[UI] Take off the drones Damage

My idea is to Take off Forever the drones damage.
During this Halloween event we had no Drones Damage and that was awesome, lots of people even noob players went hunting or were doing npcs out of gate without caring about popping because there was no Drones Damage.
I feel like if DO take off the Drones Damage people will start doing stuff ( npcs and Hunting ) a lot more.
They can even make that the Drones reduce his lvl after it reach 100% damage but won't pop.
Lemme know what you think about it =)

 

Absolutely NO. There should be some penalty for dying. Its in all games and here in DO, the penalty for death is even now very gentle, because most players have tons of repair coupons. Its only about keeping an eye on your drones (or CPU) to not let them pop. The game woul lost much of tension by making your idea real.

 

I agree with the OP whats the point for new players to have to fix their drones 2 times a day because they are quest fodder (DO's huge noob repellent) and remember if they dont have repair credits they paying uri for the repair

you die you get sent back home or repair on spot with no hp you ever wait for your goli to repair without premium takes forever thats hurting the new players enough.

a player loggs in and goes to do a kill devo quest in the process of killing 3 devos they get killed by hunters 5 times thats almost 25% damage to your drones at 4% damage to your drone per death how much uri is 3 devos surly not enough to pay 200 uri to repair one drone let alone 8 and you would think with a new player having to learn about hundreds of items and how to use them having one item that is pretty hard to get for a new player to pop when you get killed 25 times is a joke on them imagine spending a month to get all your irises to have them all pop because your still confused or trying to figure out the game

 

I agree with the OP too, the drone damage is cancer for every Flax drone of a beginner, who doesn't have much Cre to buy a new one.

Ok, I compare it with other games:

• If you die, your enemy will get an reward and he will be better than you. (Check)
• In every normal MMO game the items take damage when you die OR when you use it too often. So do you want that your lasers (and your LF4) take when you use it too "often"? A popped LF4 is awful. But in most of this games you can pay with a very low amount of the cheap money, DO is a very "special" MMO.

I think the drone damage only brings frustation, sometime the CPU doesn't work...

 

There is no drone damage if you poof in the GG event or non-event, enjoy.

 

Venom~kilzs, BestGArenEUW:

Hey, I was a noob too (I dont consider myself a good DO player even now). And it was in much "tougher" times. Repair coupons didnt exist, after that, they were not so easy to obtain, there were much, much, much more players on servers and much much much more hunters. But still, I never poped 5 times by killing 3 devos. Its not about being a noob at game. This is about beeing a noob at brain use. Yes, the game can be confusing - you must learn, but there are many ways to do so. For this problem its sufficient to read the items labels (specifficaly CPUs) in shop. The CPU cost 10 000 creds (in auction), that isnt much and works perfectly. Ppl, that say, it doesnt, simply lie to camouflage their mistake - usually, they forgot to put it on to the second config. And the time a player already have many drones, he/she should know the basics. Yes, it makes you angry when you got 8 irises popped. But its, what I call tension (and you frustration ). Simply advice: You usually dont buy all drones at same time - so dont make their dmg lvl same by early reapairs - and they will never pop at the same time.

Compare with other games:
- In DO the reward for player kill is very low (except ladder play) - no U, no creds.
- Statement about other item damaging is nonsense, because swords, clubs, etc. can be damaged by swinging/crushing and can be repaired for small price. They are not lost forever (your comparison to poped LF4). I can easily imagine, the ship explosion damaging the drones.
- In "normal" MMOs, you loose experience, when you die. You want this?

So ppl, be reasonoble: theese type of game-easing ideas will never happen.

 

In some games the price for repair is not so small... in most games you are right. But why is repairing for a small price not valid for the drones? The drones will be lost forever when they have 100% damage.

I have to play more MMO games, don't know this fact, I only know it in Pokemon.

 

Yes, it is. The drones can be repair for really small price. Almost for free to be exact. The repair coupons drop from many things. GG generator, BKs, action bonus boxes... So after few days (maybe even hours) you got your and drone repairs in fact for free.

 

Yes, of course. But at the begin you only have 1 Repair Credit for your drones (log in bonus).

GGG and BK are things which beginners doesn't have enough. Only the action bonus boxes are a paradise for getting repair credits.

 

Hey, EEs for GGG arent so hard to obtain. And in theese times of empty servers you (even as newbie) shouldnt pop very often. As I said, when I was growing up, there were more hunters and less ways of getting repair credits and I hadnt this problem (I flied many many months on bibgboy, nostromo, not as today). And I play on GE2, one of the most full servers. I dont want to be inpolite but this problem is somewhere between chair and monitor.

 

If your experience is true, the drone damage system is balanced enough.

I know, I should stop drinking so much Energy Drinks.

Create a second account and ask the support or the forum. No risk, more fun.

 

can someone help me, I have a big problem in 30 days 4 x only one iris is destroyed (all of them equally fix every morning controls the number again but that happens I do not think it's my fault) and I would ask you to control dmg because I and friends complain that 2 x weaker ships destroyed their ship tnh

 

I hope that these darkorbit correct some mistakes and punish people who use the program or

 

i started in 2008 i know the ins and outs thats not what im saying a player that put as much time as i have got drones in check what im talking about is new players drone damage is just another smack to them and getting killed 5 times trying to do 3 devos remember when you were just starting hell the devo packs a punch to those ships and the hunters know this for easy kills for there quest

back when i started yeah there was more people but many defended the lowers and no hunter would be able to farm a map for however long they want. now groups, ive seen company's take over other maps but that took alot of people now it just takes one

what it boils down to is why keep something so unattractive to the new players and nothing but a minor annoyance to the older players that have already figured out the game. look at free repairs back in the day it cost uri to repair your ship every time you got popped always had to have uri on your ship or buy a new ship, DO figured out how unattractive that was for all players and got rid of it.

DO keeps saying they want to make the game more noob friendly here's something that barely effects older players but really is an issue with those just starting out. its been too long with the attitude that well that's what i had to deal with and then look at the server population new players play a couple weeks and that's it i myself would give up alot to get new players into the game and giving up something as annoying as drone damage

yeah ill keep repairing mine about once a month thats not bad but to have to check everyday because the quest system makes me a target and i have no chance at defending myself from being instapopped over and over well i might be that stubborn but most will just move on

 

onces a month what server you on west east lol on gb1 that number can go to 100% in a day if you dont watch your back no games in gb1 eic are extremly aggresive they will group you like a swarm of piranha.

 

Id like this idea, but.
But = repair credits useless ?
Leveling drones = it would never go down ?
So then levels useless and we would also get - dmg/shield bonus.
drone repairing cpu = useless ?

 

Good points Sauron. Maybe instead of doing away with damage altogether make it so that for every 100% damage you suffer you lose a level instead. Then if a player is careless, or unfortunate, enough to allow his drones to reach level 1 and then they take 100% damage they would be lost that way. So it would still be possible to have drones get destroyed, but very difficult.

 

yes good points how about a drone at 100% damage is unusable until repaired the point that you could lose the drone it the major issue imagin just starting and seeing the zues drone hell i got the extra cash ill buy it then boom its gone not right im telling you one of the most expensive things in the game can be lost do wouldn't get any more of my money or any friends i got

 

I was thinking about that too and as i said the drone level get reduced when it get 100% damage
Repair credits are kinda useless already because most players got tons of them.
the bonus dmg/shield will stay of course
The drone repair CPU will be useless, 1 more free slot for you =)

 

This could be. Its the same as todays state, but without the tension/frustration from possibility of drone loss.