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Droneboats bonuses rebalance
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Bereza Mia
Trade Federation of EVE
#1 - 2013-04-23 09:25:37 UTC
Nowadays droneboats, for example Gila, Myrmidon, Dominix, – all have exact same drone dps.
With 3 DDA and Garde II all of them can reach 751 drone dps. This is good for t1 BS, but too much for others.

So my suggestion – adjust droneboats ship bonuses in such way:

Cruise size ships – bonus only to medium/light drones (+ slightly increase medium drones damage output).
Battlecruisers – bonus only to heavy/medium/light drones (+ decrease damage and hp for heavy drones = middle between medium and sentries).
Battledhips – bonus to all drones sentry/heavy/medium/light.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#2 - 2013-04-23 10:07:18 UTC
They don't have the same drone dps, but whatever.

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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2013-04-23 10:19:12 UTC
Arbitrary limits and massive nerfs are not the answer here.
Morrigan LeSante
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-04-23 11:07:30 UTC
There is something hilarious about gila/(new) nvexor DPS though Smile
ExAstra
Echoes of Silence
#5 - 2013-04-23 11:57:33 UTC
Drake Doe
88Th Tax Haven
#6 - 2013-04-23 12:07:05 UTC
Op, please biomass

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Donedy
Lulzsec Space
#7 - 2013-04-23 13:00:44 UTC
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DeLindsay
Galaxies Fall
#8 - 2013-04-23 13:31:02 UTC
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Battledhips


+1 for making me giggle with that typo... No not really +1 as you fail to understand the fundamentals of Drones.

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Jonas Sukarala
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-04-23 13:38:29 UTC
Bereza Mia wrote:
Nowadays droneboats, for example Gila, Myrmidon, Dominix, – all have exact same drone dps.
With 3 DDA and Garde II all of them can reach 751 drone dps. This is good for t1 BS, but too much for others.

So my suggestion – adjust droneboats ship bonuses in such way:

Cruise size ships – bonus only to medium/light drones (+ slightly increase medium drones damage output).
Battlecruisers – bonus only to heavy/medium/light drones (+ decrease damage and hp for heavy drones = middle between medium and sentries).
Battledhips – bonus to all drones sentry/heavy/medium/light.


You have taken the wrong approach here entirely ...
CCP have started giving different drone bonuses to encourage use of certain drones and roles of ships.
Nvexor is bonused towards using heavy drones.
Dominix geared towards sentries but can use heavies to benefit fron the tracking bonus.
Myrmidon is geared towards heavies and blasters combo
Gila atm is brawler with heavies and HAMS

Whilst i agree that cruisers really ought to be using mediums instead of heavies atm drones are pretty weak at medium level dps so its heavies for dps i hope they change this or at least make it more viable to use medium drones on cruiser droneboats.

'Tech3 ships need to be put down, like a rabid dog drooling everywhere in the house, they are out of line' CCP Ytterbium Nerf missile range into place where is the TD missile change?  ..projectiles should use capacitor. ABC's should be T2 HABC and nerf web strength its still too high

I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#10 - 2013-04-23 13:52:42 UTC
How about just giving drone boat pilots hardwire implants like all the other weapons systems have. Blink
Mole Guy
Bob's Bait and Tackle
#11 - 2013-04-23 14:53:29 UTC
i dont think so.

cruiser computers can be upgraded to handle a few big drones.

i dont understand the whole bandwidth thing anyway.
drones are automated, you tell them what do shoot and they go do it. the heavies just have bigger weapons, bigger thrusters and more hp (less tracking..all that i know).

allowing a frig to carry a large drone for defense could easily be done. one just needs to decide if they want to hit small/quick targets, medium or large targets. the only thing that really matters is the size of your cargo hold.

if a frig has 25m3, they could carry 5 small, 2 med and 1 small, or 1 large.
i dont care which they carry, can they physically fit it in? thats all that should matter.
all you are doing is telling it to kill, assist or gaurd. if you loose your heavy, you loose..should have had 2 mediums or 5 small.

it would change eve dramatically and be exciting to not know what your opponent will throw at you.
Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#12 - 2013-04-23 16:00:53 UTC
Battleships can usually carry more turrent dps alongside the drone dps tho - most of the cruiser sized drone ships (that have significant (as in "battleship" sized) drone bandwidth) can only fit 3 or so turrets.

I'd rather see some changes to mix up drone use a bit tho - seeing the amarr drone boats getting a bit of love but knowing they are still going to be carrying the usual suspects of mostly gal and min damage drones is a bit sad.
Jonas Sukarala
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-04-23 16:10:36 UTC
Rroff wrote:
Battleships can usually carry more turrent dps alongside the drone dps tho - most of the cruiser sized drone ships (that have significant (as in "battleship" sized) drone bandwidth) can only fit 3 or so turrets.

I'd rather see some changes to mix up drone use a bit tho - seeing the amarr drone boats getting a bit of love but knowing they are still going to be carrying the usual suspects of mostly gal and min damage drones is a bit sad.



mmm.. some racial drone bonuses would fix that :)

'Tech3 ships need to be put down, like a rabid dog drooling everywhere in the house, they are out of line' CCP Ytterbium Nerf missile range into place where is the TD missile change?  ..projectiles should use capacitor. ABC's should be T2 HABC and nerf web strength its still too high