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GeeBee
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2014.02.06 14:48:00 -
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Its about time, we can finally get back to non-drone assist doctrines.
But as a note of possibility - Rather than reducing the number of drones that can be assisted to a single character limit the assist list to squad only. This would be roughly the same as 50 drones per character with subcapitals, but it would reduce the list of potential assist targets on the right click menu. It may also prove to be less taxing on the server with the ability for a fleet to still launch their drones and attempt to assign them just to have the server reject it, as those server calls will never be made.
Tradeoff for this is a squad of carriers could assist more than 50 drones to 1 person, but changes it to an easier to manage scenario for both players and the server / client.
Eitherway this changes the drone assist meta to the point of non-viability for blob warfare unless each drone boat can also function as an assist, and even then that would assume a large percentage of those pilots are competent enough to actually shoot a target.
Also since we'll have to be shooting targets again manually with guns, can we get the fleet broadcasts under tidi / lag / server load some form of higher priority or moved to a different service so its reliable, nothing worse than getting reps or shooting targets when it all has to be done through ingame chat or jabber channels. |
GeeBee
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2014.02.10 17:17:00 -
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http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=21473406 This Is A Battlereport Which Clearly Shows The Overpowered Ability Of Drone Assist In Smaller Gang Warfare. The Ishtars Kiting Ability, Damage, Damage Projection, And Alphastrike Is Far Above Anything Else In Its Class.
Following That Fight We Switched To A Dominix doctrine To Counter ishtars As The Only Thing To beat drone doctrine Is More Drone Doctrine.
i Know FirstHand the Power Of drone assist Since I've Been multiBoxing Sentry Assist Domis For The Last 4 Years.
sent From My Phone Very Terrible will Edit Later. |
GeeBee
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2014.02.10 22:00:00 -
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xHxHxAOD wrote:GeeBee wrote:http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=21473406 This Is A Battlereport Which Clearly Shows The Overpowered Ability Of Drone Assist In Smaller Gang Warfare. The Ishtars Kiting Ability, Damage, Damage Projection, And Alphastrike Is Far Above Anything Else In Its Class.
Following That Fight We Switched To A Dominix doctrine To Counter ishtars As The Only Thing To beat drone doctrine Is More Drone Doctrine.
i Know FirstHand the Power Of drone assist Since I've Been multiBoxing Sentry Assist Domis For The Last 4 Years.
sent From My Phone Very Terrible will Edit Later. lols that fight is no where near small or med gang stuff. with 250+ people in that fight with no seeable logi which means its closer to more like 300 people there is no way u can call that small or even med gang at all. from the kms it looks like u had both armor and shield fleets which is just fail unless u tried to reship from on to the other but u said u only switched to domis so i dont think so. and the best part most of ur dps is eagles which do kin/therm dps which is just as fail as that is the ishtars highest resists anyway. ps as for ishtars duh they have good dps and damage projection with sentrys that is how ccp made them to be. now as for alpha even with gardes and 3 dda u only do a bit over 3k alpha which even med arty can do that. all large guns can do that or more so i really dont see the problems here. no as to the kiting they must have kited away from the drones so why did u not use bombers or smartbombing bs to kill the drones. u know its not like ishtars can carry hundreds of senterys to replace being kill dont blame ishtars sentrys and drone assists for the cfc stupidity and inability to counter in game tactics that can be countered.
Smaller Gang Is In The Context Of The OP, 250 Pilots Is Much Smaller Than 4000. There Were 2 Gangs With Logi Support Camping A Gate And The Ishtars Jumped Into Us, Pulled 100Km Range Dropped Drones And Were 2 Volleying Everything Before Reps Landed. The Broken Part Of Drone Assist With Sentries In This Manner Is The Perfect Alphastrike Ability With High dps And Range That Far Surpasses Anything Else. The Inability To Know If You're Being Targeted To Prebroadcast For Reps Is Completely Broken.If therThere Was A Tick Delay Sentries Lock Then Sentries Fire It Would At Least Give The Possibility For Reps To Land Before The Second Drone Strike Lands Assuming It survives the First Strike. |
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