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Mjinko
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Posted - 2010.02.27 12:11:00 -
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One of the things i find most annoying in this game is when your client kicks you from the game, full room aggro, all under control, to come back to see all your brave drones still alive and 18 km from you......approach...approach and scoop...nah approach in your bs to see them die one by one as you snail it towards them...the last one dies when your like 3km out. We fly spaceship..we shoot lasers..we reconnect to probes from how many km out?...but we cant reconnect to drones that are 4km out or 20 km out. Please put a reconnect to lost drones button. This may not save the drones...but at least they get a fighting chance.Im new to the game, maybe there is a reason for the present done functionality, if so please explain. I travel a lot and internet connection quality varies, low velocity..more client crashes = mass drone genocide.So please, once you have finished with haiti......save the drones !!
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cpu939
Gallente Volatile Nature Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2010.02.27 12:44:00 -
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i'll agree it is annoying, a few will say it is just a few mill isk who cares.
I do think your idea is good due to the fact not all the crashes that happen are your own fault most of them can go down to your isp/system but sometimes can go down to client or sever errors. thats why i would add it.
from my point of view i would have it set to drone control range i.e. you can control drones at 45km when you reload your 52km away you would still need to travel 7km but this would be due to your computer having to reconect to the drones. 0101011 001101111 011011000 110000101110100 01101001011011000 1100101001000000 1001110011000010 11101000111010101 11001001100101
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Serge Bastana
Gallente GWA Corp
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Posted - 2010.02.27 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: cpu939 i'll agree it is annoying, a few will say it is just a few mill isk who cares.
I do think your idea is good due to the fact not all the crashes that happen are your own fault most of them can go down to your isp/system but sometimes can go down to client or sever errors. thats why i would add it.
from my point of view i would have it set to drone control range i.e. you can control drones at 45km when you reload your 52km away you would still need to travel 7km but this would be due to your computer having to reconect to the drones.
Quite a few of my recent crashes have been down to the client throwing an exception, even causing windows to crash as well, certainly more so than just an internet disconnection.
I'd like to see a basic reconnect to drones implemented too.
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Braith117
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Posted - 2010.02.27 14:52:00 -
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It is a good idea to add that because connection breaks and server crashes are random and can cost millions of isk if the drones are lost. For drone boats especially this is annoying since we might have to cruise 50km or better to retrieve drones that are being shot at.
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Mjinko
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Posted - 2010.02.27 14:53:00 -
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I agree with the reconnect being limited by your drone control range. It all makes sense. Its not just the money, it the time lost also and in most cases as stated client dcs are not the players fault.
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Czert ElPrezidente
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Posted - 2010.02.27 16:07:00 -
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Agree, hope CCP will implement this fast (and not in upcoming expansion, which is far away). And if ccp will not implement this, we can bump this thread forever :)). ------------------------------------------------
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Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.27 16:47:00 -
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Edited by: Dantes Revenge on 27/02/2010 16:48:08 Drones have been the bane of every pilot in Eve since... Forever.
* Wandering off and picking individual targets, it seems making drones work as a team is impossible. (I've kicked players from my corp for that). * Slowboating back to the ship when recalled instead of using their MWD. * Ignoring immediate threats and aggroing dormant NPC's. * Ignoring ships that are more their size and taking on a BS instead.
I just wish CCP would create a drone script that would keep drones together and get them to attack the frigates first before running off to fight increasingly bigger stuff. This should be normal unless you specifically tell them to attack a BS and ignore the frigates and cruisers. You also have a control range which theoretically uses your tactical computers to issue orders to them, this should tell them to ignore ships that are not currently targeting you.
If I'm in a BS, I have bigger problems than frigates and I don't want to have to target them just to tell the drones to attack a frigate next instead of running off to attack 5 different battleships, it takes ages to lock a frigate for the ten seconds it takes the drones to pop them just to give the drones orders. I only have 7 targets but most of the time, 5 of these are frigates so I can issue orders to the drones. By the time I've locked the next one, the drones are several kilometers away soloing battleships.
Reconnecting after a DC is of secondary importance as far as I'm concerned.
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Almighty Narshe
Caldari THORN Syndicate Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2010.02.27 16:48:00 -
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It's particularly annoying if you're ratting in some back-of-beyond bit of 0.0 and then have to fly through 20 jumps of null-sec to get more. /signed
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Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.27 17:04:00 -
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Originally by: Almighty Narshe It's particularly annoying if you're ratting in some back-of-beyond bit of 0.0 and then have to fly through 20 jumps of null-sec to get more. /signed
Blame CCP for that, there was a time when you could transfer drones from the cargo bay to the drone bay in space so you could carry spares. They stopped it because players were abusing it by having one heavy in the drone bay and launching it, transferring another and so on till they have 5 heavies fielded from a drone bay that could fit only 1. When they added drone bandwidth later to stop others bringing more heavies for you, they didn't go back to being able to transfer drones from the cargo bay again.
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Ms Murda
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Posted - 2010.02.27 18:22:00 -
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This is even more annoying for Dread pilots, /supported
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Doctor Deals
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Posted - 2010.02.27 19:50:00 -
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I wonder how much ccp would save on customer service costs (petitions) if drones become invulnerable (to npc only) when you log off.
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Grarr Dexx
Amarr GK inc. Panda Team
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Posted - 2010.02.27 20:41:00 -
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Originally by: Doctor Deals I wonder how much ccp would save on customer service costs (petitions) if drones become invulnerable (to npc only) when you log off.
No thanks. Logoffski doesn't need to be even better. ___
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Reinforced Mode
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Posted - 2010.02.28 04:11:00 -
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Agree.....reconnect to drones option now. Could be a new skill "drone whispering" .
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Serge Bastana
Gallente GWA Corp
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Posted - 2010.02.28 12:38:00 -
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Maybe it should require 1 unit of drone candy to entice them back in
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Jens Beckstrom
Free Space Initiative
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Posted - 2010.02.28 13:17:00 -
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as a dedicated Dominix pilot (im my 5years i have yet piloted a megathron) this has always anoyed me deeply. I do not always have the best internet connection, and loging back in to wach my beloved drones get masakered is in my eyes a total waste. They have their own power supply, they recive tons of taget data form ship during engagements, why should it not be possible to reconect to your drones.
I hope this idea reaches the devs.
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SherlockHoles
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Posted - 2010.03.01 11:34:00 -
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Lost 7 more yesterday. Stop drone apartheid now. Do CCP read this?
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Zilberfrid
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Posted - 2010.03.01 12:10:00 -
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After another flight of Valkyries have gone to Nirvana after a client crash, I can only wholeheartedly agree.
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Reinforced Mode
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Posted - 2010.03.01 15:27:00 -
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ok.....i was talking to bob marley and he had an idea. This whole reconnect to drones thing could give rise to a new pvp ship. One that dampens , blocks or reduces drone control ranges...causing any drones outside of adjusted range to dc. This ship , of course would have its nemesis , one that does the opposite. It could be a whole new way of messing with each other.
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Virgo Dawn
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Posted - 2010.03.03 13:06:00 -
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bump...reconnect to drones now !!!!!
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Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
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Posted - 2010.03.03 15:32:00 -
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/support
Fully support reconnecting to drones within control range.
------------------------ Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer "I've got a couple of Strippers on my ship... and they just love to dance!" ------------------------ |
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Jahpahjay
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Posted - 2010.03.03 16:45:00 -
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/signed
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Destruction Theory
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Posted - 2010.03.03 22:53:00 -
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Originally by: Serge Bastana Maybe it should require 1 unit of drone candy to entice them back in
THIS! :D no but srsly I always feel bad when I see my drones slowly dieing.. =/ sad as it is, they do their job well, even if they are just ai. And it's ****ing annoying getting new ones all the time....
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Jack Sebastion
Caldari Entropy Systems Holdings FREELANCER ALLIANCE
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Posted - 2010.03.04 02:04:00 -
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Good Idea. I support it. The end may justify the means but the means rarely justify the end. |
Ydyp Ieva
Caldari Amarrian Retribution
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Posted - 2010.03.04 08:44:00 -
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Since they put in probes and the reconnect to them, this has been asked a hundred times over already. But seems CCP doesn't care much about this at the moment. It should be indeed a nice feat to be able to reconnect to drones after a DC. ---------------------------------- None of yet! |
Mjinko
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Posted - 2010.03.04 11:30:00 -
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Yeah..well im new and already sick of losing drones ,even if they dont listen it helps me get over multiple daily,not my fault, drone deaths. Do any ccp people ever give feedback or answers here? like , no bad idea ..with reasons given. Or even a hmm...we will look into that. There are so many good ideas in this forum.
It is very annoying...before the last expansion i had no client problems, my internet connections vary from place to place, but since the expansion I dc 2 or 3 times a day.So 2 toons x 10 t2 drones.....sometimes you get lucky and save one or two. So i find i have a drone heavy sp char that has to think twice or 25 times b4 i launch my drones. Its not a cry about lost money just think this is a small change that would be a big improvement Im gonna bump this till it gets annoying !!
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Caldari 5
Amarr The Element Syndicate Hand That Feeds
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Posted - 2010.03.04 14:05:00 -
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Originally by: Jint Hikaru /support
Fully support reconnecting to drones within control range.
Ditto
Just as a side note, but are some of the drones smarter than other ones? I buy 50 of each type of drone when I start missioning in a new location? Currently I'm down to: Hammerhead II x 17 Infiltrator II x 42 Valkyrie II x 37 Vespa II x 19
It seems that the Hammerheads and the Vespas are dumb and like to try and bite off more than they can chew. (as a previous poster said, trying to Solo a BS instead of killing the already targetted Frigs)
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Reggie Stoneloader
JAFA Trade and Manufacturing Cooperative
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Posted - 2010.03.04 23:15:00 -
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This is a good idea. Heck, I'd go a step further and let us reinitialize dormant drones that weren't ours to begin with. I once won a fight by killing one guy, then scooping and relaunching his drones to chase off his buddy. It was epic, and it would be great to be able to send out a beam to commandeer drones that have been left behind, either by yourself or another. Heck, make it a module. "Drone Reboot Unit". ======================
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Caldari 5
Amarr The Element Syndicate Hand That Feeds
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Posted - 2010.03.06 11:02:00 -
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bump for a good idea
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Vizirion
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Posted - 2010.03.06 11:17:00 -
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Signed for reconnect and posibility of moving drone's from cargo to drone bay.
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SherlockHoles
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Posted - 2010.03.08 11:08:00 -
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bumpity ..bump
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