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I have a magical drone :P
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Keno Skir
#1 - 2016-01-07 11:37:08 UTC
To keep it short :

1. Got in a fight.

2. At end of fight (rather quick fight) noticed one of my drones had disconnected from the flight and was sitting still in space all green in my overview.

3. Thought it was weird but scooped it back to drone bay and went back to station for some repairs.

4. Was about to press REPAIR ALL button when i noticed something strange...

How can my drone have sustained 103.6% damage (maths broken), have 0 HP left and yet still be scoopable and repairable?

The drone definitely received no reps throughout so that doesn't explain the percentage.

What am i missing people?

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Ralph King-Griffin
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#2 - 2016-01-07 11:55:47 UTC
Keno Skir
#3 - 2016-01-07 11:57:43 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
skills?


Thanks it is a pretty bad ass move but i'm not entirely sure i can take credit yet ;)

Is there a skill that allows more than 100% damage? Or drones to not blow up when they hit 0hp? Not that i'm aware of at least, tho i'm open to being educated.

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ergherhdfgh
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Amarr Empire
#4 - 2016-01-07 12:16:42 UTC
a 2011 character in a faction BS asking questions that don't seem to be entry level in the NC Q&A?

To me this question seems like it would fit better in GD or Ships and Modules in the Gameplay center. You might want to try posting or having this moved there. You might get more / better responses.

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Keno Skir
#5 - 2016-01-07 12:22:09 UTC
ergherhdfgh wrote:
a 2011 character in a faction BS asking questions that don't seem to be entry level in the NC Q&A?

To me this question seems like it would fit better in GD or Ships and Modules in the Gameplay center. You might want to try posting or having this moved there. You might get more / better responses.


I'm really just talking to a few helpful older folk i know hang out here. I was away a few months so there is potential this is a new feature / mechanic i'm not aware of. NPQA is the correct place for it in my opinion :)

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Memphis Baas
#6 - 2016-01-07 14:00:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
Some of the drone skills that you train, and also some of the bonuses for the drone ships will say "20% bonus to the hitpoints and damage of any drones" or something like that. I guess the repair window looks at the basic drone stats, not at the final drone stats after being enhanced by your skills and ship, when it calculates the "percent damage".

The same thing can happen with your ship; if you get damaged all the way down to the 1% range, the only thing holding your ship together is literally your trained skills (skills in the Armor and Hull category give you bonuses to the hitpoints of the ship). You dock into station, and it won't let you switch to another ship, because as soon as you leave the skills would stop applying and the ship would explode. So you must repair it first.

Drones "disconnect" like that when they go out of range. Typically your drone skills give you about 20 km of range, and then you're relying on ship bonuses or on Drone Link Augmentor modules in the high slots to gain extra range. A tactic used by fast ships (especially interceptors, they love to do this) is to fly out to 80-100 km to drag any drones on them out of range, then fly back to your ship to continue warp disrupting or attacking you.
Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#7 - 2016-01-07 16:00:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Iria Ahrens
Memphis Baas wrote:

A tactic used by fast ships (especially interceptors, they love to do this) is to fly out to 80-100 km to drag any drones on them out of range, then fly back to your ship to continue warp disrupting or attacking you.


Good to know, never had this technique used on me yet. Also, didn't know it was a technique I could use. Makes sense. Easy to counter once you are aware of the tactic.

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Paranoid Loyd
#8 - 2016-01-07 16:25:39 UTC
Memphis Baas wrote:
the repair window looks at the basic drone stats, not at the final drone stats after being enhanced by your skills and ship

This

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Solecist Project
#9 - 2016-01-07 16:42:44 UTC
Keno Skir wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
skills?


Thanks it is a pretty bad ass move but i'm not entirely sure i can take credit yet ;)

lol nice one :D

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Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#10 - 2016-01-07 17:42:44 UTC
The other day I got in a fight with some delightful chaps in a myrmidon and prophecy and ended up killing both of them. It was the strangest occurance. Here I am flying around looting the field and I realize his silly little drones are still shooting me! Shocked

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Centis Adjani
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#11 - 2016-01-07 18:16:49 UTC
Cara Forelli wrote:
The other day I got in a fight with some delightful chaps in a myrmidon and prophecy and ended up killing both of them. It was the strangest occurance. Here I am flying around looting the field and I realize his silly little drones are still shooting me! Shocked

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Keno Skir
#12 - 2016-01-07 18:22:32 UTC
Good points everyone. Extra info, there is 0 chance the drone ever went out of range. I have max drone skills and the fight took place at no further than 10km at any time. Interesting point about the drone window, gonna have to test it out.

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