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Limit carriers to 5 drones but give them 20% drone damage per level so that the damage stays the same.

Also double fighter base damage.

This would make the interface cleaner and most importantly reduce lag.

How would it remove anything?

Could you clarify?

No and no.

This has been done before. Carriers used to have 20 drones and Dominixes etc could field 10.

Drones have since been changed to be far less resource-intensive by ensuring they don't collide with most ships/objects. They're nowhere near the resource drain they once were. The largest bottleneck by far in big fights is still the session change (especially players entering/leaving system).

The one thing to be said for drones in this case is that they were never redesigned with the weapon-grouping feature that turrets and missiles received. As there's obvious practical issues in the way of that, I don't see it being resolved anytime soon.

No.



As it is with 600 sub caps deploying 5 drones each... so clearly this is not a Capital specific observation....

its not a rendering issue, its a entity issue, even if you tell the client not to render drone models, its still the equivalent of 10-25 new frigates jumping into or jumping out of system every time a single pilot launches or recalls its drones, multiply that by 300, 500, 2000 ships on grid, and the server entity tracking system goes Tango Uniform quickly. add to that the moment they fire and the projectile tracking system crashes, especially when they have all been assigned to assist the FC so they all fire in unison.

Drones have needed an overhaul for more than 4 years and no real work has been done to them, just the token useless module changes.

if you remove the drone spam, you will have to uber buff the tank as well as make them invulnerable to ewar, otherwise removing a carrier/supercarriers only source of damage becomes too easy and makes them practically useless on the field.

there are a lot of changes that would possible reduce the lag but the changes would have to come with a ton of buffs to counter this.

one change i would be for would be the way the drone control unit works, (currently the most lolworthy module in the capital arsenal) make it a single passive high slot module that instead of new drones, adds a percentage to both DPS and tank per level.

correct the assist mechanics for drones where you can only "assist" ships that are in your squad, unless in a command position "fleet/wing/squad command"

give carriers and supercarriers a command boost similar to, but less than the titans more in line with their roles to encourage capitals to be fleet flag ships. This will require some massive changes to fleet mechanics as well, but i have no issue with capitals having better boosting capacity than command ships.

Here is hoping that if and when CCP finally gets around to the capital re-balance (after they get around to fixing the node lag wall that TiDi bought them some time on but didn't fix the issue) that capital drone issues is high on their list.