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MIning barges and exhumer : lock and mining range
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Covering YrBack
Watch your six
Ferrata Victrix
#21 - 2016-10-06 16:48:02 UTC
Daichi Yamato wrote:
Caldari 5 wrote:

If he's Launching Drones after being attacked then he's most likely not AFK.

NPCs have a nasty habit of attacking drone first if you leave them out, so if you're active you typically keep combat drones in your bay, when NPCs arrive you recall your mining drones if you have them out, and then deploy combat drones to attack the NPCs, chances are that the NPCs attack before you release your combat drones and then if the NPCs don't come within Targeting range then your combat drones just idle and don't attack and you can't tell them to attack.

It doesn't take much additional range to be able to target the NPCs normally covered by the Passive Bonus from the Information warfare skill, which is going away in november.


On the contrary, if hes launching drones after being attacked hes probably coming back from being afk or alt tabbed.

If he was active he'd have switched drones before the npc's start moving (they sit idle after landing). The other thing is, isn't he about to get an orca, porpoise or rorqual that he can assign all his barges drones to and then use them to hit NPCs that kite out of range?

There's a thought though. Mining drone assist...


if you have 7 exhumers launching drones take time. some npc attack from long range futher than 42 km. rorquals are kept under force field atm
Paranoid Loyd
#22 - 2016-10-06 21:27:17 UTC
Roll

If you can run 7 accounts, why not run 8? Then you could have dedicated protection for your army of alts or you know only run 6 exhumers instead of 7.

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Caldari 5
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Affirmative.
#23 - 2016-10-10 02:29:37 UTC
Covering YrBack wrote:
Daichi Yamato wrote:
Caldari 5 wrote:

If he's Launching Drones after being attacked then he's most likely not AFK.

NPCs have a nasty habit of attacking drone first if you leave them out, so if you're active you typically keep combat drones in your bay, when NPCs arrive you recall your mining drones if you have them out, and then deploy combat drones to attack the NPCs, chances are that the NPCs attack before you release your combat drones and then if the NPCs don't come within Targeting range then your combat drones just idle and don't attack and you can't tell them to attack.

It doesn't take much additional range to be able to target the NPCs normally covered by the Passive Bonus from the Information warfare skill, which is going away in november.


On the contrary, if hes launching drones after being attacked hes probably coming back from being afk or alt tabbed.

If he was active he'd have switched drones before the npc's start moving (they sit idle after landing). The other thing is, isn't he about to get an orca, porpoise or rorqual that he can assign all his barges drones to and then use them to hit NPCs that kite out of range?

There's a thought though. Mining drone assist...


if you have 7 exhumers launching drones take time. some npc attack from long range futher than 42 km. rorquals are kept under force field atm

not empty quoting
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