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Ghyreon Dantureos	Posted - 2006.10.15 15:06:00 - [1] Sentry Drones are deployable drones that lie still?, and then you can pick em up again after your fight, or are they lost then? Ghyreon.
JohnPaulJones	Posted - 2006.10.15 15:20:00 - [2] Sentry drones are exactly as you described but no they arent lost.They stay where you deploy them and I must say they are most excellent when deployed about 50km above and below an asteroid belt for security as well as adding extra firepower to gate camps.They just dont do too well against fast move targets at close range.Keep that in mind and get your sentry drone interfacing skills up and you'll do great.
Ghyreon Dantureos	Posted - 2006.10.15 15:41:00 - [3] Thanks for the info mate, Ghyreon
Tunajuice	Posted - 2006.10.15 16:23:00 - [4] All drones have to be launched out of a drone bay to be used
Aristera	Posted - 2006.10.15 20:02:00 - [5] Can you leave the drones and warp out or do you lose control like regular drone?
JohnPaulJones	Posted - 2006.10.15 23:21:00 - [6] A warp out or disconnect will kill your link to the drones just like regular drones otherwise you would encounter lots of remote drone camps throught lowsec.Why risk a ship when you could camp out in a safe spot and watch your kill mails come in? Like the old deployable mines.
Aristera	Posted - 2006.10.16 00:23:00 - [7] What is the "Drones in Distant space" used for?
zibelthurdos	Posted - 2006.10.16 03:07:00 - [8] fighters, which are capital ship drones
Sonya Rayner Amarr LDK Process of Elimination	Posted - 2006.10.16 10:57:00 - [9] Originally by: zibelthurdos fighters, which are capital ship drones not quite. fighters can only be used by carriers and motherships, which both are capital ships. but not all capital ships are motherships and carriers, there are also titans and dreadnoughts, which cannot interface fighter drones. The truth is out there... ...Seek it out!
Alekseyev Karrde The Royal Guard	Posted - 2006.10.16 19:11:00 - [10] Further Q about sentry drones: Can you aim them at anything withing their optimal range? Activation range? Your drone control range? And what determines your drone control range for sentry drones anyway? Does it even matter since they pop out next to you and never go anywhere?
Illistar DeathWing	Posted - 2006.10.16 19:16:00 - [11] What I want to know is if they auto aquire a target and shoot like normal drones do sometimes, or if you have to give them the command every time.
Alekseyev Karrde The Royal Guard	Posted - 2006.10.16 19:23:00 - [12] I think they behave like normal drones as far as that's concerned. As long as you have them out before you're attacked, they should vaporize whomever aggressed you.
Galentir	Posted - 2006.10.17 06:58:00 - [13] Sentry drones act like normal drones except they do not move. That goes for attacking anything aggressing you (for example). I suggest manually targetting with the drones so they don't shoot at stuff too close which would be difficult to track. If you play around with the different types you will get a feel for what their effective range is. The trick in using sentry drones is that you will not be able to tell them to attack anything that lies within their optimal but outside your drone control range. Nor will they be effective at targets far outside their own range but within your drone control range (i.e. Gardes w/ 20km base optimal against something out at 60km). Generally when I use sentry drones, I also use a few Drone Link Augmentors (+20km control range for drones) and Omnidirectional Tracking modules (increases drones' tracking and optimal ranges). The Drone Link Augmentors when combined with multiple Omnidirectionals to boost the sentries' range, let me tag things out over 100km away with Wardens for instance. Another thing I like sentries for is when I have cruisers that tend to orbit out around 20-30km or so. I launch Gardes (shortest range sentries with best tracking) to take out cruisers faster then with regular drones, since they shoot immediately without having to fly over.
Noluck Ned FATAL REVELATIONS Lotka Volterra	Posted - 2006.10.17 10:35:00 - [14] I saw a nasty combo from a carrier the other day...3 or 4 heavy webber drones and about 8-10 sentries(didnt count exactly)... This will give many pilots a bad headache. F4T4L is Recruiting!
Jason Hawke Caldari Rage of Angels Morsus Mihi	Posted - 2006.10.17 13:17:00 - [15] I thought Sentry counted towards your max number of controlled drones. Even with advanced interface should be a max of 10 drones.... Or am I mistaken? But yeah, that does sound nasty.
Ethidium Bromide ZEALOT WARRIORS AGAINST TERRORISTS Curatores Veritatis Alliance	Posted - 2006.10.17 13:40:00 - [16] Originally by: Jason Hawke I thought Sentry counted towards your max number of controlled drones. Even with advanced interface should be a max of 10 drones.... Or am I mistaken? But yeah, that does sound nasty. carriers do get more drones up to 15 on amarr afaik, maybe even more on gallente Originally by: George Petsch Nochricht: Dei schwarer StroinlSser trifftn Karli[Baatzis] und ruiniert erm so richtig de Dosn, 1343.7 schhodn, oida. My sig is blue not pink although i can't argue with the slave part - Xorus wth whats this blue stuff all of a sudden? Did I miss a mail? -eris Bwahahahaha!11 Immy was here
Simon Jax Gallente Freelancing Corp	Posted - 2006.10.18 14:32:00 - [17] Well, I was able to play about with Sentries for the first time last night. And I discovered something interesting. Sentry Drones actually can move! I was stationary, 0.0 m/s, and I told the Sentries to "return to drone bay". Lo and behold, they started moving toward my ship contrary to what people have been saying here! I was astounded, I thought that they were completely rooted in place once launched! Ah, one kicker though. They were moving toward my ship at a whopping 1 m/s. --Wherever you go, there you are.
Aurore Kitsune Gallente Federal Navy Academy	Posted - 2006.10.18 19:54:00 - [18] Heres a question for yall...lets say i warp to an asteroid field and deploy a batch of sentries. Now I warp back to the station and switch to some other ship that does not have a drone bay, then warp to the asteroid field to start mining. What i wanna know is even though i cant pick them up, can I re-establish the control link in a ship without a drone bay so they'll be able to protect me? I didn't become Evil incarnate by choice...oh wait, yes I did...
Darius Thrain	Posted - 2006.10.18 20:26:00 - [19] Originally by: Aristera What is the "Drones in Distant space" used for? Yesterday when one of my ogres when i was ratting one of my ogres got incapacitated. I lost connection and/or had to warp to safety. When I came back to the belt and tried to deploy 5 new ogres I could only deploy 4 because the incapped one was still there. I killed the rats and scooped the 4 ogres back. Warped to next belt and the incapped ogre stayed on the "drones in distant space"-list... a bug?
Himo Amasacia Minmatar Elite United Corp Antigo Dominion	Posted - 2006.10.18 20:45:00 - [20] Originally by: Aurore Kitsune Heres a question for yall...lets say i warp to an asteroid field and deploy a batch of sentries. Now I warp back to the station and switch to some other ship that does not have a drone bay, then warp to the asteroid field to start mining. What i wanna know is even though i cant pick them up, can I re-establish the control link in a ship without a drone bay so they'll be able to protect me? Yes, but I would not recommend sentries for that. Close range their tracking is not good. I would use heavies.
Himo Amasacia Minmatar Elite United Corp Antigo Dominion	Posted - 2006.10.18 20:47:00 - [21] Originally by: Darius Thrain Originally by: Aristera What is the "Drones in Distant space" used for? Yesterday when one of my ogres when i was ratting one of my ogres got incapacitated. I lost connection and/or had to warp to safety. When I came back to the belt and tried to deploy 5 new ogres I could only deploy 4 because the incapped one was still there. I killed the rats and scooped the 4 ogres back. Warped to next belt and the incapped ogre stayed on the "drones in distant space"-list... a bug? Had that happen on me a couple of times. It seems the drones remab active as you warp off till you get a certain distance from them. Pluses means they will still keep fighting whatever attacked you. Minuses is that they will bugger you over in drone control and they will try and follow you so they will be impossibel to find and scoop

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