cos drones, missiles and fighters are sposed to be consumables. drones expense just got way out of hand for consumable items, but here we are so meh

Missiles and fighters are consumables indeed. But as speaking for myself, I can point at a pretty frequently used set of Armada Inferno Drones that have been sitting on my ship for nearly half a year now.

I guess we all need to await a Jeff'd comment on this one!

You don't provide any counter-arguments, you just state your opinion and call it a day. That doesn't provide for a constructive discussion, just more of a massive troll fest.

Hmm... feed the troll or continue topic construction? biggee, I am disapoint. You're right though, until goett came back to the topic it was pretty bad.

Seriously, like 7/8ths of these guys can't read. We need some way to discuss this better. (good luck with that)


Anyways, as far as basic concept (fill in any vagueness with what makes sense balance wise) How does the example of 5 drone husks + 2 drones = 3 drones sound?

It's still a massive waste of time. My proposal would be to make the drone generators relatively expensive in terms of resources to make. Something like 10 of each drone to make 1 generator that can generate up to 3-6 drones, or 1 of each for the higher tiered drones. Coupled with that would be a pretty hefty repair cost for the generators themselves, maybe in the ballpark of 50-100mil per generator per death to repair.

This system would balance the playing field a bit, seeing as all other classes just have to buy their weapons once and never have to worry about losing them or spending the time to acquire new ones.

You could build different tiers of generator items that would be able to generate drones dependent on tier.

So an AID generator BP would be something like this:

Armada Inferno Drone Generator Blueprint:

10x Armada Inferno Drone
2bil creds
5x (insert zone friendly item, for armada types maybe ZAC's or something)
1x Tiered Generator (different tiers can produce 1, 3, or 6 drones)

The highest tier Generators could be built from modules or something.

If you can't afford drone generators, you can still use the normal versions.

solution...change nothing, yes droners are OP, and yes, to balance that out they made the drones EXPENSIVE, get used to it

Get used to it? I've played Engineer before it was even Engineer.

The market dictates the price of drones, where people can charge whatever they want, not the ominous omnipotent "they".

Snipers are 100x more broken than engineers, have you seen the DPS they can put out from miles away without being seen? They kill most if not all enemies before they even know the sniper is there.

And your justification for that is.... get over it?

Why does the drone market need to continue the way it is? People can charge whatever they want because they know droners will always lose drones and will always need new ones.

Droners are op if you are looking from the view of a very geared out droner.But for most players that is not so.

The view of that generators will break the market, still probably won't happen. There are alot of times in the past that i seen player post for WEEKS just to buy a certain drone. I had a friend wait almost a month for a few armada drones. Seems like the market is pretty dead already.

I see that have the drones have more than 1 life seems for acceptable than losing sets of drones that takes alot of time to aquire by the casual player. If a dedicated player losing a set of armadas , ur looking at a week tops to replace. For a casual player could be a month +. When i lost my first and last set of armadas over a dc that wasn't even my fault, it makes you feel like not playing anymore.

That is why i stoped using them.
Last but not least is that i'm wondering that would the next set of drones prices look like? 50b a drone. That is what it looks like we are headed.

I agree, and let's put it this way: Please ignore any posts made by Time Warp in this topic.