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Drones: Making Them A Viable Weapons Platform in EVE (Mockups 2.0)

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Thutmose I
Rattium Incorporated
#81 - 2012-12-15 15:06:21 UTC
One main issue with the removal of Launch only, is it would adversely affect any tactics which involve your drones being a diversion (mainly applies to PVE). There are a few situations where it is beneficial for you for your drones to be the primary target, such as in the case of many tackle rats, or in some cases where tank has been broken and GTFO is required.

Otherwise, I agree that there should be a hotkey for "launch and attack", as that would make use of drones much smoother, and may get more pilots using them as a viable weapon system.

A way of determining what is attacking your drones would also be quite nice, though not as helpful as something to tell if drones have been targeted.
Blastil
Aideron Robotics
Aideron Robotics.
#82 - 2012-12-15 15:53:40 UTC
I suggested something similar, except I would like to see it work more like a probe launcher, where you drag and drop drones into the launcher from your drone bay, then when you "fire" the drones they automatically launch. pressing the launcher again triggers attack, and a third time causes them to return. When the drones are engaged the box glows green, when they are disengaged it glows red clicking the module when glowing red will cause the drones to rtb and automatically be loaded into the drone launcher again.

this simplifies about 8 mouse clicks into 4 button presses.

Any ship with a drone bay would automatically have this launcher attached to their F9 button or something, forgoing the need to click repetedly. This would also enable some interesting things, like allowing drone pilots to react quicker to a changing battlefield by pre-loading drones into the drone bay, and allow CCP to do more with contextual menus, so that new players don't have to know before hand that you can only project drones out to 40 km, or that you can only launch as many as you have drones skill to.