Player Features and Ideas Discussion

At present drones only act on a single preset pattern of attack. There are a number of things that could be made options to make them behave in more preferable ways.

Make the priority of attacking changeable based on the class of ship and set for each drone group instead of having a single fixed plan for everything. This can be a simple rearrangeable menu in drone settings of ship class and assigned in each drone group. This would make heavy or light drones not try to go after targets they either have difficulty hitting or damaging instead of charging at them until the manual command to change targets gets through latency.

Have a changeable attack pattern. At present all drones orbit. They would have an option of attempting to match speed with their target. This would make both the drone and its target hit each other much more effectively. There should be a manual way to quickly switch between them when the owner sees they are targeted.

Make the drone commands available to drones in bay which would automatically recall currently active drones and launch and start the given command.

Have a command to start attacking as the priority setting dictates without targeting anything. Also make a button to have an extra agressive stance where they attack all non-friendlies while not in high sec.

Set options based on drone group to recall on any warp command. Most people want to avoid forgetting combat drones while ecm drones may be essential for an escape. Also have the option if no enemies are present to delay the warp until all drones are in bay.

Make commands available to drones to move in a direction without a object to move to. This would make it possible to send them at ships that are seen cloaking to decloak them. Drones sent this way would fly in a user predetermined formation. Several formations could be created while in station and have them switchable in drone settings.

I understand your concern but the point of it is to make pve combat somewhat more convenient and would have minimum effect on pvp as people will manually control drones there anyway. As for the rampage button you seem most concerned about for high sec it would be a hotkey and not a setting so it wouldn't automatically get you concorded by forgetting to disable it.