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Ideas for Drone Improvement, 7/19/2013 ECM Drone Sepration
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Mournful Conciousness
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#161 - 2013-08-23 17:27:03 UTC
Luc Chastot wrote:
I'm afraid once they are announced, after reading the possibilities here, people will be disappointed.


You surely know that Eve forum jockeys will always be disappointed unless their particular weapons system of choice is given doomsday levels of damage, infinite tracking, instant locking and rapid fire capabilities.

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Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#162 - 2013-08-23 17:38:39 UTC
Luc Chastot wrote:
Wondering if we could get a dev to comment on the drone changes; I'm afraid once they are announced, after reading the possibilities here, people will be disappointed.

I am most concerned that drones will not be tweaked to balance into place, but will be completely reworked form the ground up.
This has gotten me thinking about new ways drones can be handled and what changes could be done to the system.

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Seolfor
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#163 - 2013-08-27 04:38:18 UTC
Lol. This has to be the most biased list of imbalances you couldve requested.

Drone UI sucks, Drone boats on the other hand are dominant in the current meta.

If youre seriously struggling with Drone ships in either PvE or PvP, you simply need to uninstall EvE and go back to farmville.

Yes, this is what this OP deserved. A big fat troll.

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General Jack Cosmo
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#164 - 2013-10-13 12:06:09 UTC
what about extra bonus/es for a whole drone imp set?

also what about tractor beam drones that can auto bring you're wrecks to you?

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Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#165 - 2013-10-13 12:44:27 UTC
Omnathious Deninard wrote:
How about having logistic drones affected by drone interfacing, they are the only drone that is unaffected by the skill, and it would make them useful on ships other than t2 logistic cruisers, and the new exequror and scythe



T2 Logis are already OP, with even just 3 drones who would benefit from that skill they'd become even worst.

+1 like the drone bay rigs, however the penalty on armor should be taken off imho. Maybe increase ships sign radius instead?
Also the idea of making them deploy more than 5 drones is not really a good one considering drone dmg buffs/mods added lately.

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ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#166 - 2013-10-13 14:17:46 UTC
Removing 10% of armor HP for an extra flight of heavies and a flight of meds is an incredibly heavy nerf when considering that, in most battleship-to-battleship fights, the opponent will go straight for the enemy's ship due to the long locktimes involved in locking the opponent's drones and the relative ease with which they can be recalled as soon as damage begins to land. I can see this being useful on carriers and the rattlesnake, but that's about it.

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tommy two feathers
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#167 - 2013-10-14 06:23:48 UTC  |  Edited by: tommy two feathers
what about repair sentry's for drone boats with Huge rep bonuses!
Johny Donovan
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#168 - 2013-10-22 06:22:02 UTC
I always thought atleast for drone boats you should have more range in picking up you're sentries like 10km
Viki Katana
Kusari Navy
Kusari State
#169 - 2013-12-19 09:14:44 UTC
Any body suggested adding dmg types to drones?

Hobgoblins 15 therm -> change that to 10 Therm and 5 Kin

Hammerheads 24 therm -> 16 Therm 8 Kin

Orges 48 therm -> 32 Therm 16 Kin

Gallente Therm/Kin
Caldari Kin/Therm
Amarr EM/Therm
Minmatar Exp/Kin

Might add some versatility to combat drones while keeping the dmg the same.

Plus I think light drones are over powered. They should have 12 base dmg in line with the bigger drones.
Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#170 - 2013-12-19 13:18:36 UTC
Viki Katana wrote:
Any body suggested adding dmg types to drones?

Hobgoblins 15 therm -> change that to 10 Therm and 5 Kin

Hammerheads 24 therm -> 16 Therm 8 Kin

Orges 48 therm -> 32 Therm 16 Kin

Gallente Therm/Kin
Caldari Kin/Therm
Amarr EM/Therm
Minmatar Exp/Kin

Might add some versatility to combat drones while keeping the dmg the same.

Plus I think light drones are over powered. They should have 12 base dmg in line with the bigger drones.

Multiple damage types are for pirate drones (integrated and augmented).
I would agree with reducing light drone damage down to 12 but then all drone based frigates would need a +5% drone damage per level to be equal to where they are now.

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