Player Features and Ideas Discussion

...snip... no, he doesnt control the drones, its me who sets my drones either to defend or to help the assistee.

For the drones to know what a ship is targeting the pilot of said ship would have to interface with the drones to feed them telemetry so that to me means that:

a) a pilot should not be able to be assisted by drones outside his own drone control range (how would he feed target data?)
b) a pilot should not be able to control in any way more drones than he can interface with (i.e. the sum total of his own + assisting drones)

If we removed drone assign, N3 would still be able to use wrecking ball. The difference is CFC's Dominix hoard would fall on it's sword.

In case someone is thick enough to misapprehend the topic of this thread - it's neither about nerfing carriers nor about changing the mechanics of drone assist. It's also NOT about tactics of countering a subcap blob with capital ships as well as it's not about excursions to history of mythological battles fought between the ancient Greeks and the ancient Persians. All of the aforementioned are mesmerizing subjects on their own, and each deserves a separate dedicated topic, in which, upon creation we will gladly discuss the subject proposed, as i hope all will do here.

For this topic, however, It's very simple, really -

Thousands of (abandoned as well as not ) sentry drones create a massive amount of lag, even with practically empty local in a system. We'd request a CCP rep to acknowledge the stated on the forums as well as to address it ingame. Thanks.

Good point, we've wandered waaaaay off topic :D

How about this:

A pilot can only maintain one flight of abandoned drones close by (e.g. via a simple heartbeat message automatically sent using a tiny bit of spare drone control bandwidth) and one flight of active drones. If the second flight of active drones are abandoned they warp out of grid instead of going dormant locally.

Also abandoned drones cluster together for collection, meaning they are now managed as one item of 5 drones rather than 5 items of 1 drone.

Added bonus: New career path of lost drone farming :D

are you slow or what? I wrote its their wish not that its currently the case, this is why this whine thread exists in the first line.

Gosh, your coalition are so afraid that CCP just nerfs carriers instead of consistent improvement of game mechanics (and I rly understand your concern) that you prefer to remain blind to a huge problem and to shitpost any topic on this subject.

Fix drone lag

You're an idiot. There is no way to get thru to you and your ass ******* buddies that it takes more than a mob to win. Numbers does not equal victory. Stop crying because archons are so strong with their sentries. There is NOTHING stopping you from dropping as many or more, or how about dreads?

In response to "the server crashes if we jump in more" how about instead of 1300 subcaps on field and then adding 100 more in capitals, you just start off with those 100 capitals and bring in less subcaps? The fact that you drive the server to collapse under stress shows just how much you rely on pure numbers.

Stop being ******* **** at this game and begging CCP to nerf anything you're too pathetic to counter.

For someone boasting with supreme posting abilities, it's really amusing to see how you struggle with your reading.
I'll help you, being in a helpful mood and all.
Nobody claimed that only the drones cause lag. Nobody says that any other issue causing lag shouldn't be addressed, since they do. This thread was opened by stating a certain issue - the lag caused by thousands of sentry drones in grid, even with local counts as low as a couple of hundreds. All the rest of dumb grunts coming here and writing about nerfing this or nerfing that are actually of your mindless sort that can't read nor write while staying on topic, i expect you treat them with understanding due to similarity.

Nobody is obliged by supplying YOU with 'proofs' of any sort, this is not Kugu, you must be mistaken. While the proof for CCP can be supplied from their own GMs coming to clean up the mess you left in-grid, when petitioned, in practically an empty system. I personally remember at least one such occasion, and i am sure there were more, so you can consider the 'material evidence' part covered.
While for the rest of the things you specify, as lags caused by other objects/subjects - they should be addressed and fixed as well, they must. In fact, I demand it! Just start a relevant thread for each, and I'll come chant "GRR Fix Goons!" with you.

sounds amazing, support!