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Garoun Investment Bank
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Posted - 2013.04.15 23:08:00 -
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Tomoe Achasse wrote:I think a system involving modular, custom assembled drones *is* a novel one, but a much simpler solution exists.
as I was reading through this thread, the word "script" kept popping up, and that gave me an idea. Instead of overhauling drones themselves, why not the modules you fit to your ships.
Adding charges that can be loaded into modules to fine tune wherever attributes they enhance, much the way tracking scripts are loaded into tracking enhancers.
Have a module that is loaded with nannite paste to repair drone armor while they are in the hangar, scripts that can add or decrease tracking for rate of fire in the omni-directional tracking link, a new drone link augmenter that will give additional range by consuming cap 25 charges etc. It's even conceivable that drone damage augmenters could be loaded with charges that alter their damage types. This is the result of five minutes of brain storming, but it seems much simpler than the solutions being discussed.
I do not feel like reinventing the wheel with modular drones is the solution. Eventually the eve community as a whole will settle into a drone doctrine, much the same way a disproportionate number of pilots choose to fly drakes and Tengus, and all the effort that went into creating such an elaborate system will become moot.
With balance and creativity I feel that this would be an excellent and relatively easy to implement solution to overhauling drones.
this is what everyone has been saying except you took our simplified script idea for standardized drones and made it hella complicated and more draconian then it already was. IE the link augmenter which increases drone control range needing to use 25 cap charges to function. you do that and i guarantee anyone who does use one now for any purpose will drop them the moment the patch hits.
what some of us here are proposing is to use standard racial drone sizes but dictate their mobility defense(ie HP/layers) and offence kite or brawl then dmg type. now we say scripts because they wouldn't be too much headache logistically to get flowing into the market. now they could cost some more minerals and **** to make but it would be worth it. hell even modulated drones would be fine as long as the mineral requirements for the parts wasn't retardedly balanced.
hell you could do the fit drones thing hella simple through making drones generic to race then having a menu item on ships with drone bays labeled drone layout and you could stick stacks of 5 for each part that affects your drones in that much the same way someone uses a corp hanger on a carrier or orca. this way no matter what flight of drones you busted out light medium or heavy you would know that they would IE be fast, high EM dmg, paper tanked drones. (though fast high dmg and paper tank is relative to drone size, a berserker is still better tanked then a hornet)
simple is good guys but not at the expense of making it more unforgiving then it already is. |