Drone Bays for Carriers

[Titan*]

This idea just makes me think of Eve.

EVE isnt the only game that have drone carriers

Carriers launching drones is hardly a solution for a capital class countering multiple snubs. If they behave like NPCs, and making them behave like anything more than that is going to be considerable work, they will be useless. It's quite easy for snubs just to switch off and deal with the 5 or so drones for 30 seconds or so. If the drones are capable enough to seriously deter snubcraft then you will need to rebalance snubs. I guess what I'm trying to say is that no ship should be able to survive an encounter where he is facing multiple enemies and expect to way away with a *****-eating victory grin (no matter how much it costs) unless he is vastly more skilled. This is precisely why LFs and HFs are rare - VHFs simply dominate them.

Now, if rebalancing is done badly, then yes they will end like destroyers as you claim. Or you know, do it well.

Well, remember old npcs they were very good also it is possible to increase AI strength by editing .ini (pilots_population.ini is the one we should look at i think) files

Drones shouldnt be powerfull than players anyway. However Drones should damage player bombers and fighters of course bombers will take more damage, they will need a weapon that can damage player shields/hull though

I think Fighter Drones will be more better vs player bombers and gunboats(if supported by other players otherwise gunboat will eat drones)
and Bomber Drones will be good vs Battleships if they will have huge hp like 80-100k
5 Bomber Drone can do 660K damage if they hit a battleship with SNAC and I am sure bomber drones can fire another salvo to battleship before they die
If they die you can send another wing of bomber drones (if you have full Bomber Drone setup)

I somehow think this will contribute to lag

Didn't the server get some recent upgrades to stop it from lagging?

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