Drone Upgrade

[Sarah_U.]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Allow for a system where drones can update.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
It'll make the extra numbers of drones actually useful to something rather than die miserably when there's too many T2 / Hivelords and Carriers.
Generally make the drone more useful as well.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Drone upgrade, looses all evolutionary ability, but gains a new ability to become queen within the list of verbs inside the alien tab.
Each upgrade increase the ability of the drone only a little, making it a bit more reliable.
Drone is mostly oriented to be a jack of all trade builder when reaching ancient, not really greater than any other castes, especially elites and above.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
[N/A]

[Toroic]

+1

Drones fall behind pretty badly when compared to upgraded hivelords in building, and other castes have much better acid. They can provide pheromones, but not as consistently as prae or hivelord. Plus they start and remain squishy.

[Surrealistik]

+1.

Suggested this in the Town Hall (including retaining the ability to evolve into a Queen albeit at the cost of losing all upgrades).

[lucashunter608]

-1 if you want to make the drones more powerful evolving, +1 if you want them to have more plasma and health evolving, drones should NEVER leave the nest, just for placing weeds and following the queen, drones aren't a combat class, but a constructor class

[Toroic]

-1 if you want to make the drones more powerful evolving, +1 if you want them to have more plasma and health evolving, drones should NEVER leave the nest, just for placing weeds and following the queen, drones aren't a combat class, but a constructor class

You obviously don't know enough about how xeno team succeeds to suggest drones should

1) Never leave the nest
2) Follow the queen around

The most obvious reason is pheromones, which don't do a goddamn bit of good except at or near the front lines.

[lucashunter608]

You obviously don't know enough about how xeno team succeeds to suggest drones should

1) Never leave the nest
2) Follow the queen around

The most obvious reason is pheromones, which don't do a goddamn bit of good except at or near the front lines.

you got boilers and praetorians (if i remember correctly) to give pheromones for the other aliens, drones should never be strong, they're a builder class

[N8-Toe]

+1 from me. I love playing drone but fall behind /fast/. as the hive gets bigger and more aliens I cant keep up at all. and if people are concerned about Elite drones going on the attack. make their upgrades work on plasma storage/regen

[Boltersam]

+1 for the several above reasons, it's not a horrible idea, and it won't really give drones combat ability, but more utility.

Now, to suggest Larvae upgrading, but it must only increase speed and health!

[Jdobbin49]

+1 like said above drones are really at a loss in the later round with all their upgraded sisters. Before the update that only allowed a certain amount of tier 2s and 3s I would say just evolve into a hivelord but now that isn't always an option.

[Reuben Owen]

+1, it sucks when you have to rely on such little plasma to plant weeds and build things, and you're the main building/weeding xeno

all they need/I want for them is a plasma increase from upgrades

[Snypehunter007]

All xeno roles can upgrade.

Asking this to be locked.

[dylanstrategie]

Indeed, that's been changed a while ago