
Nikk Narrel
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Posted - 2012.02.27 15:34:00 -
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Grumpy Owly wrote:With these two combined improvements, how does that effect the current situation with say Galentte capabilities. How for instance might it influence faction warfare between Galentte and others? (that despite player opportunities to cross train and use alternative races tech)
So i think it makes a lot of sense to ask these questions. Gallente might be the poster-child race for drones, but they are hardly the only drone users.
I would love to see this, and it's end effects on the Arbitrator and it's T2 variants.
I also think it would be interesting for each race to have at least 1 subcap drone boat to play with. |

Nikk Narrel
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Posted - 2012.02.27 15:50:00 -
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Nestara Aldent wrote:No drones dont need that, drones need a buff of a different kind.
They should be much tougher to kill, as they're the only weapon system that can be killed off in fight. Heavy and medium drones need a speed buff, and tracking buff as well. Light drones need speed and tracking buff, all light drones should be comparable to warriors in that regard.
Droneships are least desirable in PVP and incursions just because of that reasons above. Drones are too slow, have tracking issues of turrets and travel time issues of missiles and are too easy to kill off. So drones have even more drawbacks than missiles.
Their only advantage is the ability to carry drones with different speeds tracking and damage type.
In other games with pet classes pet usually has HP comparable to that of a hero, or slightly lower, and does comparable damage too, so an opponnent must make a decision whether to engage the pet or pet owner. However in Eve going after drones is almost always the best. I'm thinking of something to offset that, but unfortunately I dont have a good idea right now. So maybe a module that links the drone's shields to the parent ship's shields could be useful?
It could require the parent ship to remain within a certain range to operate, but at that point firing on the drones would be pointless, as they would have a smaller sig than the parent, but share the same shield effectively.
Downside? The drones all lose their shields when the drone ship does too. This would also make drone ships logistically supportable more effectively by shield reppers too. |