Heres an idea I thought of after reading a few of the other Drone based threads. I have voiced it previously, but I wanted to setup a seperate thread to discus it and not detract from said threads:


Modular Drones

Totally replace the current drones with a new 'sleeper inspired' modular drone template.

Have 2 hull types per size of drone, a combat hull and an attack hull. (In keeping with the new role principals being used by CCP.). Combat drones are the brawlers, doing more damage or stronger utilities and have more EHP. Attack drones are the nippy ones, focusing on speed, range and tracking.

These hulls can be outfitted to either deal 1 of the 4 damage types or use a utility function depending on the desired role.

This option is chosen when a stack of hulls are assembled, with a popup menu. You can choose how many hulls in the stack to assemble and what system to add at this point. Think of them as a sort of 'scripted' drone hulls.

In this way you could customise drones to a specific need. No one damage type would have advantages over another, but none would be inferior either. You could tailor them to your own play style.

The racial drone skills can add dps to specific damage types and improve the usage of racial ewar types and utilities.

T2 Combat Drone would have marginally better speed, tracking and range with a bit more damage and EHP.
T2 Attack Drones would have marginally better damage and EHP with a bit more speed, tracking and range.


I also suggest that should this be implemented, that all drones and blueprints should be swapped out:

• Amarr Drones become appropriate sized Attack Hulls, with EM damage 'modules'. Their BPOs and BPCs should be split to become a BPO and/or BPC for the appropriate sized Attack Hulls and another for EM damage 'modules'.


• Caldari Drones become appropriate sized Combat Hulls, with kinetic damage 'modules'. Their BPOs and BPCs should be split to become a BPO and/or BPC for the appropriate sized Combat Hulls and another for kinetic damage 'modules'.


• Gallente Drones become appropriate sized Combat Hulls, with thermal damage 'modules'. Their BPOs and BPCs should be split to become a BPO and/or BPC for the appropriate sized Combat Hulls and another for thermal damage 'modules'.


• Minmatar Drones become appropriate sized Attack Hulls, with explosive damage 'modules'. Their BPOs and BPCs should be split to become a BPO and/or BPC for the appropriate sized Attack Hulls and another for explosive damage 'modules'.

Personally I think this would be pretty damn cool. So, what are your opinions?