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Gecko ? Super drones?
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Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#41 - 2014-04-28 19:14:32 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:

Not to worry. All the heavy combat drones have "Heavy Attack Drone" in their descriptions.

Also, shut up before you give CCP any ideas.




hahahha

since I've joined eve 3 skills got split into number of new ones...
Destroyer (got to 5 before change) \ BC (only got that one to 4) and now combat drone operation (got that to V) so I get free skill points who cares ? :P

And I really wish they'll make T1 high sec carriers :P
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#42 - 2014-04-28 21:41:06 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
Elisk Skyforge wrote:
So I just found this in heavy drones category! looks like a super drone with a 50mbit bandwidth requirement...Just search "Gecko" in the market...What do you guys think it is ?

screenie: http://i.imgur.com/fNT9nJD.jpg


It's not a combat drone, it's an advertising drone. You launch it and it tells you enemies about how they can save 15% on their car insurance in 15 minutes. Thus distracted by their greed, they won't notice when you warp off.


HI! MY NAME IS BRIAN!

I CAN SAVE YOU

POUNDS!

CON-FUSED DAT CAM!


Meerkats > Brian tbh


I would pay to see that fight

Simples

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#43 - 2014-04-28 21:55:56 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:

Also, since pretty much every "ship" type game is based on WWII ship classes


Except if Battleships are battleships, then Marauders are dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts are um....

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Aracimia Wolfe
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#44 - 2014-04-28 22:08:07 UTC
I am pretty sure a mini carrier using those babies would actually make parts of my body implode then explode in a nuclear reaction of unequivocal joy

Kill it with Fire!

stoicfaux
#45 - 2014-04-28 22:19:46 UTC
Aracimia Wolfe wrote:
I am pretty sure a mini carrier using those babies would actually make parts of my body implode then explode in a nuclear reaction of unequivocal joy

Oh yeah. EVE spaceship pornography. Bonus points since I can use it as my desktop background without initiating an HR/wife intervention.


Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#46 - 2014-04-30 19:58:03 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Except if Battleships are battleships, then Marauders are dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts are um....
Attack battlecruisers are like WWII dreadnoughts.

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Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Rikanin
Mining Reloaded
The Commonwealth.
#47 - 2014-04-30 20:27:09 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter launched by carriers.


Looks more like a dragonfly to me
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#48 - 2014-04-30 21:19:51 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
Elisk Skyforge wrote:
So I just found this in heavy drones category! looks like a super drone with a 50mbit bandwidth requirement...Just search "Gecko" in the market...What do you guys think it is ?

screenie: http://i.imgur.com/fNT9nJD.jpg


It's not a combat drone, it's an advertising drone. You launch it and it tells you enemies about how they can save 15% on their car insurance in 15 minutes. Thus distracted by their greed, they won't notice when you warp off.


HI! MY NAME IS BRIAN!

I CAN SAVE YOU

POUNDS!

CON-FUSED DAT CAM!


Meerkats > Brian tbh


You know guys had I not been off to England for work for the last summer I would have no clue on what you two are going on about though you could add in the admiral for extra confusion.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#49 - 2014-04-30 21:30:18 UTC
Nerdgasm incoming....


Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#50 - 2014-04-30 21:33:41 UTC
anyone notice the damage profile? 32 for each type
Chopper Rollins
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
#51 - 2014-04-30 22:02:49 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
...
Either it's a work in progress/place holder, or CCP has lost their minds. Hopefully it's the latter.


Porque no dos?



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Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#52 - 2014-04-30 22:19:36 UTC
Just announce the highsec carrier already with subsystem which make it either booster \ combat \ mining ship mod and call it T3 bs.

Then after I'll switch my pants due to excitement I'll get 3.
Daniel Fergus
Molon Labe.
#53 - 2014-05-01 01:58:16 UTC
Here is another picture.
stoicfaux
#54 - 2014-05-01 02:36:32 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
Uh-oh... the Gecko may need more QA time. You have twenty seconds to comply.

edit: fixed link. Oops

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Erufen Rito
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#55 - 2014-05-01 02:45:40 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Looks like a fighter with cockpit. Maybe it's for Valkyrie.

Edit: Checked Variations and it seems to be a faction Dragonfly.

Seeing as to how Valkyrie will NOT be implemented into Eve, you are wrong.

This is as nice as I get. Best quote ever https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4137165#post4137165
Hevymetal
POT Corp
#56 - 2014-05-01 03:29:30 UTC
It sure does look promising. The potential for this new class is awesome. They are making them bigger, faster, stronger. But are they any smarter then the current "Dumb as a box of rocks" AI?
Komodo Askold
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#57 - 2014-05-02 17:28:49 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
I'm beginning to think the Gecko is "real" (i.e. hybrid fighter/drone.) The Giving Drones an Assist dev blog specifically mentions Guristas faction mods for drones. We have the Guristas super drones concept in the summer pirate ships overhaul. CCP Explorer just stated that Omni's moving to a 30 second cycle was for performance reasons. Then we have the "void" in ship classes. Etc.

So if CCP is overhauling and otherwise paying so much attention to Guristas and drones, we very well may see some kind of pirate sub-cap combat carrier based on "heavy drones" instead of current paradigm of RR capital carriers with fighters and/or sentries.

And I'll go out on a limb and say that if this "pocket carrier" is successful, they'll expand it to the Empires as one step along the road to "fixing" caps/super-caps.


Also, since pretty much every "ship" type game is based on WWII ship classes, CCP has probably realized that a carrier sub-cap ship available to the masses (err pubbies) would be a hit.

Pocket carriers... Über drones... *drools*
Dominus Tempus
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#58 - 2014-05-02 17:30:26 UTC
Man, you're late to the party.
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#59 - 2014-05-02 17:37:19 UTC
Special heavy drone and everyone gets 3+ of them. Interesting. Perfect for the super drones in a Rattler.

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Wulfgar WarHammer
Unrustled
#60 - 2014-05-02 17:40:03 UTC
whats the CPU on them