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Time for Drones v2.0?
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Mike Voidstar
Voidstar Free Flight Foundation
#81 - 2013-03-05 19:47:51 UTC
I 100% support the idea of making them similar to missiles in that they exist in space but are not targetable. Defender missiles could go after them, a new type of hunter drone could be introduced that shoots missiles and other drones, and of course smart bombs would remain the best counter.

Some AI for drones other than combat would be nice too. Maintenence Bots should be able to jump on any damaged member of the fleet, including the host ship. There should be structure repairing bots as well. Support Drones for sensor boosting, tracking links, and other such functions should be added.

And for the love of all that is alive and wishes to stay that way.... fix the dang UI.
Sylvous
Bigger than Jesus
#82 - 2013-03-05 21:29:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Sylvous
Mike Voidstar wrote:
I 100% support the idea of making them similar to missiles in that they exist in space but are not targetable. Defender missiles could go after them, a new type of hunter drone could be introduced that shoots missiles and other drones, and of course smart bombs would remain the best counter.

Some AI for drones other than combat would be nice too. Maintenence Bots should be able to jump on any damaged member of the fleet, including the host ship. There should be structure repairing bots as well. Support Drones for sensor boosting, tracking links, and other such functions should be added.

And for the love of all that is alive and wishes to stay that way.... fix the dang UI.


Let me be the first to say NO.

As it is larger drones are too easy to kill by larger ships, I agree that this is problematic and should be remedied, but to make drones invulnerable to all weapons systems but smart bombs and defenders is a terrible idea. ECM drones would be untargetable and to a ship (lets say a brutix for example) that has no launcher hardpoints and can thus not fit defenders, forcing them to use the utility slot as a smart bomb position. There are also ships like the catalyst that would have no way to counter drones.

The reason drones are killable is because they are always in addition to other ship capabilities (the exception is carriers but those are filling a logistics role).

So yes to the OP, no to this idea.

Edit: Spelling
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#83 - 2013-03-06 03:26:59 UTC
I think they should just improve the drone AI and mechanics, while rebalancing them. I quite like the drone window as it is right now.

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