Sounds like more lag to me. Please no.

Does that mean they'd have 1600 range with stm 30 or did you include that in your figures? Also, how did you increase the range? Someone mentioned changing aug mods to the drones, but wouldn't that make additional bonuses from using augmenters less effective?

I'm also curious as to how you're getting your HPS figures; do you assume an optimal aug setup, no aug setup, sustained heals?

Augmods on the drone husk don't make augmenters less effective, depending how you look at it. The raw amount by which the stat is increased is unchanged.

As said before all drones have been tested with aug setups we felt were appropriate and STM30, so to answer your question: 1000 range with augs and stm30. However, in this case we have not used a range aug for this drone.

Like enkelin said augs will not be less effective than they were before.

And yes, the healing drones sustain heals with the setups we put on them for testing.

I appreciate your quick responses and effort to improve the ambrosia drone; clearly you want to stick with the relatively low range, which was/is my main concern with the drone. I'll assume its other stats now make up for this and render it a worthwhile drone, but would you be willing to revisit any underperforming drones after the rebalance has been patched in?

Another thing I'd like to mention is that some drones (mainly the Armada ones, I think most others got changed to allow more augs) only have 2~ aug slots. This makes the use of things like resistance augmenters prohibitively inefficient. Will they have appropriate damage resistance/aug slots to help equalise this difference?

Also, this is completely off topic but all this talk of armada gear reminded me that Armada Lifestream has less regeneration than Vazaha Energybank (also no fuel), which just seems silly to me. Someone should probably take a look at it- I can't think of any reason to actually use one atm.

Edit: I didn't notice any forms of augmenter tweaking actually affecting perma drones, could you confirm this?
Quick note: Saying stuff like "Base range" makes me think it's without any modifiers; to avoid future confusion remember to assume the reader doesn't know what you know when making announcements

Added the Aveksaka Xenobiology Platform.


It basically launches a fighter every 10 minutes with grem cannons and a tractor. First tech 22 perm drone!

I hate them already lol

That is sexy.

Every 10 minutes? That fighter better last 10 minutes and not die to a wet fart.

Has Ares Protector on it and its a Ayudhinayu ship.

You....you are epic!!! Please make this thing somewhat commonly avaliable, that drone is too sexy to not be used commonly. I now want half a dozen around my gals just to look damned pretty.

One note, shouldent the fighter have drone stats? In otherwords it be on par with the power of a newly buffed drone? Or at least comparable minus a chunk to compensate for its mobility?

Vorp

That is some nice art right there, if only everything looked as awesome as that.

Pixel, you're da man!

The spawn rate of the fighters has been changed from 10 minutes to 2 minutes. I was told by other developers that the lag issue isn't caused by fighters but by other elements not relating to fighters.



This is commonly available if you clear subspace in the higher levels *hint*.

The fighter itself is very tanky on par with some of the lower tech perm drones.

Epic and cool
TYVM