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Jenna Nichols
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Posted - 2011.07.11 19:30:00 -
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Can't seem to keep my drones set to aggressive? I want them to attack rats all by themselves when I'm mining. I've gone into drone settings and clicked on aggressive, but they just ignore rats until I target them and tell them to engage, what am I doing wrong?
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Maduin Ardens
Eve Innovations
Eternal Evocations
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Posted - 2011.07.11 19:33:00 -
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Edited by: Maduin Ardens on 11/07/2011 19:38:10
Hmm... I don't use drones much in PvE anymore, but from what I remember...
Once your drones have killed the last hostile NPC on grid, they return to your ship and do a sort of... passive orbit, so when more hostile NPCs show up later to attack you, they will not respond because they were not given the initial command.
Drone AI is and always has been kind of wonky... if you release your drones WHEN the NPCs show up, they should automatically begin attacking them if they have you redboxed already, which coincidentally is a nifty way of getting around jamming rats in mission pockets if they have you permajammed before you are able to assign drones to kill them, as the drones used to pick the EWAR boats first after you released them into space, if there were active EWAR effects on you, the order if I recall right, was scramblers/webbers, ECMers, and then everything else.
Then again, CCP ninja nerfs and modifies drone AI code quite frequently, so you will probably never know from one month to the next whether your drones have achieved self awareness yet or not, 
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Llambda
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2011.07.11 21:14:00 -
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The general consensus is that drone AI has been borked since Incarna.
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Forum Alting
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Posted - 2011.07.11 21:44:00 -
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Edited by: Forum Alting on 11/07/2011 21:44:17
I'm not sure whether the drone AI has changed since incarna but pre-incarna it worked something like this:
When in passive mode, your drones will not attack under any condition unless you specifically order them to attack that target. After the target is destroyed they go passive again until you get a new target.
In aggressive mode, your drones automatically attack any enemy that STARTS attacking you while they are deployed. If the hostiles are already shooting at you when you launch your drones then the drones won't react to the hostiles at first. In this case, you need to manually issue an attack order. After the target is destroyed your drones will automatically attack enemies that are attacking you.
My guess is the bolded condition was missed out. If the rats have already engaged you then your drones need a manual attack order before they start returning the favour. Once they open up though they will kill everything that's red-boxed (fired on) you.
The optimal time to release drones is after all enemies on grid have yellow-boxed (locked) you but at least one of them HASN'T red-boxed (fired on) you. Then you can be reasonably certain nobody is going to kill your drones but they'll still kill the next rat to open fire and then all the rest after that.
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Xercodo
Amarr
Daj'Juntar
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Posted - 2011.07.12 00:11:00 -
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yes this applies to a auto targeter too
sit in a belt with an auto targeter turn on and watch what it does, drones act the same way
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