All drones and fighters are now invulnerable, but their base DPS has been reduced by 50%. Non-combat drones do not recieve a reduction in strength for now.
Drone acquisition costs have been tripled (minerals, LP, etc.).
Goal: reduce fleet battle lag while improving AFK ratting and mission-running. Still, watch out for strong NPCs and PvP threats and dont forget to recall drones before warp.
Discuss—or don’t. Peace.
You say “reduce lag” as if the devs or network admin can simply throw a switch.
Three things can cause lag ( latency ) and only one of them is the fault of the FC servers.
Fly safe o7
This does literally nothing against lag in large fights. The drones are still involved, their locations, their commands and their damage still needs to be tracked by the server.
If anything this increases lag in large fights as people no longer can reduce the number of drones using smartbombs as usual. Most large fights I end without drones because of that, but that cannot happen if my drones are literally immortal.
Drone dps boats get nerfed by this to the ground into irrelevancy, and all the other times drones can be used, such as a secondary weapon system on ships with a drone bay, people cannot even get rid of the drones anymore. Every fight is going to be full of endless swarms of immortal ewar and dps drones with no counter. A bad suggestion all around.
A ridiculous post, as usual.
What is your intention of making suggestions about things you so clearly do not have experience with? Flame bait?
Let’s not.
The main appeal of drone dps boats is AFK pve. For example find combat anomaly → deploy drones → make sandwhich irl.
This AFK meta is very attractive to most players. But its not just neglected it has been actively undermined over the years. Its time to bring it back imo.
When did this happen ?
Why are you even here?
No sheep no wolves
If drone and fighter damage was reduced by 50% and they no longer got aggro from NPCs then AFK ratting would become one of the most attractive activities in the game and ppl would skill into, obtain AND undock carriers
Are you quitting then? 
If you are so lazy, go play another game. Many have been pointed out to you. I don’t know what more to tell you. The game is obviously not for you. Are you Blue/what’s his name come back to haunt us again or just trolling the forums for reactions? 
AFK ratting makes the game interesting
Players stopped undocking carriers and Ishtars because devs added drone and fighter aggro. This removed AFK PVE.
The concern was ISK printing or maybe players having too much fun. The solution of removing this part of the game is not correct.
Remove drone aggro from NPCs and reduce drone damage to keep “Non AFK” ratting competitive. The bounty modifier should even be able to reach near 0 so ratters must move between systems. This also create an incentive to fight for territory but more on this later perhaps. Peace.
Ishtars are still everywhere.
People stopped undocking carriers because alternatives were buffed. Marauders are far more popular now.
Maybe if you wish more carriers to rat, ask around for Marauder nerfs! People will love it.
Also Carrier ratting never was AFK, so your argument that AFK PvE was removed because Carriers became worse in PvE makes no sense to begin with.
Or they could just buff fighters again…
Or people could just ignore bdk and his crazy ideas.
Improve the AFK meta (includes mining) so people have a reason to undock
People are undocking all the time. It would help if you do it as well instead of constantly making new accounts to keep trolling the forums.
The game has critical design flaws terrible afk meta being one of them. You can have people undocking for a while but other games are better than EVE when it comes to non AFK metas. EVE can never compete in this regard (1 second server tick) lol
So focus on EVEs strengths instead of turning everything upside down (high sec is low sec. Fast pace everything, and free stuff!) Try harder?
By the way who is going to bail fenris out in 8 years? If direction doesent improve EVE will probably be a 2000 PCU ip at that point. But lets see.
Then go play one of those other game and stop trolling here. Absolutely nobody seems to like your “great ideas”, mostly because they are simply terrible and show a total lack of understanding of this game and it’s mechanics.
You are the one who is troling. For example I never see you being constructive.