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Kolhell
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.11.12 08:40:00 -
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Edited by: Kolhell on 12/11/2006 08:45:39
Edited by: Kolhell on 12/11/2006 08:42:53
great idea, but im not a fan of the "but" you added. i thought youd have gotten past the point where you cared what other people think about your opinions by now ^^
as far as ecm drones go maybe set some separate limitations on them? honestly i dont think being able to carry that many different drones will imbalance gameplay for more than a short while as people figure out how to adapt, and if anything it will add more of that precious "strategy" ccp keeps trying to add to pvp.
not to mention being able to swap out types of drones mid-combat like swapping ammo would be teh seks :D
omg... just thinking about it... youd actually have a skill that would shorten the "reload" time of the drones (that +velocity one) which would further help to balance out drone boats losing some of their edge since pilots of those ships tend to have drone skills maxed out.
and re: the loss of that edge... you do realize that while a normal boat would be able to fit (omg) 2-3 spare sets of drones, youd be able to fly with EVERY set you could ever want and even then have spares on most of your ships.
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Kolhell
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Posted - 2006.11.12 17:27:00 -
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/cough max m3 of drones in space?
were just arguing semantics at this point. how ccp decides to implement this idea is completely up to them and what will minimize resource usage (honestly i think sarmauls idea would be a complete resource hog but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to streamline code).
we need to figure out how TO GET ccp to implement this idea, NOT how they should script it.
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Kolhell
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Posted - 2006.11.13 21:01:00 -
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Edited by: Kolhell on 13/11/2006 21:04:41
ergo - thank you for pointing out flaws in this idea. its better to work to fix something ahead of time rather than go "oops" after the fact like what seems to happen most often
 Originally by: Naran Darkmood
/signed as well
With this, shield recharge when scooping & redeploying drones has to be fixed.
Maybe also give it a 5 sec deploy delay when launching drones for reasons like the Drone controll computer has to re-calibrate for the new drones.
Don't make it the 10 sec you need to change ammo, because this would be 5 sec lost at the beginning of a fight and you also have to count traveling time of the drones.
This delay would also get the tactical consideration into the game of sustaining dps with the same drones or loosing some dps to change to a more appropriate damage/Ewar type.
i think that a redeploy timer would go a long ways to keep shooting drones a viable tactic, and it does make sense as all other weapons (whos different ammo actually DOES something different /cough amarr) have a reload time on them as well. this would also fix the problem with the shields recharging to full, as it would take time for those drones to get recharged.
the other option suggested was to force a ship to somehow "repair" drone control points after drones get shot down. i can see this being significantly more cumbersome to implement than the redeploy timer, however, and the question will arise "where can we regain lost drone control points?" i dont think it would be fair to force a ship to dock, as in 0.0 that is not always an option (if it was we could just dock and move drones from cargo to bay, not taking cargo space into account anyways)
i really like narans idea. perhaps it could be implemented as an X lag time after hitting launch from when the drones actually exit your ship? that would hardly take any work i think. any glaring flaws? it wouldnt reduce initial dps because you could begin launching your drones while you target. 5s might be a little harsh since this will adversely affect ships that rely on redeploying drones quickly (domi etc) but 3s would probably be just about right and would be balanced out by the ability to carry every drone you could ever want i think.
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