Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It does. Drones get used for their perfect alpha ability, with that gone there in no reason for literally everyone to be flying some flavour of drone boat and bogging down the grid so much that you could swim in a sea of drones.

So what happens when we assign too many drones to a trigger? How can I tell if my drones won't assign? What if only some of my drones assign?

Hey, you know how Alpha fleet works? You can do the same thing with everyone controlling their own drones.

Neat, hunh?

Blobbing isn't skill, dude.

And this thread isn't about your irrelevant coalition, it's a balance change.

I think this is a great change, since one played could be seboed to hell and finish the job very quick while the whole fleet just clicks once to approach and anchor and do NOTHING.
Great change and I don't think that smaller scales battles are effected by it at all.

- Riku
PS: Keep it up CCP

We have dbrb - nothing can negate those misclicks and communication issues.

The amount of salty people in this thread still desperately trying to find a way to keep drone assist by discussing how you change lock range, lock time, give visible effects to the drone assisted ship, etc, are all so cute.

None of the people in this thread seem to catch on that mass drone spam kills the server, and CCP are getting rid of it, whether you like it or not. The fight in B-R took place with no subcaps, because the server could barely handle the capitals that were fighting. The battle before that in Hed, subcaps were used. When the capitals jumped in from our side, they blackscreened and died without ever loading system. That's some 2006 eve **** there, not 2014. The fights before that where capital escalation was used, the server crashed and died, everytime. That's some 2006 **** too. B-R had less than 2000 pilots in system for most of the night, and it still barely ran. 6VDT in contrast had over 4000 people involved in that fight, and the server chugged along all night just fine.

****** mass-spam drone doctrines kill the server and the game. Stop being so salty and learn to actually play eve again, not assign drones to someone and go fix supper.

I'm surprised they didn't make a "Drone Assigned Management" skill where level 1 manages (x) assisted drones, level 2 (y) drones...

Everything else always seems to be managed by some skill.

Holy christ, every single time this happens, it's always the same pattern.

1. Bad players (BOB's remnants and decendants, usually) find an exploit that gives them supremacy.
2. The saner heads in the group point out it's an exploit or at the very least, overpowered
3. Bad posters and sockpuppets explain how it's totally not an exploit and that the CFC is just bad
4. The CFC either finds a way to defeat the exploit, or starts using it themselves to force CCP to fix it
5. CCP fixes it, usually about 6 months too late
6. 100 page threadnought with all kinds of buttmad sockpuppets, idiots missing the point of the change, people who have obviously never played the game in a PVP situation suggesting asinine mechnics changes to "spite" PVPers, morons who have never been to nullsec, et cetera et cetera.

Every. Single. Time.

But man, it's fun to watch all the buttmad pubbies and N3 sockpuppets in this thread crying. I especially liked the guy bitching that he can't PVP while in another room watching a movie now, that was great. :)

Thank you for keeping it at 50 for the moment. Hopefully you don't drop it too much. I run 3 Sentry Domi in missions (Yes, I know, overkill, but gets them done fast, he he he), and relied extensively on drone assist to run this micro-fleet set up. Was worried CCP was going to remove it completely. I doubt this was a scenario you at CCP thought much about when coming up with a number. I say 50 is fine.