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Some have, though I've mostly seen it from groups that were rebuilding, or building up a capital/supercapital fleet for the first time fairly recently on the relative timescale of supercap doctrines.

I'm not saying nobody uses them, but they already had several advantages and their lack of adoption is mostly a meta-related thing rather than them needing a buff.

It is a damn good looking roof

I've been looking through the forums/google and found more agreeing with me than agreeing with you, though nobody seems quite sure...

While CCP is doing a drone patch, could they also change 2 drone modules? The ones I'm thinking of are Drone Link in the high slot and Drone Navigation in med slot.
The Drone Link at the moment just adds drone control range. Lets add to it drone speed. I think it would logical that if you want to extend the range you'de also want to get your drones there faster (sentrys don't care about that but they work fine as is).
The Drone Navigation would be changed to Drone Durability. As the name suggests it would add more hp, maybe smaller sig etc. For example : 5% less sig and resistance to drones. Now you have a choice between Omni for damage application and Durability for tank. Always nice with choices (tou some might disagree).
Numbers aside, I don't know how this would fit into Fighters/Bombers but for drones it could be nice.

Yes I know about the HP rig for drones, there is also shield/armor rigs......choices

You opened this blog by stating which drones are used most in PvP and used that as some type of justification for balance or lack there of. In Eve we have no damage meters or anything like that which I think is a good thing. But because of that we players have no way of knowing what drones do what in specific situations so I think most players just look and the easily quantifiable stats like damage and range and equate that to some theoretical dps which is not based in fact.

For example I have noticed that while Gallente drones may do the most damage on paper due to tracking and maybe speed they seem to miss a lot more than other drone types. I strongly suggest that you guys find a way to determine actual landed dps in real game situations and use that as a balancing factor instead of player's perceptions.

After all you guys are the devs you have access to information we players do not and any balancing should be done based on factual information that can be gained from server data logging versus what the largely ignorant player base thinks or feels.

The AI changes you guys made to empire NPCs a while back was a significant nerf to drone dps due to the constant need to continually recall drones. Because of that fact I don't think the MWD changes to large drones will even come close to making them viable versus sentries in most situations.

Augmented Drones already have the same damage potential as T2 drones due to skill requirements, does this mean they will be equal to a fully skilled t2 drone before including the Racial Drone Specialization skill? Making them =T2 damage +10%

So now that drones finally get all the modules that turret users also have (low slot TE, faction variants), what about implants for drone users?

There is not a single implant out there, that helps drone users in any way, while there are implants for every other weapon system. You yourself acknowledged in your dev blog posting, that drones are now a main weapon system.

So i feel, that they, as any other main weapon systems, deserves some love in form of implants as well.


Edit: Noticed that this was answered somewhere in those many pages, that it is not planned for the summer patch when so many other changes go in already. Does that mean we can expect changes like that to happen somewhere down the line in future patches, or is this something that is "not planned at all"?

the difference in dps is quite large
ishtar with 5xOgre IIs 4xDDA II = 845dps
with augmented ogre 930dps

although the current price only allows very few people to actually use them 245mil per 5 drones

Clicked on the blog as it was posted in Alliance Chat, saw that Fozzie made it and was about to close it before reading as
usually nothing useful ever comes from that dude.

I decided to read it anyways and i wasn´t disappointed. These changes are ****. And thats the most polite way i can find to
adress the upcoming changes. As far as i can remember combat drones haven´t been broken.

Drone Interface, Drone UI, Utility and Ewar Drones, all of this could have been adressed but no, CCP Fozzie again feels the urge to **** up an actually good working setup. Seriously, what other things in EvE do you and your team of fumblers have to ruin until CCP decides to offer you the opportunity to unfold your creativity elsewhere.

Rubicon my ass.....

Hel buff best buff.