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Posted - 2008.07.17 22:12:00 -
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As a domi pilot, I have to disagree with the op.
I am fairly much a mission runner, and still have to disagree.
Now for reasons:
a. No ammo use, try buying torps and feel the pain.
b. Not having to worry about the size of your target, try hitting frigs with 425's then use your ogres, or better yet, throw out those spare hammerhead II's. You'll understand the difference.
c. Make your own drones, drops the cost by quite a bit (sometimes)
d. You make so much stupid amounts of isk as a mission runner how can you complain about 500k? Seriously.
e. Compared to other things, the risk v. reward of drone use in pvp is pathetically low. Its up to you to screw it up, not another player(s) wtfbbqpwning you. In pvp everybody just assumes their drones will die eventually. (probably sooner than later, since they are gone every time a less than favorable fight comes your way. either you died or warped out, drones lost.)
f. I dont understand why people cant realize that loss is a good thing in a game. If anybody has tried Age of Conan one of the things I disliked the most was the lack of loss, there is no way to lose, no penalty. The greater the penalty the less worth there is to the accomplishments in my mind. I LIKE loss.
g. I understand that this is probably coming from a person who runs missions to make isk. And that is your primary goal, whether to return to pvp to get that uber ship, or whatever, and are ****ed because once again you lost your drones, however, gunboats need to worry about angular velocity etc... missile boats worry about damage type and
ship speed, drone users worry about aggro. Its the same in pvp as in pve. When a domi or an ishtar attacks me, I kill its drones. I dont bother with the ship. A drone ship is useless without its drones and its the ONLY drawback to using drones. We can choose damage type, we can choose size and we can choose speed. And with faction drones close to any mixture of the above. The only reason they are not totally overpowered is the fact that any ship can use them.
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