EVE General Discussion

Set the drone mode to passive in the top left menu of the drone window, and use the "F" hotkey to send them against your target. You might lose a little time by manual assignment to targets, but they attack the right thing.

This sort of approach also helps with anti-drone aggro - if you always fire first before assigning drones they seem to catch less aggro from Elite Frigates (though I'm only at Level 2 missions, might get worse!)

Doesn't it only affect a "small fraction of players"?

As an up and coming rookie pilot everyone keeps advising me to use and specialize in Gallente and Minmatar drones while skilling just enough for Caldari EWAR drones for special situations. Amarr and Caldari drones are supposedly of no PVP use and little PVE use as the assertion is that Gallente does it better. Is this true? How could that issue be fixed in order to encourage people to benefit from using the other two races drones just as much?

On a personal note, it occurs to me that each races current drone line up simply serves as an extension of their current main damage dealing ability. When you look at modern navies the various weapon systems integrate in such a way as to cover for their main weapon systems primary weakness. They are a supplement rather than just an extension. Would such a change be sensible for EVE? Where for example you change Amarr drones to deal kinetic / explosive damage to cover for the weakness of lasers and on down the line with each race. If nothing else it gives reason to specialize in the drones appropriate for the race you fly at first.

As one could guess from the title and OP, I'd really appreciate developer comment on this.

What is the current status of drone development?

While you are at it, justify the loss of a slot on drone ships by extending drone damage bonus to all drone effects.

Rebalancing of one of the most iconic ships in game hinges on very simple tweaks to sentry mechanics. New Domi is a dud without increased scoop range or return functionality.

Save the whales!

+1 to the OP, would love to see a Drone fix in the near future. Or at least if CCP would let us know what THEY see as being problems and what possible fixes there could be.

Discussion is a good thing!

Drones are the future, man

this!

people with broken legs and arms can adapt as well. It's just more work to achieve anything?

I spent the whole fanfest waiting for drone news or at least someone intelligent from the audience could ask CCP soundwave or the Game design panel, instead all I saw was retards whinning how their niche ship was too expensive and how hawk should have 8 high slots because of his level 4 missions.

CCP, blue this topic up please.