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Cyniac
Twilight Star Rangers
Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2012.01.02 11:42:00 -
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Kiss Escapee wrote: A high slot mod which could repair drones at a set rate automatically (drawback is obviously cap usage and loss of a high slot) might be interesting. It would effectively give a small active tank to drones which would be useful in PVE and might find some utility in PVP as well.
You mean... like a remote armor repair module? Or a shield transfer module? Both of which work very well with drones thank you very much.
Additional damage drone rigs though I'd love them I recognize they would be amazingly difficult to balance. The biggest effect would be on the damage output of flights of light drones, which would make drones ships even more of a frigate murderer than they already are.
Warning - Wild Idea up ahead:
How about instead of rigs or mods, use drones to boost drone performance? E.g. how about a drone which gave say a 30% boost to drone damage but did no damage of its own? (The effect might sound big, but you are already sacrificing 20% of your damage as you would only field 4 instead of 5 drones that actually dealt damage) Like that you would get a boost but that drone would become the primary target in any PVP situation making it all quite interesting.
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Cyniac
Twilight Star Rangers
Black Thorne Alliance
101
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Posted - 2012.01.03 00:04:00 -
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Kiss Escapee wrote:Cyniac wrote:
You mean... like a remote armor repair module? Or a shield transfer module? Both of which work very well with drones thank you very much.
If you are using a Dominix for example. Can you really recall a drone into rep range and lock and rep a small or medium drone before it dies to an attack by an NPC?
Well yes every time. For the simple reason that I never need to recall my drones to rep them. Remote armor repper range being 8.4 kms - anything farther out than that is being shot by sentries, anything that's closer is within repping range. Also - I never use medium drones on a Domi.
The idea of a module that reps all drones without targetting is of course lovely for a drone user, but ah... either it's going to be useless (your drones die anyhow) or way OP (your drones are tanking!), I don't really see there being a viable balance point to it.
Regarding the drone damage - I stand by the idea that using a command drone to increase drone damage is the most viable way to go, at least from the balance point of view. |
Cyniac
Twilight Star Rangers
Black Thorne Alliance
101
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Posted - 2012.01.03 14:14:00 -
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Trinkets friend wrote:Command drone? Impossible to utilise at the moment as you cannot stack different drones into the same drone group. You would need to launch, eg, 4 x Ogre IIs and 1 x Command Drone, and it would be fiddly and fail.
Now really would it be so difficult to set the class of the command drone to be "combat drone" so that it could be added to those flights of drones? 
I do agree you have a point, it would need to be managed within a single "flight" of drones otherwise it would be very fiddly. (Drones are fiddly if you want to get the most out of them though - ah the joys of micromanaging drones!)
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