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A Drones' Damage Info Sugguestion

Author
John Pz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-10-24 14:15:26 UTC
I appologize if there is a better forum location to post this, but I would like to see a drones damage to Shield, Armor, and Hull even when they are in the bay. Currently you can only tell if they have damage 1 of 3 ways. 1) lauching the drones. 2) trying to repackage the drones at a station and are informed they are damaged. 3) Using the station's repair services and seeing your drones listed.
I like to bring a remote armor repairer with me to repair the drones during and after battle, and unless I either noticed they had damage, or they are still packaged in a group I have no idea while out in the "field" if they took damage without lauching them. I'd simply like the same listing for the drones as they have when lauched, except in the case of the ones still packaged in a group could be left blank in the HP areas since damage would be impossible if packaged.
If this sugguestion was posted under the wrong forum please copy it for me to the correct one, and any other ideas in this matter please let me know. I believe most pilots who deploy drones as their primary weapon could agree with the idea of my sugguestion. Thank you.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#2 - 2014-10-24 14:29:47 UTC
Its a good idea. One that has been suggested many, many times in the features and ideas section of the forum

Try posting in one of the many threads there, some Devs are quite active in that section of the forums.

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Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
#3 - 2014-10-27 17:05:31 UTC
if your drones are taking damage you can use the return-and-orbit shortcut, move the wounded ones to a separate group, then return all to drone bay (which should be instant once they're already orbiting you) and just relaunch everything from the unwounded group. the only issue is that you need a separate "wounded" group for every type of drone you're carrying since they won't mix in one group, but if you're only using one or two types of drones in a fight then it's a good way of flagging wounded ones while keeping fresh ones deployed