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Free my drones.
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Merrc
Project Omega Industries
Fraternity.
#1 - 2012-12-10 18:59:21 UTC
Could we get drones that land on opposing ships and take out propulsion, weapons or simply start chewing thru shields or armor. Im too old and slow to keep track of all the flying locusts.Shocked
Dave Stark
#2 - 2012-12-10 19:00:24 UTC
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-12-10 19:02:21 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I think he meant literally eating ship's armor....."OM NOM NOM GET IN MAH BELLY" style
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2012-12-10 19:02:41 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I hate that you beat me to this.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Dave Stark
#5 - 2012-12-10 19:06:39 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I hate that you beat me to this.


i love that you hate me for beating you to this.
Mathrin
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-12-10 19:12:40 UTC
Dave stark wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I hate that you beat me to this.


i love that you hate me for beating you to this.



I love that you love to beat him... And that he loves to be beaten.
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#7 - 2012-12-10 19:18:16 UTC
Kiteo Hatto wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I think he meant literally eating ship's armor....."OM NOM NOM GET IN MAH BELLY" style


This is definitely what he is getting at. could be a offensive use of nanite paste

wumbo
Ronix Aideron
Zymurgy Corp.
#8 - 2012-12-10 19:18:39 UTC
Merrc wrote:
Could we get drones that land on opposing ships and take out propulsion, weapons or simply start chewing thru shields or armor. Im too old and slow to keep track of all the flying locusts.Shocked


Someone has been watching The Matrix movies again.

Start the day off slow and taper off from there.

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Ronix_Aideron
Dave Stark
#9 - 2012-12-10 19:19:03 UTC
Mathrin wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I hate that you beat me to this.


i love that you hate me for beating you to this.



I love that you love to beat him... And that he loves to be beaten.


and i bet you'd love to watch.
Karrde Belarr
Critical Horizon
#10 - 2012-12-10 19:29:51 UTC
Mathrin wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Dave stark wrote:
Merrc wrote:
simply start chewing thru shields or armor.


so... like light medium and heavy drones do now?


I hate that you beat me to this.


i love that you hate me for beating you to this.



I love that you love to beat him... And that he loves to be beaten.


[censored censored censored censored censored censored] too?

To answer OP: You're basically talking about what light, medium, heavy, and EWAR drones do now.
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-12-10 19:30:35 UTC
Merrc wrote:
Could we get drones that land on opposing ships and take out propulsion, weapons or simply start chewing thru shields or armor. Im too old and slow to keep track of all the flying locusts.Shocked


That in general is one of the things I found EVE to be lacking, compared to Pirates of the Burning Sea. In that game, you had various types of ammo that affected different things. Bar and chain shot took out the sails, which slowed you down. The grape shot took out the crew, which slowed rate of fire and made changing sailing direction slower. And then you had the ball shot that took out the hull and sunk the ship - sails, crew and all. Made for some interesting decisions and mechanics.
Merrc
Project Omega Industries
Fraternity.
#12 - 2012-12-10 20:15:20 UTC
Yes I thought for a few reasons, to give some more tactical options, give builders something more to make and also ... I really have never understood why drones use those circular cowboy and indian patterns. Space being devoid of air and gravity drones should actually move in more straight line trajectories-or land on ships and be used as a tracking device, explode, disable weapons, or nom nom get in my belly and i get biggerTwisted I dont know exactly what part of drones causes all the lag, but they always have the way they are currently set up.
Pyre leFay
Doomheim
#13 - 2012-12-10 20:20:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Pyre leFay
Merrc wrote:
drones should actually move in more straight line trajectories-.

So they can die even faster. great idea.

The only thing that haven't really been done with drones is to make them purposely expendable other than using ewar to flee.
Suicide bomb drones, .5m3 5bw, launch waves to explode against ships, stronger than missiles, weaker than bombs.
Alara IonStorm
#14 - 2012-12-10 20:29:29 UTC
EVE needs Suicide Drones.

Go to launch them and you realize that they left their engines running in the hanger.
Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-12-10 20:37:04 UTC
Pyre leFay wrote:
Merrc wrote:
drones should actually move in more straight line trajectories-.

So they can die even faster. great idea.


Considering their stats, such as signature radius, they might as well fly in a straight line and hold up a big huge "Shoot me!" sign while doing so.

I mean, think about it. A heavy drone, regardless of whether it is a slow armor tanked Gallente Ogre or a lighter and more nimble shield-tanked Minmatar Berseker, they both have signature radius of 100 m. Ogre has mass of 12,000 kg, and volume of 25 cubic meters. Berserker is 10,000 kg and also 25 cubic meters.

Meanwhile, a Vexor, that can hold many of these (5?) and deploy 3, has signature radius of 150m, mass of 10,310,000 kg and volume of 115000 cubic meters.

So, a single drone has 2/3rds the sig radius of the ship, while being 0.11% of the ship's mass and 0.02% of the ship's volume. Does this make ANY sense? Anyone? Do these percentages look...right? 66.6% signature, at 0.11% mass and 0.02% volume? How does that happen?
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#16 - 2012-12-10 20:38:37 UTC
Jame Jarl Retief wrote:
Pyre leFay wrote:
Merrc wrote:
drones should actually move in more straight line trajectories-.

So they can die even faster. great idea.


Considering their stats, such as signature radius, they might as well fly in a straight line and hold up a big huge "Shoot me!" sign while doing so.

I mean, think about it. A heavy drone, regardless of whether it is a slow armor tanked Gallente Ogre or a lighter and more nimble shield-tanked Minmatar Berseker, they both have signature radius of 100 m. Ogre has mass of 12,000 kg, and volume of 25 cubic meters. Berserker is 10,000 kg and also 25 cubic meters.

Meanwhile, a Vexor, that can hold many of these (5?) and deploy 3, has signature radius of 150m, mass of 10,310,000 kg and volume of 115000 cubic meters.

So, a single drone has 2/3rds the sig radius of the ship, while being 0.11% of the ship's mass and 0.02% of the ship's volume. Does this make ANY sense? Anyone? Do these percentages look...right? 66.6% signature, at 0.11% mass and 0.02% volume? How does that happen?


:Nanites:

wumbo
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#17 - 2012-12-10 20:39:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
This could actually be a fun thing.

Drones that just beeline for a ship, clamp to it's hull and do stuff. Like paint it, cause a cap leak or interfere with reppers.

They'd have to be pretty small as they would be use-once suicide drones. Once on a hull they stick there until the ship is blown up or makes it to a station to be deloused. Or have them run for a few minutes and then be out of power.

Lots of possibilities.

Mr Epeen Cool
Pyre leFay
Doomheim
#18 - 2012-12-10 20:45:18 UTC
Or instead of simply blowing up, a suicide drone instead of damaging shields or armor of the hull, clamps onto a random ship module and starts damaging it like its overheating. Shield or armor reps can slowly short out any of these drone attached to your ship. Same goes for remote reps.
La Volpe DaFlorence
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2012-12-10 20:47:50 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
This could actually be a fun thing.

Drones that just beeline for a ship, clamp to it's hull and do stuff. Like paint it, cause a cap leak or interfere with reppers.

They'd have to be pretty small as they would be use-once suicide drones. Once on a hull they stick there until the ship is blown up or makes it to a station to be deloused. Or have them run for a few minutes and then be out of power.

Lots of possibilities.

Mr Epeen Cool


if we can get drones that explode pink paint on their target and do not cause aggression...

I will train in drones.
Kiteo Hatto
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2012-12-10 20:50:36 UTC
La Volpe DaFlorence wrote:
Mr Epeen wrote:
This could actually be a fun thing.

Drones that just beeline for a ship, clamp to it's hull and do stuff. Like paint it, cause a cap leak or interfere with reppers.

They'd have to be pretty small as they would be use-once suicide drones. Once on a hull they stick there until the ship is blown up or makes it to a station to be deloused. Or have them run for a few minutes and then be out of power.

Lots of possibilities.

Mr Epeen Cool


if we can get drones that explode pink paint on their target and do not cause aggression...

I will train in drones.


Where did you put that cloaking module....actually forget i even asked....
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