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Christopher Dalran
Gallente
Deadly Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.25 16:21:00 -
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Could we please have the option to tell our repair bots to repair our own ships? Yes I realize that its impossible to currently tell your drones to attack your own ship but there has to be same way to code in that option or atleast have rep drones default to repairing your own ship whenever released.
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Yamichi Wiggin
Caldari
Rising Knights
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.25 16:35:00 -
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No thanks. That would make a gallente ship almost unbreakable. Not sure if you've ever used logistics drones or had them used on you but they make a HUGE difference in tanking. With 2 LARII and 5x large armor repair bots, a domi cannot be killed without at least a dozen people shooting it. Even then it would take a while.
This sucks for me because Caldari are almost anti-drone. Without a carrier, there's nothing caldari that can field five heavy drones. It would totally imbalance the tanking.
Course- if you could self target, it might be funny to see somebody launch the wrong drones and web/damp/jam/nos themselves to hell with their own drones :-)
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Posted - 2007.05.25 16:58:00 -
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They may be much harder to kill yes... but their ability to do damage would be SEVERELY diminished.
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CaptKirk
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Posted - 2007.05.29 10:15:00 -
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Yes it may be more difficult to destroy a drone carrier but you can just as easily destroy the repair drones so they cannot use them.
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adriaans
Amarr
Interstellar StarShipWrights
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2007.05.29 10:45:00 -
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Valandril
Caldari
Reiketsu.
Hitchhiker's Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.29 10:48:00 -
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 Originally by: CaptKirk
Yes it may be more difficult to destroy a drone carrier but you can just as easily destroy the repair drones so they cannot use them.
Not true, they would repair ship in instascoopable range and carrier can fit hunderts of them.
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Sargeant HAmmer
Caldari
Hammers Academy
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Posted - 2007.05.29 11:46:00 -
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i like the idea, unfortunately they brought out rigs that effect drones. these drones would be far too effective especially on a domi.
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Christopher Dalran
Gallente
Deadly Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.29 16:28:00 -
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I'm still not following your problem. If you launch drones to repair your own ship then you have to recall your combat drones, What i got from the first reply is that your assuming we can keep those combat drones out which we cant.
Also its much more of a penalty to suck in combat drones and spit out repper drones on a ship that gets +10% to combat drones as opposed to any other ship that does not get a bonus to drones while you seem to suggest the reverse is true. This would actually help out non-drone boats a little bit more if not the same as drone boats.
Anyone else for having rep drones able to rep the parent ship?
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Christopher Dalran
Gallente
Deadly Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.29 16:29:00 -
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Originally by: Sargeant HAmmer
i like the idea, unfortunately they brought out rigs that effect drones. these drones would be far too effective especially on a domi.
As far as I can tell the domi bonus has no effect on how much the drones can rep, it just affects their HP.
Domi's cant do crap without their drones dealing damage so no i dont believe for a second that a domi with rep drones would be overpowered.
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Spoon Thumb
Khanid Aerospace Group
Khanid Provincial Authority
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Posted - 2007.05.29 16:56:00 -
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It'd make more sense to give logistics a drone bay than give everything else drone-self-heal
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Draconus Lofwyr
Eternal Guardians
Celestial Frontier
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Posted - 2007.05.29 18:45:00 -
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Edited by: Draconus Lofwyr on 29/05/2007 19:13:58
Edited by: Draconus Lofwyr on 29/05/2007 18:45:48
I agree, this would make up for the fact that drones are the only guns that can be shot away. Wonder how much the missile boats and gun boats would gripe if we could target turrets and bays for direct damage to take them out?
All this real does is give the drone carriers the ability to heal them selves with a tool that by all logic, should be able to do that anyway. (the drone doesn't see any difference in who its repairing, its just a logic issue as to directing them to do it)
We have to remove our major damage producers to take up valuable space for repairing the ship. If a Domi decides to drone tank, He has effectively neutered himself from being a threat. He could conceivably be a Cyno painter, but if your worried about a Cyno, the Domi is the least of your worries<g>
As a possible compromise, set up a logic routine that when the repair drones are idle orbiting the controlling ship they do a passive 25-50% of repair depending on a skill level.
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Caldari
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Posted - 2007.05.29 19:47:00 -
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The insta-recall thing needs to be fixed first. But with that out the way I don't realy see any imbalance at all.
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Yamichi Wiggin
Caldari
Rising Knights
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.29 19:56:00 -
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I'm not saying it would be able to wtfpwn my raven without using its combat drones. But I'd never be able to kill it.
I don't like running out of ammo :-)
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Sarf
Asgard Industries
Safe And Fun Environment
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Posted - 2007.05.29 20:06:00 -
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Edited by: Sarf on 29/05/2007 20:06:31
oops wrong thread
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Drizit
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.30 00:06:00 -
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They should be able to work on the ship that fields them.
As it has already been mentioned, if a Domi fields them you attack the drones and leave them defenceless. A Domi relies as much on drones for attack as it does it's own weapons. By deploying repair drones instead of attack drones, it loses a lot of DPS and popping the drones leaves it very vulnerable.
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Miss KillSome
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.05.30 07:45:00 -
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as much as i would like to see this, beeing gallente and all, but i do think that this would be overpowered..
imagine eos with full rack of blasters, dual MAR II (or even faction) and 5 heavy armor drones on him? If they take dmg, just rescoop them..
Or Domi with full rack of NOS and 5 heavy armor drones..awesome ship for gang running..use it as a bait, Domi neutralizes primaries cap, and boom..next..
maybe some penalty if we are using on ourselves like increased sig radiu to ship and drones or smth..
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