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What are "advanced" drones
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Swift Namida
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-12-30 18:02:39 UTC
The skill books for the XX Drone Specialization reads, "...bonus to advanced XX drone damage..."

I can find no reference to the word "advanced" in any of the drone descriptions. Is this refering to tech II drones (i.e Hornet II or Vespa II)? Or is this meaning Heavy Scout drones (i.e. Ogre, Wasp)? Or, the fighter-level drones?

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J Kunjeh
#2 - 2011-12-30 18:23:21 UTC
I do believe "advanced" is a reference to Tech II drones.

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Sun'Mar Raholan
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-12-30 19:04:58 UTC
J Kunjeh wrote:
I do believe "advanced" is a reference to Tech II drones.


It is indeed T2 drones.

There are also some quite expensive faction drones too.
Kosetzu
The Black Crow Bandits
Northern Coalition.
#4 - 2011-12-30 20:49:51 UTC
If you look at the requirements for T2 drones you'll see that they need [Faction] specialization to be used.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#5 - 2011-12-30 22:00:28 UTC
Sun'Mar Raholan wrote:
J Kunjeh wrote:
I do believe "advanced" is a reference to Tech II drones.


It is indeed T2 drones.

There are also some quite expensive faction drones too.


Augmented, to be specific. Both Augmented and T2 benefit from the spec skill. T1, integrated, and faction drones do not. Neither do sentries of any type; they are linked to Sentry Drone Interfacing instead.
Bibosikus
Air
#6 - 2011-12-30 22:13:46 UTC
^
Spot on.

And since the OP mentioned them..

Even though they are listed in the "Combat Drone" tree, Fighters & Fighter Bombers aren't true drones. They're supposedly manned spacecraft. So their dps is only affected by the Fighter & Fighter Bomber skills respectively (as well as ship bonuses ofc).

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Hans Tria
Dark Matter Inc
#7 - 2011-12-31 11:02:24 UTC
Bibosikus wrote:
^
Spot on.

And since the OP mentioned them..

Even though they are listed in the "Combat Drone" tree, Fighters & Fighter Bombers aren't true drones. They're supposedly manned spacecraft. So their dps is only affected by the Fighter & Fighter Bomber skills respectively (as well as ship bonuses ofc).


Not to hijack, but does this also mean that fighters / fighter bombers are unaffected by drone support skills, such as drone navigation, durability, etc.?
Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
WE FORM V0LTA
#8 - 2011-12-31 12:15:22 UTC
Hans Tria wrote:
Bibosikus wrote:
^
Spot on.

And since the OP mentioned them..

Even though they are listed in the "Combat Drone" tree, Fighters & Fighter Bombers aren't true drones. They're supposedly manned spacecraft. So their dps is only affected by the Fighter & Fighter Bomber skills respectively (as well as ship bonuses ofc).


Not to hijack, but does this also mean that fighters / fighter bombers are unaffected by drone support skills, such as drone navigation, durability, etc.?

Yes.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#9 - 2011-12-31 21:00:10 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
Sun'Mar Raholan wrote:
J Kunjeh wrote:
I do believe "advanced" is a reference to Tech II drones.


It is indeed T2 drones.

There are also some quite expensive faction drones too.
Augmented, to be specific. Both Augmented and T2 benefit from the spec skill. T1, integrated, and faction drones do not. Neither do sentries of any type; they are linked to Sentry Drone Interfacing instead.

^^ Those.

In a wonderful case of circular logic, the “advanced drones” referenced in the drone spec skills are the drones that require the drone spec skill in question. It might as well have said “provides a bonus to drones that use this skill”, because that's exactly how the skill works.

Any drone that has a specialisation skill as one of its prerequisites gets bonuses from that skill; any drone that hasn't, doesn't.