A counter-proposition:

- small drones have the sig radius of shuttles, at most; med drones of small frigates; heavies, somewhere between frigate and destroyer;
- drones have two rules when webbed: 1) do not fire MWD; 2) auto-recall to drone bay, only firing MWD once clear of the web;
- drone UI gets updated so that you can see when one of your drones is being targeted, and by which and how many ships. Also, make it possible to see what EWAR is on them.

Drone management would still have to be careful, like it is now, but at least you could see that your drones were in peril, and by whom, and the small sig radius would give you time to adjust tactics while they were being targeted. Also, the drones would no longer suicide themselves by MWDing while webbed.

Few comments :

1) As was already stated you will probably need to adjust high-end DED sites where we have to deal with super torpedoes.
With target switching capability those sites will become wasted content. It is already taking too much time to do them and if they will require over pimped fleets with full logi support we won't be bothering with them any more.already covered

2) About drones in general :
Them drones love to use their MWD when webbed.
drone + web == dead drone
There is no way around it. No amount of skill or effort will allow you to save that drone.

Fun facts :
Medium drones have bigger signature than frigates.
Heavy drones have signature of a cruiser.

Now multiply that by mwd sig bloom, close-to-zero tanking capability and single-digit-IQ of that drone.
There is a reason why there is no point in using drones in wormholes ( without gang ).

Heavy drones are already gimped in pve. This change will make them terribly inefficient ( even more than they are now ).
Forcing all drone users to use only sentries will not be considered as good design.

Keep in mind that constant recalling/redeploying/reassigning drones is *not* fun game mechanics.


Proposition :
- no webs on drones ( all other forms of ewar are fine )
- light drones targeted by frigates only ( no destroyers )
- medium drones targeted by short range cruisers only
- heavy drones targeted by short range cruisers/battlecruisers
- no more than 4 normal rats ( 2 elite ) shooting at single drone at the same time

No.

I've run C1 and C2 wormholes with a Myrmidon and not lost any drones. If you keep an eye on them you can keep them alive.

Sleepers are often quite slow to re target. Sometimes you can recall the drones when you see the sleeper go from red to yellow and force them sleeper to switch back before they have even locked the drone. Sleepers also hate ECM, so a boat with a couple of ECM mods can keep aggro off the drones as well.

If you tank with the drones you can reduce a lot of incoming DPS. A Dominix has room for a lot of T1 drones to use as cannon fodder.

It appears that you are labouring under the mistaken impression that Dominix mission runners do not use Hammers, Hobs and Ogres.

What will it affect :
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- mobile drone boats ( if your drones can be webbed then it will make those ships practically useless in pve, you will be forced to use only sentries )
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- Drake can get rid of web/scram via Missiles but it's gonna hurt DPS
- CNR, SNI, Machariel,Nightmare and Marauders situationally DEPEND on their light drones to remove web/scram frigs

If light drones are shot down those ships will be screwed.

- Sentry Dominix and Rattlesnake will be able to deal but the constant scooping and launching will hurt DPS
- AFK Dominix with reppers might actually be the ship best suited for dealing with aggro switching - depending on the amount of threat generated by the reps

Well, they ARE affected by webs right now. So far there is no indication that this will change, no matter how much you wish for it.

Also the difference in sig between your BS and your drones should cause every single frig to shift to your drones and let me tell you that light drones don't take easily to being targeted by multiple frigs. There will be nothing left to recover once you notice the aggro.

The fact that drones ARE affected by webs today means they will be affected once this change goes into affect.

*snip*

The fact that drones ARE affected by webs today means they will be affected once this change goes into affect.

Maybe if you did what I suggested and tried that on the test server and then provided some actual feedback not typical whining you could actually make them see that there is a problem ( real not theoretical ).

/facepalm... stop poasting, m'kay?

I actually did testing, early in the wekend and my results were TOTALLY different from whatever test you did.

But why post that HERE? Is this the testing thread and I just mis-read something? No, guess it isn't...

- This thread have been created to provide ACTUAL feedback from testing