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EWAR Drones balance pass/T2 implementation

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Vibiana
Frontier Trading Company
#1 - 2014-09-04 15:05:35 UTC
Does somebody have info on subject?
Will or why not it be implemented?
Any info on EWAR drones balance pass?
I've never seen SW/TP/TD/SD/EV drone used.
Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2014-09-04 15:17:51 UTC
Neither a feature nor idea
Lugh Crow-Slave
#3 - 2014-09-04 19:56:13 UTC
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Neither a feature nor idea


i think this may be do to a lack of understanding English so lets rather then stating something unproductive lets help her out and turn this post into.



E-WAR drones need to be balanced to make them a viable option

I do very little involving drones but perhaps make it so a full flight of one type of E-war be as strong as one of the relative modals.

with things like ECM that don't have size veterans a full flight of small drones would be 75% as effective and a full flight of large would be 112%(numbers are just for example)

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Ines Tegator
Serious Business Inc. Ltd. LLC. etc.
#4 - 2014-09-04 23:13:35 UTC
They were already rebalanced fairly recently- most of em anyway. The don't stack penalize with other drones anymore and the ewar values were adjusted to be ever so slightly less useless.

Unfortunately, they also have low speed and no HP now, so they just die.

Also, EWAR by nature doesn't fit well into the light/medium/heavy paradigm. EWAR is either strong enough to be useful or it's a complete waste. Thus ewar drones are a complete waste because they are divided into 5 parts and 3 classes. If the highest class (heavy) is strong enough to be useful, the two lower ones will be useless. If the lower ones are strong enough, the heavies will be OP. It's a bad situation.

Proposed Solution:
Divide ewar into class specific drones. Webs are heavy, ECM is medium, Painters are Light, so on and so forth. Each type of ewar only HAS one class of drone, so it's easier to balance them.

Overhaul Dscan!
Feyrin
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2014-09-05 07:46:45 UTC
I think there is space here for more 'Gecko' like drones. Aka a 50 bandwidth blood raider Neut drone, serpentis web drone, sansha td drone, angel painter drone, SoE logistics drone etc. This could be a good way to get around stacking penalties and fragility at a higher cost and larger size.
afkalt
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-09-05 08:39:10 UTC
Feyrin wrote:
I think there is space here for more 'Gecko' like drones. Aka a 50 bandwidth blood raider Neut drone, serpentis web drone, sansha td drone, angel painter drone, SoE logistics drone etc. This could be a good way to get around stacking penalties and fragility at a higher cost and larger size.



Indeed:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=347621

I didnt ever keep it going though.
Gunrunner1775
Empire Hooligans
#7 - 2014-09-05 09:06:45 UTC
My question in reguards to this topic...

I could be wrong, but EWAR drones do not appear to get bonus's to EWAR were as combat drones get bonus's all over the place.. bonus from ship, bonus from skills, bonus from modules

Do other non-combat drones get bonus's of any type ???

Ive seen skills that give bonus's to mineing drones and salvage drones but not to EWAR drones
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#8 - 2014-09-06 01:31:22 UTC

As this is neither a proposal for a new feature or a new idea, this thread gets a lock.

ISD Ezwal Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)