Player Features and Ideas Discussion

basically to replace the guns on a domi to make a mini carrier? i like!

Elaborate on this please, how would it be OP?

Imagine 10 sentry drones... that's 900 DPS right there... now add 2 Drone Damage Amps... that jumps up to around 1200 dps... now add on a Sentry Drone Damage Augmenter rig... you're looking at about 1400 dps that hits out to 20 to 30 km and tracks better than the average battleship weapon (Garde IIs with 1 Omni Drone link).

And you still have a decent tank to work with... the weapons consume no capacitor... no ammunition... and auto-aggress when told to.

Sentry drones.... good point.

What if these DCU modules only fitted small medium or large?

A valid point indeed.

Perhaps something like the drone link augmentor, but more demanding fitting requirements in exchange for a damage bonus?
(drains power and cpu comparable to a high slot weapon)

The Dominix fit that I'm theorycrafting with right now has an extra 8200+ PG left with everything but the high slots being fit... more then enough to fit most of the Drone Control Units... and if I toss the Sentry rig and slap on an ancillary I'm pretty sure I'll have the PG to fit 5 of them.

You're still looking at an easy 1200 DPS with Sentries. Orges and other large drones wouldn't be any better as they have virtually the same damage modifiers (the only real difference between Sentry and Heavy drones is that Heavies have to fly to their target... delayed DPS).
Drone Control Units might be viable for Medium and Light drones... but it just seems so... arbitrary. And I'm pretty certain some other person will come up with a crazy DPS fit using Medium/Light Drones that I can't see.

The unit could, I assume, be easily limited to light and medium drones the same way missles are limited by type on other hulls. Alternately it would be nice if perhaps the bandwidth of heavies could be lowered to 20 so as to allow full flights from the Gallente Battleships that have 100 bandwidth, while still limiting sentries to only 4 on those ships, allowing meaningful choice in drone selection.

I like the idea of drone support instead of splitting the bonuses on the Gallente hulls for drones and guns. Lose turrets in favor of high modules that boost the drones. I'd easily support the idea of a targetted module that increases the damage of drones to have roughly the same effect of just adding more drones. A similar module that boosted the HP radically and allowed for rapid repair of the drones at useful (40k+) ranges would be great too. Perhaps the range could be limited in the module, but the hull bonus extend the range similar to how logistics modules work, or have the Drone Link Augmentor affect the range, eating more highslots. Heck, just rebalance all the drone mods to high slots as they are projected effects anyway, and add one to grant passive repair to drones in space on all 3 bars. Increase their effects and it becomes cool to make them active modules, subject to being neuted, making drones unique in that their effectiveness can be reduced but not removed by cap warfare. Combined with the idea to make them like missles, non-targetable but still subject to bombs, smart or otherwise, would put them on much firmer ground as a primary weapon system.

Make those modules only affect one class of drone (light,medium, large/sentry) would put them on more even ground with other weapon systems in that you must fit for the size weapon you intend to use. You could still launch a flight of lights from a Domi, but not at the same effectiveness as your heavies or sentries unless you were using undersized modules, or devoting multiple slots to differing sizes of drones.

One word: lag

If CCP do not want lag in this game they must erase Supercaries from the game :)

You sold me on OP when you brought up small drones, you theory craft fit used 2 DDAS correct? If so that puts you over 400DPS against frigates.