all my drone are damaged too much. lost 1 augmented hobgoblin.
drone hating npc? even after i kill off all the small rats and left with battleship class rats, they still switch target from me to drone no matter how many times i relaunch them.
That looks like the bug where the rats hate your drones.
Next time, try to warp to a safe, exit your ship, then dock back in.
isnât a bug supposed to be fix instead of a hidden workaround?
relogging doesnât fix it? how about after server restart? the bug still persist?
thatâs the theory.
The reality is, a bug becomes a feature .
no, yes.
Basically when this happens your ship becomes a very low priority for all rats, so your drones are attacked before you.
My advice is to get closer and try to draw aggro using your lasers. If your tanking is fine, shoot everything in the room with your lasers at least once until you have every enemy shooting you. Then poop drones and take out targets closest to you first, preferring destroyers and frigates. Pull drones in when they take damage to reset aggro. Rinse and repeat.
Things should gradually get more manageable as you slowly clear the room and you can send drones further and further out.
But like I said, that mission will be a pain for any brawler.
Your go to is always the same tired passive aggressive ad hominem garbage. Youâre not worth holding a discussion with because you have so much contempt for everyone else. Honestly youâve added nothing but baseless rhetoric to this thread and just insulted people who disagree with you.
Enjoy whatever satisfaction youâre feeling. Your Pyrrhic âvictoryâ is all yours. You have nothing to offer.
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If you want your drones to repair armor in the drone bay, then it should be a mod to fit. You want that advantage, then you should have to give up something/a slot.
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Well, thatâs an ad hominem.
So youâre not worth discussing with yourself, I guess.
I donât think Pyrrhic means what you believe it means.
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Op, you keep mentioning worlds collideâŚ
not sure what space you are inâŚ
But in Caldari spaceâŚ
Serpentis sideâŚ
Burn away and aggro everything, launch dronesâŚthey will engage properly and the frigs stay on your ship (aggro), after you have aggroed the room.
Guristas side: A little different cause teh frigs are mostly Dire Pithi, you need to slowly aggro each pocket as you burn out, blap the frigs with rails or somethingâŚonce the Dires are gone, launch drones and wipe the room.
Well?
Anomic Missions are highsec L4. Drones are viable used in them. The ship even had two drone damage amps. WTF itâs not really a drone ship? Because it used drones in a way you didnât think of? Think different. 
Wow⌠as drone brawler you have to shoot everything in the room once before launching drone⌠and this is the same pain as any brawler like turret and missile?
Sorry, but i disagree cause your statement already said itâs far more crazy for drone ship compare to turret/missile.
Agreed. Thatâs why i suggested a high slot module for this. They could even made it active cycle and consume some capacitor with nanite as ammo.
So, your definition of drone ship is fitting drone damage amps? I guess vindicator is a drone ship then cause they also fit drone damage amps with turret damage amps for higher dps.
Sorry to inform you, but my definition of drone ship is higher drone dps then turrets/missiles.
Have you tried running L4 missions in a blaster Astarte yet? Because then you may understand what i mean.
Easy solution then, donât rely on its drones⌠but use its missiles. Or does that mess up your âperfectly craftedâ (dumb logic) reasoning as to why things need to change.
Use sentries, stop being bad. Problem solved.
Are you sure this isnât because of the âdrone bugâ? The one where, mistakenly, the AI constantly targets your drones instead of your ship but when you eject your ship and get back in the drone aggro stops?
You should really look into what people are telling you before responding.
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EVE has a thing called âremote repair modulesâ that work on friendly ships as well as drones. Maybe instead of asking for new functionality, make use of existing functionality?
Bonus points: using remote repair modules will sometimes draw aggro from rats.
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I said this before. I donât know if it still works because itâs not worth doing when there are better ships for the few missions that have bad agro for drones.
When the 1st drone takes agro, pull it back the the drone bay breaking lock. The npcâs now agro more drones, but usually split their agro. Launch the 1st drone, set to orbit and repair while calling in the next aggroed drones. At this point, itâs usually just best to recall all of them now breaking lock on the drones and taking agro on my ship. Launch drones, set them to orbit and repair them. Then/rinse/repeat.
Itâs not worth doing, but it can be done.
OP needs to git gud. I have zero problems using drones in a Domi/Ishtar/Gila on L4 missions, and neither does . I ran Worlds Collide a few days ago with my Domi, and then again in my Ishtar. You have to pay attention to when the rats start yellowboxing your drones, and watch their health. Use faction drones if youâre worried about their hp, plus they track better. Geckos are entirely unnecessary on L4 missions. Augmented drones are for special use cases, you should mostly be swapping between factions and T2s.
I canât believe weâre having a serious discussion about this. Pull aggro before launching and recall your drones when the start to take damage. Stop being lazy. And even when you do everything right, you can lose a drone from sudden mass aggro, but thatâs why your bay has space for spares. You canât expect to just launch drones and AFK. Learn to play the game, a major part of it is choosing the right fit for the job and figuring out how to fly it optimally. It sounds like you want to fly your fits suboptimally and still succeed, good luck with that.
Also, go run some filaments solo in a Worm and tell me the Guristas ships arenât drone boats. They have the single strongest set of hull bonuses for drones outside of maybe an Ishtar and the best bonuses for drone durability. Also, Worm solo abyss is good training for keeping your drones alive. Especially on the Tessera waves.
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Are we still laughing at OP for saying that Rattlesnake isnât primarily a drone ship?
Iâve looked at a few Rattlesnake fits, fleet doctrine and PVE, to see what the main source of damage is. Not missilesâŚ