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Gecko ? Super drones?
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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#81 - 2014-05-05 08:30:55 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've clearly not seen the ad where Brian interrupts the couple out dogging then.

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Owen Levanth
Sagittarius Unlimited Exploration
#82 - 2014-05-05 09:29:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Owen Levanth
Not A Target wrote:
New BS released looking like a Mini carrier + Mini Fighter drone... Hmmmmm I wonder


Too bad, but the Barghest is a missile ship, like every Mordus-ship.

Edit:

And I'm OK with tthis.

Battleships bonused for drones:

Armageddon (Amarr)
Dominix (Gallente)
Rattlesnake (Faction)
Nestor (Faction)
Redeemer (Amarr)
Sin (Gallente)

Together: 6

Battleships bonused for missiles:

Raven (Caldari)
Navy Scorpion (Caldari)
1/2 of a Ratllesnake (Faction)
Widow (Caldari)
Typhoon (Minmatar)

Together: 4,5

If you take into account that the Navy Raven is just a Raven on steroids, you'll see there is a lot of space for another missile battleship. Especially one that isn't just another Caldari-version.
Bad Pinup
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#83 - 2014-05-05 13:14:50 UTC
Arthur Aihaken wrote:
Free Geckos for everyone on Tuesday (EVE's birthday!) 3 per subscribed account.


This and they said something about an event where players can unlock more for the community. Bear

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Anthar Thebess
#84 - 2014-05-05 13:18:27 UTC
Still it could be nice to see sansha/angel/serpentis drones in their LP store.

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Beofryn Sedorak
#85 - 2014-05-06 01:32:01 UTC
GECKO'S HAVE BEEN RELEASED! and they're ****** AWESOME! xD

THANK YOU CCP!
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#86 - 2014-05-06 01:40:21 UTC
Beofryn Sedorak wrote:
GECKO'S HAVE BEEN RELEASED! and they're ****** AWESOME! xD

THANK YOU CCP!


Confirmed, I have a bunch of them.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#87 - 2014-05-06 01:44:01 UTC
How long before all the Geckos are extinct from being left behind/shot at/reprocessed/trashed?

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#88 - 2014-05-06 01:52:33 UTC
Yang Aurilen wrote:
How long before all the Geckos are extinct from being left behind/shot at/reprocessed/trashed?


I intend to use mine in the rebalanced Rattlesnake, so it will have around forty thousand effective hitpoints.

You tell me.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Beofryn Sedorak
#89 - 2014-05-06 02:01:13 UTC
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Yang Aurilen wrote:
How long before all the Geckos are extinct from being left behind/shot at/reprocessed/trashed?


I intend to use mine in the rebalanced Rattlesnake, so it will have around forty thousand effective hitpoints.

You tell me.


LOL, Nothing like carrying around a cruiser in your pocket :p
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#90 - 2014-05-06 02:05:08 UTC
Beofryn Sedorak wrote:
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:
Yang Aurilen wrote:
How long before all the Geckos are extinct from being left behind/shot at/reprocessed/trashed?


I intend to use mine in the rebalanced Rattlesnake, so it will have around forty thousand effective hitpoints.

You tell me.


LOL, Nothing like carrying around a cruiser in your pocket :p


Oh, it gets worse. It clocks in at twice the base speed of an Ogre II.

And it shoots all damage types, with a 0.53 tracking.

Before skills or modifications.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#91 - 2014-05-06 02:06:33 UTC  |  Edited by: MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Yep, stats haven't changed ..... they're insanely OP.

Use em with an Eos for a laugh, hullbonused for drone damage/tracking/mwd. They mwd around at the speed of light drones, with the tracking of mediums.

Stratios now has 800dps before guns.

VNI/Ishtar hefty dps boost too.

With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.

Biggest winner though? Carriers. 7 Geckos, 1 ogre2, I think they're 1800-1900dps. Dunno how practical this will be for a lot of pve though, they might die before you can lock to rep em.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#92 - 2014-05-06 02:07:59 UTC
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:
Yep, stats haven't changed ..... they're insanely OP.

Use em with an Eos for a laugh, hullbonused for drone damage/tracking/mwd. They mwd around like light drones, with the tracking of mediums.


Yep. Scarcity is the sole balancing point of this drone.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Black Paquiderm
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#93 - 2014-05-06 02:45:33 UTC
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:


With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.



Unless they add RR range bonus to the Rattle i hardly see how to do that in a usefull way...unless you mean using a logi of any kind...in wich case...just use another dps and use sentrys on the Rattle...

Just a reminder, any meaningfull PVE nowadays spawn at 50km+, most big stuff orbit at 20km+ even on L4s...and large RRs t2 have a range of...8km? 9?
Beofryn Sedorak
#94 - 2014-05-06 02:49:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Beofryn Sedorak
Black Paquiderm wrote:
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:


With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.



Unless they add RR range bonus to the Rattle i hardly see how to do that in a usefull way...unless you mean using a logi of any kind...in wich case...just use another dps and use sentrys on the Rattle...

Just a reminder, any meaningfull PVE nowadays spawn at 50km+, most big stuff orbit at 20km+ even on L4s...and large RRs t2 have a range of...8km? 9?


Have you seen how fast these Gecko's are?
Barton Breau
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#95 - 2014-05-06 02:52:16 UTC
Owen Levanth wrote:
Not A Target wrote:
New BS released looking like a Mini carrier + Mini Fighter drone... Hmmmmm I wonder


Too bad, but the Barghest is a missile ship, like every Mordus-ship.

Edit:

And I'm OK with tthis.

Battleships bonused for drones:

Armageddon (Amarr)
Dominix (Gallente)
Rattlesnake (Faction)
Nestor (Faction)
Redeemer (Amarr)
Sin (Gallente)

Together: 6

Battleships bonused for missiles:

Raven (Caldari)
Navy Scorpion (Caldari)
1/2 of a Ratllesnake (Faction)
Widow (Caldari)
Typhoon (Minmatar)

Together: 4,5

If you take into account that the Navy Raven is just a Raven on steroids, you'll see there is a lot of space for another missile battleship. Especially one that isn't just another Caldari-version.


Drones BS: Armageddon, Dominix, Dominix Navy, Rattlesnake, Nestor, Sin == 6
(Redeemer is not bonused)
Missile BS: Raven, Raven Navy, Scorpion Navy, Typhoon, Typhoon navy, Rattlesnake, Widow, GOLEM == 8
(not Rattlesnake 1/2, by that definition every drone bs except domi would be 1/2, and some missile boats too, like scorp, widow, bringing the numbers to 3.5 : 6)

Try again please.
Black Paquiderm
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#96 - 2014-05-06 02:57:10 UTC
Beofryn Sedorak wrote:
Black Paquiderm wrote:
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:


With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.



Unless they add RR range bonus to the Rattle i hardly see how to do that in a usefull way...unless you mean using a logi of any kind...in wich case...just use another dps and use sentrys on the Rattle...

Just a reminder, any meaningfull PVE nowadays spawn at 50km+, most big stuff orbit at 20km+ even on L4s...and large RRs t2 have a range of...8km? 9?


Have you seen how fast these Gecko's are?


Have you seen how sleepers **** drones nowadays?

But lets think about your comment...you say that you plan to call em back and drop em again every time they get agro? even flying at med drone speeds and assuming they survive you lose the travelling dps anyway...again...you are better with sentrys for pve...
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#97 - 2014-05-06 04:43:09 UTC
Black Paquiderm wrote:
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:


With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.



Unless they add RR range bonus to the Rattle i hardly see how to do that in a usefull way...unless you mean using a logi of any kind...in wich case...just use another dps and use sentrys on the Rattle...

Just a reminder, any meaningfull PVE nowadays spawn at 50km+, most big stuff orbit at 20km+ even on L4s...and large RRs t2 have a range of...8km? 9?


you could always team up with a Nestor Roll

On another note, real world Geckos can climb anything except teflon, whats with that ?
Black Paquiderm
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#98 - 2014-05-06 07:25:17 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
Black Paquiderm wrote:
MonkeyMagic Thiesant wrote:


With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.



Unless they add RR range bonus to the Rattle i hardly see how to do that in a usefull way...unless you mean using a logi of any kind...in wich case...just use another dps and use sentrys on the Rattle...

Just a reminder, any meaningfull PVE nowadays spawn at 50km+, most big stuff orbit at 20km+ even on L4s...and large RRs t2 have a range of...8km? 9?


you could always team up with a Nestor Roll

On another note, real world Geckos can climb anything except teflon, whats with that ?


Or...you can use em on a nestor...but who use those xD
And btw...ive seen em used on incursions tonite...they work pretty fine there as they have lower chance to get targeted there...tho going back to the start of this specific subject, there are no rattlers on incur atm...nor nestors...
Antihrist Pripravnik
Cultural Enrichment and Synergy of Diversity
Stain Neurodiverse Democracy
#99 - 2014-05-06 07:33:45 UTC
Got 3 today.

Called one "Gordon".
Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#100 - 2014-05-06 09:11:14 UTC
Awesome drone.

Basic CCP implementation:

- Its in the fighter category (as a faction variant)
- Its lacking the faction triangle at the upperleft.

All forgiven. New toy to play with :)