EVE General Discussion

I fly BS in every gang no matter the gang. They are more than able to hold their own and these changes make them even better.

Depends on their preferred ships doesn't it? Caldari players get very upset if you mess with their missiles, Gallente if you mess with their drones.

Personally, even though I do like seeing missiles go whoosh, I'd have no problem with missile based ships being limited to having 5 missiles in flight at any time like drone users are restricted to.

They dont fly them because they think like you.

Bring your Mega in MTO...We at Nulli would like a demonstration.

Don't really need one. We already know the Mega is easy to run from.

Come vist VFK, everyone else is.

Someone who complains about lag from drones and makes comments about the battle for Askari didn't see the number of carriers and super carriers present.

Please come up with another excuse for battleships not to have more drones. Or better yet let CCP come up with the excuses.

I was hoping for 2 big improvement I didn't see. Scan Res and MWD cap use.

Battleship scan res being so low means they take about 9 seconds to lock even a Battlescruiser and 12+ to lock a Cruiser. I was hoping they would increase scan res to about 140-170 max skill. That would still leave Frigates and Destroyers 10 seconds before getting locked and about 7-8 with a Sebo while increasing their lock times on ships like Battlecruisers and Cruiser to reasonable numbers like 5-9 seconds. With 1 Sebo they should have the lock time of a Battlecruiser below them.

As for MWD's it would certainly help a lot for active tanked vessels and cap using gun vessels. Right now most cap out in 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 minutes before running anything else. They gobble much more cap than smaller ships while Battleship don't scale up as much in cap and recharge. I think it would be a big improvement to have them run flat out for 4-6 minutes like Cruisers and Battlecruisers. It would lessen the need for Cap Boosters while still making them important for Active Tanks, Running Neuts, defense against Cap Warfare and using Cap Heavy Weapons.

Those were the two biggest changes I was hoping for, besides that all I thought they needed was Tieracide.

So far the one counterpoint to BS having more than 5 drones has been lag. Of course the change to 5 drones was made well before TD so "the good reason" seems to have been addressed.

Another point was ZOMG they will be able to damage and neut! Well golly gee, I guess fleets don't already carry bombs to nullify carriers. So I am thinking this is another somewhat weak argument against.

The pros would be the potential to see more BS in fleets and low sec. This would promote more industry. It would also add new dimensions of gameplay.

The restriction of the amount of fieldable drones by subcaps was put in place before TiDi was introduced. Technically this limit can be raised in lieu of this change eve would only suffer I think minimal amounts of added lag in congested solar systems. The game play mechanic of adding more drones would however necessitate the rebalancing of the drone interfacing skill and any ship that uses drones; and this would also mean that instead of having to focus on destroying five drones at a time you may have to destroy twice as much depending if drone capacities and bandwidth for ships are raised. I don't see the need to do this and it might cause more issues just to solve the problem of "I wanna see more drones coming out of mah spaceship!"