Engineer 2's 60% Drone ops bonus comes online too late

[sinful stag]

There's a severe lack of ability to affect the performance of drones strongly enough early on.

1. Before Drone Ops Augs do not affect them.
2. Skills are low so their fixed bonuses are insignificant
3. Which general players would actually get a Drone controller before levelling up too much because it's easier and faster? And they wouldn't need to farm for upgrading them.

a) Never seen anyone suggesting rusing Engineer 2 over Drone Mastery 3 first.
if you were to rush it you'd gain it at level 40 and have at least 3 deployable drones. I still think it's too late and also unreasonable to loose out on more deployable drones first.

b) Engineer 2 after DM3 means gaining 60% ops at level 150 and that's certainly way too late. https://www.starsonata.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Class_Skills

I'd like to argue 60% Drone ops should be available much earlier and wouldn't be OP because aug bonuses are small at the start and would at least make a noticeable dfference even then.

I'd ideally like Engineer 1 to gain this ability which immediately sets the player up for testing how augs affect the drones as early as Piloting 3, and would be noticeable with mods like minor shield, energy, etc
I'd also like the 2nd energy to remain available very early as well.

At the very least 60% Drone Ops should be available at once and early enough or you'd have the performance shfting too much to get a feel for it if Drone Mastery were to add 20% per level, though maybe Drone Master 1 could give the full Ops bonus and stay at that ops level.

The extra augmenter would be very welcome at Engineer 2, I think it would feel right, you're at early mid levels, at or soon at jungle tech and will be ready to take on the galaxy and make use of the bonuses the 4th aug would give you for a greater degree you can affect your drones.

[sinful stag]

I'd first want to know if 60% drone Ops can be considered as early as Engineer 1 or Drone Mastery 1, before discussing what Engineer 2 could be allowed to do.

[ripe stump]

I dont see his this relates to neuroforge. Could you post this as a standard feedback post?

[sinful stag]

I could, postedi t here for the possibility of such changes being included in that update

@indigo quail if you had a comment regarding the previous comment here it could be bettrer to have it before this thread is removed.