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WASPY69
Hard Knocks Inc. Hard Knocks Citizens
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Posted - 2015.12.11 18:02:38 -
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Hey look another thread about drones!
So been having discussions (mostly speculations) about the Gecko a lot recently, but that's not what this thread is about, however it got me thinking. CCP loves their statistics, and they can probably see that when it comes to drones, there's some that are way over-represented, and some that are as rare as faction drones (but not in a good way) especially among ewar drones.
So here comes my dumb suggestion, that by the way, has totally never been suggested before. Why not introduce pirate faction drones from the 5 major pirate factions?
Perhaps something like the following: (stats may vary)
- Serpentis - Web bonus and thermal/kinetic damage
- Angel - Target Painter bonus and explosive/kinetic damage
- Blood - Energy neutralizing and em/thermal damage
- Sansha - Weapon disruption and em/thermal damage
- Guristas - ECM and kinetic/thermal damage
Damge is primary and secondary, as to not compete with the selective damage type of regular damage drones (same damage pattern as their respective pirate NPC's), and they will of course be a bit more costly (thinking in between navy and augmented prices) as to not make regular ewar drones obsolete. I for one would love to throw shekels at these types of drones.
Also, expanding on this I saw in another thread where someone suggested SOE and ORE drones with respective bonuses, which would be pretty cool too. Lastly, I didn't include Mordus because drones can't fire missiles or point.
Not sure if this would brake the game in some way, but imo it would be pretty cool. And goes without saying that when talking about ewar drones they could use some re-balance and main motivator behind this thread comes from that.
TL;DR 5 new drones from each 5 major pirate factions, with ewar bonus and primary/secondary damage type as to not make regular damage drones useless.
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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.12.11 18:10:26 -
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...Can you explain why anyone would ever use a regular drone again if these were available? |
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Snuffed Out
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Posted - 2015.12.11 18:26:54 -
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The same way certain mods and ships can only be retrieved/bought from certain factions, "special drones" like the Integrated and Augmented variants can only be retrieved from the rogue drones.
And they are expensive because... - there is very little supply coming out of the drone regions (which is one part "CCP loot tables" and another part "players are hording them") - they are actually pretty good.
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WASPY69
Hard Knocks Inc. Hard Knocks Citizens
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Posted - 2015.12.11 18:29:46 -
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What the above poster said and, say 5 lights of these would cost you 30 or so mil, I highly doubt you'd throw them into your T1 frigate. And as I said, they won't have the damage to compete with regular damage drones. Think of them as ewar drones with some added damage.
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Vic Jefferson
Stimulus Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2015.12.11 20:38:56 -
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Naw. Don't open this door. It's good that the current iteration of EWAR drones are lackluster.
Drone boats can already fully select their damage and a good deal of application on the fly. Now, I am happy with that being one of the strengths of drones as a weapon system, but if they could select ewar as well.....what would be the point of flying other ships? Given the sheer number of ships, and what each one can bring to the field, it's good to have every ship have a purpose....this would rob a good deal of them any purpose.
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WASPY69
Hard Knocks Inc. Hard Knocks Citizens
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Posted - 2015.12.12 02:54:54 -
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Well I'm not saying they should be a replacement for actual ewar mods, or ewar support ships. They wouldn't be way overpowered on any level, just adding a small % to the ewar, like less than 10%. So say you have a 60% web and then a flight of web drones, you'd bump that to like 65 or 67% I dunno.
Also, drones and drone ships aren't superior in any way, sure we had the Ishtars Online(TM) cancer last year, but droneboats have many weaknesses. One of them being a usually limited drone bay, so you can only bring 2 or so damage types. You could make the same argument for missile or projectile boats... And you can't overheat drones, they can be outrun, they can be destroyed, bug out, have bad application at range, be left behind when you're forced to warp then scooped, etc.. Not sure why everyone is so scared of ewar drones being rebalanced tbh. With my suggestion in the OP, say you use a set of Angel warriors, you'd get like 40-50 extra dps and a 7% signature bonus to your target. Hardly game breaking in any way.
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