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Svaste
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-09-07 11:56:37 UTC
As documented and bug-reported since the release of Incarna, drones are broken. Specifically they go idle after appearing to obey the command to attack or mine. The long-term drone bug of focus fire not working is also well known.

No acknowledgement from CCP was given on the old forums. I'm posting here to undermine the future "oh we didn't know because that was on the old forums" line that I expect would surface otherwise.

Tell us plainly if this stealth nerf is "functioning as intended" or will be fixed "soon".
Thaliya Dejar
DEFCON.
The Initiative.
#2 - 2011-09-07 14:59:24 UTC
got the same bug... i belive it will be fixed "sooooooooon"
Centis Adjani
Adjani Corporation
#3 - 2011-09-07 17:32:17 UTC
Not sure if it was a bug...

Did a mission today and suddenly all 5 drones were gone at the same second. Cry
Not sure if the NPC enemies (a lot at this moment) took them out or if this was a bug.
Lord Okinaba
Aliastra
#4 - 2011-09-07 21:32:53 UTC
It must be a stealth nerf, otherwise it would have been acknowledged by now.
Lord Okinaba
Aliastra
#5 - 2011-09-08 09:55:42 UTC
Notice the Devs replying and acknowledging other bugs and issues in this section, but never the drone bug.

This stinks!
Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#6 - 2011-09-08 11:15:19 UTC
Also note that if any ships are lost due to this then any petitions are returned as 'Rejected, nothing showing in our logs'.

Pam:  I wonder what my name means in Welsh?Nessa: Why?
Svaste
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-09-08 11:18:42 UTC
Yeah it's been two months of them pretending not to see this this new thread here or the others on th old forums.

Excellence

Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks.

Gallente are weak in gunnery because hybrids are worthless. But many Gallente shis have large ________ bays and receive bonuses to _______ hit points and _______ damage.

So if you nerf _____ then you are really telling people not to fly Gallente ships right?


HELLO!!!! Team BFF? Team Fancy Pants? Anyone with pride at CCP want to chime in?
Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#8 - 2011-09-08 11:31:50 UTC
Myfanwy Heimdal wrote:
Also note that if any ships are lost due to this then any petitions are returned as 'Rejected, nothing showing in our logs'.

If you lose ships because your drones misbehaved your doing something wrong anyway....

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Myfanwy Heimdal
Heimdal Freight and Manufacture Inc
#9 - 2011-09-08 11:42:40 UTC
Indeed, but that's the not the point the point is that CCP have accepted this as a feature and not a bug.

In my case a real Life situuation arose and ship/drones were in a situation where they drones could protect the ship forever unless Sansha hove to with his cohorts. As I say a RL drama arose (the stuff involving lots of involuntary emissions of blood by a family member) and the drones normally would have coped.

But they didn't.

The poitn is that they stopped doing what they were doing and CCP have been made aware of this in forum postings and bug report and they appear to be in denial that this isn't working as planned. it makes no difference f I was doing something stupid or not the issue is that the drones don't work and I, with this petition, can demonstrate CCP's attitude.

Pam:  I wonder what my name means in Welsh?Nessa: Why?
Phoebus ApolloX
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-09-08 16:35:30 UTC
This bugged me more than modules going offline and the cargo window troubles in the latest patch. I'd really like to see some kind of fix, drones are a big part of Gallente players skillset and having drones suddenly go idle during a fight is ridiculous.

The problem as i experience it is I assign drones and after they attempt to shoot one volley of damage they each randomly disengage (sometimes none, sometimes all, but usually 2-3 out of 5). After a second attempt to manually assign the drones they keep on focus. However having to double assign to get something killed is just BLARGH.

Fix please
Phoebus ApolloX
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-09-08 16:40:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Phoebus ApolloX
Centis Adjani wrote:
Not sure if it was a bug...

Did a mission today and suddenly all 5 drones were gone at the same second. Cry
Not sure if the NPC enemies (a lot at this moment) took them out or if this was a bug.


Not too long ago it was patched so drones receive triggered area of effect damage, and some missions have structures that trigger an area of effect damage source. The most noteable is Damsel in Distress, when you destroy the structure the damsel is in, it blows up, damaging everything around it. That used to not affect drones but now does, and if you have your drones out they pop from the damage. That probably is what caused your drones to disappear suddenly.
Vireck
Octopoda
#12 - 2011-09-09 11:26:46 UTC
I posted on the old forum thread about this and filed a bug report that was never acknowledged. I think I'll keep visiting this thread and bumping it from time to time to ensure it remains visible to CCP eagle eyed devs.
Kaomond
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2011-09-09 11:41:06 UTC
Svaste wrote:
As documented and bug-reported since the release of THE GAME, drones are broken. Specifically they go idle after appearing to obey the command to attack or mine. The long-term drone bug of focus fire not working is also well known.

No acknowledgement from CCP was given on the old forums. I'm posting here to undermine the future "oh we didn't know because that was on the old forums" line that I expect would surface otherwise.

Tell us plainly if this stealth nerf is "functioning as intended" or will be fixed "soon".


/fixed P
Tallian Saotome
Nuclear Arms Exchange Inc.
#14 - 2011-09-09 12:07:11 UTC
They should fix drones, but then, they should fix hybrids too, also, dreadnaughts, and I keep hearing that faction warfare is broken too....

Maybe they should just assign some devs to actually work on EvE?

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Deleros Revo
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2011-09-09 15:55:01 UTC
Lord Okinaba wrote:
Notice the Devs replying and acknowledging other bugs and issues in this section, but never the drone bug.

This stinks!



The reason behind this is that in order to solve the drone behaviour bug they need to dig into the new weapon system introduced in Incarna, which it seems, requires too many shovels....
Vireck
Octopoda
#16 - 2011-09-10 03:24:12 UTC
I'll just bump this back up to the top where the devs can see it
Mistress SS
Blue Dreams Plus
#17 - 2011-09-10 13:59:12 UTC
Just like every other bug, file a bug report wait at least 18 months and if extremely lucky and ccp not bullshitting as usual it may get fixed P
Cedar Locus
Fleet 2 die
#18 - 2011-09-11 03:11:30 UTC
inb4 dev response
Lord Okinaba
Aliastra
#19 - 2011-09-12 11:08:04 UTC
Still broke...
Rocky Deadshot
In The Goo
EVE Trade Alliance
#20 - 2011-09-12 13:17:27 UTC
Look, I've used drone ships in lvl4s for a long time, and yes they are buggy and temperamental, but the issue is fairly minor if u assign your engage drones to a hotkey. Spam that about 100 times and they'll follow your commands. The only drones this wont work for is mining drones.
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