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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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Just because the word "drone" has some evil connotation to you doesn't necessarily mean the word meant the same to him or others who read it.
I personally would think of the word as you do, but at the same time I can recognize the dual meaning behind it, the other being a play on the name of the druid spell, "Drones of Doom".
Do you think the designers created the spell name "Drones of Doom" intending it to remind people of drones used to bomb or attack people? I doubt it.
Personally I don't get upset over the name, but I can see how you might feel.
One time on EQ1 ages ago there was a guy named "Irishcarbomb" and I did not like this name, for the same reasons you don't like "Dronestrikes". I guess I am older, and less impressionable and even less offended by words so neither name phases me now.
I wouldn't be surprised if they rmeoved his name, then again I wouldn't be surprised if they did not.
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Remember that it's an insect-based attack...that line of dots has attack messages about a 'swarm of insects'...so I've always thought the 'drones' reference was to bee drones, which are male bees. The designers might have thought that these were like warrior bees or whatever; what they actually do is lay around and try to have sex constantly. They don't even have stingers. Any comparison to human male behavior is coincidental.