For those of who who think drones are OverPowered, I'd glady give up armada inferno/ambush drones in exchange for 5 drones that were more varied but lesser DPS.

The drone market is a great one, because they're consumables. And not everyone would be able to afford a drone generator, but those who could, can keep it for themselves by

1) keeping the drones for themselves from the bp's that are ingame, old school style
2) using the drones along with a shitton of money/rare commods to make a generator (NB?) that makes drones (definitely NB) ONLY up to the amount that you put in. So a bluerpint for AID bp (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) an (6).

generator But if could, and new drones were formed at a rate of (x) every few minutes in the hull to the maximum drones you put INTO the generator, (1-3) if non-engi, (1-6) if engineer, so those would be class bound. So if you have a drone generator, in my opinion it should have durability so that drones are 50% effective at 50% and 10% and 10% as is now with other items. Or even if they IMMEDIATELY went to 50% after 1 death and 10% after 2 deaths so that the drones that were made with it from then on would be next to useless without repairs, which would be costly but any droner should happily pay. Thoughts?

Then instead of spending endless and annoying time to find drones that may not even exist on the market for several days, all you have to do is wait for drones to respawn in your hull or repair the generator. Just like other classes. If AID are too powerful in most opinions (which is everyone) i'd rather have more t20 drones with more variety of damages and nerf their DPS if that's what it takes.


P.S. I'm on laughing gas and sedative atm so bear with me if a few grammatical errors are up there

That is pretty much what i suggested in OP....the drone instead of exploding becomes a scoopable scrap/drone and is able to be repaired is some fashion.

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I do like the glow idea too. Not sure on the time they'd stay around for. I'm kind of biased towards basing it directly on tech level, though.

Madridista it's very close to everyone's drone repair idea. Goett has just filled in all the details and basicly what should be added to the game for sure. He included things like how the husks won't take slots and having them pop out of DGs. The whole idea is still a work in progress.

The devs will have to watch to make sure they don't make radiation weapons turn drones into husks if they have the final hit.