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Kerandra Newton
The Mental Asylum Ministry of Agressive Destruction
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Posted - 2015.12.23 14:53:11 -
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[I have wrote a discussion article in eve-wiki and this is my promise to release this idea for a bug removal on official forums]
Hello!
I'm testing this rig (Large Drone Speed Augmentor II) currently on Singularity and there's something wrong.
First off in my experience SISI has issues to show the correct values on the fitting window after I changed modules. I need to verify numbers many times by just rebooting the client.
Back to topic. The rig description is very confusing if you look on the stats of drones either if drones are in your bay or in space the rig does not give the correct bonus. Of course it gives a bonus to drone speed, but it's not correct and should be changed. Since I'm not sure if CCP staff reads my discussion article I tend to open a discussion also on forums.
'The numbers:
I tested it with a [[Praetor II]] and my skills, which are all at Level 5. With this a Praetor has a Maximum Velocity in MWD mode of 2070 m/s. And an Orbit Velocity of 384 m/s
According to the rig description it should give a 20% Maximum Velocity bonus to afterburner (which is not present) and to MWD (which is present). Plus a 15% Bonus to Velocity, which is to be read as a general velocity bonus! Because a Drone Navigation Computer 'only' "Increases microwarpdrive speed of drones" and the rig increases velocity with no limit to mode, in the narrow view it only differs between both modes.
As I said I tested the numbers having the drones in bay at a station and I also tested them in space. Calculated speed bonus should be 2484 m/s in MWD mode and 441,6 m/s Orbit Velocity. The drone unfortunately shows only 15% bonus to MWD, precisely 2380,50 m/s and no orbit velocity increase, which makes no sense.
The drone rigs in general help incredibly to modify a ship while saving regular fitting slots to balance it. Like there's no tracking speed rig and you have to use either an Enhancer or a Link - compared to the broad variation of turret- or missile rigs the better bonus of the drone rigs make sense. But not if they do not work like this rig. If you use an Optimal Range rig it should be possible and would absolutely make sense that the speed rig increases also Orbit Velocity, especially after the drone changes.
I see good and ongoing changes and balancing to other weapons upgrades but no changes to drones mods, why not? Not saying there is a demand for more changes or adds, but a correction to the module would be appropriate, wouldn't it be. I'm not critizising, I'm just pointing out old ... a very old unbalance, not saying it's a broken or buggy module, but you can call it like that! And putting in the value of materials to build it, it's absolutely worthless, especially if it doesn't get the promissed bonus. On the other hand it would open new industry and profit also.
[So I pledge for a correction. (Will do that on the forum tomorrow.) - done it now]
PLEASE fix it! It shows inconsistence and does not represent a sandbox.
Note to the community: I'm not talking about "You should know this." I'm talking about a module a person wants to have to create a Drone Boat, which can superiorly kill - at least - NPC's while beeing equal ... or better said different to many other ships that can currently do the same job better. Drone Boats need tank and combat capabilities or even superior combat capabilities with less tank compared to other ships. Then I agree there's no Drone BS in game ... except maybe the Sin. |
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
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Posted - 2015.12.24 15:03:42 -
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So the T2 rig is obviously glitched - or is the description incorrect?
I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
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Omnathious Deninard
Novis Initiis
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Posted - 2015.12.24 15:58:06 -
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Chances are the 20% to AB and MWD velocity is leftover from the old days and has since been changed to a flat 15% velocity bonus which only affects MWD and AB velocity still. Much the same way drone navigation computers used to add 20N of thrust to the drone but simply added a fixed velocity bonus.
In short it is a text error not a mechanical error.
If you don't follow the rules, neither will I.
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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
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Posted - 2015.12.24 16:43:09 -
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Omnathious Deninard wrote:In short it is a text error not a mechanical error. That would be disappointing if that's the case.
I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
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FT Diomedes
The Graduates
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Posted - 2015.12.24 17:52:02 -
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It sounds like a text error. With that said, the Drone rigs in general pretty much suck these days. I'd love to see some actually interesting Drone rigs - like +25 drone bandwidth or +25m3 drone bay.
CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.
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