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Simple Solution to Drone Control?
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Ariel Dawn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-08-12 17:00:24 UTC
Just wondering if this had been brought up before as it seems fairly easy.

Instead of having the cumbersome drone menu, why not allow a player in space to drag drones to a "module slot" and be able to assign commands to them as per the drop down menu.

That way you could have F1 for your weapon group, as well as using other F keys (like F2!) to deploy + attack target, and another key (like F3!) to command drones to return to bay.
Lucine Delacourt
The Covenant of Blood
#2 - 2013-08-12 17:31:23 UTC
That's a good start. I think that a complete drone overhaul(Control and Stats) is probably necessary but I like this idea as far as band-aids go.
Mr Floydy
Questionable Ethics.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#3 - 2013-08-12 17:34:45 UTC
Nice, I like it :)
Engineer Squiffy
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-08-12 21:26:08 UTC
+1
Ssoraszh Tzarszh
Void Covenant
The Initiative.
#5 - 2013-08-12 21:42:12 UTC
While a good suggestion, you can already do this, attack uses 'F' and for Return to drone bay you can assign your own hotkey (like ALT-F maybe). Or Rebind to F3/Alt-F3 if you prefer that.

The bigger issue with hotkeys would be launching them, and CCP just updated Odesey 1.1 to include dragging a group from your drone hold to the 'drones in space' section. Wich is better but i would still love to assign a hotkey to different groups even if it was a limited set of hotkeys like 1 to 5 groups.

After that everyone can assign them to whatever they feel comfortable with.
Hallvardr
#6 - 2013-08-13 01:10:54 UTC
... again (where was that other post?) just provide shortcuts to the major drone functions ..

Launch
Go get em
Come home
Dock up
Guard
Assist
etc.

As shortcuts we'd have the flexibility to assign them as we see fit on a user by user basis