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Nice , can i also get a 'compress ore' assigned to some key , TIA

... so repair will not be taxable?

now i know they could just undock and tether but i feel this should still be an option for station owners

Huzzah!

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Like other people have pointed, does this mean there will finally be keyboard shortcuts to select fighter groups ?
If not then i'm honestly bamboozled why you're spending time on those other shortcuts first :/

Would be nice to get a response on this :)

This may not be worth it from the time-savings or ergonomics point of view, but how about the "launch drones" shortcut then be followed with a number indicating which group you want to launch? E.g., if your shortcut is "Alt-L" then "Alt-L 1" launches the top group on the list. Since drone groups are all ordered alphabetically it shouldn't be too hard for the user to keep the numbers straight when moving between ships.

And how about a shortcut for abandoning drones?

I think drone favorites should be per ship. Drone layouts change on every ship. Different drone bay sizes.... etc.

+1 to that

so, you guys are working on drones, good thing i met you.

few more great ideas:

drones warping with the contriller ship & auto - scoop when docking / jumping gate/brige
example,
if i cleared down the combat site and warped to another - my drones will warp with me, and they will land with me (not in front of me or after me) like players do during fleetwarp.
if i got pointed while aligning for warp - my drones will stay with me.
if i got disconnected - they will warp and come back into dronebay
if i jump into the gate/brige or dock - drones will return to dronebay (like scan probes are returning to cargo hold)

for drones in grid - adding state like "approaching" - when they are on their way to the target

activating auto-aggro when f pressed
fro example, if ship got jammed before i deployed drones - they will do nothing

replacing extra drone bandwith with extra damage/hp bonus (role one like gila has, maybe)
example
currently vexor can 238dps with 5 t2 hammers or 315dps with 2 ogres 2 hammers 1 hobgoblin 2s
but seeing heavy drones with their terrible tracking and speed on a cruiser is kind of strange
doubling its damage/hp per skill lvl bonus will pretty much fix this (316 with hammerhead II's )
and its not abour vexor, its about all drone ships with extra bandwith they are loosing lots of drone tracking and speed when they deploy heavy instead of medium drones

adding medium and light sentry drones. few reasons for it:
- there are no long range drones for gila/ chameleon and worm/wheeptail - they can't deploy even 1 sentry
- this could solve ishtar's problem instead of adding special bonus for sentries
- drone frigs dessies and cruisers will get better sentry tracking instead of huge optimal/faloff than can't use anyway.
all5 tristan can lock at 50km and shoot at 60km while warden II has 75km optimal range. not to mention than 40m sig frigate deployng 100m sig drone looks kind of weird.

adding all sizes of drones armed with missles reason:
- tacticks for using missles is a bit different from the one for turrets: its good when target orbits you (missles will hit faster), and its bad when target is approaching (damage application is worse because target is burning on full speed).
if both, ship and its drones, will use same weapon system, they will be much easier to manage.
- same ewar could be used to apply damage from ship's primary weapon and its drones

can you pls remove this freeze after drones killed target and before they go for next one? coz if warrior II is orbiting target at 900m/s and then instantly stops - it doesnt look like sci-fi space combat, more like a bug that nobody cares. not to mention that drone will instantly die. aslo imagine drones spreading in different directions from exploding target ^_^
same thing with npc's

adding a "drone support unit" for subcapitals.
right now i need to fit 4 officer drone damage amplifiers on all5 dominix to make augmented Ogres deal 1k dps.
and still there will be 6 unused turret slots
in same time, most of battleships (and some cruisers / bc's) are able to deal 1k dps with t2 fitting
so i suggest to add a passive highslot module that adds 10% to drone damage/hp, with no stacking.
it should have small, medium and large sizes (for small, med and heavy / sentry drones),
it should simply replace 1 turret (or 1 extra drone, deployed from.. that amazing old old carriers.. ) and will have cpu/pg requirements equal to 1 turret.
also, if this will happen, ppl will have something to fit in 1-2 empty high slots on turret ships

module(s?) that allows to repair sll of my drones in space, like "drone shield booster".

adding 4 more fighter-based Gecko-style 2.5x damage crazy speed heavy drones, able to be produced by players, like "limited dragonfly"

adding "drone control unit (reborn)" - passive highslot module that adds drone bandwith and dronebay: small(5mbit / 10m3), medium (10mbit / 20m3), large (25mbit / 50m3). using those will allow ships with small drone bandwith to deploy full flight of 5 drones (including fighter-based Gecko-style drones) . and yep, its another option for empty high slot.

adding lowslot module / rig that adds dronebay by the cost of ship's speed.

so. trying to play with the new d-scan and probe window.

1) i am a mac user and it seems like none of the hotkeys work.
2) Wheres the filter for d-scan?
3) LOOKINGS LIKE AN AWESOME UPGRADE CCP. I really do like the new cleaner look... not sure if i like the d-scan/probe-scanner docking with the system map right from the start, might need a tool-tip pop up letting people know about undocking/docking it.

This! Tried the hotkeys out on sisi and it takes more keystrokes than clicks for them to do the same thing.

Select group 1
Cannon
Mwd
Deselect group 1
Select group 2
Cannon
Mwd
Deslect etc.

Can we go with hotkeys for individual fighter squad abilities?

Might be unrelated but could address a balance issue regarding multiple gilas assisting a single ship, usually a T3, mount a small weapon on it, and simply fire at something and the drones will go after the target, usually nuking everything they are aimed at effortlessly, it only bothers me that it eliminates the player interaction with the game and leaves all the work to one person, the only order need to follow out there is to assist your drones to your fleet commander and he will do all the work for the rest of a fight.