Locke DieDrake
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Posted - 2005.12.20 16:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Mikhael Hishadartha
As I sit here waiting for my drone skills to get up to par, studying the various drones and drone skill combinations, a thought crossed my mind- RMR made any ship with a 25m3 drone bay an incredibly powerful blockade asset.
While a bay that small can only hold one sentry drone the pilot of the ship, with the appropriate skills, can still control five of them. In normal combat that isn't a big deal, but for the defense of a fixed asset it opens up some interesting possibilities.
1. Cheap little Celestis, or any ship with at least a 25m3 drone bay, parks at asset and deploys single sentry drone.
2. Another ship deploys a sentry drone at the same location and then warps out of system, breaking their control lock.
3. Original pilot scoops sentry drone, activates his control, and deploys it.
4. Lather, rinse, repeat.
With a handy supply of drones in a nearby hanger a small group of cheap cruisers can deploy a web of sentry drones that can give a very warm welcome to anyone warping in. Mix and match some EW and drone control modules on the controlling ships and you get some even more interesting possibilities.
I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but it sure sounds like it would be fun. Well, as long as you weren't the one at the wrong end of the sentry drones. I suspect you wouldn't be having much fun at all.
Cordially,
Mikhael Hishadartha
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you could just load the sentries from your cargo hold and deploy them one at a time.
WHY HAS NO ONE NOTICED THAT!!!!!!
Your drone bay may be smaller, but you can now load from cargo to drone bay, which means you can put an endless number of drones into action if you can control them. It also means any ship with a big enough drone bay can deploy as many sentries as they can control, assuming the drone bay can hold at least one sentry.
Oddly enough, I can now use four med drones with my caracal where before I could only use 2.
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