Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Now since carriers are pretty much fighter only drone boats,

Wouldn't be nice to have a drone carrier, just for drones...

I remember back in the day when you could fly 10 drones from a sub cap but that was when drones were bat **** crazy and the "OBEY ME DRONE!!" script was still being worked on...

Was thinking that maybe a new Battlecruiser or Battleship could be introduced to manage such tasks as providing drone support...



Concept

--Allowing for the command of up to 10 light/medium/heavy/sentry drones
--No hardpoints for guns or missiles as the ship wouldn't be a front line ship
--******** bonus's for light/medium/heavy/sentry drones as well as racial bonus for EW/Logi drones

Pro's

-new content (who doesn't like new content)
-introducing a new style of play and strategies
-provide a mass amount of dps/ew/logi support
-adds a little demand back into the market not just for drones but for mins, fits and ships

Con's

-new style of blob warfare
-drones would be everywhere after a fight (tons)
-fielding crap tons of drones could strain servers more so then ever
-dps/ew/logi support can be eliminated by bomb's/smartbombs or by simply having your drones get shot up
-probably wouldn't appeal very much to the solo player


I've seen other threads discuss something similar but not to the extent of what I'm thinking...

Just trying to keep this thread simple... Any idea's on this? would this be something anyone else would like to see?

And suddenly everyone was flying around with 5-10 geckos and it was totally not OP.

Also CCP just spent a ton of time and effort converting drones and fighters into smaller numbers to improve server performance. This would kinda just undo all of that :P

I'd love a single drone with the firepower, HP, and bandwidth/volume of an entire flight of drones. Of all 4 types.

We need to keep the little ones, though. Not everyone has drones V, and while they almost certainly will, EVENTUALLY, drones should be usable before then.

Then we can name them. And pet them. And let them sleep upon the foot of our bed.

This is a straight up terrible and poorly balanced idea.

First off, drones are little lag machines. Ships in Eve could originally field 10 drones instead of five and it was scaled back because of performance issues.

On top of that Slowcat fleets were cancerous. We don't need something that basically just supports that sort of gameplay.

On top of all of *that* we don't need a subcap putting out old-Carrier levels of DPS. If you want a drone boat there are a number available to choose from. The Ishtar, Vexor, Myrmidon, and Dominix are all great in their own way, go check out one of those. The Rattlesnake, Gila, and Worm also have interesting drone bonuses.



"New content" is basically never a significant pro unless you're talking about a new mechanic. "But it's new content" is never a reason to add a new ship all on its own.

10 drones is not a new style of play.

"Yay more DPS out of one ship" is power-creep, not a pro.

The market is fine, this is not needed and certainly not a pro to a ship like this.