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Drones, self destructing, and renaming.
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Billionaire Carebear
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-01-03 02:49:59 UTC
So why cant I tell a drone to self destruct?
So why cant I rename individual drones?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law http://krypto451.deviantart.com/art/Care-Bears-Spanking-168001373 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Uu1yD-v0  George Carlin "They're Just Words."
Hungry Eyes
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-01-03 10:17:02 UTC
they dont care about drones
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#3 - 2012-01-03 10:26:21 UTC
1 Abandon it, wait for DT > Dead Drone
2. Why'd you want to?

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Vile Coyote
Deep Space Legacy
#4 - 2012-01-03 12:38:13 UTC
Billionaire Carebear wrote:
So why cant I tell a drone to self destruct?
So why cant I rename individual drones?

Why can't I see which Warrior II is damaged when they are all back to the bay ?
Why do they sometimes attack different target even though "focus fire" is selected ?
Why are light drones AI so dumb it can keep overshooting back and forth its target for hours with MWD on ?
Why do I have to train Drone navigation (and to a lesser extend, sharpshooting) even though it emphasizes the problem above and actually reduces the light drone applied DPS ?
Why do they always seem so eager on switching to the trigger NPC in missions ?
Why are "assist" and "guard" so obscure and broken ? And exceedingly annoying to set up in a large fleet ?
dashx747
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-01-03 17:52:42 UTC
Maybe the drones are going rogue?
Leetha Layne
#6 - 2012-01-03 18:17:11 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
1 Abandon it, wait for DT > Dead Drone
2. Why'd you want to?
So you will have friends?
Billionaire Carebear
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-01-03 18:23:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Billionaire Carebear
Leetha Layne wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
1 Abandon it, wait for DT > Dead Drone
2. Why'd you want to?
So you will have friends?


Pride! - "My drone 'Fred' over there, well I have had him for 3 years now - best drone I ever owned. He gets beat up but he always survives, and I just patch him up and put him back in the bay. Good old Fred."

EDIT:
And as for the self destruct - well ... don't it make you feel good to tell something to blow itself up on your command? Maybe that drone is just no good and can't hit the broad side of a barn? Maybe you just wanna scare somebody real good by sneaking a drone up next to their ship and BOOM they scramble to find out what happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law http://krypto451.deviantart.com/art/Care-Bears-Spanking-168001373 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Uu1yD-v0  George Carlin "They're Just Words."
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#8 - 2012-01-03 19:13:13 UTC
Vile Coyote wrote:

Why do they always seem so eager on switching to the trigger NPC in missions ?

This one in particular I always find funny... well except when its my drones that do it...
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#9 - 2012-01-04 00:05:08 UTC
Billionaire Carebear wrote:

EDIT:
And as for the self destruct - well ... don't it make you feel good to tell something to blow itself up on your command? Maybe that drone is just no good and can't hit the broad side of a barn? Maybe you just wanna scare somebody real good by sneaking a drone up next to their ship and BOOM they scramble to find out what happened.


It does. And the old brown paper bag trick given an Eve context. Almost as good an Idea as snowball launchers (I would spend so much money on snowballs and I'd be living in hisec until I couldn't throw them anymore).

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Khrage
#10 - 2012-01-04 12:52:23 UTC
Billionaire Carebear wrote:
Leetha Layne wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
1 Abandon it, wait for DT > Dead Drone
2. Why'd you want to?
So you will have friends?


Pride! - "My drone 'Fred' over there, well I have had him for 3 years now - best drone I ever owned. He gets beat up but he always survives, and I just patch him up and put him back in the bay. Good old Fred."


i laughed. :)
Rel'k Bloodlor
Federation Front Line Report
Federation Front Line
#11 - 2012-01-04 12:56:29 UTC
I too wish to name the random "agmented" hornet II I got from a carrier kill years ago.
His name would be Billy and you would fear his speed and split damage types.....till you smart bombed him at least.

I wanted to paint my space ship red, but I couldn't find enough goats. 
barbara1234
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2012-01-05 00:29:42 UTC
Vile Coyote wrote:
Billionaire Carebear wrote:
So why cant I tell a drone to self destruct?
So why cant I rename individual drones?

Why can't I see which Warrior II is damaged when they are all back to the bay ?
Why do they sometimes attack different target even though "focus fire" is selected ?
Why are light drones AI so dumb it can keep overshooting back and forth its target for hours with MWD on ?
Why do I have to train Drone navigation (and to a lesser extend, sharpshooting) even though it emphasizes the problem above and actually reduces the light drone applied DPS ?
Why do they always seem so eager on switching to the trigger NPC in missions ?
Why are "assist" and "guard" so obscure and broken ? And exceedingly annoying to set up in a large fleet ?


Make a group called damaged drones, move drones into this group as they get damaged, win.