What... you dont like Dominix's ?

Dominixes used to have 15 drones back in the day, Moroses could have 30.


It was locked at 5 to keep server lag to a minimum. Drones were given flat damage increases from ship and drone skills instead of increased drone control capacity to compensate.


I do however agree that increasing drone capacity and dronebay space on some dedicated droneboats would be kinda cool. 10 drone rattlesnake anyone?

I think the 10 medium drone Eos (w/ myrmadon hull) sounds like a better idea.

As much as I love the idea, a sub-cap that could launch more than 5 drones would be hugely OP. You can get 2k DPS out of a Myrmidon as it is.

...what? I'm assuming you're fitting purely for gank with officer modules, right? Even then I'm severely impressed, it's hard to get that much out of a vindicator.

yea but there are not that many of them out there.

T2 drone ships (and perhaps drone battleships) should definitely have the capacity to go up to ten. Nerf individual drone damage partially by all means, but please make it so these ships can put out competitive damage to their gankygun counterparts.

I was just thinking that maybe in a couple expansions or so there could be a new class of ships, Drone Carriers all they would be is a massive drone ship that could fit the same module as the carrier does to expand how many drones/fighter they could launch but only be able to use drones.

Just a thought thou but it would be freaking awesome.

You mean like the current Vexor Navy Issue/Gila and the future Ishtar? (carriers and supercarrier as well but I'll exclude for the sake of argument) Even the Dominix and Arbitrator pretty much fits this mold; the guns are not bonused and in many cases it relies purely on the strength of it's drone bay

I want to have a ship that can launch a hundret scout drones at once.

I'd unleash them at my enemies cackling and laughing maniacally while all they could do is crying in pain and terror "OH GAWD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!".

I'd watch their ships hulls dissolve in a torrent of drone blaster fire, see their metal innards spilled into space in glorious streams of glittering, burning debris while their hapeless cries for mercy would slowly fade into the all encompassing white noise of my madness.

It'd be awesome, I'd never stop playing.

19 alts so you can fly 20 Tristans in formation using isboxer, all the drones assigned to one ship so they act together.

Would that do as a substitute for now?

OK, CCP decide to build a purely drone boat, average tanking capabilities based on a battleship hull.

Ship bonus could be either range or damage per level, 700m3 drone bay or so, to allow for some choice in drones.

Then come the posts



Waah, CCP mission rats are eating my drones alive, they're targeting them even though I had full aggro.

all the people saying drone boats can put out around 1000 dps are really missing the point.

ppl are asking for DRONES to do comparable damage - those fits ppl post rely on blasters. ATM a drone boat isnt all about its drones - its about guns with a few drones to pad a little extra dps.


Id love to see a propper drone boat - one that can put out 10 drones or at least bonus's that makes 5 drones dps on par with gun ships - as pointed out previously the missile/turret hardpoints would all have to be removed but still need high slots for some drone mods.

I was just thinking that maybe in a couple expansions or so there could be a new class of ships, Drone Carriers all they would be is a massive drone ship that could fit the same module as the carrier does to expand how many drones/fighter they could launch but only be able to use drones.

Just a thought thou but it would be freaking awesome.

Perhaps what we need is a new massive ship that can launch a thousand or so drones at once. Before introducing on a wide scale though, it should go through testing.

I propose we test such a ship in Fountain. We can play rock, paper, scissors to decide which side gets it.

This is crazy. We need to focus on what is important: hats. I want hats.

I counter that proposal with my own, we need a carrier carrier. One that lauchnes carriers that launches dominixes that launches drones that carry drones.

One carrier carrier could launch 5 carriers that could launch 5 dominixes each that could launch 5 drones eacht that could launch 5 smaller drones each.

Ofc, carrier bonuses apply, so at a carrier carrier skill of level 5 you could launch 5 addictional carriers and with the normal carrier skill on 5 (it's a prereq for the carrier carrier to balance things out) those could also launch 5 additional dominixes and lets not forget the drone control units, with 5 of those our carrier carrier could launch 5 more carriers than before which then ofc. would be fitted with 5 drone control units, too so they could launch 5 more drominatrixes which would launch 5 drones wich would launch 5 smaller drones, which would be awesome because then you could have 5625 drones...

On second thought, we should ditch that part with the drones that launch smaller drones, that would be unrealistic, 1125 drones should still suffice.