Ships & Modules

My character is schizophrenic - he spent half his career missioning, and then another half in industry, and has just returned to missioning....but he's currently stuck doing l4 missions with a myrm. This works fine enough, even if it can take 1hr to clear out each room (up to 4hrs total when looting/salvaging for a long multi-pocket mission is taken into account). Before the NPC AI changes were announced, the plan was to get both a mach and a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake to continue relaxed slow-pace l4 missions, the mach for wormholes/anomalies.

Yes, I'm a hands on pilot...but I do get frequent real life interruptions and prefer to not have to take the ship to safety when doing so - my myrm is currently tanked to ~850 dps (cap stable) or 1200 dps (~16min capacitor). I'm hoping the extra drone bandwidth of the snake will cut mission time by up to half. Increasing my drones and weapon skills should also eventually cut time even further. When I get interrupted, I usually just make sure I'm not in an intense fight or likely to be and recall drones if warranted, otherwise just leave them out with the ship stopped.

With my resources, I can afford to fit the snake fully right now....not so much the mach/

CCP seems to be focused on somewhat nerfing drones and making it harder for players who take any breaks at all while playing...I'm wondering if I should still realistically invest the 1-2B needed to buy and fit a snake properly, or just accept that I'll have to cut the number of missions I do in half and make them quick by using a mach (2-3B investment for ship + fit)?

I'm tempted to just go with the original plan and work through whatever obstacles come up with the new anti-drone ai...

That's what I was hoping to hear....hopefully others rattlesnake pilots have the same feedback.

You can petition that, characters getting stuck on missions is a bug. GM can just reset the mission and your character is free to do other things.