Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If you did this, you'd also have to allow combat drones to engage the owners ship, which should create some hilarious team speak moments...

When do we get Shield Regen Drones?

I don't log on to EVE. I log out of Real World Sim.

I like it. +1

Real men hull tank. Each other.

I assume you will not be able to use these to repair the ship that actually launches the drones.

Nope, bad balance changes/suggestions (in this case) make for some interesting possibilities such as what I mentioned above. But for your edification
before implants

~200dps within scram/webx2 range
> 950 ehp/s rep
relatively safe from neuts


Would chew through frigs, assfrigs, dessies and possibly cruisers (slower) with ease. In fact, if this were possible I'd lol-about through LS and 00 nightly picking fights because it would be ridiculously funny.

So in short (even though I'd love it if possible), No.

You also seem to not realize that this setup would make an immensely useful tackle setup.
Tackle ship
deploy heavies for >500 dps
while repping >800 ehp/s...
tackled ship calls assistance
pull heavies
deploy med armor rep drones
hold out even longer for your friends to arrive
redeploy heavies
drown in tears about op self-rep drones

So many fun applications would result from this broken setup.

while your adding these drones, can you make sure they all continue to "engage" their target? Unlike certain webber drones you recently added which tend to give up on life after catching their target.

Heh - now if only you didn't need to get close to an online ship array to swap drones in the cargo bay to the drone bay.
As long as you got to do that its still as much hassle as swapping in a hull repair module.

Overall when I think about it swapping modules will remain my first choice for wh structure repair on ships. Drones help with POS guns though by giving you options to keep fighting at some level while repairing or able to immediately duck back under POS shields. Though I understand CCP is considering adding a combat cooldown counter to keep you from exploiting POS shields to evade PVP (new thinking that POS shields are only supposed to protect POS modules and ships in the process of launching/boarding from hangars). That would make drone repair less desirable.

Hmmm...drones can't repair your own ship but can they repair an unpiloted ship? For those times when you are the only one around that would be nice.

Of course drones are useless under the POS shields. So really hull repair drones only help repair buddies and reduce your available DPS during use. And for repairing your own ship they are useless... unless they work on unpiloted ships and you willing to do something awkward and dangerous outside the POS shield involving your damaged and unpiloted ship.

CCP Fozzie, have you or are you considering allowing players to assign logi drones to their own ships?

Fozzie, these *must* be Minmatar drone models! The Minmatar have an intimate familiarity with fiddling with hull bits to make their ships even work! This travesty must be corrected!