Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't care much for drone doctrines, so personally I don't get too fuzzed about this. However, what makes me annoyed is that you seem incredibly keen on nerfing symptoms, rather than actual issues.

Letting one person control the combined drones of an entire fleet is bad. Okay, fair enough. But why oh why, is it absolutely fine for one person in the entire fleet be the prober, the fleet warper and the broadcaster of targets for the entire fleet? How is that in any way different from drone assisting, in terms of what is required of a player? Oh no, you have to shift+clik and push F1, mad skills there!

If you really wanted to make players more involved in these fights, you would put more responsibility on the individual pilot, for instance removing fleet warp and broadcasting targets, and only being able to warp/broadcast to your own wing.

I would think that changing how fleets work altogether should be the goal, to require more pilot involvement, but instead you are trying to cure underlying mechanics by putting on a bandaid on the most superficial wound. It is the exact same pattern as with the changes to supers vs. the underlying problem of sov mechanics and too easy movement of big fleets.

Did someone mention that the last AT was won by 39 Sentries?
so why dont go to like 20?

In b4 "nerf Celestis". These become very powerful now.

#ThanksCCP

Since you are removing the upsides of drones what about the downsides? Will they get any boosts? Like more better resists for drones to increase their lifetime on the field? Given how stupidly easy it is to strip drone doctrines that are not capital based of their dps?

mm.. this mechanic still won't change the AT/new eden open being sentry online ... frigs still controlling the teams sentries

So you want the entirety of Eve to be balanced based on 8 man AT teams? You fo' realz dawg?

This Idea I do like... Add more use to us Command Ship pilots and have a reason to put them more into fleets. Make it a new module to equip kind of like the Drone Link Augmenter and give us a Skill to level up to hit that Cap to 50. Boosting those who Squad/Wing/Fleet command. This fits more players arguments about doing more then your own ships bandwidth and keeps it from just being tossed on whoever has the highest Sig radius to Blap with.

Let me find the captial nerf in CCP Rise's post. Hmmm....oh wait, yeah, I don't see any changes to your slowcat still having a ridiculous ET, Rep range and amount, strong tank, capacitor all while still having your 10 sentries on the field.

If you can't see the "advantages" offered by this for "the increased cost, effort, risk, and skills required to effectively field them," then maybe flying a slowcat isn't for you. Imagine how broken it is that your ship can put out stupid dps while performing the other functions just as well. Be glad CCP Rise didn't change the range of reps/ET while not in triage. Or that drone assignment could only be done through some new module. Or any other of the many actual nerf options out there that he could have picked from.

Lol sad people brutally discovering that they actually need to play the game to make isks.

Being able to let someone else control your ship while afking is stupid by definition. This mechanism shouldn't exist in the first place.