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Bank Machiner
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Posted - 2008.09.01 08:13:00 -
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This may be very obvious for some of you but can anyone explain to me how you can group drones? Example is I have a Vexor and in my drone hold I have 5xHammerheads, 5xWarriors, and 5xHobgoblins or however you want to lay it out I'm not 100% on the m3 of all the drones at the moment.
My question is can you set it up to deploy all 5 of one type of drone at once? Right now I have to right click on each drone to get it to launch and it's very annoying!
Ty for any help anyone can give me with this :) |
Gojyu
Ever Flow
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.09.01 08:15:00 -
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Right click the drone in the drone window. Select Move to group -> New Group. Pick a name for your group, then right click and move any drones you want to into the newly formed group |
Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2008.09.01 08:26:00 -
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Actually, you can hold down the control key, click on each drone you want in the group (or use shift if they are all lined up) then right click on one of the high lighted drones and select Move / New Group.
Then, all you have to do is double click on the Drones in ship label to see your groups. clicking on the group will show you the drones in the group. Right click on the group and select Launch Drones.
For my bigger mining barges I typically have two groups. Combat Drones and Mining Drones. |
Bank Machiner
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Posted - 2008.09.01 10:57:00 -
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Thanks guys very helpful info :)
One of the things you said kind of brought up another question for me though, is it useful to 'mix' drones? Like I know you shouldn't mix gun types / ammo types but say I used a mix of damage and ecm drones am I just gimping myself or is that a valid tactic? |
Cygnus Zhada
Amarr
Reckless Corsairs
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Posted - 2008.09.01 11:08:00 -
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Edited by: Cygnus Zhada on 01/09/2008 11:13:40
You only have 5 drones at any time, already drone dps isn't exactly up to par with turret dps (in most situations) and just using 1 or 2 ECM drones severely lower the chance of getting off a jam while lowering your dps massively. Use either, not both. |
Gartel Reiman
Civis Romanus Sum
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Posted - 2008.09.01 13:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Bank Machiner
One of the things you said kind of brought up another question for me though, is it useful to 'mix' drones? Like I know you shouldn't mix gun types / ammo types but say I used a mix of damage and ecm drones am I just gimping myself or is that a valid tactic?
It kind of falls into the same area, yeah. In the same way that with guns you'll set up either to do reasonable damage at long range, or a lot of damage close up - the same can be said to be true of drones. If you need to do damage to the target, then go for a full flight of damage drones. If you need to jam them, go with a full flight of ECM drones, and so forth.
The only type of mixing that I consider worthwhile is using a flight of 2 heavies, 2 mediums and a light on ships with 75 bandwidth. If you're attacking something that you would want to use heavies against anyway, this gives you more damage than three heavies or five mediums and none of the drones will have issues hitting. Still, I'd only use this if you wanted to use heavies in the first place (on a close-range damage battleship, for example); on a Vexor you'll often be better with the 5 mediums for general purpose work.
Note however that some drone ships can carry spare drones (I believe the Vexor has 75 bandwidth but 100 dronebay) and in this case, carrying alternative drones of a different type would be a sensible technique, so that you can launch an entire wave of the right drone for the situation. So in a Vexor you might carry 5 medium drones for general-purpose damage, 5 light drones (probably Warrior IIs) for chasing down fast targets like interceptors, and 5 light ECM drones for those GTFO moments. |
Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2008.09.02 05:09:00 -
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Another factor to consider is that each drone type does a different type of damage.
Hobgoblin's for example do thermal damage.
So, if you know that your enemy is vulnerable to a certain type of damage you might want to carry all that type of drone.
For general purposes most rats have thermal as their second damage so if you don't know what you'll run into you can carry those.
Alternatively, you could carry a mixture of drone types so that at least some of them would be of the type the enemy is vulnerable to.
This last is often the strategy of carrying whatever is laying about in the corp hangar bay. If you've got your enemy totally outgunned ... it won't matter.
All in all, you can put a lot of thought and preparation into your drone selection if you are so inclined, the same way people will mount certain resistance types or carry certain missiles.
Here, again, is where excess drone capacity comes in.
If you don't carry the bigger drones, you can carry different types to do different damage.
Ultimately, as with most other things, the answer is really - what is it that you want to achieve? Given a large variety of goals and the combination of ships modules, drone types and types of weapons and defenses available, there just isn't one single answer but rather a large range of choices.
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Gojyu
Ever Flow
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Posted - 2008.09.02 05:17:00 -
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Edited by: Gojyu on 02/09/2008 05:17:20
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For general purposes most rats have thermal as their second damage so if you don't know what you'll run into you can carry those.
That's both wrong and right. Rats don't always have thermal as secondary, however, thermal drones do far higher damage rates than other types, so it is generally a good idea, unless you've done the math for the specific rats you're facing, to use thermal drones, since the extra dps usually evens out the enemies resistances. This is especially true of em drones. Against all rats with em as their primary weakness, thermal drones out-dps them, due to a mediocre damage modifier. There are extremely few reasons to ever use em drones |
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