Player Features and Ideas Discussion

and yet still use single core processing...

its 2014 not 2003... eve code needs a complete re-write from scratch... it might take several years but should be a priority just like crimewatch rewrite was.

For as long as we discussed every single possible angle for abusing drone assign, I hope we covered everything. Glad to finally see the change in game.

CCP, don't listen to the haters. You did the right thing. :happysun:

Sentry Drones V, you can wait a few months.

Three regions, at least, and that's assuming you don't fail cascade over getting your big shiny toys taken away. But lets not quibble, the important thing to remember is that N3 is terrible at EVE.

While the decided limit of 50 drones seems fair enough except to carrier pilots perhaps, the same could have been accomplished by adjusting the available bandwidth of ships. Skills would still limit any one individual subcap pilot to 5 drones at a time and carriers to 10, while a trigger ship could be responsible for up to how ever many sentries, smalls, or what-have-you, will fill its allotment of bandwidth.

In this way you could have carriers with 12500Mb of bandwidth and thus able to use 100 sentries, one full squad of assigned sentry drones. A Dominix would have 7500Mb, and able to trigger for 50 sentries. They could ofc also trigger for a metric ****-tonne of warriors. But why you would want to do that other than to intentionally cause lag, I don't know.

Small ships like interceptors could have only a couple smalls assigned.

Its kind of silly to even have bandwidth since it almost never comes into play except on a few certain ships with odd amounts of bandwidth like 40 or 75Mb.

Wow, so unexpected from a goon to like this change.

So like, I support this drone assign nerf entirely, even helped argue for it. But this statement is pretty ********.

This nerf doesn't address that at all.


Then fix tidi. The problem is tidi, not drone assist. People afk in 6 hour tidi fights. No one sits at their computer for 6 straight hours if they don't have drones deployed.

Also, AFK doctrines make tidi not terrible.

To repeat myself, no one competent who runs drone assist only uses one trigger.


How do you have personal, first hand knowledge of this?

I absolutely recommend training for t2 sentries. They're still excellent.

Dude, it was just as unexpected for me too since I love the Dominix so much. My wife even knit me a sweater in the shape of a Dominix so I was really expecting to be pissed off if CCP did something drastic like take away drones completely or force the drones to go skynet and target random people. But the change was very mild; so mild that I breathed a very audible sigh of relief.

Rise and Fozzie <3



I'll get there, but since sentries will not likely be the meta and my character is still relatively young, SP-wise, it's a 30 day train that can wait a little while. I prefer flying small stuff or logi anyway.