A weapon concept I've had for drones, essentially you paint your target with a gun and small drones would fly out and attack the target area. This would make a unique weapon based on what kind of range you give it and what kind of damage / area of effect it would have , these decisions could simple be variants of the weapon as well. It could be the competing weapon sitting next to snipers. It could prevent passive regeneration as well as small constant damage, it would effect vehicles as well. This would fill the void in the game and lore dealing with the Gallante's high usage of drones. It would also upon up a whole new weapon type that would reap a lot in kill assists due to the large target area.

so basicly your saying that you can put a target finder in a weapen slot that when a target is marked it launchs a drone that distracks and damages a target right? if so thats not a bad idea for infintry. i was thinking of equipment slot for the recon drones and attack drones since i was intending for it to be player controlled. but this distrackin drone in a weapen slot would also come in handy.

while sounds cool in concept , sounds like another campers tool

It wouldn't do the damage you need to be a campers tool. The slow damage is not enough to kill with one shot or even repetitive shots due to running out of the AoE, its best used on those trench warfare situations between AR groups, to break the trench and get the assists for doing slow damage to a large group thus needing kill assists and not direct kills.

so its sounds like the weapen idea would be similer to how mass drivers works a drone flys in and shot at enemys with a small low damage aoe like a mass driver doing say 33 to 50 damage in aoe maybe even less. vrs my idea where the player controls a drone ( not just marking a target like the gun slot idea) and fly ( or drives!?) to a target and the player can shot them making a good distacten / flanking them. but both should have limited control range as not to make this a op thing that you can just kill people from spawn. lets say 200 to 300 meters. and about 150 meters for the gun version. what do you think?

I actually planned this as to not steal the roll of mass drivers. For an image of the weapons effects, think of 10 million flies buzzing around in a given area that persists for say 30 seconds that deal damage over time. These things are small and will slowly latch on to given droupsuits or vehicles and just start tearing it apart. People in their trench will either panic and run out this drone infestation or bear the burden of slow damage over time. You don't control these drones, they are automatic and have the 30 second lifespan.

To reiterate, this drone gun would shoot an area, and that area would be subject to causing enemy units to suffer slow damage if they walk in this swarm or cloud of drones. Mass drivers explode and the area of denial is over, this thing shoots an area and this micro drone swarm operates like a 30 second dust cloud. I also imaged that this weapon would have above average range considering that this weapon is not a major killer in and of itself.

I think this swarm idea for the gun is good because it still leaves space for a drone equipment item that the player can control which would be an entirely separate concept.

Edit:

Kind of like this in apperance, but smaller, and obviously not organic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5N4OpMFpto

i see what i was thinking you ment was a gun that fired a little tiny that track a target in it them a few times this idea of a nano cloud would almost sound like some thing used for a nade if you dont mine me saying. and maybe having the option for a mass driver type weapen like a nano drive but whos to say ccp can add both of are ideas a some what stronger single target drone gun, and a aoe nano swarm gun. what do you think?

Seems like a point defense role would work well for drones. Deploy them at a location and let them defend it, or have them follow you attacking targets in your area.

I would only suggest it not be something like eve, where almost all ships have drones. Make them a little more uncommon.