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Assign 50 fighters per ship
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scimichar
Deep Hole Explorers of New Eden
#1 - 2014-02-07 00:11:55 UTC
We can assist 50 drones per ship ( https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=319278&find=unread ), why not fighters? They are just bigger drones.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2014-02-07 00:16:00 UTC
People use fighters?
Gigan Amilupar
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2014-02-07 00:37:21 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:
People use fighters?


They're actually not bad at shooting pos structures (neut batteries ect.).
Deadonstick Puppyseeker
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-02-07 02:10:43 UTC
Probably because 90% of ships use drones as a secondary weapons platform, assisting them doesn't make the ship useless. Fighters however are only used by (super)carriers whom can only use drones as their weapons.

It's probably to prevent people just going into Triage with a perma-tank and assiting their fighters to someone else :P. (mere speculation though).

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Anhenka
The New Federation
Sigma Grindset
#5 - 2014-02-07 02:18:32 UTC
Deadonstick Puppyseeker wrote:
Probably because 90% of ships use drones as a secondary weapons platform, assisting them doesn't make the ship useless. Fighters however are only used by (super)carriers whom can only use drones as their weapons.

It's probably to prevent people just going into Triage with a perma-tank and assiting their fighters to someone else :P. (mere speculation though).



When you triage with fighters out, you lose your bandwidth and thus control of all your drones.

As for why not being able to assign fighters... The assign fighters mechanism is different from the assign drone mechanism.

Fighters become under the control of the person they are assigned to, so adding the ability to control more than your base amount is likely to be trickier than just adding a cap to the number of assisted drones.

Plus who uses them, honestly. Aside from people ratting with assisted fighters, which really does not need a buff for numbers as much as they need to totally unfuckup fighters in the first place, fighters are incredibly useless. A sentry carrier is likely to do more damage with sentries than with fighters FFS when POS bashing.