There are going to be some very happy carrier pilots.

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

You're not denied sec status gains from sleeper drones because they're in 0.0. You're denied them because CONCORD has no reason to give you sec status from killing them, since they stay in their wormholes and aren't a threat to the empires. Pirates and rogue drones on the other hand are, so bounties and sec status gains are justified on kills.

Hope you guys enjoy! :D

Oh, also, Rouge Drones now give a sec status gain when you kill them. Just a little something we also added. :D

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

What is the drone control unit adding? I assume easier fitting, but other than that? +2 drones per module fitted?

Hope you guys enjoy! :D

Rouge drones you say?

I want to know this as well, easier fitting is all good I guess, but it doesn't feel like the drone control units are what usually breaks a carrier fit. What I mean is that unless it does something insane like adding +2 drones per module I don't see why anyone would like to fit it given the (I assume) very high price it'll get?

Most CONCORD officers have nullsec alts in large alliances that need to make money. They're just looking out for their own.

CCP FoxFour I have a question!

Any plan on introducing lower-end faction versions of these modules to the Rogue Drone sites in highsec like Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation DED 3/10, or the unnamed combat sites such as Desolate Site and Chemical Yard?

Easier fitting is the only change, as in less CPU. No change to powergrid or other stats. I've commented elsewhere that fitting is a non-issue, but that went unanswered.

These officer modules should bode well for the botting industry!

CCP FoxFour I have a question!

Any plan on introducing lower-end faction versions of these modules to the Rogue Drone sites in highsec like Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation DED 3/10, or the unnamed combat sites such as Desolate Site and Chemical Yard?

Hope you guys enjoy! :D

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

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Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

Another ISK faucet... wahoo.

Another ISK faucet... wahoo.

I think you're confused about what an ISK faucet is... The officers will add a -slight- isk faucet in the way of bounties, but they are so small and so few and far between I assume you aren't referring to their bounties, but to the drops..

No, you assume wrong. I am only referring to the bounties.

And, yes, it may be considered only a "slight" increase, but it is an increase all the same.

Balance consists of tweaking numbers both up and down. If you are going to add a 0.001% faucet, then you need to add a 0.001% sink, as well.

The failure to always keep this in mind is why we continue to have more ISK faucets than ISK sinks in the game.

I was hoping that maybe we might see a faction carrier to totally pimp out with these

There are going to be some very happy carrier pilots.

I'd really love to see something in all these empty non-officer and non-sentient drone wrecks... even if it is just metal scraps

Why is that? Officer Dcu going to increase fighters damage and reduce explosion radius for fighter bombers?

...to find the stats of the following item: Magic Crystal Ball

No. Officer DCU does nothing at all. And by that I mean it has reduced CPU, when CPU was not even close to being needed.

Revenant. Sansha Supercarrier. You're welcome.

Thats a Supper Carrier :)

Only if it's plated.

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

Sounds like thre Drone regions are going to heat up a bit!

Officer drone modules! Super pilots are going to be all over this... fortunes are waiting to be made! The gold rush is on!

Posting pronograhic material will get you banned. >_> <_<

If you wanted to make it worth hauling a 3,000 m3 item

Posting pronograhic material will get you banned. >_> <_<

It would seem that, at the moment, the officer drone control units are not even worth the cargo space they take up.

i would like to see the officer DCU get a bonus to fighter damage and fighter bomber reduction in explosion radius.


Something like for:

D-34343

Plus 1 active drone.

Fighter damage increase by 15% and fighter bomber explosion radius by 15%

then for:

F-435454

Plus 1 active drone.

Fighter damage increase by 16% and fighter bomber explosion radius by 16%

then for:

P-434554

Plus 1 active drone.

Fighter damage increase by 17% and fighter bomber explosion radius by 17%

then for:

W-634

Plus 1 active drone.

Fighter damage increase by 18% and fighter bomber explosion radius by 18%

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regular stacking penalty occurs...

a couple other ideas


-Rouge drone faction ships.

so which one of the officer drone mods... do you thkink super caps will be all over?

pretty much these are going to make my pimp rattlesnake even more pimp.. but thats about it...

a couple other ideas

-Rouge drone faction ships.

First off, look what you've done CCP, even the commonfolk can't spell ROGUE anymore.

Also, there ARE Rogue drone faction ships.

Rogue Drone FACTION (sentient) Battleships. Also navigate through this link to see battlecruiser, cruiser, etc, variants.

You're welcome.

Yes, that's right. For all you asking for rogue drone faction spawns, they are in the game already. Please do a little research next time before making a suggestion. The issue is not with a lack of rogue drone faction spawns, the issue is with the loot they give: Components for integrated/augmented hammerheads. In other words, absolutely worthless trash.

First off, look what you've done CCP, even the commonfolk can't spell ROGUE anymore.

Also, there ARE Rogue drone faction ships.

Rogue Drone FACTION (sentient) Battleships. Also navigate through this link to see battlecruiser, cruiser, etc, variants.

You're welcome.

The damage mod for sure. Revenant w/ Shadow Bombers + Drone Officer Damage Mod? You don't think so? What about 5x DCUs?

There are going to be some very happy carrier pilots.

Why do rats give sec status gains outside empire space? There's no CONCORD there, just like in wormholes.

Useless text as they are not published /facepalm.

Here's another link for you, that has more tangible hard stats on it.

I don't know what you mean by not published, considering they have been in the game for ~7 years.

I can not stress enough that sec status increase should only occur from NPCing in low security space.

There are going to be some very happy carrier pilots.

There are going to be some very happy carrier pilots.

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http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=4393

i will highlight the important stuffz

This module is for combat drones, not fighters or bombers

5 regular dcu is just as good as the best officer dcu...

as it stands the mod is useless

Is this the place were CCP once again shows they have no idea how their game functions?

may be a small bonus to fighter/FB damage. Or it will be worth nothing, because noone will really need it.

Speed bonus on DCU mb for f\fb.

And btw what about anomalies? Will they provide officer spawn too? Or only belts? ("asteroid drone officer" on the image in blog)

I am only referring to the bounties.

Balance consists of tweaking numbers both up and down. If you are going to add a 0.001% faucet, then you need to add a 0.001% sink, as well.

P.S. +1 for making drone sites in empire worth running.

Care to explain how officer spawns make empire sites worth running? since I see to be missing something....

Also,

are the changes to salvage % increase relative or absolute, so if a drops has 5% chance to occur, is it now 2% of 5% (1.02 * 1.05) more change, or 5% + 2% (1.05 +1.02)

Care to explain how officer spawns make empire sites worth running? since I see to be missing something....

Yeah, dead on arrival :(

All carriers and supers can already fit a full rack of 5 DCUs with a full tank and have CPU to spare, so there is literally no point in this CPU bonus. I suggest increasing the number of drones deployable to 2, THAT would be something worth spending a few billion on (and will give the Drone Region owners something worth its weight in technetium, which they completely lack).

Drones giving Sec increase is something I have lobbied for forever. Woot CCP

Because security increase is so important in nullsec...woohoo go CSM! Celebrating another year of doing nothing!

Good stuff! I guess this won't change the nearly useless drone DED complex sites more than maybe a bit sec status and some % more salvage? Would be nice with drone faction modules as well to buff these sites. As or right now they simply aren't worth the time.

I am surprised that with all the questions in this forum containing this topic, CCP has not confirmed or denied anything about DED complexes...

Has there been a response from CCP on the uselessness of the officer DCU yet?

It should be +2 drones or a % to fighter/bomber damage if you ask me. CPU is useless.

Because nothing is happening with them. Even minor rebalances to those sites has historically been adverticed by CCP as some kind of big thing. Keeping that in mind it's fairly obvious, that they didn't buff the drone DED sites in any meaningful way and they will continue to be sub par sites.

(3) Not sure if this is still the case, but last I checked (back in April), the rogue drone exploration sites were mislabeled in the scanner window. For example, Abandoned Research Complex DA025 was labeled as 'Magnetometric' (requiring a Salvager/Analyzer); but the containers required a Codebreaker to open, so it should have been labeled as a 'Radar' site instead. I opened a bug report on this (ID 133645), but it timed out for lack of attention a week or so ago.

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http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=4393

i will highlight the important stuffz

This module is for combat drones, not fighters or bombers

5 regular dcu is just as good as the best officer dcu...

as it stands the mod is useless

@CCP FoxFour is there some kind of master plan for the DCUs? Because at the moment they seem more or less pointless. Even as simple yes or now would help clear up some major confusion.

I would like a response too.

not empty quoting...

Posting pronograhic material will get you banned. >_> <_<

Good idea but really rubbish names for the officer mods... can't we just give them proper names and say they were named after the first person to encounter them or something? :)

I've been thinking about this for a while and now with officers this kinda matters. Do/will drones have a home region?

Also not empty quoting.....

An idea for them would be to Half their size so instead of 4k its 2k and maybe a speed bonus to fighters and fighter bombers

Size is not an issue, if it has to have a dedicated hauler then it should be at least worth risking another ship for. To keep it in line with other officer mods the cpu should be higher than the standard and give a better effect than the standard one. Speed increase, hp increase, tracking increase are things that could be applied to them, though they should be small enough boost that a stacking penalty would not be necessary.

If they made the officer variant give a bonus that is not on the tech 1 version, this would be a precedent, and I don't think one they want to set.

That is a matter of prospective, a carrier can only control 10 drones without the use of drone control units, so one could look at the extra drones as +10% to drone damage and HP per drone control unit.
Looking at it like that, giving an additional bonus to tracking and MWD velocity (maybe HP also) would be exactly what a officer module would do. Such a modification could pave the way for T2 drone control units that perform in a similar way, example of such would be

T2 Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing V
Meta 5
CPU 8500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

Federation Navy Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 6
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

Imperial Navy Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 6
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

Dread Guristas Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 7
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

Rogue Drone Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 8
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

D-34343's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 11
CPU 8500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
3.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

F-435454's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 12
CPU 9000
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
4% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

P-343554's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 13
CPU 9500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
4.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

W-634's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 14
CPU 10000
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

The way I see it you are still going to do like you always do for drone regions and do a half @ssed job and call it the end all of fixes for the drone regions so we should be happy.

I laughed at the NPC names. Did you have someone randomly mash the 3, 4, and 5 keys to come up with them?

That is a matter of prospective, a carrier can only control 10 drones without the use of drone control units, so one could look at the extra drones as +10% to drone damage and HP per drone control unit.
Looking at it like that, giving an additional bonus to tracking and MWD velocity (maybe HP also) would be exactly what a officer module would do. Such a modification could pave the way for T2 drone control units that perform in a similar way, example of such would be

T2 Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing V
Meta 5
CPU 8500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

Federation Navy Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 6
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

Imperial Navy Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 6
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

Dread Guristas Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 7
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

Rogue Drone Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 8
CPU 7500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
2.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking and MWD velocity

D-34343's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 11
CPU 8500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
3.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

F-435454's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 12
CPU 9000
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
4% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

P-343554's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 13
CPU 9500
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
4.5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

W-634's Modified Drone Control Unit, advanced drone interfacing I
Meta 14
CPU 10000
PowerGrid 75000
+1 drone control
5% Increase to fighter/drone tracking, HP and MWD velocity

This is very disapoiting.DED were not targeted. Were is the fun?
These new changes are worthless.
Why is it that CCP claims to listen to the player base but instead does the oposite.
The player based in the drone region asked for DED and instead they got worhtless drone drops which are gonna be very hard to run into since they are officers not to mention they are cheap drops. The drone region nerf was too hard and this new changes makes no difference / are a joke.
Also hy does the drone regions only drops drones stuff? Doesnt the drones use armor reps or mwd? If not then how is it that they rep or move that fast? Not even hardeners or special plates or remote reppers?
Why bother with worthless and instead give us what we asked for?

Wasn't the original nerf to the drone regions to stop the rampant botting out there? Or at least to create a disincentive?

I think this is why these changes seem half as much as they shoudl be. They are a good start.

I'd rather see some kind of drone control mods or a gang link mod that allow the drones to shed threat back onto the main ship. That would be a great counter for the new NPC AI that was really a giant nerf to drones in general. Or, give fighters some mid-power slots where you could either put in a MWD or a threat shedding mod of some kind...

Wasn't the original nerf to the drone regions to stop the rampant botting out there? Or at least to create a disincentive?