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Erythron
Solstice Systems Development Concourse Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:10:00 -
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I wasn't sure at first, but my sentry drones are definately moving relative to everything else in the room I'm in.
I'm currently in Deltole (Sinq Laison) ratting in the Contested Gallente Comet complex, 2nd room (Serpentus Survey Site)
I place 5 Garde I sentry drones 32km away from the left spawn, and then proceed to sit myself in the middle, and then use my drones to pick off the enemies very easily.
It may not seem like a giant problem, but every 45 minutes or so the drones are another 1km closer, and once they get within 20km they get aggro and get attacked :-/
What I've been doing so far is grabbing them and resetting them every few hours, but this is a giant pain because there are frigate rats (Ice Breakers) that warp scramble + web, and so my ship goes somewhere between 10m/s-50m/s, and while I 'reset' my drones I can't have them shooting, or they draw aggro and I won't be able to get to them in time.
I'm still not sure if it's the drones themselves who are moving, or if perhaps the entire complex is moving, and the drones 'are' infact 100% stationary.
If the drones are what's moving, is this intended by CCP? Or perhaps a bug that may someday (probably never due to it being somewhat insignificant...) be fixed?
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Furb Killer
The Peacekeeper Core
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:41:00 -
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So if i understand it, it is a problem you have to do something once every few hours...
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Unknown Comic
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:42:00 -
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Edited by: Unknown Comic on 21/05/2008 15:42:03 I would like to think this was an intentional farming nerf, but it isn't. Sentry drones actually approach their target while attackingjust like other drones. The mechanism is the same. They just do it very, very slowly.
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Erythron
Solstice Systems Development Concourse Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:44:00 -
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well, yea
I'm a miner at heart, and so when I rat I've always wanted to keep it as similar to mining as I could. Started using sentry drones a few days ago and I thought I had it, but I need to keep fixing the drones :-P
Just figured I'd bring attention to it, since it seems to me to be an unintentional bug, since sentry drones are not supposed to move
Might be caused by their swivel motion as they track the enemies...
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Wideen
Contraband Inc.
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:45:00 -
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Add your sentries to overview, add the "Velocity" option and have a look
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Naomi Wildfire
Stardust Heavy Industries Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:46:00 -
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i wish they would move faster just because of you lol
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Erythron
Solstice Systems Development Concourse Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.05.21 15:48:00 -
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Edited by: Erythron on 21/05/2008 15:49:23 actually, looking at it more closely they've moved 12km since the servers came up (about 4 hours ago)
So they're moving 'almost' 1 m/s, lol
*edit: Wideen, yea in the overview it keeps bouncing up and down from 0m/s up to 1m/s
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.05.21 16:03:00 -
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they always moved at that speed iirc. isnt there some sort of velocity stat in the info screen or the item DB? i think i recall something like that.
you can try to anchor a can in the opposite direction, FAR outside the sentries range and have them attack it whenever theyre idle.
youre putting us lazy people to shame, really. scoop/deploy, how cumbersome!
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Hanneshannes
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Posted - 2008.05.21 16:12:00 -
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Doesn't everything move? I swear, I've seen my ship move away from a point even though I didn't touch the propulsion for 2 hours.
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ElCoCo
KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2008.05.21 18:06:00 -
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They've always moved a bit but very slow to register. What happens is, they kill their target and until you assign them a new one they sloooooowly move towards you much like normal drones return and orbit. Wish they would move like 5m/sec (only if you tell them to return ofc). Any dread pilot would know why Boink! |
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Alatari
Winterdawn
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Posted - 2008.05.21 19:19:00 -
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Originally by: Erythron Started using sentry drones a few days ago and I thought I had it, but I need to keep fixing the drones :-P
You could always web your own drones. -- You can't do that with a Planet. |
Unknown Comic
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Posted - 2008.05.22 11:15:00 -
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I wonder how fast we can get them going with drone nav units and if there's a racial difference |
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