EVE New Citizens Q&A

Aha, this might be a problem.

If you somehow do not have combat drone operation trained *at all*, then you may have found some sort of bug. Train it and see if it suddenly improves things.

Could be that not having it trained prevents, e.g. Drone Interfacing from taking effect. Which would be a bit of a perplexing bug. I had thought that Combat Drone Operation was a prerequisite for light combat drones, but apparently it is not.

Note that Combat Drone Operation's bonus is multiplicative with Drone Interfacing. So 20% more damage is nothing to sneeze at. Stilll, a full flight of 5 T1 hobgoblins with Drone Interfacing IV should be melting non-elite frigates. So a lack of its damage bonus alone is not the full problem here.

Also, just to check: you're not using any ship modules which improve drone speed (Drone Navigation Computer), are you? This can screw with their transversal to the point that they can't hit anything.

More sanity checking: use 'look at' on each of your drones to make sure that they're shooting your target. You may not be controlling them the way you think you're controlling them. Also show their brackets in space, they should be buzzing around your target.

Well, a copy/paste combat log would be helpful, so we can see what's going on. Are they hitting for crap damage? Are they missing all the time? Etc.

My skills are similar to yours, though I do have combat drone interfacing IV. I've used T1 drones recently on a Vexor, and 5x hobgoblin I's just melt frigates in seconds. Although the Vexor is a drone bonused boat, my gall cruiser skill was only III, so 30% shouldn't make that much of a difference. Also these are serpentis rats, which are weak against thermal.

Is this something that you've just tried today for the first time, after the 1.1 patch? Could be something's screwed up, but if so there would certainly be more hubbub about it, I'd think.

Thread started yesterday, so can't be a 1.1 bug.

What is your DPS in your fitting window with T1 hammerheads?

Try at least one omni..

I really, really want to see a log here. All this conversation only exposes questions instead of answering them.

What rigs?
Where is combat log? If the OP is having trouble breaking the tank of elite units, that would make sense.
Where is Skills? 85% of the skills means you are probably lacking the most important 15%. Show us your char as asked before.
Technique. You could think you're doing the right thing and not be. If there are 10 rats, and you targeted 3 of them, and only one has the drones icon. That doesn't necessarily mean your drones are focusing fire like they should.
Try using a target painter instead of a web.

Are we using mixed flights? 2 hammer heads and 3 warriors, 1 Ogre, 2 hammerheads and a hobgoblin?

Anyway, we really need more input than the op is providing. Garbage in, garbage out.

He does have a small point.

If you would link your EVEBoard, fit and combat logs people would have more info. More info means it's easier to see where stuff goes wrong.

But from my looks you just reject everybody that is trying to help and reply with the same post over and over again. So wish you the best of luck. specially in those level 5's you want to get access too when you are already having trouble with level 3's.

Nice. I see politeness isn't your specialty. I read your answers, ergo, the reason I asked the questions I asked. Because your answers sounded more like a flippant child's "I know what I'm doing." that makes me suspect you don't know what you are doing. Saying you know what to do doesn't mean you do. Ergo, if you showed a log, we could say, "Yes, he knows what he is doing." And not take your word for it, when obviously you are doing something wrong, which you wouldn't be if you knew what you were doing.

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And the whole point of a help post if to tell people what they are doing wrong.

I'm still trying to figure out what you're doing level 3s for in a navy megathron. That doesn't indicate you know what you are doing.

This thread was full of win. Thanks for that!

OP: Not that you asked, but a bit of advice: when your ship is about to blow up, you need to make sure you're aligned to somewhere and spam the warp button. Would probably save you a pod or two.

I cleaned the thread up a little bit please be civil and keep comments constructive.