Yuna Talie-Kuo
Laborantem Societatis
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Posted - 2012.09.11 18:18:00 -
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There has been a lot of talk about Gallente drone boats, and some aggression from new updates, concerning mainly the Tristan and Navitas. From what I've read, drones are rather... in a way, underpowered?
Allow me to explain:
Drones take approximately 5-6 clicks (About 5 seconds, give or take a couple seconds) to bring his main damage online. By then the enemy has already applied at least more than 1k of damage from his turrets or missiles alone, and is bringing in his flight of drones.
My suggestion:
I don't know if this was suggested or not long before, but we all know how weapon activation is configured (Click F1, sit and laugh), well, if drones take time to get out anyways, why not save a couple clicks. Make a button for drone flights, similar to weapon groups, we can do the same for drones. The only difference would be to use the Drone UI window for configuring the buttons. If the folders are empty, the button won't apply.
Another way to address the drone damage issue, could be to ALLOW us to mix drones flights per launching I find it rather limiting to the damage we could do because of it. Sometimes we have a 4 drone flight, and want to throw in a spare we have. This would eliminate the need to constantly launch a spare, if one blows up all of a sudden.
Myself being a drone user, I find it rather lackluster to constantly click the same boxes over and over again to launch. Having buttons for flights may make fight with drone carriers a bit more... quick.
The same mechanic can be applied for sentries and EWAR drones. Pick your poison.
Here's another issue I've seen with drones, particularly with Integrated and Augmented Drones.
As much as they do dual damage and have slightly higher EHP, it doesn't help the fact they are so hard to acquire. As most ships are omni-tanked, the damage difference is literally non-existent. If Augmented are supposed to be better than T2, then make them better than T2 by some of the following:
- Increase damage FOR said mixed damage (by 5%-10%) - Increase EHP by at LEAST 15% - Increase tracking speeds and MWD speeds by at LEAST 15%
OR something of the like. Augmented drones are too expensive to begin with for what they do. Either make them a but more readily available, or increase their viability. How many people do you see use Augmented drones? Who is willing to use a drone flight that costs 1bil ISK compared to a HammerHead II flight of 5mil?
I've seen NONE in my 6 months of game time.
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