Let's Discuss Drones!

[superADIT 43]

Hey guys can someone tell me that if i activate dictator OD while using crisis drone then which supply effect would appear as dominating and replace others? or is it exclusive to dictator that all 3 supplies will be turned on with twice the power??

[coconuttree 519]

22 minutes ago, superADIT said:

Hey guys can someone tell me that if i activate dictator OD while using crisis drone then which supply effect would appear as dominating and replace others? or is it exclusive to dictator that all 3 supplies will be turned on with twice the power??

You will only get repair and mine. DD, DA and SB will not get activated.

[superADIT 43]

2 hours ago, coconuttree said:

You will only get repair and mine. DD, DA and SB will not get activated.

what a waste of such a beautiful ODare u 100% sure from where did u get this info??

[coconuttree 519]

30 minutes ago, superADIT said:

are u 100% sure from where did u get this info

I tried it in the test server. 

[Cleric 1,385]

So I got the Crisis drone from container. I guess this is the best drone?

[Mrat13 34]

Does the Mechanic drone work with Isida?

[Blazing 47]

5 minutes ago, Mrat13 said:

Does the Mechanic drone work with Isida?

obviously

 

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

10 minutes ago, Mrat13 said:

Does the Mechanic drone work with Isida?

It works with anything. At worst it would be redundant with Isida but the chance of that happening is very low. Mechanic can help heal multiple allies around you if you yourself are low on ammo to heal them. 

[Mrat13 34]

8 minutes ago, NRG_MrSavageM said:

obviously

You never know with some game devs......

1 minute ago, TheCongoSpider said:

It works with anything. At worst it would be redundant with Isida but the chance of that happening is very low. Mechanic can help heal multiple allies around you if you yourself are low on ammo to heal them. 

It's more for the extra score. More score means more reward. Plus, unless I'm mistaken, more score also means faster OD charge......

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

22 minutes ago, Mrat13 said:

Plus, unless I'm mistaken, more score also means faster OD charge......

This used to happen. Not anymore for support drones (the only drones able to give the user score). 

 

Let's take a journey back to December 2019, to the days of the Dictator-Mechanic exploit. 

 

 

 

What made this effective? a month prior to this, many drones were given changes. 4 of the 5 support drones were given the ability to to score points for sharing the effect of the drone. Mechanic gave 10 score for each ally that received the effect, the most out of the 4. In addition to that, manually activating the supplies (RK, DA, DD, speed boost and mine) decreased the cooldown of the repair kit, allowing the drone to be activated many times more often. Those 10 score contributed towards Overdrive charge. 

 

Dictator's Overdrive may be underwhelming compared to others, but it has a fairly fast charging rate, which mostly comes from points. Dictator has the highest point to Overdrive charge ratio of all hulls (currently tied with the two most recent hulls Ares and Hopper). So Drones such as Driver and the Support drones worked the best with it. But here is the main part and what sparked what happened in the above video - Dictator was given the ability to earn points for allies affected by it on December 26th. The kicker was the amount of points per ally, which was 25. 

 

If a Dictator was able to share its effect with 4 allies, it would gain 100 score immediately. This coupled with Dictator's generous point to Overdrive charge ratio, coupled with the support drones giving score made obtaining the Overdrive easier and you getting a lot of score out of it.

 

It was soon nerfed to 10 score per ally affected by the Overdrive, and Mechanic was reduced to 7 points. A week later, they disabled the ability to gain Overdrive charge from points  from support drones. 

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

@DaringDeer Is it possibly for you to show the recent stats for drone usage of the players you follow? For the past month or two, I've noticed a sharp increase in the use of the Miner drone in all ranks available to it. Just wanted to know if there was also a noticeable increase from the players on the high end. 

[DaringDeer 656]

@At_Shin @TheCongoSpider Sorry, just saw the tag.  I see 1-2 saboteurs per game, mostly in CTF.  I don't think the people I track use it.  They are generally more aggressive players.  Likely most of the time tracked here is from my one clanmate who uses it with magnum in the midfield.

[DaringDeer 656]

If I get back to it, I need to add tracking for Ares, Hopper, and Crisis.

[alkyng 3,080]

On 10/25/2020 at 8:52 PM, DaringDeer said:

@At_Shin @TheCongoSpider Sorry, just saw the tag.  I see 1-2 saboteurs per game, mostly in CTF.  I don't think the people I track use it.  They are generally more aggressive players.  Likely most of the time tracked here is from my one clanmate who uses it with magnum in the midfield.

Hi, is this for all tanki players in this 2 weeks or just certain people?

[DaringDeer 656]

It is currently tracking about 550 accounts.  Mostly my friends and players from top 1000 efficiency.

[Potdindy 866]

On 10/28/2020 at 1:56 PM, DaringDeer said:

It is currently tracking about 550 accounts.  Mostly my friends and players from top 1000 efficiency.

Wow. I loved the profile change you made. What is this other thing you are doing? Tracking lots of players?

[Karot 251]

Yo wassup

[DaringDeer 656]

On 11/19/2020 at 6:06 PM, Potdindy said:

Wow. I loved the profile change you made. What is this other thing you are doing? Tracking lots of players?

Yeah, grabs profiles of each player every day and calculates some statistics.  I've been adding more players from weekly top 100 crystals/experience and have 800 now.  Also made some changes to add hopper, ares, and crisis handling but system needs another week before the 2 week top equipment screen isn't skewed by the addition of the new equipment.  

[DaringDeer 656]

Latest results including hopper, ares, and crisis...

[DaringDeer 656]

Something new I added.  I also can break it down by turret/hull/drone/game mode.

[wolverine848 13,097]

2 hours ago, DaringDeer said:

Latest results including hopper, ares, and crisis...

Not surprised to see Defender at the top there.  Every other tank in battles seems to have that equipped.

[Akame 4,578]

2 hours ago, DaringDeer said:

Latest results including hopper, ares, and crisis...

My drone exp isn't tracked properly at all, I know for a fact that I have used hyperion a fair portion and crisis a whole lot more, I assume that information/data is lost?

[DaringDeer 656]

3 hours ago, Akame said:

My drone exp isn't tracked properly at all, I know for a fact that I have used hyperion a fair portion and crisis a whole lot more, I assume that information/data is lost?

I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about.  I just added your account to my tracking on 11/20.

[Akame 4,578]

@DaringDeer What i'm trying to say is, ratings has some issues with my drones; I have used the following drones a lot more in MM, they are not my real stats:

And I have used crisis even since it's release, and hyperion before that a lot from around early feb or so, an issue with ratings.

[DaringDeer 656]

50 minutes ago, At_Shin said:

There is indeed an issue with how time played is shown for drones. Players have reported this before. We can only hope that it gets fixed in the near future coz it is not that a high priority for the developers as say, the new Html5 version.

Yeah, the time shown on profiles for drones is not a reliable source of information.  Unfortunately that's the only source of information available.  Different drones track time different ways.  I think Maf explained it to me a while back but I can't find the old message.