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Martyr 01
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.27 15:10:00 -
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The Problems:
1)Whenever you deploy sentry drones around 80% of them tend to deploy outside scooping range.
2)When you tell them to return to drone bay they re-approach at around 1m/s and also tend to get stuck on each other in pairs.
This leads to serious headaches.
Please fix sentry drones. Please. For the love of all that's holy.
Pretty Please...with a case of beer on top.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles
Zzz
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Posted - 2007.08.27 18:28:00 -
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#2 is by design - they're supposed to be stationary. It would be nice if they could move a little, even if it was only just to get back within scooping range (at 50m/s, say). Or perhaps the scoop range for drones could be extended to 2km?
The 'related gripe' applies to most other deployed objects as well - warp disrupt probes are deployed in front of interdictors and can cause them to grind to a halt. Bombs work the same way iirc.
This would be a very useful fix; T2 sentry drones have great DPS potential (to the point that a dominix can outdamage a Tempest when sniping from 150km) but the lack of a reliable means of scooping them makes them a burden and a liability; they're already much more expensive than large turrets, and the datacore cost for inventing them is being raised from 2 to 3.
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Martyr 01
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.27 18:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
#2 is by design - they're supposed to be stationary. It would be nice if they could move a little, even if it was only just to get back within scooping range (at 50m/s, say). Or perhaps the scoop range for drones could be extended to 2km?
The 'related gripe' applies to most other deployed objects as well - warp disrupt probes are deployed in front of interdictors and can cause them to grind to a halt. Bombs work the same way iirc.
Possibly by design, but becomes a big headache when in a cap ship, and a complete nightmare if you're in a dread, in siege and need to switch to say warrior II's to take out light support.
Warp probes and bombs are stationary, non-intelligent objects. Drones are mobile and semi-intelligent. I somehow doubt their orders when you click launch and engage are "deploy into space, smack your owner about a bit, try and go directly through him if you like, then go shoot the target".
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Alski
Gallente
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.27 22:37:00 -
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If it is at all possable to code (who knows...) giveing them the ability to move at say 20m/s ONLY when told to return to bay would fix much that is wrong with them (though i still say the short range ones need a tracking boost, and yes i am aware of omni-links - they suck.) but given the troubles we all see with drone AI its probaley impossable.
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Akiri Kitami
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Posted - 2007.08.27 22:46:00 -
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Further problem
Your Drones (both sentry and combat) no longer aggro to your defence when you come under attack?
In the latest builds it looks a lot like they don't attack anything unless specifically ordered which means that if they finish the current target they have been given, they do nothing until you re-direct them to a new target.
It also means that deploying drones is no longer of any benefit if you get damped - you can't target anything, so they do nothing.
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Martyr 01
Reikoku
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.08.28 02:47:00 -
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Two more drone gripes:
1) Sentry Drone drift. Deployed sentries, read forums for a minute, looked back to find that they had all decided to drift out to 2.5km or so. Becomes a problem when they get stuck on each other easily, other people get stuck on them easily, they return at 1m/s etc. As mentioned before, add a dread in siege to the equation and you have a recipe for a broken keyboard.
2) Drone window lag. Been around for a fair while now. Expanding drones in bay/drones in space results in a lag spike. Expanding drones in bay/drones in space in a carrier with several groups and lots of drones results in a slideshow (was in an already laggy system earlier today in a carrier, expanded my drones in bay tab, got powerpointed, then my client stop responding for 5mins till I re-started it \o/) which is fixed by clicking on a celestial object.
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Valandril
Caldari
Resurrection
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.08.28 05:52:00 -
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Yes please, let sentrys go ie. 50m/s when theyr ordered to come back to you, its very big PITA.
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