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Excavator Mining Drones Speed
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Meskhenet Talibah
Daai Manufacture and Research
#1 - 2016-10-25 13:48:14 UTC
I just tried using the new mining drones on sisi and their movement speed seems abysmalWith a base speed of 200 m/s they should have a max speed of 275 m/s from skills, assuming a distance from the rorq to the asteroid of 7500 m and the fact that they orbit at ~ 5000 m, they would still need 37 s on average to return to bay.
Considering that they will probably be priced between 500m to 1bil for a full set of Drones, and 7.5 km is on the low end to assume for distance to asteroid, this seems to narrow their use cases a lot.
My question is, do any of you see other ways to make them more useable?
And are they even intended to be used in situations where running the core is too dangerous?
Demolishar
United Aggression
#2 - 2016-10-25 15:29:30 UTC
Fit some drone navigation computers.
Androxian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2016-10-26 01:05:17 UTC
Where did you manage to get the new skill from?
Meskhenet Talibah
Daai Manufacture and Research
#4 - 2016-10-26 08:45:58 UTC
It was seeded in Catch 0.0
Balani
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2016-10-26 12:51:17 UTC
seems that the Industrial Core not gives the Bonus to Drones . Damage and Speed Bonis not applied to the Drones.

with a full set of Ogre2 i got ~ 450DPS the core not gives bonus far away from the 2000dps^^
Man v Food
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-12-02 20:29:09 UTC
all in all if you are thinking of getting/using the new excavator drone i would hold off on the idea,,completely useless takes far too long to recall them in unfriendly situations..

if these drones were ment to passify the miners for making them stick their boosting ship in a belt .i would consider myself penetrated

GJ ccp, screwing over the miners..