type.

i know its a really long post but i look forward for some feedback. i could be wrong and make ships overpowered and stuff but is my opinions and observations.
thanks for reading and i look forward for your reply's.

to be fair the proteus already steps all over the deimos toes already...

Don't agree one bit. Drones need micromanagement and that's good. If anything, I'd rather completely remove the Aggressive setting.
The only thing I'd like to see are keybinds to specific drone-groups, so you don't have to click around in your drone interface.

so if T3 shouldn't be able to do what HAC does, what with tengu and cerberus?

You're not going to see changes to T3s until they rebalance them across the board. They're currently too good and superior to far too many T2 ships.

Agree on the Drone stuff but thing is that if my Deimos could ever be close to how good my Proteus is at dealing dmg and tanking stuff...



So, a ship requiring as much lvl5 skills as Strategic Cruisers should just be subpar of every T2 hull in whatever field ?
Your reasoning is wrong, it's plain wrong probably because of myths created by silly people not being able to make a difference in between a T2 fitted T3 and a 3+ BILLIONS T3 fit.
The biggest problem of T3's after 2 of them with better command subs than command ships is how much silly people can be, and Eve players excel in this matter.

Lets see:

- Legion can be fit to be a "super Zealot"
- 700 dps loki has no minnie HAC counter part at all
- tengu...
- blaster prot vs deimos is not even a contest

Yet *somehow* you stick to the "amagad T3 shouldn't replace HAC so Drone sub Prot shouldn't have 125m3!" because some clown at CCP (who are clueless as fck) stated this once?

Then why do t3s generally out perform their racial field command ships? Command ships are bigger, slower, slower AND require more SP yet other than the loki to sleipnir comparison are generally worse at brawling while retaining sig/speed disavantages a bc has over a cruiser. T3s are over powered atm, CCP has already chimed in on this and intends to address this by a combination of nerfs to t3s and buffs to hacs and commands.

dude, the tengu can suck to if u dont know how to fit one :P

ecm should sever the ships connection with its drones like what happened to the drone boats in Stargate Universe when Eli jammed their signal. If a drone ships sensors are jammed, so should its communication with its drones.