Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Nice idea, but I would add the possibility for BPC's to drop from hi-sec drone sites too...maybe the astero BPC chips in Hi-sec, astero and stratios in low-sec, and atero, stratios, and nestor chips from null sec.

Probably next to nill. I can count the number of sents I've seen in drone scan sites on one hand since they were intro'd.

Here's a thought, SoE are dedicated to the preservation of life (allegedly)...What if they internally define life as anything sentient. They could be dealing with the sentient drones behind everyone's backs :) Soon we'll be running missions to rescue sentients from nasty Empire attack squadrons to prevent Dronocide...

New text box opens on entry to the pocket:

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Computer translates: 'Take the tart,she never learns! Now, if you are *really* looking for a job...'

hate to disagree but when I was living in ER, I used to make plenty from drone space radar sites from the aug drones, and found invariably where there's frequently pvp is where you'll find sigs turning up, and I know the region round ER/KE etc tends to go quiet from about 2am eve time onwards so there's chances to find these sites and run them in relative peace.

Actualy they added several more lvl 4 SOE agents to hs, there was already one there in osmon, guess ccp didn't like the thought of max tidi/hard capped system with osmon if they hadn't put more soe lvl 4 agents in hs.
As for pure blind, nope we aren't "cartel goon mission runners" thank you :)

What you and all the people parroting this same line do not see is that half the bonuses are just for flavour and "lore"
It is an armour tanked RR drone boat. It is tankier and much better at RR than a domi whilst applying dps not as well as a domi.
If you can't think of ways to make this awesome then i pity you.
The ONLY reason people aren't using it is the cost.
If it were 7-800 mill i promise you would be seeing these things flying around. (not solo anything though as they clearly suck as solo.) no one will use the hacking bonuses. Almost no one will use the scanning bonuses. They are just a fun bonus for flavour and if they were removed then nothing would replace them as the ship has plenty of bonuses without them.

I think diversifing ways of getting faction ships is a great idea, pirate, navy and SoE alike.

• BPCs: Pirates drop BPCs in their sites, Navy and SoE sell thiers in their LP shops like they do now.


• Drone chip exchange: make all factions exchange chips for ships.


• Ship prototype: posted in my T2.5 Ships thread, the idea is a new exploration site where there is a ship graveyard and you come in to find repairable ship, and you then tow it into station for fixes and repairs. Not necessarily ancient ships like thread is about. Imagine a site where two pirate factions battle took place, or navy vs pirates, or navy vs drones. And not all ships been destroyed and turned into wrecks, some pilots may have ejected and left the ship to be boarded or towed.

Would you please be so kind to make list where a 900M domi with even less range and a awful cap would be a super duper awesome thing and well worth the price tag? Most people simply come up with uses, where other ships are a lot better, not even depending on price, because they are unfamiliar with the "field of use" they could see the ship in and what other hulls are currently used there.

As for pvp, a domi is much more cost effective, got the better range/tracking and tank isn't so much different thx to the extra low. Also if you really want a lot RR you can simply use a carrier.

As for pve, marauders are a lot better as practical RR BS(even after the bastion nerf), since they can throw a lot more dps down the road and the capacitors are sufficient enough to keep RR and weapon dps up without lots of rigs and cap mods, different to the Nestor. They also got enough target slots, proper fitting to got with guns + rr(paladin did need large energy weapon rigging 5 back in the days for HQ setups, but fair enough) and good tanks with the T2 resist profile.

The hull can't sustain a full RR high slot layout in any practical setup, it even lacks the cap to do a useful mix with lasers, it doesn't have enough target slots to RR and shoot at the same time or any utility bonuses(like for painters, remote sensor boosters, remote tracking comps etc.) that would be interesting once you could run it halve way sufficient on cap recharge.

Btw I am not much concerned that it got a scanning bonus or hacking bonus that might nearly never be used, I see the issues that the ship isn't a particular good investments in nearly every role I could imagine, where a drone BS with a bit more RR could come in handy. This is not because I couldn't come up with a good use for it but, because it lacks important things in the baseline design, what would make it attractive for such roles in the first place. It doesn't use the 100% weapon damage bonus like on marauders to archive high dps with lots of utility highs(what makes them miles better in RR setups), it doesn't sport a powerful capacitor to actually use a mixed gun/rr fitting like this practical in Incs, WH or small gang, because you will have to resort to cap boosters, what limits your runtime and you need more lockable targets in a platform that doubles up as dps and logi, that should be extreme obvious to anybody that flown RR marauders in the past.

All together the design is simply not really good and probably a lot of people will realize this once they actually utilize a RR BS in a similar fashion as I did. It doesn't have to do much with the massive price tag, you can argue about that once somebody actually revisits the base design and makes it attractive beyond the shiny or collectors value.

I would suggest that they be higher since sentients don't drop anything. besides worthless stuff, and that i have literally seen 5 in 9 months.
Also maybe you overlooked the last part of my post or chose not to comment on it? idk but if you look at drone rats. they drop nothing, yet have the same bounty as every other faction, and do omni damage. so they are the hardest and least rewarding. which makes growing an alliance hard as everyone avoids the drone lands like the black plague.