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Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2013.04.09 13:24:00 -
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Roime wrote:Giving sentry drones 5000m scoop range would make them much usable without breaking the whole concept of stationary drones...
Would go in a completely different direction, give them a slow'ish travel speed and have them 'pack up' (ie. no longer shooting) and move towards controller when recalled .. maybe even deploy in same manner so that one can send them to set up anywhere within control range (think platforms in Homeworld 2).
People are begging for a drone UI/Control overhaul, so might as well go all the way 
Roime wrote:But why aren't sentry Domis OP now? You can get the same range and tracking currently.
Because you don't .. that bonus is replacing the large gun bonus. It will become a very viable sentry sniper, especially since we recently got a low slot and rig option to boost drone damage .. going to be nasty as hell.
Will be godly in brawls as well, since range+tracking allows you to use heavies to swat even frigs .. can almost do so now with an assortment of drone mods .. again, nasty as hell.
But it is destructible dps, so wouldn't slap the OP moniker on it just yet. |
Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
564
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Posted - 2013.04.09 15:40:00 -
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Rukhsana Uxor wrote:Bouh Revetoile wrote:Rukhsana Uxor wrote:Its not a solution. Nobody care about how many dps u have if u cant deal it. How u will be able to damage somthing what that range? Please, look at minmatar, caldari or amarr line up if you want godlike damage projection. And ill ask again. What fleet format could form gallent's BS (useful format)? Could you answer? :) Its not a balance that gallent's BS is for small\solo scale pvp only.
New Dominix reaches (optimal km/falloff km):
Warden: 112.5/30
Bouncer: 90/42
Curator: 78/24
Garde: 45/12
And that is without any modules fitted whatsoever.
Now, they have pulled the Mega again, but I bet that when it comes again it will be with the same core concept of being able to shield or armour making even blaster range ridiculous (TE nerf not that hard). With a couple of TE's and a rig or two it should easily be able to cover the medium range.
Otherwise there is the once mighty rail Mega, the one that existed before tier3 BS were introed and transformed all fleets into Abaddon blobs
Combine with the MJD and the insta-hit probes (YMMV) and range becomes much less of an issue than the ability to operate at full power close in while still covering that 100km sphere .. all races are getting that ability as a lot of copy/paste seems to have snuck into the dev process
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Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
567
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Posted - 2013.04.10 08:06:00 -
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Andreus Ixiris wrote:Listen, I know they only let you fly Amarr ships in PIE so you may not be aware of this, but even if a sentry drone has the optimal to reach that far, it can't fire outside your drone control radius. Since the Dominix gets no bonus to drone control range, the effective range of any sentry drone is hard-capped in the ~60km area unless you fit a control range module.
Fully aware of the restriction, the ranges was listed in response to an individual that apparently only considered blasters when making his evaluation of the options. Must be said though that I have not seen sentry sniping for a long time (nano-age Ishtar's) so had to actually check the bonus on the augmentor .. 20km .. WTF!
@CCP: Double the control range bonus on Drone Link Augs, 20km is neither here nor there and ships going out to those ranges will in most likelihood need a SeBo on top to utilize it. Either that, or consider the ranges when the Great Drone Revision of 201X rolls around (see, optimism .. honestly think it will happen in this decade!  )
Marlona Sky wrote:...Hyperion and Dominix: -50% to cycle time and capacitor usage of Target Spectrum Breaker[/b]...
How do they function in reality, Is the breakers applied before or after a lock? If before then you'll just have swarms of unlockable gank blaster BS running around, if after then by all means ..
Good idea with the MJD though, although I'd probably go cap use reduction instead of fitting. |
Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
567
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Posted - 2013.04.10 10:05:00 -
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R.I.P. Eve Online.
Gallente with more lows than Amarr .. not the same, but MORE!
It is like some freakish bizarro world; Amarr taking on Minmatar kiting and Gallente drone attributes, Gallente taking on Amarr attributes, Minmatar taking on Caldari attributes .. only Caldari seems to be "safe" from this purge of racial distinction which is natural I guess seeing as they are the are shield exclusive with missiles as primary |
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