[UI] Disconnect Drones

I was wondering if anyone had ever suggested giving the players the choice of using their drones for a particular ship or not.
I have a lot of stores and a lot of ships but not enough to equip them all to UFE. So I would like the option of flying a lesser equip ship without risking damage to the drones. And make it possible to purchase and equip a separate set of drones if I choose to.
Drones could be made part of the inventory like any other ammo , weapon or extra.
Since configuration transfers can only take place amongst ships with like slots , manually transferring is inconvenient and time consuming to say the least.

 

I have made suggestions in similar threads to have the Drones/Pets be assigned equipment ONCE and be set to those parameters no matter what ship you activate. The exception would be if you were using different configs for different duties and specific ships for each duty then you could assign those parameters to those specific ships/drones/configs, to make it easier to change ships and save configs for quicker transfer of equipment.

 

Starlight,

That is a great idea. I would love to be able to separate items from different ships like drones. Because I do some stupid things just to see what happens and how long I last. A few times I have lost a drone. The "Drone Repair CPU 2" doesn't do a thing. I have hit it before a battle, during a battle, and after a battle. The usage amount doesn't change and I know there are damage to my drone. Going to the hanger to repair the drone cost a level for repair. So why do we have a Drone CPU?

Angus

 

The Drone Repair CPU is there to prevent you from forgetting to REPAIR the drones before they go POP. IF you do not repair before being popped and their damage reaches 100% then they are destroyed and need to be repurchased and currently you lose all upgrades made to them, there is chatter of an upcoming change that is going to allow us to keep the upgrade just need to do something special to recover the destroyed drone.

There is a glitch in the CPU that does not prevent the drones from being popped, but if you had it equipped (both configs) and you lose any of the drones then a message to SUPPORT will get them replaced. Just so you know whether repaired by you or the CPU the drones lose 1 level and is why it is suggested to repair anytime you are above 75% but definitely before reaching 95% damage to any drone. You may even want to stagger the repairs so you do not have ALL of them dropped a level at the same time, this also helps to prevent losing all of them with one mistake.

 

Hi All,

I have lost drones and it is a pain to replace it too. I have lost an Iris, Apis, and a Zeus over time. I have the CPU at the ready and it never worked before. I have all slots filled and the main slots I keep a shield and weapon at the ready on them.

Well maybe it does work, just checked. Config. one has 25 charges and config. 2 had 32 chargers. On server one main ship. Server 2 both are at 32 chargers.

When I had to replace them, I had to buy at big $$ the Iris, but the Apis I had all the blueprints, and Zeus I was lucky and found one just after I lost the Zeus drone. I only had 5% of the Zeus blueprint and I was dreading in buying the replacement.

My main ship's drones have 8 or less damage listed, and points are listed at 3 (what are points). On the other ship (second server) most are listed about the same except they have 5 points, but they have 2 weapons and nothing else. I don't have very many shields to go around so I could have one of each. I only have 8 drones because of the "Auction House" I trying to work on getting the others. But half of my drones on server 2 have 3 digits ### points listed. Those are 4 level or less so why do these have 3 digit with their sister drones only have one digit.

What I like to see;

Why can't the repair bots, that fix the ship after a battle, fix the drones too?

Angus

 

So you had 7 drones saved by having the CPU assigned.

Lucky you, I am still trying to get my first Zeus Drone.

The damage numbers are important to pay attention to if not using the CPU to cover your backside. The points you see are for building to the next level (maximum 6) look at the level and then the points if they are low number you will see they are level 5 drone that was just recently repaired, the triple digit will be a level 6 drone and usually close to being repaired/destroyed.

Because the repair pots are for the ship as it takes so much damage all of the time and the drones only take damage when the ship is destroyed. IF you want the Drones to be repaired by bots then they would have to make them take damage during battles like the ship and every time the ship got destroyed they would either use a CPU repair or need to be replaced because they went POOF. I prefer to have them take damage when the ship pops instead of during battles.

 

Help,

Do you sit on a mountain or something because your are a wise sage, and very informed. Thanks for the information and all your help.

Angus

 

Old timer that has seen many changes in the game, and not all for the best, but I had a lot of helpers when I started and some of them had me bookmark the DarkOrbit Bible, Event FAQ, and FAQ Index (which I share in my Signature), which are still pretty good sources but the game is changing so fast some of these are OUT OF DATE. But they do provide some good information. The Newbies Section of the Forum is also a good place to keep an eye on, as many VETERANS will create so helpful strategies in these threads.

 

when did the game ever change fast? maybe the people who used to update those quit from waiting years on things

 

They have made many changes in a short period of time and the VOLUNTEER staff have not updated the Information as fast as the changes have been made. At the time the changes the Hangar, they also made a visual change (that was a sick "fools" joke), added the A.S., Changed to a BigPoint controlled Chat, Sold the company to the Chinese, added Cosmetic designs like they were going out of style, and all of these changes should have had information placed in the Forums so we could address the issues with some knowledge instead of wonder when they did not work properly.

The freedom of KNOWLEDGE seems to have left the game, when they did the "RELOADED" and the mass exit happened at this time also. We used to get forewarned of a Event coming (OFFICIALLY) so we planned for the Launch, now we are lucky to get notice 2 days after it started.

 

I can appreciate the concern with the loss of drones . I too have lost all eight of mine before the time of the 9TH and 10TH
However this thread is concerned with being able to fly a different ship without attaching the drones .
I current fly the Solace with my full complement of weapons and drone designs. But , since I do not have enough to fully outfit another ship with different slots , I want the ability to not use the drones on the Pusat , for example , and be able to buy and equip a second or even third set of drones for the Surgeon ,which doesn't have any matching slots to any other ship . It is way too time consuming to do a manual delete of config. and change ships . I am hoping for a game developer to provide some input in regards to problems , if any ,regarding the re-writing of computer codes to makes this possible.

 

I understand the question equipping drones differently for different ships as this is the way it is now. I do not understand the reason for wanting to fly an obvious SUICIDE ship that had ZERO Drones. And need clarification of the desire of "be able to buy and equip a second or even third set of drones for the Surgeon ,which doesn't have any matching slots to any other ship"? Would this not fit into the first post I made "to make it easier to change ships and save configs for quicker transfer of equipment"?

Trying to read between the lines I THINK you are wanting to have 2 or 3 sets of drones equipped with different setups so you could select a set to fly with or without. But then you are also saying you don't have enough equipment to completely equip another ship, but want to have it tied up with sets of drones that can not be used. IF this is what you are thinking I would not support it. I would prefer to have it set where I could SAVE SETTINGS (for play style) and have an auto-equip feature that allowed me to select the saved configs to be loaded and be done with it, they could add the choice you are asking for, to fly SUICIDE, if enough people thought droneless was really beneficial.

 

I believe the drones should be indestructible. I also feel there should be a cloak for the drones that can be both activated and deactivated at the whim of the owner.

 

Drones are not target able, and most people have the "Show Drones" turned off as this helps eliminate some lag. So what benefit would a Drone Cloak provide?

 

It would have the same effect as a normal cloak, the only difference being the drone cloak would be effective for attracting the sucker target believing them weak and attacking them.

 

So you would also be cloaking the Drone information showing the use of STAT designs. I do not believe this to be a good thing as too many people do not care that they are working on killing NEW players so would only work if the players were in a PROTECTION mode of play getting a Hunter to attack them thinking they were trying to kill a NEW Player and there does not seem to be many people playing the protection card in the current game play. And everyone knows even a NEW player has a Flax drone as it is an award from a quest.

This idea would be good for Refractions or UBA but I would not want it in the maps.

 

That's where we differ, I'd like to see it used everywhere.

 

Alright, who let VESPID out of his cage.

 

NO , I guess I was not clear with intent. Since I do not have 40-50 havoc / hercs I have to delete whole configs. if I want to fly a diff. ship . I see your point and would settle for an alternative . Change the delete config. feature to only the ship , drones or PET . Not all or nothing like it is set up now . This would allow me to free up the weapons , generators , and any extras without affecting drones or PET .
I hope this provides a clearer explanation of my request. TY