Comments on: Jester’s Trek: Breaking stuff to look tough

By: HvyMtlPhreak

HvyMtlPhreak — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:25:50 +0000

can't transfer the drones in space. tried it just the other day.

By: Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:19:05 +0000

Thinking training drones sounded like a good idea was the second biggest mistake I made in Eve. (Training hulks and mining being #3, and "ever undocking in the first place" being #1… No seriously, every career choice I've ever run with in Eve got nerfed into oblivion. Fuck'em.)

Drones… ugh!

By: Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:15:33 +0000

Ugh. …Yes, by all means let's *make Eve harder*, right? Because having a game that rewards calculating fucking radians per second isn't niche enough…

By: tribble

tribble — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:47:45 +0000

In other games where you have a "party" (we call it a fleet) There is a

healer/priest/monk class (we call them logistics ships)

A debuff caster such as a necromancer or a witch or some shit (we call them EWAR ships)

a DPS character that just does a shit load of damage, and we call those ships Glass Cannons like dessies and t3 BC's.

Then there is the tank. The tank has the ability to sustain a lot of damage, But what other games tanks have that EVE tanks do not… is an ability to make the NPC's hate them more so they will be more likely to attack them. some games call this a threat level.

What if CCP made a highslot module(that fucks with rats ships) or beacon rig that makes their sensors want focus on you, or an implant or a skill that makes you good at "taunting" the rats, any of these so as not to cut into either type of tank (Mids/lows) That makes you a tastier target to NPC's so they will be more likely to attack you?

By: tribbles

tribbles — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:47:03 +0000

Idk I feel like doing this to the rats is going to hurt noobies. I love better AI, god knows missions are fucking boring, but I always used to let the corp noobies tag along and shit around plexs/missions and shoot at w/e they liked knowing they were not going to get popped. Now We can say eve Is harsh and the new newbies will have to deal… BUT I feel like there is a solution.

By: Jaded

Jaded — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:22:48 +0000

Yeah but arent they nerfing Heavy Missile damage & Range as well? You *can* do Lv4s in a Drake but it's a lot slower than using a BS. With a (20%??) damage nerf to Heavies it will be a hell of a lot slower on some missions and I can think of a few BS mission rats that may not be doable at all due to resists+repping. Especially if your skills arent 4s or 5s.

By: Smiling Joe

Smiling Joe — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:01:58 +0000

super tank the noob ships, i let new guys fly with me in my 4s, but their dps is nonfactor really, so just haveem in tank ships if it's about learning.

By: Smiling Joe

Smiling Joe — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:59:00 +0000

I'm not complaining in the least, this makes marauders more relevant again. I have never needed a tank ship and a dps ship, or a salvage ship to follow. My paladin can tank any lvl 4 i go in, has 1100dps and 3 utility highs plus a tractor range bonus. I'm smiling from ear to ear. The drone thing is a bit annoying since I am useless if frigs or fast cruisers get right on me and i count on the drones for that, but eh.

By: GS since '03

GS since '03 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:07:15 +0000

700 dps, 5 perma remote reps, 1 large local amror perma rep and 3 drone tracking upgrades. stable at 60% cap.

yep got my new build

By: GS since '03

GS since '03 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:54:51 +0000

< Fits small remote shield reps on Navy domi,
< increases CCC on Navy domy,
< perma reps my sentries.
< Continues the AFK farming in my domi.

Yep, this will really fix the AFK farming with drones. And it would take me 2 min to write a macro that will scope my sentries every 5min to reset drone agro.

By: minimee

minimee — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:20:24 +0000

well i both like and dislike the changes…. from my perspective its a good change but i fear it comes to fast.
the main reason is there is alot of missions where targetswitching can be bad and then there is a lot of missions where it can be a good thing aka drone aggro etc.

they should delay the change to summer expansion and test it further since I fear they need to rebalance quite a few missions also. because if its messing with Agrro mannage ment "World collides" comes up as a big Warning sign for me isn't the end room got a potential of doing over 1500dps and thats NOT tankable"

and now im only touching Highsec missions nullsec and Level5 missions will be hit even harder

I am expecting to see ALOT of tears on the forum from players who lost there "Pride and Joy" mission boat. This might backlash on CCP very fast when players unsub after losing there ships ….

By: David Grogan

David Grogan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:50:39 +0000

1 possible fix is to warp a tanky orca in to replace lost drones in your domi using the fitting service on the orca

By: David Grogan

David Grogan — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:46:34 +0000

even a drake can tank most l4's and its alot quicker to get into

By: Bradley

Bradley — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:20:30 +0000

Rats switching to drones is just plain terrible. Why kick this dog when he's already down?

By: bertstare

bertstare — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:10:02 +0000

does this means that the darwin torpedo 10/10 stations will shoot anyone now? :O