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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.29 23:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Skraelingz
Edited by: Skraelingz on 29/11/2006 23:42:38
Anyone else having trouble getting thier drones to listen to them? example: get drones on a target, target dies, command drones to next target... some listen the rest start heading for the target then just go "fu" and pick a random one. also they just dont feel right commanding wise now.
Drones have been screwed since forever, and they tend to slip another step further down hill after every single patch. The lag almost certainly isn't helping, too.
We dedicated drone users just have to sit tight and wait patiently for the code monkeys to cast a loving eye in our direction...........
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.30 01:19:00 -
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Incidentally, all your unhappy-with-drone needs can be found in this thread. Feel free to discuss drone bugs in there aswell...........
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.30 01:44:00 -
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Originally by: Soulita
Originally by: Patch86
Drones have been screwed since forever, and they tend to slip another step further down hill after every single patch...
That is not quite true. Lickspittle fixed most of the drone problems a while back and they have been much better since. I did not get a chance to try them today, but if they are broken again I guess some dev needs to have a look at them again.
Last (and, iirc, only) drone patch of note was about 9 months ago. It fixed a few of the most extreme problems that had cropped up by then, but not totally, and not permanently.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.30 12:30:00 -
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Did we ever get a response to this? Obviously we didn't in here, but anywhere else?
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.30 17:32:00 -
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I also wouldn't mind an explanation as to why I can't repair my drones with other drones, now................
Seems like a shameless drone-ship nerf, if you ask me. And its not exactly like they were needing one....................
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.30 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: Tuxford
Originally by: Clavius XIV
This happned to some extent before the patch. Where it was most noticable was when I'd send a mix of medium and heavy drones to attack a target a good ways away (30-40km). Basicaly the heavy drone would often times decide on a different target halfway there while the mediums kept going.
I always suspected there was someting in the drone AI that said.. if I have attack orders but haven't attacked in x time, reaquire new target. Perhaps the "attack time" has been changed?
I'm pretty sure that the drones starts attacking nearly instantly, he just can't hit for **** 40km out. I pretty much can reproduce it all the time on the dev server although I might just be lucky/unlucky. Well the only thing I've successfully reproduced is that rather annoying I-don't-need-to-take-orders-from-you-behaviour. I've made a defect about.
I did notice something though, after I'd played around with having them change target a few times they seem to start behaving, anyone else experiencing that?
Yah, if you manage to get them onto a target (after giving them the same order 3 or 4 times) they generally stay on it after that.
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