Bartholomeus Crane
Gallente Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2007.01.15 16:23:00 -
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I encounter or subscribe to all the problems the OP describes.
It seems as if, when I use my drones (any type) on targets farther than 20km away, they will lose their way. The only way to remove the problem to some extend is when I use a target painter on the target. This, however, only reduces problem (only one or two drones get lost). This problem has existed in the game for as long as I know but recently (after the Revelations update) has become much worse. I simply can not understand why this problem hasn't been fixed yet.
The lack of HP of drones is especially telling since the HP increase for all the player ships. We all protested this before the update. Told exactly what was going to happen. Now it has happened exactly as predicted and now something needs to be done about it. Drones, and especially fighters, were too vulnerable before the patch, now they are nothing less than fragile. Either increase drone HP or decrease signature radius on drones but something needs to be done.
I hardly ever have CTDs, so I hardly ever lose drones to them. Moreover I try to aggro the room to me (not difficult in some missions) so they don't attack the drones. I see no problem here because of lack of experience.
Those missions that mass aggro on drones are still broken and, again, have been broken for ages. I'm under the impression though that the number of missions where this happens is less than it was. Probably because mission were removed. I just hope that CCP will go the last mile as well and corrects the ones that are left. From the dev-blogs I learn that CCP is going to rewrite missions. This should be a priority when they do so.
Drone controls in the UI is dreadful. Always has been, from the beginning. A large number of suggestions have been made to change this, all of which vastly superior to what we have right now. Why this hasn't been acted upon boggles the mind. It is almost as if CCP doesn't want people to use drones.
The drones-stuck bug has also been known for ages. Demonstrated, screenshots taken, frapped, you name it. It appears that CCP is unable to act on this as well. We've heard a litany of excuses for this bug and why it can't be fixed. What we haven't heard, and this goes for the above as well, is that CCP is actually going to do something about it.
I don't think we drone users are asking for to much. It should be clear by now that the drone UI is horrendous and should be replaced/upgraded. We've been cursing it for 3 years now, what is CCP waiting for? For the other points made, all we want is for the drones to work as expected. Nothing but bug fixes and forgotten updates.
I dare to say that of all aspects of EVE, drones are the worst implemented. It seems that almost nothing works as it should and when it does, it does so in a rather poor way. I just hope that CCP is going to change this before Kali 2. I think we've waited long enough for it. -- Drone users unite! Support drone whinage |