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POS Drone Bay
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Nami Maddox
Ghost Town
#1 - 2013-06-24 11:30:52 UTC
Since I came back to eve and started running a POS. I always thought that a POS drone bay should be an option. Much like the current defenses, There would be Small Medium and Large, which effect the drone bay size and bandwidth, each one would also have a limit to its maximum launched, probably 5-10. To stop a corp fitting 10 large bays and firing off 800 warrior Is or something.

So you could put 1 fighter in a small bay, but it would be a bit pointless.

When under pos control, they would stay docked and simply launch at approaching ships, as normal guns do now.
When under player control it would pretty much be just having a stationary bay as you would on a ship.

What you think? Anything to add?
Kenrailae
Scrapyard Artificer's
Just Lizard
#2 - 2013-06-24 11:36:01 UTC
Present system forces all drones that enter a force field to go inert, I believe. That would have to be resolved for this to be viable. I like the idea though. Every other type of weapon, why not drones?

A better way to limit amount of drones launched would be limit amount of hangars that could be anchored either by CPU or PG requirements, I think.

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Hopelesshobo
Hoboland
#3 - 2013-06-24 11:40:08 UTC
In order for this to work, the drones would have to receive a boost while being utilized in this manner (much like POS guns having a large multiplier). Once that is in place, I would like to equip nothing but logi drones to rep everything automatically for me (much like guns can fire automatically if it is set up properly).

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Hopelesshobo
Hoboland
#4 - 2013-06-24 11:41:03 UTC
Kenrailae wrote:
Present system forces all drones that enter a force field to go inert, I believe. That would have to be resolved for this to be viable. I like the idea though. Every other type of weapon, why not drones?

A better way to limit amount of drones launched would be limit amount of hangars that could be anchored either by CPU or PG requirements, I think.


Easiest fix would be to make it anchorable outside the pos shield, like guns are currently.

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Kenrailae
Scrapyard Artificer's
Just Lizard
#5 - 2013-06-24 11:43:24 UTC
Hopelesshobo wrote:
Kenrailae wrote:
Present system forces all drones that enter a force field to go inert, I believe. That would have to be resolved for this to be viable. I like the idea though. Every other type of weapon, why not drones?

A better way to limit amount of drones launched would be limit amount of hangars that could be anchored either by CPU or PG requirements, I think.


Easiest fix would be to make it anchorable outside the pos shield, like guns are currently.


That does handle the launch. I assumed it would be anchored like guns. But it wouldn't handle drones deciding to fly into the POS while trying to attack a new target, if targets warped to the other side of the POS.

The Law is a point of View

The NPE IS a big deal