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Troye
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Posted - 2006.01.21 15:58:00 -
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Edited by: Troye on 21/01/2006 16:01:10
My proposal is to alow you to costomize your drone AI, I know there have been some definate drone AI improvements since the expansion but they can still be difficult and quite frankly frustrating to co-ordinate in the chaos of battle.
1.Hostile Mode
Will actively seek out NCP targets that come within the drones maximum range.
Will automaticaly respond to their mother ship being targeted by a vessel that is not in their gang.
Will automaticaly attack any ship that opens fire on mother ships gang mates.
They will not return to orbit untill every hostille target within their range has been destroyed, unless ordered to.
2.Return Fire Mode (how it is now)
Will automaticaly engage targets that open fire on mother ship, will not respond to any other hostile ship unless specificaly ordered to by their comander or unles mother ship is fired upon.
3.Passive Mode
Wont respond to any forms of attack, will continue to orbit around mother ship and wait for orders. Pilot has full control (basicaly no AI at all).
And finaly I would like to see an option that alows you to specify your drones orbit radius. Enabling you to set their default orbit radius to their maximun response range.
Let me know what you think
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Benilopax
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Posted - 2006.01.21 16:53:00 -
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Drones AI needs fixing first of all then i don't see why you would need to set passive mode.
And whats wrong with clicking a target unless you want afk cover?
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Troye
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Posted - 2006.01.21 18:15:00 -
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 Originally by: Benilopax
Drones AI needs fixing first of all then i don't see why you would need to set passive mode.
And whats wrong with clicking a target unless you want afk cover?
Passive mode is for situations were the drone comander wants complete comand of his drones, EI: he dosnt want them running off and attacking the first thing that shoots him. Beleive it or not, with all the new electronic warfare drones comming out there are times when u will need to choose specific targets for them to web/scramble.
The problem with the current drone comands is that they are simply not intelegent enough. They tend to flee straight back into orbit despite the fact theres still loads of hostiles about. This isnt about being afk this is an option to help people comand different systems and make combat run smoother.
If what your refering to is a possible exploit of being afk with drones then I asure you that thats imposible. NPCs target drones aswell as the mother ship, so you would most likely come back to your keybourd to find all your drones dead... and if your lucky your ship might still be there.
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Troye
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Posted - 2006.01.23 04:34:00 -
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Edited by: Troye on 23/01/2006 04:34:19
If anyone wants to give their views on this that would be great...
Even a  or  would be appreciated 
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Cormeus Vanks
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Posted - 2006.01.23 08:52:00 -
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I would like drone control to look like this:
Drones automatically exit the bay as idle (green) and will not attack any targets. If you click on the drone icon, just like with any other model, the drone attacks. If you do not have a target designated, clicking on the drone will change it to aggressive mode and it will attack anything nearby.
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Troye
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Posted - 2006.01.23 14:44:00 -
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^^ Wow thats one neat idea youve got their Cormeus.
Alowing you to assign individual drones to specific targets would be great, this would also make comand of multiple drone types alot easyer (especialy if your using logistics and combat drones at the same time).
It makes sense aswell as the drones firepower is in effect another type of gun, therefore they should be comanded in the same, easy way as a gun is.
CCP take a look at this please!
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Commoner
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Posted - 2006.01.23 15:02:00 -
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^
/signed!
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Pord
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Posted - 2006.01.23 15:03:00 -
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Personally its has good points and bad points for me. As i love EW, this would be another thing aswell as FoFs that would mean that ECM would be useless which sucks! however would be good when im using my drones.
This is more of a downer than a +ve thing for me though as i can control drones normallly and it seems to work. If they were self controled means they aint "DRONES" and would make ECM worthless! Which means the ECM bonuses some ships get usless!
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Cormeus Vanks
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Posted - 2006.01.23 19:30:00 -
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Originally by: Pord
Personally its has good points and bad points for me. As i love EW, this would be another thing aswell as FoFs that would mean that ECM would be useless which sucks! however would be good when im using my drones.
I agree that drones should not be able to specifically attack an enemy without being targeted. But when drones attack an untargetted enemy, the controller of the drones has no say as to which target they are attacking, I think this is a fair trade off (and that is how at works right now).
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