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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.09 02:33:00 -
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Aruken Marr wrote:Deen Wispa wrote:damage mod This may be difficult but think really hard about what you just said. I may be missing something but aren't drones the only weapon with a highslot mod that increases range? |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.09 02:42:00 -
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Alavaria Fera wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Aruken Marr wrote:Deen Wispa wrote:damage mod This may be difficult but think really hard about what you just said. I may be missing something but aren't drones the only weapon with a highslot mod that increases range? That is drone control range. Drone optimal and tracking are midslots (omnidirectional tracking link) Drone optimal beyond control range is pretty useless as control range caps what you can engage. Never said it was the only thing affecting their envelope of engagement, but an important one in a slot that other weapons don't have such an enhancement in. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
132
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Posted - 2012.05.09 02:43:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:I may be missing something but aren't drones the only weapon with a highslot mod that increases range? It doesn't really increase range GÇö that's what the Omnidirectional Tracking Link does (midslot). The Drone Navigation Computer is more like a sensor booster. It being a highslot item isn't any more strange than, say, autotargeters being highslot items. Kinda, more going for that drone mods don't totally follow the way weapon enhancements work, not that a highslot damage mod doesn't raise other issues. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
132
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Posted - 2012.05.09 03:01:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Drone optimal beyond control range is pretty useless as control range caps what you can engage. Not really. For sentries, having that extra buffer when they can still damage a target is hugely useful. Sorry to derail, but I'm not sure I'm understanding. How do you get them to engage targets beyond drone control range? |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.09 03:16:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Sorry to derail, but I'm not sure I'm understanding. How do you get them to engage targets beyond drone control range? You don't, but they can keep hitting targets that fly outside of that range, or you can drop the drones, fly close enough to the target to tell the drones to attack, and then go about your business elsewhere. Just because the drones are 100km away from the target doesn't mean you have to be 100km away from it. True, but it was the range from your ship that I was referring to as that is what the drone control augmenter modifies. And it was that range that I was referring to, so it would still stand that if drone optimal was enough to reach the target from it's location, but still not within the drone control range of your ship you cannot have them engage.
The part about them continuing to engage a target that has wondered out of range is, however, a good point I had forgotten about. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.09 03:18:00 -
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Cambarus wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Tippia wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Drone optimal beyond control range is pretty useless as control range caps what you can engage. Not really. For sentries, having that extra buffer when they can still damage a target is hugely useful. Sorry to derail, but I'm not sure I'm understanding. How do you get them to engage targets beyond drone control range? Things can move outside drone range while the drones are still shooting them, alternately, YOU can move outside of drone control range and your drones will keep shooting. Drone control range only applies to the distance from the ship, not the drones, so referring to range from the drone would have been invalid from the start regardless of how close you are to those drones. |
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