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Fix drones and earn 1 :excellence: point - work in progress.
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AmberIynn
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2011-10-14 13:41:31 UTC
Nyssa Litari wrote:
So yes, this is workaround (for PvE at least)...

Adjust the key bindings for engage and return to something easy (Left Alt+E, Left Alt R for me) and when you want them on a new target issue the engage command two or three times. My attention occasionally lapses (after the second scotch) but this works fairly well for keeping the doggies in line.


Pretty much this. Everytime CCP tries to fix drones, they break again in the next patch.
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2011-10-15 22:01:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Grey Stormshadow
We may not listen what you say but most certainly look what you fix...

My Hammerhead II's have headache and are drooling around like group of ******* (mentally limited) zombies.

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Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2011-10-17 05:42:30 UTC
Sad panda no eat food if there is no fix. Sad panda be very skinny and squeeze big tears to Hilmar's desk long time.

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mkint
#24 - 2011-10-17 05:55:05 UTC
<--- hard core gallente. Flies every gallente ship except titans. Hates drones.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#25 - 2011-10-17 17:31:40 UTC
meh drones, mine insist on having a mothers meeting every time I tell them to attack something, the usual result is that 3 do the attack and the other 2 bugger off to the pub and get mashed.

Focus fire option seems to do one thing and only one thing, fill in the checkbox, 50% of the time the drones completely ignore that option and try and take down opponents on their own.

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Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2011-10-18 15:09:05 UTC
Exotic dancers all over the New Eden unite and support the "fix drones" initiative.

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Phoebus ApolloX
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2011-10-18 16:17:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Phoebus ApolloX
Might be a good idea to fix this before the hybrid buff, because gallente ships are hardly worth flying without their drones working right.

Btw, I'm not convinced this is always because the drones are locked to an original target, because I've manually deployed drones to the first target on grid and had some of them go idle after their first attempt to fire (per the usual) and they should have no locked targets then. Also when I manually assign drones different drones have the bug. However I'm convinced that DOING SOMETHING to fix the problem is going to have a better success rate than DOING NOTHING.

I've already had several instances in PVE where killing tackle frigs in difficult encounters nearly didn't happen because of the bug but this absolutely affects PVP. Sending drones to attack a frigate pilot and having to re-assign in the middle of the engagement is maddening.

Fix this!
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2011-10-19 05:18:00 UTC
*Drones cheer*

bump, updated.

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Brinkz Shields
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2011-10-19 05:50:01 UTC
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Brinkz Shields
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2011-10-19 09:14:50 UTC
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Brinkz Shields
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2011-10-19 12:37:19 UTC
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Gmone Bravor
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#32 - 2011-10-19 12:58:17 UTC
While they are at it they need to

1. Make it so the Aggressive setting stays where you put it
2. Make a hotkey for Aggressive (not the Passive/Aggresive hotkey)
3. Make a hotkey to deploy them.
non judgement
Without Fear
Flying Burning Ships Alliance
#33 - 2011-10-19 13:03:15 UTC  |  Edited by: non judgement
Gmone Bravor wrote:
3. Make a hotkey to deploy them.
Its hard to have a key to deploy. How is it meant to know which drones to deploy? Imagine flying a carrier, 100s of drones in the bay and you press deploy. Does it push out the first 10 in the list?

Anyone else wondering what the new Ewar drones are?
Are they just t2 versions?
Maybe more Sansha drones?
Or just smaller webbing drones?

A anti-missile drone would be funny. Something that actually worked, unlike defender missiles.
TD Ewar for turrets. But no Ewar for missiles.
Grey Stormshadow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2011-10-30 22:41:06 UTC
*Original post updated with most recent status*

Thumbs up to CCP Affinity, CCP Greyscale and rest of the team BFF.
Thank you for reviewing and addressing the issue.

*Full fleet of Armor Maintenance bot II's gather outside CCP office to celebrate and show their gratitude by repairing some random dude's bicycle*

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