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There's been some speculation that loading inventories is server-intensive and that capitals, due to multiple inventory bays, may cause higher lag - is that correct?

Also, what sort of lag does refitting in space put on the node? Does refitting trigger the same sort of intense calculations brain in the box is intended to fix, because you've suddenly got to apply all sorts of new bonuses to new mods?

Grouped guns are not abstracted into a single roll of the dice because that would make WTFBBQ criticals much more common (DPS would be the same, but the probabilities of big hits and big misses would increase, which would be noticeable to statistics impaired players.)

The variations in stats between classes of drones isn't that great, unlike guns. Standard combat drones (i.e. not sentries) don't really have a huge difference in range, so generalizing the stats into one optimal+falloff isn't as jarring as say averaging the range for a blaster + railgun group. Mixing drone damage types is equivalent to mixed damage ammo types that we have now. On so on. In theory, SWAG, back of the napkin, etc., abstracting combat drones should be "easy."

Sentry drones appear to have a huge variation in optimal+falloff, at least until you take drone control range into account, meaning Bouncers/Curators/Wardens have ~60km optimals as it is. Gardes are the biggest problem and would need their stats to be refactored. Obviously, Omnis and drone range extenders would need a going over as well.


As for drone movement, just get rid of drone movement. Drones MJD to the target and then "stick" to the target (piggy back (or surf) on the time-space warping wake created by moving ships.) You could still have target speed affect the DPS of a sticky drone swam because "lore-wise," fast moving ships create rough space-time "wakes" which affects swarm targeting.



Anyway, even if drone swarms were implemented, it's still an O(N^2) problem, so the gains would be "negligible" in the computer science definition.

"future popularity of drone-centric fleet doctrines"

Future? I'm struggling to find a doctrine for large scale fights that isn't drone based.

besides caps being able to field 3x's the amount drones that of any other ship which seems strange in itself ( maybe nerf down to 10 and remove drones from caps altogether fighters only since their capital weapons and all) ... perhaps another way of reducing the amount of caps on field is too make fighters require actual pilots too fly fighters/bombers...

EVE Valkyrie comes too mind here..

Only having one objective to kill/protect in these sov related battles is terrible. But you can't just add more objectives in the same system because that is still the same load on on system. So the solution is to make the gates leading to the system being contested equally important. Now instead of one system trying to support thousands upon thousands of players, the weight is spread across a few systems. Each system on its own reinforced node.

Still one giant battle, but far more playable and hamster friendly.

Won't people send all they have to system 1 and if they win go to system 2 then 3 then whatever because they are facing smaller fleet distributed over numerous systems which can be moved to all the time thanks to power projection?

Should I refer to Advanced Drone Interfacing?

Or is that still capped to 10, even with Drone Control Units?

All or a majority? If all, the defending side will pile up in one system to insure they prevent a full win for the other side...

well there is also the drone mod... supercarriers can use 15 fighters

Nobody fits drone control units in fleet PVP.