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Drone ROF skill
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WhyYouHeffToBeMad IsOnlyGame
#1 - 2014-11-08 12:25:45 UTC
Disclaimer: First of all I have to admit I wasn't using the search function so feel free to kill me for it. However I think starting a new thread for this will serve a purpose.

If Gunnery skills include a rate of fire bonus and Missiles also have a skill that increases the ROF - why is there no skill for drone ROF?

For a long time have I wondered why light and medium drones can't reach the DPS of turrets. Now CCP are starting to consider drones as an offense platform equal to all else, I don't see it getting any better without a skill that gives a Rate of Fire bonus to drones to increase their DPS.

I'd love to read comments from other people about this. and thanks for reading o7

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Ix Method
Doomheim
#2 - 2014-11-08 13:12:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Ix Method
Because its a technical ballache, drone damage was explicitly balanced with this limitation in mind. Light Drones aren't as ganky because they project well beyond other light weapons, as they get larger and the range difference diminishes, so does the difference in deeps.

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Omnathious Deninard
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Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-11-08 13:17:15 UTC
This is one of those legacy code things, it breaks the game if they mess with drone ROF. Which is also why the DDA only adds damage.

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Ceawlin Cobon-Han
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-11-08 14:09:33 UTC
Drones load the server at the best of times. If the ROF increases that means more data packets per second to be handled. Not something I'd want.

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Arla Sarain
#5 - 2014-11-08 14:20:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Arla Sarain
They simply do no need to fire more often. Part of the reason drones need no buffs at all is drone assist.

Tristans reach ~400 alpha through drones. 8 tristans, 40 drones assisted, deal 3200 alpha. This may sound like an isolated argument in regards to ROF.
But there is just way too many things drone assist allows.
1 person controlling 8 characters. Only one person requires to lock the primary and minimal interaction is required from the other 7. It's like isboxing without isboxing.
This leads to faster damage response. And the supposed counter (destroying drones) is a double edged sword - you'd have to focus on 2 entities.

If drone assist alone wouldn't exist, then perhaps bar all the technical difficulties, there may have been room for ROF.

As it stands drones simply do not need to fire more often.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#6 - 2014-11-09 01:46:11 UTC
Arla Sarain wrote:
They simply do no need to fire more often. Part of the reason drones need no buffs at all is drone assist.

Tristans reach ~400 alpha through drones. 8 tristans, 40 drones assisted, deal 3200 alpha. This may sound like an isolated argument in regards to ROF.
But there is just way too many things drone assist allows.
1 person controlling 8 characters. Only one person requires to lock the primary and minimal interaction is required from the other 7. It's like isboxing without isboxing.
This leads to faster damage response. And the supposed counter (destroying drones) is a double edged sword - you'd have to focus on 2 entities.

If drone assist alone wouldn't exist, then perhaps bar all the technical difficulties, there may have been room for ROF.

As it stands drones simply do not need to fire more often.


all of this and i just wanted to further point out that with the drone assist as stated only one person needs lock making drone fleets not only remove the scan res problem of larger ships but makes these types of gangs incredibly resistant to Most forms of E-war

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Daenika
Chambers of Shaolin
#7 - 2014-11-09 05:42:41 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
all of this and i just wanted to further point out that with the drone assist as stated only one person needs lock making drone fleets not only remove the scan res problem of larger ships but makes these types of gangs incredibly resistant to Most forms of E-war


Then again, that's also one of the few things keeping ECMs from simply being OP as crap.
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Zansha Expansion
#8 - 2014-11-09 07:06:48 UTC
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