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G Torq
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Posted - 2013.03.25 14:13:00 -
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Personal drones, similar to the one we see in PS Home, would also open up for a range of skills and equipment
* Drone Control (x2) - required for any drones
* Drone Proficiency (x5) - required for specialty drones and added bonux
* Attack Drone (x6) - required for attack-drones
* Defence Drone (x6) - required for defend-drones
* Support Drone (x6) - required for infantry-support-drones
* Remote Drone Control (x8) - required for drones able to be dispatched/leave the owner
For the drones, there would be shields, armor, mobility, "mini-turrets" and equipment to be bought, all which costs ISK/AUR, and all which rely on standard skills and the above ones.
Such personal drones would be yet another thing to specialize into ("SP Sink"), more gear to be bought and destroyed ("ISK Sink") and different strategies. |
G Torq
ALTA B2O
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Posted - 2013.03.25 19:56:00 -
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Yosef Autaal wrote:Drones should be weak fairly easy to take out if you do focus on them the main problem with shooting them will be there size because a attack drone (average size) wont be much begger then a dropsuits head, I would propose a size similar to what we see in PS Home, where they are ca the size on a grown mans upper body/torso.
Too small, and they wouldn't be able to hold anything.
Too large, and they would be spending too much energy keeping themselves afloat.
Matobar wrote:
I think we should separate the scanning drone from the combat aerial drone, both to avoid the one drone becoming OP and to give drone users a sense of choice, that they can decide which kind of drone they want to use without having to be restricted to only one air type.
There is already a pattern in Dust (for now) where items come in 2+ versions, that can be customized to various purposes and possibly come with basic tools. See LAVs vs LLVs, Shield vehicles vs Armor vehicles. This could be a good approach to keep it inline with rest of the game while opening up for players' inventiveness.
Note: Must be possible to choose to not equip a drone with weaponry. |
G Torq
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Posted - 2013.03.26 15:02:00 -
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Faerghail Verticorda wrote:While I really like the idea of drones I'm not sure it would be good addition to existing dropsuits, due to them then having to be bad enough to make NOT using them a viable option.
This is "trivially" dealt with, by the fact that drones can be destroyed.
If your suit is dependent on having a drone attached to it, loosing that would put you at a serious disadvantage, compared to players that opted for something else than a drone.
At the same time, if drones are relatively expensive, you'll want to NOT use one at times when you know you can expect to loose it.
Finally, a personal drone would be a problem if you opt for a cloaked approach. A big pointer saying "Player Right Here" would be an issue  |
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