Driver

see also: Drones and Micro-upgrades of Drones

Brutus	Mechanic	Trooper	Assault	Miner	Engineer	Driver	Defender	Supplier
Sprinter	Trickster	Booster	Lifeguard	Camper	Blaster	Saboteur	Hyperion	Crisis

Driver Assault
Available from
Third Lieutenant
Price
50 000

Driver is an Assault Drone. It increases the amount of overdrive charge gained by destroying a tank.

Garage description

Speeds up Overdrive recharge time while destroying tanks.

Effects

Driver is activated after destroying an enemy. In addition to the charge gained from the 15 points of the battle score, destroying a tank will charge the overdrive as much as scoring up to 30 additional points.

Note

The description of this drone's effects with "seconds of overdrive charge" is inaccurate: the drone does not remove time from the charge, but rather adds charge based on the Battle point charge rate of a hull. Since this rate varies from hull to hull, when making a kill with driver, not every hull will receive the same increase in charge percentage. Rather, they will receive the same amount of charge relative to their hull's active charge rate.

• - Overdrive Charge Added: (10 → 30) Virtual extra battle points / kill
  • Remember, these extra points are not actually scored upon making a kill, but rather the overdrive charges up as much as if they were scored.
• - Recharge (sec): 15

Additionally, like all Drones, Driver provides a small passive bonus to damage and armour:

• - Additional protection (%): 1 → 5
• - Additional damage (%): 1 → 5

Hull's active charge rate	Wasp 0.6%/pt	Hornet 0.5%/pt	Hopper 0.7%/pt	Viking 0.5%/pt	Hunter 0.6%/pt	Crusader 0.6%/pt	Dictator 0.7%/pt	Ares 0.7%/pt	Titan 0.5%/pt	Mammoth 0.6%/pt
Charge per kill without driver (%) 15 points x active charge rate	9.0	7.5	10.5	7.5	9.0	9.0	10.5	10.5	7.5	9.0
Charge per kill with 0/20 driver (%) 25 points x active charge rate	15.0	12.5	17.5	12.5	15.0	15.0	17.5	17.5	12.5	15
Charge per kill with 20/20 driver (%) 45 points x active charge rate	27.0	22.5	31.5	22.5	27.0	27.0	31.5	31.5	22.5	27.0

Pros and Cons

Driver allows activation of overdrive more times than normal in a battle.
Effect can only be triggered by destroying a tank at least 15 seconds after the previous one; kill assists or early kills do not give additional benefits.

Micro-upgrades

Like all Drones, Driver can be micro-upgraded to a total of 20 steps.

Step	Charge Added (virtual extra battle points)	Step Cost	Delay Time	Speed-up Cost
0	10	1000	5h	2000
1	11	6160	1d 6h 48m	12320
2	12	11320	2d 8h 36m	22640
3	13	16470	3d 10h 21m	32940
4	14	21630	4d 12h 9m	43260
5	15	26790	5d 13h 57m	53580
6	16	31950	6d 15h 45m	63900
7	17	37110	7d 17h 33m	74220
8	18	42260	8d 19h 18m	84520
9	19	47420	9d 21h 6m	94840
10	20	52580	10d 22h 54m	105160
11	21	57740	12d 42m	115480
12	22	62890	13d 2h 27m	125780
13	23	68050	14d 4h 15m	136100
14	24	73210	15d 6h 3m	146420
15	25	78370	16d 7h 51m	156740
16	26	83530	17d 9h 39m	167060
17	27	88680	18d 11h 24m	177360
18	28	93840	19d 13h 12m	187680
19	29	99000	20d 15h	198000
20	30	-	-	-
Total:	+20	1000000	208d 8h	2000000
Sum of selected items:					0	0	0
Step start + speed-up:					0