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If drones are valid targets we need to see their aggro
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Mathrin
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2012-12-01 16:16:01 UTC
Supported.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-12-01 16:41:06 UTC
Ronan Connor wrote:
I think the drone overview should work similar to the regular overview.

Drone beeing targeted blinks yellow, drone beeing locked red framed.

No big deal.


Something like this would work. If they could make the drone window show

1. Target status (yellow boxing, red boxing)
2. Shield,armor, hull status while in the drone bay.


Just these 2 things would help a huge amount.
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#23 - 2012-12-02 14:35:40 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
Ronan Connor wrote:
I think the drone overview should work similar to the regular overview.

Drone beeing targeted blinks yellow, drone beeing locked red framed.

No big deal.


Something like this would work. If they could make the drone window show

1. Target status (yellow boxing, red boxing)
2. Shield,armor, hull status while in the drone bay.


Just these 2 things would help a huge amount.


They need to tone down the number of clicks/keypresses it takes to deploy drones and get them to attack too. It's just not practical, currently, that it takes between 4-5 clicks to get drones operational.

First click, you open the "drones in bay" to see which group you want to deploy.
Second click is a right-click to open context menu.
Third click is to click "launch drones"
Fourth, either click or hotkey, to get the drones to engage the target, if it is already shooting at you.
Fifth click is to see the drones' HP by opening up "drones in space".

This is insane. It takes way too long, compared to other ships where you press F1 and 100% of your DPS starts going to target. WAY faster than 4-5 clicks, plus travel time. Not to mention most drone boats also have turrets, like Algos/Vexor/Domi/etc., so you still have to press F1 too. So that's 6 clicks/keypresses vs 1? How is that even remotely reasonable? And CCP knows this.

There's a lot they need to do with drones before they're even remotely usable.
Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#24 - 2012-12-03 13:29:30 UTC
+1 I endorse this product and/or service.

Especially gonna be a problem for long range drone boats - try reeling in mediums that are 80km away or lights - they' iz gonna get chewed up pretty bad if you can get em back in safe.

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Ilnaurk Sithdogron
Blackwater International
#25 - 2012-12-03 16:23:51 UTC
Supported. I'm not a big drone user, but I'm still afraid of what the new update will do to my Warriors.

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