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Roti
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Posted - 2006.02.24 04:13:00 -
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How do you increase the number of drones controlled outside of the basic drone skill. It looks like the maxe number of drones I will ever have is 5.
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Santiago Cortes
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Posted - 2006.02.24 04:17:00 -
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The maximum is 5, unless you control carriers afaik, drones were part of the lag problem and so the maximum controlled was reduced from 15 to 5, with the amount of damage and durability increased to make up for it.
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Roti
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Posted - 2006.02.24 04:22:00 -
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I just noticed something called a drone control unit - is that useful? Can it increase me above the said 5 drones?
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BuzzBuz
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Posted - 2006.02.24 05:04:00 -
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Originally by: Roti I just noticed something called a drone control unit - is that useful? Can it increase me above the said 5 drones?
Did you not read the post above your second one? The Max is 5. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ...One mans rubbish is another mans treasure... |
between4and24
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Posted - 2006.02.24 07:06:00 -
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Hiya Roti, the drone control units you found do give +1 drone control, but these units require 75,000 power grid! So you can't really put them on anything short of a dreadnaught. You also have to have "Advanced Drone Interfacing" (each level lets you put one more control unit on your ship)
The option immediately availible to you is to train "Drone Interfacing" to get the +20% drone damage (mining yield too). By the time you start training on that you will have to have "Drones" V. (five total drones, so +20% damage from "Drone Interfacing" will effectively give you one added drone in spread damage over you current five)
You also get bonuses to drone operations from certain ships, the Vexor (gallente cruiser) will give you +10% drone damage, mining yield, and hitpoints per gallente cruiser level. The Dominix (gallente battleship) also gives +10% drone damage and hitpoints (strangely no mining yield!).
So aside from increasing the damage to get more firepower for your drones, there isn't a way to control more drones directly (though I think the Guardian-Vexor gives you +1 drone per level but its super rare, some capital ship bonuses give you more drone control too)
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Butter Dog
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Posted - 2006.02.24 10:34:00 -
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Edited by: Butter Dog on 24/02/2006 10:41:10
Originally by: Roti How do you increase the number of drones controlled outside of the basic drone skill. It looks like the maxe number of drones I will ever have is 5.
This is correct. You can control up to 15 fighters (XL drones) on carriers.
However, when you train Drone Interfacing this gives an additional 20% damage per drone. Controlling 5 drones, this effectively gives you an extra drones worth of damage per level (5 x 20% = 100% extra damage).
Additionally you can train the associated skills such as drone durability, navigation, etc, all of which improve the performance of your little warriors.
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Schinoble
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Posted - 2006.02.24 10:56:00 -
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how do the bonuses stack
say drone interface 5 and combat drone 5 thats 100% and 25% damage bonus
so is that 125% bonus or is it 100% than 25% in what order ?
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Butter Dog
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Posted - 2006.02.24 12:13:00 -
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Originally by: Schinoble how do the bonuses stack
say drone interface 5 and combat drone 5 thats 100% and 25% damage bonus
so is that 125% bonus or is it 100% than 25% in what order ?
It doesnt make any difference what order you put them in, the calculations will reach the same result.
If you were flying a Domi and using heavy drones for example, and your skills were maxed out, it would be;
Base damage x 2.0 (drone interfacing) x 1.25 (combat drones) x 1.5 (Dominix ship bonus) = 275% increase in damage
At least thats how I work it out....
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Neue Regel
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Posted - 2006.02.24 16:41:00 -
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Originally by: Santiago Cortes The maximum is 5, unless you control carriers afaik, drones were part of the lag problem and so the maximum controlled was reduced from 15 to 5, with the amount of damage and durability increased to make up for it.
Ok, so we have more damage and durability for attack drones. What about mining drones? I am new back after a while and before I left, I was able to control 9 mining drones, now only 5. That is a huge hit in how much ore I was able to bring in with my mining drones... Is there compensation to that nerf in a skill or skills I should trian now?
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between4and24
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Posted - 2006.02.25 00:15:00 -
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Hi Neue, the mining drones gain +20% mining yield from the drone interfacing skill. So if you have five of them out, you get one addition mining drone worth of yield per skill level of drone interfacing.
To operate mining drones you also need "Mining Drone Operation". Each level is +5% mining drone yield bonus. Also, the Vexor gives +10% mining drone yield per gallente cruiser skill level.
So you can have 175% mining drone yield bonus from those alone, (the effect of 13 mining drones). I know 15 was the old number, but they've given you options to improve your drone speed, control range, and orbit range drastically using specialized ship modules.
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