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Too Dangerous
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Posted - 2009.08.21 05:41:00 -
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Seriously when you get disconnected from server, its a pain having to warp in and see your drones die as you slow boat it to pick them up.
CCP should make a recover drone feature (like there is for probes), so when you warp back in you click recover drones and they return at normal speed to drone bay.
To stop it being abused make it so once selected the drones must return to the drone bay before they can be used again and also that no drones can be recovered whilst you have active drones in space. So that way you cannot keep resending new drones to say attack and then disconnecting and recovering them while sending drones back out. You can only recover drones when you have none active in space.
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Wiaf
coracao ardente Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2009.08.21 12:46:00 -
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Just out of interest how is that gonna get done, drones (unless theyre fighter class) cant warp probes can warp :)
-W
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De'Veldrin
Special Projects Executive
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Posted - 2009.08.21 14:26:00 -
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Originally by: Wiaf Just out of interest how is that gonna get done, drones (unless theyre fighter class) cant warp probes can warp :)
-W
I'd say you have to be on the grid with the drones, just like you do today. It just saves you the trouble of having to fly around scooping them back up.
Supported --Vel You're killing me Smalls!
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Herschel Yamamoto
Agent-Orange
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Posted - 2009.08.21 14:58:00 -
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Originally by: De'Veldrin I'd say you have to be on the grid with the drones, just like you do today. It just saves you the trouble of having to fly around scooping them back up.
Supported
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Wiaf
coracao ardente Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2009.08.21 15:00:00 -
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Originally by: De'Veldrin
Originally by: Wiaf Just out of interest how is that gonna get done, drones (unless theyre fighter class) cant warp probes can warp :)
-W
I'd say you have to be on the grid with the drones, just like you do today. It just saves you the trouble of having to fly around scooping them back up.
Supported
Yeah thatll be cool.
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Clockmaster Xenos
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Posted - 2009.08.21 15:00:00 -
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Strongly Supported.
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Pian Shu
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse Tread Alliance
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Posted - 2009.08.21 17:39:00 -
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Just good, old-fashioned common sense.
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Zed Jackelope
Insert Obscure Latin Name
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Posted - 2009.08.21 18:47:00 -
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I'm not going to support, as I enjoy stealing peoples drones when they leave 'em behind.
However, I think you should be able to tractor your own drones. You have a greater chance of saving them after a warp out/disconnect, and you still have a chance to losing 'em to someone else's scoop.
Originally by: Awesome Possum Ban in place for using inappropriate language and evading the profanity filter.
When Will I be able to post again? 09/03/09
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De'Veldrin
Minmatar Special Projects Executive
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Posted - 2009.08.21 19:41:00 -
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Originally by: Zed Jackelope I'm not going to support, as I enjoy stealing peoples drones when they leave 'em behind.
However, I think you should be able to tractor your own drones. You have a greater chance of saving them after a warp out/disconnect, and you still have a chance to losing 'em to someone else's scoop.
I'm not sure the OP's suggestion would prevent someone else on grid from scooping them. In any case, while I support the idea, I agree that they should remain scoopable by other people, so long as they are not being directly controlled at that time. --Vel You're killing me Smalls!
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Tortugan
F9X
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Posted - 2009.08.21 19:49:00 -
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Supported if they are within your drone control range. Otherwise, this could be abused by warping back to a belt/planet at 100km (or further) and recovering drones in relative safety after a fight.
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Zed Jackelope
Insert Obscure Latin Name
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Posted - 2009.08.21 20:38:00 -
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Originally by: De'Veldrin
Originally by: Zed Jackelope I'm not going to support, as I enjoy stealing peoples drones when they leave 'em behind.
However, I think you should be able to tractor your own drones. You have a greater chance of saving them after a warp out/disconnect, and you still have a chance to losing 'em to someone else's scoop.
I'm not sure the OP's suggestion would prevent someone else on grid from scooping them. In any case, while I support the idea, I agree that they should remain scoopable by other people, so long as they are not being directly controlled at that time.
The way I read his proposal was, you'd get on grid and recover drones and they would reconnect. Thus no longer scoopable by a third party.
While I do not do lvl 4 missions with t2 heavies/sentries because of the risk of disconnect, I still would rather have uncontrolled drones just be tractorable.
Just my opinion.
Originally by: Awesome Possum Ban in place for using inappropriate language and evading the profanity filter.
When Will I be able to post again? 09/03/09
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Brock Dillinger
Gallente University of Caille
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Posted - 2009.08.21 21:24:00 -
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Originally by: Zed Jackelope While I do not do lvl 4 missions with t2 heavies/sentries because of the risk of disconnect, I still would rather have uncontrolled drones just be tractorable.
Making them tractor-able by the owner would definately be a plus. No need to add a crapload of code just to recover a few drones.
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JZIM
Einherjar Rising Cry Havoc.
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Posted - 2009.08.21 21:29:00 -
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Edited by: JZIM on 21/08/2009 21:29:16
Originally by: Tortugan Edited by: Tortugan on 21/08/2009 19:50:27 Supported if they are within your drone control range. Otherwise, this could be abused by warping back to a belt/planet at 100km (or further) and recovering drones in relative safety after a fight.
This. Supported.
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Felix Jugo
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Posted - 2009.08.22 08:14:00 -
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I'm unsure about this. The ability to reconnect when within drone control range (let alone recovering contact with drones from anywhere in the solar system) would be a big buff to drones.
Correct me if I'm wrong (likely) but wouldn't this be useful in battle? Suppose I die. If it's a fleet battle, and if my abandoned drones were not hunted down, and if I come back quickly, then I not only get my drones back but they reactivate in position and ready to attack. Clever new tactics might be possible (e.g. a sniper warping from one side of the battle to the other, waking up different sets of previously deployed drones).
While the above might be kind of nifty, I doubt very much that CCP would go for it. It's work, and I can imagine that it might marginally increase lag.
Being able to tractor your own drones is a much better idea.
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CruiserMk2
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Posted - 2009.08.25 06:47:00 -
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Xentara Vispari
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Posted - 2009.08.25 11:14:00 -
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Quote: Correct me if I'm wrong (likely) but wouldn't this be useful in battle? Suppose I die. If it's a fleet battle, and if my abandoned drones were not hunted down, and if I come back quickly, then I not only get my drones back but they reactivate in position and ready to attack.
This could be avoided, if the new command is implemented appropiately. Let's say this command reads "reconnect and recover drones". This means, if you give this command, all lost drones automatically return to your drone bay. This requires that are in a ship with sufficient bandwidth and drone bay. You need to wait until they are all in your drone bay, before you can give them new commands. But this won't work for sentries, if they are to far away.
Using a tractor beam with lost drones would be nice anyway.
I'd also like to see a final fix, that you loose control of drones that are on the way back to your drone bay. Seems to me this happens mostly if they are under fire. They float in space without control and must be recovered manually.
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Da'Than
Interstellar Military Industries
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Posted - 2009.08.25 11:16:00 -
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