Valid Unequip drone mid-battle with a key

[DarkOperative 5,580]

Why isn't there an option to unequip a drone by pressing a key during a match/battle. Going to the garage to unequip a drone shouldn't be neccessary. A drone should instead be treated similar to supplies, it's something you should deploy when needed, or at least be able to choose when to deploy it instead of having to spawn with it automatically each time.

[Maf 32,300]

Valid

 

Similar idea: Add more keyboard shortcuts

[Hate 5,582]

I like it, definitely a great help in battles and one that saves a lot of time for it. If only we could have more keyboard shortcuts and are being able to save couple drones and can easily equip whichever we need like 3 drones for different battle mods.

[lssimo 1,559]

I agree, but maybe a self-destruction and respawn is needed in order for the tank to load with new parameters. So the key would be like a self-destruct button with a drone unequip feature.

Edited August 19, 2019 by lssimo

[Initiate 1,306]

3 drones for different battle mods.

Battle mods have their own drones - in any case they don't need ours, that would violate game rules (no sharing in-game materials).

 

:rolleyes:

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

I find drones to be a tad bit too expensive to run for anybody in the game who doesn't buy crystals with real money. 300 every minute of the game is a lot more than most people win, with most games lasting around 6 minutes, that works out at 1800 per game. If you use the drone once per minute then let's say that's 5 minutes of use (6x10 second cooldown). So let's go with 4 minutes. That's still 1200 crystals for one game. 

I appreciate the devs need some revenue or the game would not exist, but it should be 50/50, not 90/10. The people who don't spend as much money (although I have on occasion contributed) still should be able to use drones without spending more than they can earn in a game. Otherwise, what's the point of having drones just to rely on the batteries you get from boxes? 

 

My suggestion is that rather than paying per minute, you pay whenever you want to use the drone. Just as overdrive can easily be activated by pressing shift, a drone can be activated for a minute by pressing some unused key, such as control or the \ key. I use engineer, and I definitely do not collect a supply box every minute. If I could activate the drone before I collect a supply, at the cost of a 300 battery, then it would not be as expensive anymore for me to use a drone. On top of that, it would bring more revenue from people buying crystals to upgrade their drones when more people can actually use them. 

 

It is my suggestion that the drone is activated for a minute for you to collect 1 box, so that you have a minute to collect a box, and once you collect a supply box you have a 10 second cooldown before it can be used again. After you collect a box, you must use another 300 crystal battery if you want to collect a 2nd supply box. I believe this would be a fair, less pay to win approach to drones. 

 

Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for reading. 

Edited April 12, 2021 by r_Fish.tank980
Correcting the text.

[Karot 251]

Damn bro they took your name

sheesh

[The_Resistance 135]

Too many buttons. What is this this game now? Dota?)

[mjmj5558 2,346]

With this a lot of players would use more batteries. I don't like it.

[yellowghetto 3,206]

5 hours ago, Spy said:

Under review

I thought we don't take ideas to increase/decrease the amount of costs.

Edited April 12, 2021 by yellowghetto

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

On 4/12/2021 at 8:23 AM, mjmj5558 said:

With this a lot of players would use more batteries. I don't like it.

Well already pay to win players, assuming there are some, buy drugs because they are cheaper. If I could share my drugs with the team then the people who don't pay to win would not be at such a disadvantage, since the team can share supplies. The same with supplier drone. 

 

What's the point of introducing something to the game that can only be used when you happen to get batteries, or is only affordable to legends who fully upgraded their mains? Also, in reality you turn drones on when you want to use them, you don't leave them on while they sit in the cupboard.. A balance needs to be reached between literally anyone being able to use a drone and making the game worse, and nobody being able to use drones. I feel it isn't completely unfair; I do manage to use drones for a bit when I get free batteries, and I could still buy the odd few. But it is definitely not catered to as wide a range of players as possible unfortunately. 

[EmeraldCat 562]

Just remove drones from Tanki and 5% of all problems with the game will be solved. : )

[Spy 14,694]

On 4/12/2021 at 1:53 AM, r_Fish.tank980 said:

 

Topic merged.

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

54 minutes ago, Spy said:

Topic merged.

This was actually my alternative idea,. The only problem you might have with this idea is that nobody needs batteries anymore because you equip it for 2 seconds, use the drone, and then immediately after the 10 sec cooldown you unequip it. Which would result in using about a 6/60 = 1/10th of the batteries currently used (2 seconds x3 per minute let's say). 

[alkyng 3,080]

I always been thinking about a similar suggestion... But it's a bit too extreme

Making a keyboard shortcuts for changing the items within the battle without needing to go to the garage.. Especially in a time where the Garage was taking ages before it open, while I in real don't need to open the Garage fully. I just want to change one or two items

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

To any mods/devs - How quick will this be implemented, given that:

 

On 4/29/2021 at 2:03 PM, Marcus said:

With this update, instead of the previous passive bonus, drones will give you a bonus to boosted armor and boosted damage supplies

 

 

[See: here]

So now the game is, by definition of the improvement, depending more on drones, I believe this suggestion should be one of the next things to be updated, given that supplies were just changed to suit drones.