Originally by: CCP Chronotis 30/11/2010

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We discovered a few issues with new bombers that manifest slightly differently. The first one is that they will sometimes give up attacking their target. The fix for this behaviour will go out as soon as possible but you may need to remind your drones to attack if you see them go idle when not supposed to until the fix is deployed.

The second is the drones getting to their attack ranges, currently they will be released and they will burn their MWDs for a few seconds and then go back to slowly approaching the target which will be an issue the further away you are from the target.

This means that your initial damage will be changed from TQ as your drones will take longer to get into effective range whereas on TQ they will start being effective once within about 60km after 15 seconds or so, after the patch, they will need to wait till they are within attack range which means a delay in damage being applied which is the distinct difference you will notice after today.

Both these have been tweaked but the changes wont go live today, the fighter bombers will burn their MWDs for longer (and therefore get into range faster) and begin causing damage at more than 10km so should not see them cutting their MWDs out too soon and not getting into attack range for a time like mentioned.

Originally by: Tish Magev

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Thanks for the response, so they could be a 'bit' broken to start with but they'll get fixed with a patch soon(ish), that's fine so long as we know. cheers.

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Indeed, the most annoying part will be them giving up the will to attack something occasionally, that is being fixed. The other behaviours will take longer to fix which modifies their approach to targets so it will take longer to start dealing damage in the meantime.

In our investigation, we uncovered this was occurring for non-combat drones occasionally as well and had the same root cause so there are benefits from this showing up here beyond the bomber changes.

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