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Idea for a second t2 destroyer
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Spr09
Abyssal Echoes
Invidia Gloriae Comes
#1 - 2012-03-15 00:50:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Spr09
This idea is crazy, but I still want to say it somewhere. I would like a destroyer with a role to launch and control sentry drones specifically, Here was my idea:

  • role name- Drone Platform
  • required skills- sentry drone interfacing 4, drone platforms 1 (new skill), destroyers 5
  • bonuses for drone platform skill- 5% sentry drone tracking per level for amarr/caldari, 5% sentry drone range per level for caldari/minmatar, can launch 1 extra sentry drone per level.
  • 4 high slots, 3 turret hardpoints
  • 3 mid slots
  • 3 low slots
  • high speed, between 200-250 m/s
  • very weak tank, about 400 shield and armor and 500 hull.

    • The drone platforms skill would have a long training time, probably the same amount as heavy assault ships. And it can only fit sentry drones into it's drone bay. Thanks for reading this far, I know my idea is completely insane.
    mxzf
    Shovel Bros
    #2 - 2012-03-15 00:56:11 UTC
    You didn't try searching before posting this. I know so because there was pretty much the same post just a couple weeks ago by someone else (asking for drone-based destroyer hull). Go read that thread instead and see all the counter-arguments there.
    Spr09
    Abyssal Echoes
    Invidia Gloriae Comes
    #3 - 2012-03-15 00:59:39 UTC
    mxzf wrote:
    You didn't try searching before posting this. I know so because there was pretty much the same post just a couple weeks ago by someone else (asking for drone-based destroyer hull). Go read that thread instead and see all the counter-arguments there.

    I did search, and the small drone specializing destroyer last month was all I found.
    Danika Princip
    GoonWaffe
    Goonswarm Federation
    #4 - 2012-03-15 01:47:02 UTC
    Spr09 wrote:
    This idea is crazy, but I still want to say it somewhere. I would like a destroyer with a role to launch and control sentry drones specifically, Here was my idea:

  • role name- Drone Platform
  • required skills- sentry drone interfacing 4, drone platforms 1 (new skill), destroyers 5
  • bonuses for drone platform skill- 5% sentry drone tracking per level for amarr/caldari, 5% sentry drone range per level for caldari/minmatar, can launch 1 extra sentry drone per level.
  • 4 high slots, 3 turret hardpoints
  • 3 mid slots
  • 3 low slots
  • high speed, between 200-250 m/s
  • very weak tank, about 400 shield and armor and 500 hull.

    • The drone platforms skill would have a long training time, probably the same amount as heavy assault ships. And it can only fit sentry drones into it's drone bay. Thanks for reading this far, I know my idea is completely insane.


    So...what advantages does this have over, say, an Ishtar or a dominix?
    Kolya Medz
    Kolya Inc.
    #5 - 2012-03-15 02:13:21 UTC
    Danika Princip wrote:
    Spr09 wrote:
    This idea is crazy, but I still want to say it somewhere. I would like a destroyer with a role to launch and control sentry drones specifically, Here was my idea:

  • role name- Drone Platform
  • required skills- sentry drone interfacing 4, drone platforms 1 (new skill), destroyers 5
  • bonuses for drone platform skill- 5% sentry drone tracking per level for amarr/caldari, 5% sentry drone range per level for caldari/minmatar, can launch 1 extra sentry drone per level.
  • 4 high slots, 3 turret hardpoints
  • 3 mid slots
  • 3 low slots
  • high speed, between 200-250 m/s
  • very weak tank, about 400 shield and armor and 500 hull.

    • The drone platforms skill would have a long training time, probably the same amount as heavy assault ships. And it can only fit sentry drones into it's drone bay. Thanks for reading this far, I know my idea is completely insane.


    So...what advantages does this have over, say, an Ishtar or a dominix?


    Cost?
    Zombo Brian
    Doomheim
    #6 - 2012-03-15 10:33:41 UTC
    so you want to make a ship almost as big as a cruiser able to launch >10< sentrys?
    another supe easy to fit gank ship yes?

    drone specialized destroyers sound cool, but 10 sentry drones is just to OP, you could kill a BS by dropping off your sentrys and just orbit him fast enough to survive it
    Leto Aramaus
    Frog Team Four
    #7 - 2012-03-15 14:25:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Leto Aramaus
    I like the idea for a new drone ship, but replies here are right, your's is just way to overpowered.

    How about a new T2 destroyer hull for each race, and the Gallente one:

    Drone-stroyer able to field 5 hammerheads (mediums) with a bonus to drone speed and range.

    i.e. the big brother to the Ishkur, little brother to the Ishtar... Ishmael (lol)?

    The UI update we deserve