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This would be the optimal way to go, but they are not going to do this, since it requires a lot of work.
I think ALL gallente ships should have bigger dronebays than their counterparts from other races, except stuff like heavy dictors, where none of thoose have any drone bay.

You would need to target yourself to use them, which would mean you could use other drones on yourself too.

You don't fix hybrids by buffing drones. You are mentally challenged and/or play Caldari if you believe otherwise.

As a blaster pilot.. you expect me to currently put my fate in the hands of a kiting minmatar pilot who decides whether to fight or not. Next you expect me to put my fate in the little mechanical claws of a gang of ******** drones that can be smartbombed off the field (1 medium smarty can take care of light drones). How about you put the fate of the Blaster boat pilot in the hands of the Blasterboat pilot.

Hey cool down...
Do you really think CCP is reading this thread?
btw, this thread has shown one problem:
If you want to keep blasters in their current role as a short range weapon you will need to enable gallente ships to get in range fast enough to drop some damage before they get popped. So you have to fly through scram, neut, nos, web and all the other stuff your opponend is throwing at you. This might be a difficult task, especially if you try to catch a Minmatar ship that is faster than you. With this circumstances I do not believe they will fix it by changing the reload time of your weapons or the tracking. They need to change the way how Gallente ships work, make them faster or give them an other way to get in range fast enough...

This thread is already full of diferent ideas and thoughts, concerns, suggestions and so on.
The only thing this thread really is missing is a reply from a CCP dev.
As long as there is no official reply nobody here doesn't know exactly what the next steps will be and even if there are any next steps.
This thread is 10 days old and have we seen any reaction from CCP? Maybe I missed something?

maxzim either get chrome or learn to control C...

Dawwww.

i also agree that for fixing blaster issues the old doctrine that minmattar ships should be fastest either must be changed to "blasterboats are fastest ships" or you have to give the boats such bonsuses they're able to get in combat range.

because of the first, switching ac and blaster stats would only be logical...(fast ships->close range weapons, slow ships->long range weapons). u may like the fact or not - but this is how it is atm on tq.

introducing new (propulsion) modules just to fix blasterboat issues is not a viable solution. it will just mess up the gamemechanics even more.

i agree that the effectivness of sensor dampeners should be increased since they were nerfed to death last time, but that's another story and also won't make blasterboats competitive in the end. it would but then you'll have to boost damps WAY more than just to bring them in line with other ewar mods.
lowering s'ones locking range from lets say 100km to 50km still won't make that much of a difference since even large blasters can hardly hit targets at 20k or more..
(it's a pitty you have to fit 2-3 damps in the precious arazu/lachesis medslots for damps to actually have an noticable impact on a target - and those are ships with dampener bonuses!!)

the other thing i agree on is that ccp will have to rethink the racial strengths and weakneses without being too tied to "the old eve way"...

Hit the back button and it should be there... at least thats how I've managed it before now.

So much this!