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Caerula Sanguis	Posted - 2006.10.21 19:50:00 - [1] Has this happened to anyone else? When drones take too long to reach its target, they just decide that "!@#$ ! it's too far! Let's go for something else!" , and change the target on it's own. This happened to me when 1) Sending Heavies to far target (30 km+, heck it's not even that far!). 2) When the original target use MWD that exceed drone's max speed. This is very dangerous issue for a drone-boats pilot like me. So I want to hear what you guys think.
Gloria Stitz	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:02:00 - [2] ALL THE F***ING TIME. Drones have always been like this, some 'fixes' have been implemented, but drone use is like herding cats. You can be 'glass half full' or 'glass half empty' about this. 1) its really really annoying. 2) its also quite funny. You need to keep telling them, over and over, what to do. Its a 'feature' of eve that you learn to live with, because it seems beyond fixing. The fact that they go off and attack things on their own will help you when you are using drones as a general defence for high sec mining. When you want to kill one thing at a time in a sensible tactical order, you want them not to use their limited AI. Annoying but fun
Caerula Sanguis	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:07:00 - [3] I understand that drones will auto engage hostile ships if not told to "Return to Ship". But I never had problem of them changing their target on their own after being told to "Engage Target". When the target is not dead yet, dornes should not switch target. This just start to happened to me in the past couple weeks.
Mandak Lookin Swedish Aerospace Inc Firmus Ixion	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:12:00 - [4] I get this all the time also, you have to tell them like every minute else they will go attack something random. They even change target after a while somtimes. It's like "hey, this BS is taking a long time to getdown, let's go kill that frigg instead" . Much annoying :( Recruiting
Taedrin Gallente Mercatoris Technologies	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:12:00 - [5] I haven't noticed any problems, but that might be because I only use drones against NPCs that are intent on staying within range (frigs)
Sakamoto Maya	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:16:00 - [6] Edited by: Sakamoto Maya on 21/10/2006 20:15:54 Originally by: Mandak Lookin I get this all the time also, you have to tell them like every minute else they will go attack something random. They even change target after a while somtimes. It's like "hey, this BS is taking a long time to getdown, let's go kill that frigg instead" . Much annoying :( Every minute? More like 20 seconds. There's something wrong that Dev should look at.
Sakamoto Maya	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:18:00 - [7] Originally by: Taedrin I haven't noticed any problems, but that might be because I only use drones against NPCs that are intent on staying within range (frigs) Try to tell your Heavies to engage a ship 40 km away with other hostile ships attacking you. NPCs will produce this problem too.
Kerushi Caldari AeroSpace Engineering	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:19:00 - [8] every one wanted better drone ai and now that they have evolved into conscious living beings, every one wants them return to stupid lil drones? wth?
Patch86 Di-Tron Heavy Industries	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:21:00 - [9] Yah, I have this problem all the damned time. Is very irritating trying to corale the little buggers into actually attacking, sometimes. Drones are evolving beyond our control. Sonn they'll be expecting a salary and paid-holiday, too -----------------------------------------------
Sakamoto Maya	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:24:00 - [10] Watch out. One day you might realize there's a drone missing in your drone bay and see it in your Rogue Drone Harassment mission.

defiler Caldari Mad Hermit	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:24:00 - [11] I used to have serious trouble controlling my drones a while ago, but the cat herding problem is mysteriously gone now. I have no problem activating my hammer IIs or even the web heavies on a fleeing target 50km away, so the devs must've found and fixed at least part of the ADHD bug... Mad Hermit - Minding our own business since 2004.
Sakamoto Maya	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:25:00 - [12] Originally by: defiler I used to have serious trouble controlling my drones a while ago, but the cat herding problem is mysteriously gone now. I have no problem activating my hammer IIs or even the web heavies on a fleeing target 50km away, so the devs must've found and fixed at least part of the ADHD bug... Ironically, this problem just happened to me recently =\.
defiler Caldari Mad Hermit	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:30:00 - [13] Originally by: Sakamoto Maya Originally by: defiler I used to have serious trouble controlling my drones a while ago, but the cat herding problem is mysteriously gone now. I have no problem activating my hammer IIs or even the web heavies on a fleeing target 50km away, so the devs must've found and fixed at least part of the ADHD bug... Ironically, this problem just happened to me recently =\. Ah, so they shifted it to you. May your drones stray from you forever (so that mine doesn't). Mad Hermit - Minding our own business since 2004.
Rod Blaine Evolution Band of Brothers	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:31:00 - [14] If your drones take longer then X seconds to get to the target you assigned they will abort the action and find another target of their own. When you see them stop moving towards it, give them the order to attack again. To prevetn it in total, only make them attack that which is reasonably close. Old blog
Kerushi Caldari AeroSpace Engineering	Posted - 2006.10.21 20:44:00 - [15] pilot: drones, attack that target! drone 1: ok guys, lets go 14km out drone 2: goddamn he`s far... drone 5: stop whining and move it! drone 3: screw it, i`m going for that other rat! drone 4: have fun, i`m going back to bay heh drone 2: lazy ass pilot, he can get that rat him self, i`m with u 3! drone 1: bastards! i`ll go alone... drone 5: omgf! i`ll just wait here, whiners pilot: wtf?!?!?! /emote bored
Tek'a Rain Gallente Center for Advanced Studies	Posted - 2006.10.21 22:04:00 - [16] they can tell when you dont love them. Blaque or Foiritan
heidrun Caelli-Merced	Posted - 2006.10.21 22:52:00 - [17] omg it has started!! today the drones attacked my ship.the machines have declared war upon us
Rakeris Legio VIII	Posted - 2006.10.21 22:54:00 - [18] Yup, they do it all the time for me...very annoying, especially if I don't notice. I've had times when I tell them to attack one BS that is say 40KM out, and when they are nearly there they turn around and go to attack the BS that is 50KM out in the OTHER direction. =( ---------- I gave up on sigs. As all the beatings are starting to hurt and leave nasty bruises.
CaptainSeafort Gallente Through the Looking Glass	Posted - 2006.10.22 00:07:00 - [19] http://www.student.ru.nl/martindevillers/rmrnstuff.html its the final item, but he caught it so well. hell, the entire videos rofflicious, and bloody true xD "Planets and moons no longer hitch rides on player ships. Their towel privileges have been revoked." HHGG Lives on in EVE!
Kassidus Gallente Hidden Agenda Deep Space Engineering	Posted - 2006.10.22 01:27:00 - [20] I figured the problem, if you send them after really fast ships like interceptor types, and if it takes them to long to kill , they will wander off like they got bored. This is the only time ive seen it happen.

AKULA UrQuan Caldari STK Scientific Ascendant Frontier	Posted - 2006.10.22 03:16:00 - [21] At least they don't attack gang members anymore on their own. that was always a fun one to see. Originally by: Wrangler Win ME is more a some sort of virus than a OS..
Krakkan	Posted - 2006.10.22 03:50:00 - [22] drunk drones ftl Quote: tuxford: AT LEAST ITS SPEELED CORRECTLY tuxford: spelled* Oveur: rofl
Khetchi	Posted - 2006.10.22 06:32:00 - [23] Uh-oh... Better be careful. Whip them too hard and they'll eventually turn into more "Rogue Drones" that are currently plaguing space. What do you think happened to all those drones you accidently left behind and couldn't go back for.
Basileus	Posted - 2006.10.22 06:43:00 - [24] They really need to introduce drone skills to finetune the AI. Like "Drone Formation Attack" to get them to attack only when they're in a group, or "Attack Close Proximity" to get them to attack the little boogers that are close to your ship, etc. etc. At the moment the drone AI is daft, and it needs looking at!
Donatien de'Sade Metalworks THE INTERSTELLAR FOUNDRY	Posted - 2006.10.22 07:59:00 - [25] Annoying little buggers I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Acinonyx Jubatus International Multi-Player Consortium Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2006.10.22 08:17:00 - [26] yeah, had a rogue Ogre break a nice spawn I was chaining. so, I finished it up, punished it with some lights, rep it back up after it has 0 armor. Guess what? 10-15 minutes later new spawn, better than the other. I go fight, take 2-3 down and suddenly.. lag... I get concerned about the thing taking over a minute to respond and then I see my modem disconnect... D: I scurry to sign back on, and the two misbehaving ogres get popped fore I can save them. ---
Akkarin Pagan Minmatar Raddick Explorations Myriad Alliance	Posted - 2006.10.22 09:03:00 - [27] Yup, it recently started happening to me when I started setting my drones on targets farther away. Starngeley it's only the hevies doing it, and I just reissue the attack command if I notice them wandering off. Maybe it's some cunning plan by CCP to account for the new region infested with rogue drones. It's where all the naughty drones who don't follow orders end up Akkarin Linkage <3 - Immy
Wrayeth Tabula Rasa Systems The Star Fraction	Posted - 2006.10.22 09:06:00 - [28] I believe the last part of this describes drones quite well, though that particular bug no longer exists. -Wrayeth "Look, pa! I just contributed absolutely nothing to this thread!"
Splagada Minmatar Tides of Silence	Posted - 2006.10.22 09:20:00 - [29] there was a great post about drone behaviour, cant find it... ------ relaxed corp looking for members
Jack Creme	Posted - 2006.10.22 11:03:00 - [30] Just take them round the back of the shed and give them a good spanking. Then give them all Milky Bars. That way they'll be totally paranoid and you won't have to worry anymore about what they're up to. You'll know!



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