Getting used to lower efficiency and higher difficulty and then being pleasantly surprised is always better than the other way around.
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This is why you have unrealistic expectations; if you have to fit bling to compensate for your lack of skills, you shouldn’t be in the Eos in the first place.
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the EOS i tested have max out drone and ship bonus skills. good enough i think for testing. unless you want me to extract and inject skill for all the other criteria? (armor,speed,engineering and etc).
These are core skills, you should have had these at lvl 4 when you were still flying cruisers.
The Rattlesnake?
Saint Crispin’s cracked crockery, man! Look at the hull bonus!
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I cant take it anymore. 
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Heh if the Rattlesnake’s hull bonus applied to light drones you could fit rapid lights and absolutely murder small ship gangs.
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again, not a drone boat if your missile damage is higher then drone. beside.. a 125m3 drone ship can fit 2 gecko, 2 medium and 1 light for more drone dps output compare to rattlesnake.
lets stop going off topic about bling test fit and whether rattlesnake is a drone boat. back on topic. drone slow repair while in drone bay.
You’re doing it wrong, what drones are you using for your dps numbers?
If I want drone repair that bad, and sometimes I do…
Drones being repaired inside the bay isn’t a bad idea per se. If it consumes a little bit of paste, why not?
Also it’s kind of an old idea.
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Add a cost and I don’t care. That might not be fair to new players though. I can afford it, how many else can?
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The idea may have merit however most of the OP’s gripe is based on using the wrong tool for the job in the first place.
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Oh let the boy have his fun, Martha. You’re only young once.
By all means; I’ve tried to help but my attempts have been spurned, the same is true of other posters.
if only the range is not that abysmal… can’t repair shits if your ship can’t keep up with the drone speed/range.
i like that idea as well. consumes paste or something new or whatever.
i’ll add this to the first post.
Then you need to learn how to cycle your drones. I kite so my drones get agro. I rotate it to the drone bay, relaunch and have it orbit/repair/engage. By that time another is in trouble. Rinse and repeat. No, it’s not worth the trouble when there are much better ships suited to the task. I just did it to train myself for pvp so I would not panic when someone would target my drones.
With how ai now auto-aggros drones over everything (I once had frigates targeting my hob I’s over my RHML II’s with a rigor mod and stasis grappler Typhoon Fleet Issue) the only viable option for pve droning is long range sentry sniping with high slots dedicated to a couple remote reps and faction sentries (for the HP buff). Dominix does this role magnificently with a MJD. It’s a pretty ideal mission boat as you don’t need to worry about ammo.
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Thanks for cherry-picking and eliding over the points that prove your issue is invalid.
I think it could be easily balanced if while a drone was being repaired counted as one of your 5 deployed drones, and you couldn’t do it with a combat timer on.