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masternerdguy
Gallente Etched Hull Innovative Enterprises Don't Feed the Bears
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Posted - 2010.01.10 17:41:00 -
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I have 3 ideas that will benefit every race in EVE (especially caldari, who have mismatched drone bay sizes) in some way.
- Ability to field up to 10 drones
- Smartbombing Drones
- Self-Repair Drones
Ok. You are undoubtably going "NONONONONOONONNON!!!!! HGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGGAA YOU HATE EVE ID QUIT!!!!!!"....but let me explain.
First of all, drone bay sizes that are "good" allow you to at least field 5 of the same type of drone. For example...
25m3 50m3 125m3
are the kind of "good" drone bays out there.
There are also extremely bad drone bays.
15m3 75m3 100m3
Those are like teasers for more drones. Now, the only way that these drone bays can be put to use currently is to undersize (ex. put 5 medium drones into a 75m3 drone bay instead of 3 heavies). This is because undersizing typically allows you to do the best dps.
I propose another way: A new drone skill (Advanced Drone Control) that is a x4 skill. Base training time is 1 day to level 1. So, this skill would take....
Level 1: 1 day. Level 2: 4 days. Level 3: 16 days. Level 4: 64 days. Level 5: 256 days. ------------------ and that adds up to... 341 days to get this skill from level 1 to level 5!
Each level would allow you to field an additional drone. So, on some ships you could field, say, 10 mediums instead of 4 heavies or 5 mediums.
This would give every race with a crap drone bay a fair shake. Gallente ships would rejoice, of course, but honestly, it is a huge training investment, they deserve it. Drone bandwidth would also limit the ability for some drone boats to field 10 drones, especially ships like the dominix which only has 125mb/s drone bandwidth.
On to smartbombing drones. These heavy drones would carry medium smart bombs and smart bomb while orbiting you. The idea is they can help rapidly defeat other drones on ships that cannot effectively fit a smart bomb.
Finally, self repair drones. The idea is you can throw out a swarm of shield repair drones that automatically target you. They will do the RR on you. Now, these drones would have to be nerfed somehow. For example, maybe a medium one can only rep 10hp instead of the current 24.
This would be effective since throwing out 5 medium repair drones (or 10 if the other change was implemented) could rep you 10hp/s (medium shield bots rep every 5 seconds) or 20hp/s if the 10 drone idea was implemented.
On some ships this could make a lot of difference, especially when trying to deagress. These drones would not cause agro and could make the difference between life or death for your ship.
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Grarr Dexx
Amarr GK inc. Panda Team
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Posted - 2010.01.10 17:44:00 -
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How hard is it to get in your skull: MORE DRONES WILL NEVER HAPPEN. They gave you drone interfacing for that ****. ___
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Nova Fox
Gallente Novafox Shipyards
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Posted - 2010.01.10 17:44:00 -
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no to the first one its been said no to dozens of times by the developers once upon a time this was reality but no more.
Smartbombs arent all that smart they damage everyone they hit cept the user so having a swarm of drones orbiting you smartbombing is self defeating.
Self repair idea has been asked for but devs dont want to give it to us as a freebie they want it to cost something more than just skill points. Pre-order your Sisters of ≡v≡ Exploration ship today, Updated 27DEC09
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Marchocias
Silent Ninja's
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Posted - 2010.01.10 18:40:00 -
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10 drones used to be commonplace... but it hammered the server too much, so they made the drones do twice as much damage, and have twice as much tank, and halved the number of them you're allowed.
AFAIK, other than with carriers / motherships, there is still one ultra rare ship around that can use 10 drones - i think it was given away as a tournament prize.
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Serge Bastana
Gallente GWA Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.10 18:54:00 -
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If you need more than 5 drones, you're doing it wrong ------------------------------------------------ You either need a punch up the throat or a good shag.
Nobody round here is offering the second one therefore your choices are limited! |
Comodore John
Gallente KILRATHI INDUSTRIES
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Posted - 2010.01.10 19:28:00 -
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A very big NO to all 3 ideas.
BTW, how does a rank 4 skill take over 200 days to get to V? A rank 16 (racial titan) only takes roughly 50 days
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masternerdguy
Gallente Etched Hull Innovative Enterprises Don't Feed the Bears
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Posted - 2010.01.10 20:20:00 -
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Originally by: Comodore John A very big NO to all 3 ideas.
BTW, how does a rank 4 skill take over 200 days to get to V? A rank 16 (racial titan) only takes roughly 50 days
i usd x4 as a time multiplier not a rank. CCP can figure out what rank it is, I don't want to do a conversion.
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shady trader
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Posted - 2010.01.10 22:33:00 -
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Originally by: Marchocias 10 drones used to be commonplace... but it hammered the server too much, so they made the drones do twice as much damage, and have twice as much tank, and halved the number of them you're allowed.
AFAIK, other than with carriers / motherships, there is still one ultra rare ship around that can use 10 drones - i think it was given away as a tournament prize.
Guardian Vexor I believe is the ship you are thinking of. The old Vexor could flied 15 drones and so could the guardian version as it had a bonus of one drone per cruiser level. Then CCP changed drone interfacing to give a straight bonus (hit point and damage) they removed the Vexors drone bonus and replaced it with a damage one. as there were only ever 60 Guardian Vexors in the game they did not bother changing them. Macrointel, the place were the nature order of the universe does not hold sway. Pirates and ore thief's are congratulated by carebears for the actions. |
coolruningc
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Posted - 2010.01.10 22:43:00 -
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Edited by: coolruningc on 10/01/2010 22:44:05 Hate to say it the idear looks ok but 256 dyas skill:( no one would train that when they can spend 32bil on a guriaden vexor. secondey in the old days 10 drones realy does cause lag on the server to the point it crashes and I had many debtes with the devs about it. But x5 with the power of 10 drones realy works. also you can have 10 drones with tow acounts or 5 dps and 5 repning you.
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Mad Hops
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.01.11 05:42:00 -
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If you have more than one smartbombing drone, wouldn't they hurt each other? :P
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Mugster
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Posted - 2010.01.11 12:40:00 -
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It would take alot of reblancing, so it will never happen, it would make every drone ship able to field more than 5 drones imbalanced. Would have to then add more highslots/turret/missile hardpoints to nondroneships to balance it, so never going to happen without you giving up something, in the carrier/mom case a highslot.
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