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drone improvements

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Aureus Ahishatsu
Deadspace Knights
#1 - 2014-12-02 19:19:32 UTC
From my post back in august

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4941832#post4941832

Aureus Ahishatsu wrote:

Drone armor repair while docked inside of ship. There are two options I see for this and obviously both would need to be assessed for acceptable rates of recharge to not become OP. It doesn't make sense for the lore either that the Gallente have these amazing drones with a lot of armor hp, they are amazing armor repping technology and half their ships get bonuses to it, but apparently don't know how to repair their own drones while docked? Anyhow curious what other people think

Passive regen
Basically any time that a drone is docked in the drone bay there is a passive armor regen. It would have to be slow enough though that when a ship that has large drone bays (cough istars!) pilots could not just constantly cycle drones with less damage and keep spewing undamaged drones on the field.

Nanite
Another option would be to give them the ability to consume nanite paste to repair. Again rates would need to be assessed for balance. One of the aspects of this would be that while the drone is being repaired it is inaccessible.

In both cases could we please have drones health displayed while docked in the ship.

On a final note. could we PLEASE get abbreviated names for the faction drones or at least split the drone status into a separate column......I get annoyed when i have to make the window bigger just to be able to see if the drones are attacking or sitting around doing nothing.


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elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#2 - 2014-12-02 19:46:50 UTC
If they used tritanium to repair armor and hull on drones in the dronebay then yes.

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Harvey James
The Sengoku Legacy
#3 - 2014-12-02 19:48:42 UTC
+1 to drone repair in bay .. only question is the specifics .. and would it require nanite paste or no ammo required?

T3's need to be versatile so no rigs are necessary ... they should not have OP dps and tank

ABC's should be T2, remove drone assist, separate HAM's and Torps range, -3 HS for droneboats

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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-12-02 19:53:10 UTC
Harvey James wrote:
+1 to drone repair in bay .. only question is the specifics .. and would it require nanite paste or no ammo required?


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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#5 - 2014-12-02 19:54:32 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
As this is neither a new proposal for a new feature or a new idea, this thread gets a lock.

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On a side note, if the OP wants to continue the discussion on this topic in his old thread, the only thing he has to do is report the first post with a polite request to reopen it. I or one of my colleagues will be happy to do so.
In other words, no need to start a new thread about it.

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