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Drone Hub Dispenser
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DrysonBennington
Eagle's Talon's
#1 - 2014-02-15 21:21:29 UTC
I think it would be rather cool to have a Drone Hub Dispenser that could be anchored only to the Mobile Depot. The Drone Hub Dispenser would have a drone bay of 250 m3 and 100 mb / sec of bandwidth for drone control. The DHD would be opened just like a regular drone bay on a ship is where the drones are deployed and then set respectively to their need which would include combat, mining or salvaging.

The DHD would have its own salvage cargo bay of 250 m3 and a ore bay of 500 m3.

The advantages are quite obvious especially in high sector due to the current situation with the Miner's Rights Brigades trying to enforce their sanctions over otherwise free resources.
Daoden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-02-16 00:13:57 UTC
So you want to make every ship become a drone boat? Pretty sure that would break the balance of the entire game
Veritaal
Veri-Tech Tax Haven
#3 - 2014-02-16 01:38:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Veritaal
I understand what you are trying to do : Make highsec safer for AFK mining.

But installing a module that would shatter virtually every aspect of the game isn't the way to go, mkay?

I'm imagining a drone assist blob that ALSO has these things anchored... TIDI away!

*edit*

Let them deploy only mining/salvage drones.... that's something I could get behind. It'd go well with my mobile tractor.
Arden Elenduil
Unlimited Bear Works
#4 - 2014-02-16 07:34:42 UTC
how about no...
djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#5 - 2014-02-16 09:00:11 UTC
To list the amount of things that this would break would take me hours.

I'll just do the TL;DR version. No.
DSpite Culhach
#6 - 2014-02-16 10:18:47 UTC
Well, if we are just throwing out whacky ideas:

If It takes up a high slot to mount the control module, can be shot by anyone without CONCORD intervention, and can only be deployed in places you cant anchor normal containers space, it might be a start.

I'd least it would gimp most mining barges and make the low end ones impossible to use.

I apparently have no idea what I'm doing.
Zan Shiro
Doomheim
#7 - 2014-02-16 13:13:01 UTC
Daoden wrote:
So you want to make every ship become a drone boat? Pretty sure that would break the balance of the entire game



This would be the issue. Marauder redo for example. Many took a drone hit. Reason being ccp wanted them to be high slot weapon for primary dps.

Or even vanilla t1 bs. My poor rokh has had minimal drone ability for a while. But it be for good reason. Even lacking drone bonuses 425 II rokh with bouncer II's (for added lr fire) in the past would have been a bit much firepower at range in the past. With omni changes I can't say how valid this is but I am sure some could get creative still here.
Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-02-16 13:54:09 UTC
DrysonBennington wrote:
The advantages are quite obvious especially in high sector due to the current situation with the Miner's Rights Brigades trying to enforce their sanctions over otherwise free resources.


Mining barges have drone bays?
DrysonBennington
Eagle's Talon's
#9 - 2014-02-17 00:21:05 UTC
Zan Shiro wrote:
Daoden wrote:
So you want to make every ship become a drone boat? Pretty sure that would break the balance of the entire game



This would be the issue. Marauder redo for example. Many took a drone hit. Reason being ccp wanted them to be high slot weapon for primary dps.

Or even vanilla t1 bs. My poor rokh has had minimal drone ability for a while. But it be for good reason. Even lacking drone bonuses 425 II rokh with bouncer II's (for added lr fire) in the past would have been a bit much firepower at range in the past. With omni changes I can't say how valid this is but I am sure some could get creative still here.


Exactly Zan Shiro its all about getting creative with something that your ship doesn't have.

Perhaps to make it a little more difficult to use why not pay for the Depot?

Take for example a combat ship that does not have drone capability. The pilot could pay a certain amount of ISK to have a certain number of drone and drone type dispatched too her or his aid. At the end of the allotted time the drones return to the Depot.

If any of the drones are destroyed then the pilot also has to pay a replacement fee for the lost drones.

Maybe 5,000,000 ISK for five medium T2 Drones for three hours. If the drone is lost then the pilot pays what 650,000 ISK to have it replaced?

There would be a max number of pilots that would be able to use the Drone Depot that would vary with the type of Drone Depot Deployed.

Small Drone Depot - small drones of any type and a limit of 10 pilots
Medium Drone Depot - small and medium drones of any type and a limit of 12 pilots
Large Drone Depot - small, medium and large drones of any type and a limit of 10 pilots

To be able to use the Drone Depot you would have to learn the Drone Depot skill to level three in order to be able to use the Small Drone Depot and the you would have to learn the Small Drone Depot to level one to use small combat drones, Drone Depot four to use Small Drone Depot small drones level two which would be ECM drones and so forth.