I was wrong then, it’s not about DLA but the drone control range description. I can give an order anywhere on the grid but to a targets in drone controle range. Sentries just won’t shoot unless target will come in their range, flight drones will follow target. So wardens may be 150 km away from me and still shoot targets between me and them if targets will be in my drone control range. It very confussing.
I used to fly level 4 missions in a Rattlesnake. The process was land, MJD away from rats, drop sentries (Wardens). I would orbit the Sentries at 5Km.
Both Wardens (2X Omni II with range script) and cruise missiles had an effective range of 150Km and that was also my lock range (Sensor Booster II). I could use cruise at 150Km but my drone control range was only 105Km (2x DLA II) so the Wardens wouldn’t fire until the rats came within my control range.
I sold the Rattlesnake 2 years ago - my game has moved more to industrial play and things may have changed, but in my experience your target needs to be within your drone control range for sentry drones.
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I used same sniper rattle but I don’t remember using 2 x DLAII.
This thread makes me sad.
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To be fair, there isn’t a full explanation for it in the game. Everyone just figures it out or gets it explained to them by another player. Or maybe it’s in eve uni wiki.
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“Drone Control Range” in no way implies either “Drone Optimal Range” or “Drone Falloff Range”.
Regarding the fact that it allows sentries to shoot targets farther away is, if anything, something that applies to Sentries not the DLA.
Like almost every other aspect of this game, most of it is explained by a player who has already had experience… for everyone else, it would not take long to figure out via practical testing.
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Actually this was explained to me by far experience player than me and it seems he was wrong in the first place or explained it wrong. Description is really confusing, there is no drone range in fitting window. It should be “the range you can attack” not “control”.
Except it’s not just the range you can attack.
It is the range you can control your drones, where sentry drones have the exception of not being able to engage targets outside of their control range.
I submit a second time that the problem is that Sentry drones do not correctly explain this limitation. The DLA has nothing to do with the Sentry drone limitation.
Even that is a cop-out, as you can still think of sentry drone control range as the “targeting range” that we have on our ships.
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exactly this. It’s weird because other drones can move and sentries don’t. So their “move” range is actually targeting range.
The problem exists whether you utilize a DLA or not.
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No drone can attack outside the Drone Control Range. Both of you are mixing stuff.
A sentry can attack anything that is in YOUR range, not their. Also happens to normal drones, the difference is that normal drones need to move to start attack while Sentrys does immediately.
For example, the Image I post is with a Garde II wich with my Skills is 22km optimal + 33 fall off. That is 55 km and is 100km away from the target. They even hit it, that’s why the target was damaged.
The Drone Control Range is only from your ship, not your drones.
Edit: Outside Drone Control Range, the only orders you can give are the non-combat related ones - Return and orbit, Return to Drone Bay.
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how so? seems like bug to me. All weapons have their range limited in some way. That garde is not in it’s range. It’s completely messed up just because that garde is in your drone control range it has better range than it’s stats?
Does not have better stats, it land 1 out of 40 shots or so. And I wont try to explain how EvE Guns works here, just read it your self: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Range#Range
And here, more on Drones: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Drones
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They have optimal and fall-off like any turret.
You can hit targets beyond twice your fall-off. They just wont be very likely.
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I forget that.
In game description of drone control range must be changed anyway, it may bring confusion.
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