Player Features and Ideas Discussion

fix pls drone lags

Fix this lag.
I have life , and when i go to fight i'm not planing to sit next 8 hours ( 48min eve time) in 10% drone TIDI lag.

This is game not work.
1 hour in a game is fun - 8 hours in a game is work ( not fun ).

Hey, PL, please say again that the game in which you fly ceptor, get targeted by seboed non-dampable Aeon and then pop in several seconds is not broken.

Idea of drones induced lags is most likely stupid but hell, Wrecking Ball is abusing broken game mechanic and something should be fixed around it.

Fix drone lag pls

fix drone lag pls, but do not nerf sentry

Yeah, probably thread was started with cry-style post, but some guys try to hold back or ignore offers and ways of the decision.
I will not try to talk about the objectives pursued - it is clear to everyone. Everyone is trying to succeed by any means.
You are doing it as forum trolls. You ignore the ideas and opposes yours correct view of the entire message.

But. But some of guys suggest different ways. Some very radical, others cautious. Let's take another intermediate results and collect all of the proposed solutions. Some of them are discussed at the informal Russian-language forum here and so are not aware of all the ideas. Just realize, people know that one-sided solutions will not be accepted.

1. Enable drone grouping option like it was done with guns or something similar. This will work like a missile launcher fix.
2. Limit carriers to fighters only (like a supercarriers was limited to fighters and FB's only).
3. Limit carriers to use only 5 drones. Change carrier bonuses to increase drone stats (damage or something etc). This will reduce drones count and save it's power.
4. Remove assist or change it only for squad members / only for sub-cap ship class.
5. Create a stacking penalty for Drone Link Augmenters.
6. Split drone bay to 2 parts: fighters and all others with valid limits. Reduce amount of drones (not 100500 sets of drones).
7. Allow guns to be assistable.
8. Change sentry-drones stats. They are hit (insta-pop) all target around 200 km.
9. Add some delay to launching new drones after abandoning.
10. Create new skill for assist the drones like a "level 0 allows to control 5 assisted drones and +5 drones for each skill level" or etc.
11. TiDi affect to all in sol. system, but jumped or cynoed ships doesn't affect TiDi restrictions. Support power can join faster than battle is going on.
12. Drone Assister lock the target. Target will see only assister yellow box. Show all yellow boxes if somebody assist drones to drone assister.
13. Fix or change targeting speed for drone assisters. Prevent scan boosted target callers will shoot ships very fast with 3000 drones.
14. Reduce assist to "class -1" ship types. E..g carriers can assist to carrier or BS, BS can assist to BS or BC and so on...
15. Split the carrier role. If carriers will use weapon/sentry they can't use repaire modules. If carrier will pump the target - they can't use drones. Like a old-style siege on dreads. Probably this can be formed with triage module like a "carrier can pump only in triage mode".

Thank you!

Do not expand this game.
Fix it first.

yes, they had a "forum CTA" for posting here.

Looks like OP was unable to write things in more understandable manner so I will fix it for him:

"Dear CCP,
We, 2/3 of 0.0 alliances decided to kill remaining 1/3, but failed. Our mutual forces are getting smashed in the face by enemy. Somehow our enemy was smarter then we, he invested more ISK into fleets and spent more time on planning fleet composition. He is countering our superior numbers by fielding more ISK and SP and in case we grow testicles to field bigger toys, he escalates it even further. We on our side are unable to risk high valued ships. Please be so kind to nerf my enemy, since his 250 carriers create a soul crushing lag while our 10005000 pilots that try to jump into same system do not affect server load. Please also remove drone assist on carriers, but only carriers. Drone assist can be left on every other drone boat.
We would be glad if you would force all our enemies fly rookie ships every time we want to fight them.
Thanks ahead,
BL/SF/CFC/-DD-/-A- and their dog."

There you go guys, this is how you should ask for nerfs properly.

Let me make sure I'm understanding this...

1) Stainwagon decides to take N3's sov. Grrr N3.

2) Stainwagon cant take on N3 alone.

3) CFC and Stainwagon get 30k+ toons together.

4) -A- fails at life, Eurogoon has to come help.

5) Everyone vs N3 equates to 1300 vs 400-500 on field.

6) N3 realizes its never getting a fair fight, escalates with Archons + small supporting fleets.

7) Everyone stays out of "slowcat" range and cries how unfair the tactic is ignoring that they are failing with 1300 people on their side of the battlefield.

8) Rather than fix their tactics or adjust fire, post tears on internet:
a. Terrible post by mittani about how evil sentry drone assist is (despite goons using it as the only managable fleet comp)
b. DBRB makes terrible post on GRRR Archons (capitals) using sentries (ignores CFC all for max dues in "boot" carriers)
c. Subsequent failure to deploy "Omega fleet" despite thousands of pilots.
d. Darkness of Despair gets mad at sentry drones because grrrr sentry drones.


All I got out of this is that 1300 pilots on field are mad that 400ish can phalanx and hold an area down through cooperation and thought while the 1300 somehow cant field their own capital fleets or think of anything intelligent to do in game.


CCP, I request you please remove every ship from the game except for the Ibis. Let us fight out our nerd rage with this singular ship, then everyone is on even ground.


Also: Grrr goons.