Even better, just touch random keys )or roll your head on the keyboard if you're getting bored) and bang, you're done. Anyways, mr pve hero, npcs don't resist drains as far as I know (and to damn bad, since some abilities activated by npcs would be awesome, it would make pveers think more about how they build their ships so they won't die in 10 secs in pvp), and the siphon fix won't affect pve at all if done right. All we want is to be fixed So it's properly resisted.

A while ago devs stated they don't want to go separate ways due to maintenability issues.

fix the danubes first then the siphon drones. i agree the siphon drones are op but so are the danubes. u get tb'ed by 5-6 danubes and not even omega can keep u moving fast enough to have a decent defense rating. its not much of a problem against the atrox but against an armitage its a big problem. make the danubes atrox only. and yes cap the drain on siphon drones.

Why not just make 'em like time bombs along the lines of dontdrunkimshoots suggestions. After they siphon off so much energy they explode dealing damage in a small AoE, with the damage based on the amount of energy drained or the amount of time spent drawing power if that'd be easier to track? This allows them to keep their debuffing ability while removing the "HA! I win 'cuz you can do nothing lols" situation, and gives them some small amount of crowd control and, well, a nice bit of oompf if the enemy team isn't taking time to police spam and keep their teammates from getting drained and popped.

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That's a bit like the Limpet drones from Homeworld: Cataclysm, come to think of it.

/suggestion

Now THIS is a good idea

I don't actually know if there's something wrong with Siphons themselves, or other elements. So this brings me to some questions.

1: Should siphons even benefit from flow caps? (I have no idea if other hangars benefit from various skills)

2: Are Power Insulators correctly fighting off the drain?

3: Does (or should) pumping power way past 125 fight off power drain?

4: Should there be a cap in place, similar to things like Plasmonic Leech?

5: Will any changes make a difference in PvE due to how NPCs are set up?

The main problem would be the Flight Deck Doffs which reduce the deployment cooldown rate allows pets to be spammed circumventing what you're trying to accomplish.

Perhaps an immunity to siphon drone drains for 10 seconds after being under the effect for 15 seconds w/1-3 drain/sec per drone based on resistance and flow caps, w/a max of 3 drone effects per target? This would end up w/45-135 drain depending on resists/flow cap at peak drain time of 15 seconds. The immunity would only be from pet siphon drains, but would apply to respawned pets or pets from another player.

I don't know. But if siphons are nerfed, Danube tractors need the same bat.

So, to sum it up does siphon drones suck or blow?
Serious note why not just remove drones or fix skill tree resist. Make a new console that resists it? Reduce cd to 1 min for that auto turret.

Got a few things about that I'd like to express. The first one is how they are taking systems offline due to the fact the changes you made earlier in the year that prevented them from doing such where the maximum you could do was take all subsystem power to 2. Taking it to 2 from my experience took almost every single drain in the game all piled up into one build unless you have changed something recently that I am unaware of.

The solution, possible solution, or ideas on how to make it better are first to look at what they are and in game/soft-canon of what they are. First they are classified as nausicaan technology but no nausicaan ship in this game has a hangar. The second things Power Siphon leads one to believe that it is Siphoning the power and one would think it would be taking power from a target to convert to the owner. I have a few toons that use the advanced siphon pods so what I would recommend is first at the least give that fleet nausicaan ship a hangar and make it a flight deck/makes it our version of the armitage for the KDF all in one swoop(on fed side mission content these same ships as fleet one launch them anyways so why not). Then from the point of them siphoning power and giving to the owner give them some kind of reasonable % chance that it can actually knock a random subsystem offline like phasers do.

I think these are good trade offs/balance for give and take on what they should be doing. It settles their function and those who don't carry the counters to them (which there are counters but some may not choose to use them due to they are one of many powers that an enemy may or not be using) can counter them a little bit more easily but they would still have their desired effect.