Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There are implants for almost anything... to boost your shield tank, your armor tank, for all kind of weapon systems, for more damage, better fire rate, less energy consumption. Even for mining, hacking, salvaging and who knows what else.

So you can modify and edge out almost every aspect of your ship, and push it to its limit. With one exception:


Where are the implants for the drones?


Implants to push the drone control range, to make them fly faster, to have them do more dmg, to cause them to have better tracking. Those things exist for every other weapon type. For missiles, projectiles, hybrids and lasers. For all sort of other things.. power grid, cpu and who knows what else. I can modify about anything on my ship i want with implants, and give them a little edge over other things. Just not for drones.


I am flying a drone boat now, compared to my turret based "gunship" before. My Clone went boom, and i thought it may be a good idea to adjust my implants finally from the turret enhancing, to drone enhancing - to find out i am unable to.


This gives pilots that fly purely drone based ships a huge disadvantage. Now that the Dominix is a "true drone boat" after rebalancing (what i quite enjoy, it really hits well now with those sentry drones), i think it is time to give this weapon system some implants as well. I want to be able to push out more damage, or better tracking, or other means to enhance my "weapon system" like all the other implants allow.


My suggestion of what should be there at least:
-Implant to increase a drones MWD speed
-Implant to enhance a drones tracking
-Implant to enhance a drones dmg (maybe split into normal drones and sentries)

Things that could be there optionally:
-Implant to enhance a drones survivablity (more hp/shield)
-Implant to increase drone control range


this would bring them up to par with implants available for any other weapon system. Everyone tweaks their fitting a little with implants. Allow me to do the same with my drone boat - especially now that there are more drone boat choices after the rebalancing.

+1 over here. Simply something that will hopefully be addressed when they look at drones later this year.

Introducing drone implants will mean that the drone DPS has to be scaled down first. Are you sure you want this?

I rather keep the current drone DPS and use other implants instead.

What is that going to do?

Dominix needs a nerf...

Actually the Acolytes are a good counter to the Hornet EC-300s, because the Hornets have mostly shield hitpoints. Warriors are less effective against these while Acolytes are still a lot faster than the Hobgoblins. That many players only use Hobgoblins and Warriors is because they only know what these two are good for. Curators have quite a long range and are good against shield-tanked ships. These have been used successfully by Slowcats against Tengu fleets for instance.

Wardens have the longest range, which might put them a bit behind now that the Dominix has such a strong bonus, but I suspect a nerf is coming to the Dominix. Its 10%-bonuses may have been chosen too high.

Web drones, sensor dampener drones and tracking disruptor drones have a limited use, because of their stacking penalties, but I do not see them being useless. Rather if one would remove the stacking penalties would they become as over-powered as ECM drones. With the announced buff to medium-sized long range turrets (incl. a nerf to their tracking) will these e-war drones become a lot more interesting without buffing them.

Most people simply do not explore their options with drones as much as they could including myself, because there are so many other options one can play around with before it comes down to the choice of drones that one often does not care about them and then picks them in just about the same order as you have listed them.

Making the racial differences a bit more equal could be enough to make players think less about the total DPS and more often about the damage type dealt.

Because all of the drone hulls were just balanced with their current damage and attributes in mind. Obviously they want those hulls doing the amount of DPS they currently do. Adding 6% Drone damage implants would break drone hulls unless they nerfed drone DPS.

All you would be getting is the expense of needing to buy implants to do the damage you already do without them. Oh and you also lose those implant slots for other stuff.

I could get behind drone damage implants, drone tracking implants, drone flight speed implants, and drone hitpoint or resist implants. But at a cost - they'd need to take up slots that would otherwise help your ship in a different way.

I really ,really want to see a pirate implant set found from rogue drone sites that has drone related bonuses. However, I would not have the first clue how to balance them.


As for people knocking heavy drones - they do enormous damage at brawling range and if you double-web your target, they can hit any player ship larger than a destroyer and any rat other than an elite frigate or spider drone. Try using them at blaster range, and of course put them away when at sniper range or medium range.

Mostly true, except drone boats still have high-slots, too.

i like the idea and maybe we can even add drugs to the pool. but there is a catch...

in order tot do this we must first redo drone GUI and rebalance drones as they are broken in so many ways adding stuff will only make it worse to fix.

and the domi is too strong with 50% bonus with gallente BS5 see alliance tournament. specialy as they can use mods to increase this even further. i would say make the bonus 5% tracking and range per lvl and add a drone speed bonus of also 5% per lvl and the navy domi needs to have the same bonus i would say