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ll Kuray ll
Space Wolves ind.
Solyaris Chtonium
#1 - 2015-09-11 20:27:02 UTC
Is there a special bell and whistle that tells you how far your drones can be controlled?
NovaCat13
Ember Interstellar Inc.
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#2 - 2015-09-11 20:34:18 UTC
Trying to send them outside your range tells you how far the range is... EFT tells you how far your range is... I do not know of any plain as day ways to find that info in game.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#3 - 2015-09-11 20:39:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.
Athryn Bellee
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2015-09-11 21:12:24 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2015-09-11 21:43:41 UTC
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?

Because eve and **** you that's why.




Actually they plan on putting this in the new fitting screen.

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Paranoid Loyd
#6 - 2015-09-11 21:45:10 UTC
Thinking is hard, math is harder. Roll

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#7 - 2015-09-11 21:51:55 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


::effort::

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Logan Revelore
Symbiotic Systems
#8 - 2015-09-11 21:53:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Logan Revelore
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


They shouldn't. I consider the lack of drone control range info as a long standing oversight from the devs.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#9 - 2015-09-11 22:18:21 UTC
Logan Revelore wrote:

They shouldn't. I consider that lack of drone control range info as a long standing oversight from the devs.


Petition them to change this, and bung this in while you're at it please.


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The Troll Bridge
#10 - 2015-09-11 23:03:49 UTC
Didnt the tactical overlay show drone range?





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Yang Aurilen
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#11 - 2015-09-11 23:27:15 UTC
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


So my range is 4000*5+4000*3+20+0(assume unbonused)=32020 arbitrary units?

PS out down the units next time Roll

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Athryn Bellee
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#12 - 2015-09-12 00:42:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Athryn Bellee
Yang Aurilen wrote:
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


So my range is 4000*5+4000*3+20+0(assume unbonused)=32020 arbitrary units?

PS out down the units next time Roll


Meters, just like everything else? Drone Avionics is 5000 meters and Advanced Drone Avionics is 3000 meters, and the base range is 20km. So your range would be 54000 meters.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#13 - 2015-09-12 00:51:00 UTC
Yang Aurilen wrote:
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


So my range is 4000*5+4000*3+20+0(assume unbonused)=32020 arbitrary units?

PS out down the units next time Roll

If you have drone avionics at level 4000 and Advanced Drone Avionics at level 4000, you aren't playing Eve.

(4 x 5km) + (4 x 3km) + 20km = 52 km base with no bonus

Brackets only added for clarity
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#14 - 2015-09-12 00:53:15 UTC
Yang Aurilen wrote:
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


So my range is 4000*5+4000*3+20+0(assume unbonused)=32020 arbitrary units?

PS out down the units next time Roll


clearly in foot pounds per AU all over the average air speed of an unladen swallow Roll

at least eve doesn't let us switch between imperial and metric.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#15 - 2015-09-12 01:51:36 UTC
Chainsaw Plankton wrote:
clearly in foot pounds per AU all over the average air speed of an unladen swallow Roll
African or European?

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#16 - 2015-09-12 01:56:41 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Chainsaw Plankton wrote:
clearly in foot pounds per AU all over the average air speed of an unladen swallow Roll
African or European?



That depends on the location of the OP
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#17 - 2015-09-12 03:05:42 UTC
Yang Aurilen wrote:
Athryn Bellee wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Simple maths?

Drone Avionics × 5 + Advanced Drone Avionics × 3 + 20 + Ship/module bonuses.


You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?


So my range is 4000*5+4000*3+20+0(assume unbonused)=32020 arbitrary units?

PS out down the units next time Roll


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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#18 - 2015-09-12 09:24:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Athryn Bellee wrote:
You don't need to do math to figure out your falloff or missile range anymore, so why should drones be the exception?

Sure you do, but it's a highly variable number that depends on all kinds of things so there needs to be some way of knowing what it is under these particular circumstances, whereas DCR is a highly fixed and invariable number that's easy to memorise across all your ships.
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#19 - 2015-09-12 09:53:30 UTC
And it would take all of two minutes to code.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#20 - 2015-09-12 10:10:18 UTC
Primary This Rifter wrote:
And it would take all of two minutes to code.

In something as ancient and crufty as the tactical view? I wouldn't bet on it. P

At the same time, it takes all of two seconds to just commit your range to memory and look at the overview.
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