Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm detecting sarcasm here, but there really shouldn't be. Drones tend to be controlled as a group, rather than individually, a mod that reps them as such seems reasonable. Drones aren't your fleetmates, they're your guns. Can you imagine having to lock up your own guns in order to, say, reload them?


Drones as a whole need more options, because as it stands the main reason drone ships are viable is that they can fit guns/neuts in their highs to compensate for the fact that drones as weapons are just not very good. If I want to fit a gank domi, why does it have to entail blasters? The ishtar is something of an exception to this, but then the whole reason it's viable is that they gave it the drone bay of a BS, so that illustrates the problem rather nicely. The only ship that's good solely by virtue of its drones is one that gets oversized drones.Give them a high slot mod that ups the various types of drone damage, make it use some cap so you don't get crazy overtanked domis and to keep ishtars from fitting heavy drone damage mods, Problem solved.


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Well yes every time. For the simple reason that I never need to recall my drones to rep them. Remote armor repper range being 8.4 kms - anything farther out than that is being shot by sentries, anything that's closer is within repping range. Also - I never use medium drones on a Domi.


The idea of a module that reps all drones without targetting is of course lovely for a drone user, but ah... either it's going to be useless (your drones die anyhow) or way OP (your drones are tanking!), I don't really see there being a viable balance point to it.


Regarding the drone damage - I stand by the idea that using a command drone to increase drone damage is the most viable way to go, at least from the balance point of view.

keep in mine only gallente ships get that boost, all other races so called drone boats fail in comparsion to most frigates/destroyers

bandwidth needs a check on drone boats as well..most you can use is 5 medium drones(except gallente) that range from 25 to 50 bandwidth--

A re-think of the Gallente gang links so they support drone use could be interesting. It might make Gallente command ships interesting again, although it would need careful balancing I could see it having some uses.

I don't agree that a drone repair module is dumb though

Fact is that most drones have so few hp's anyway that it'll never make a drone invulnerable and if balanced properly it wouldn't overpower a domi. After all it's pinching a high slot, grid and CPU off the domi as well as cap so is going to limit fits. I'd see it as a PVE module mainly.

More drone module options for hi-slots is a good suggestion.

Especially for the Ishtar / Gila with their two utility hi-slots.

+1
-Drone Bay Capacity
-Drone Bandwidth
-Fighter upgrade rigs

first, i would like to see this. +1

second:

if this really became an issue, then two possible options, would be to rebalance drone boats, with less turret capacity, OR: have drone damage modules fit into high slots (as suggested; probably the simple solution).
-or even another suggestion, (doubt you guys are going to like it though), maybe have drone damage modules, have a turret AND missile launcher nerf on it? ex. 5% increase in rate of fire per module?
-or the other side of the suggestion, would be to strait up nerf the drone boats specifically, decreasing their effectiveness in both turrets and missiles (it would have to be an omni nerf, and not just against lets say rails)(and im not sure i like this idea, just comming up with solutions)..

True, but not all drone boats have that capabilty