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Posted - 2011.11.10 13:18:00 -
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War Kitten wrote:Interesting...
I'm very curious to see if it works as worded, or the drones just magically reappear in your drone bay.
If your ship does not warp until the drones fly back, I see many issues:
1) If the drones must cover large distances, your ship will not warp for a long time.
2) To tackle a logoffski pilot, simply tackle his drones and prevent them from returning.
3) A ship with sentry drones out will never warp if he's not in scoop range.
Does it apply to fighters and fighter bombers? Tackling and killing those is a fun way to punish docking ring hot droppers for thinking they're pro. If all they have to do is logoffski to get them back magically, that would suck, and if it prevents them from e-warping when they do log off, it would suck for them.
While I'm a heavy drone user and would prefer not to see my precious little ******** DPS machines get lost, I'd much rather lose them than my ship and think this change leaves a lot of questions to answer.
The way it's supposed to work is that the drones do their best to make it back before the ship emergency warps, if they are too far away or being webbed by crafty enemies, they'll simply get left behind. Ships won't postpone emergency warp to wait for drones.
The change isn't intended to save all drones but to decrease the number of annoying drone losses. It sort of makes sense that machines as complex as these would have sufficient AI to attempt to stick with their master 
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Posted - 2011.11.11 09:22:00 -
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Daedalus Arcova wrote:CCP Guard wrote:The way it's supposed to work is that the drones do their best to make it back before the ship emergency warps, if they are too far away or being webbed by crafty enemies, they'll simply get left behind. Ships won't postpone emergency warp to wait for drones. The change isn't intended to save all drones but to decrease the number of annoying drone losses. It sort of makes sense that machines as complex as these would have sufficient AI to attempt to stick with their master Even the Devs double-post. Fix the forums, CCP.If drones are sufficiently complex AI to attempt to return to a ship before it e-warps, shouldn't they also be sufficiently complex for pilots to reconnect to them if the connection between ship and drone is lost? Drones have complex AIs, yet you cannot reconnect to them. Probes are just probes, yet you can reconnect to them.
Would you be happy if I told you that that's also going into the Winter Expansion?
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Posted - 2011.11.11 09:25:00 -
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Abdiel Kavash wrote:CCP Guard wrote:The way it's supposed to work is that the drones do their best to make it back before the ship emergency warps, if they are too far away or being webbed by crafty enemies, they'll simply get left behind. Ships won't postpone emergency warp to wait for drones. The change isn't intended to save all drones but to decrease the number of annoying drone losses. It sort of makes sense that machines as complex as these would have sufficient AI to attempt to stick with their master Could this behavior be extended to any time the user warps off? Hundreds of forgotten drones would thank you!
I'll keep ears to the ground for news on the viability of something like that....I would like that feature and I'm sure many others would too.
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Posted - 2011.11.11 09:28:00 -
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CCP Affinity wrote:War Kitten wrote:CCP Guard wrote:The way it's supposed to work is that the drones do their best to make it back before the ship emergency warps, if they are too far away or being webbed by crafty enemies, they'll simply get left behind. Ships won't postpone emergency warp to wait for drones. The change isn't intended to save all drones but to decrease the number of annoying drone losses. It sort of makes sense that machines as complex as these would have sufficient AI to attempt to stick with their master Fantastic, thank you :) Any chance sentry drones will stop clearing their aggro or command list and picking their own targets too? CCP Masterplan is currently fixing this issue with the drone AI :)
CCP Masterplan is a man of the people! All hail!
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