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1. You adjust drones to drones, without compare efficiency with turrets or launcher platforms. Look into DPS of clear turret/launcher platform, and look at drones. Drone ship have to be fasten to Sentries or risk miss them. Lower DPS as well. Assist is only 1 reason to use drone boats. Clear Drone platform solo make less DPS than turret/launcher based ships and still suffer of fasten sentries. Also drone can be killed and DPS goes even lower.

3. As drones ARE controlling by boat, make drones affected by e-war applied to boat(dampers, disruptors etc.). If boat e-attacked - effects SHOULD be applied to drones launched from this boat as well. Not WEB, as it affect physical item itself.

2. No Drone based Marauder. Give us a Drone-based Marauder to balance PVE side of Powerful SOLO drone boat.

3. Make a "Drone Control Unit" for drone based subcapital boats. Split/rename actual for "Capital Drone Control Unit". Utility or more dps balance, as for turret ships for close range PVP.

4. "Drone control range" - extra skill that NOT compared with any other skill in Gunnery/launcher? Still needed high power modules/rigs just for distance of usage. Remove this skill and make a drone control range based on targeting range, as per gunnery platform, optimal/falloff still comparable with gunnery and will not act on PVP side of EVE. Otherwise drones needs more units, more skills and still make less damage on less distance. Not balanced at all. Also drone link augmentor needs extra slots, that could be used for utility units or guns. And that make drone platform suffering in compare with turret/launcher.

Something like that.

did you read the blog

there is probably a bajillion unused BPCs in peoples hangars + all those sites in the drone regions nobody ever does because they are not worth it.

Best. CCP. Prank. Ever.

So in regards to Fighter Bombers.

Will the Omnidirectional Tracking Links effect their ability to hit their targets and their range or are they still considered to be shooting missiles??

Also worth pointing out that actually the Carrier can't field 15 fighters without 5 drone control units which requires advanced drone control 5, which in total is 50+ days training.

Both carriers will now deploy the same amount which if it significantly helps the server stability I say is a good thing.

Can we haz a Drone Micro Jump Launcher? A module that jumps (teleports) all drones orbiting your ship X distance forward or towards a specific target? Apply that DPS sooner rather than later.

Or sentry drones with a MJD. Given the long range that Wardens have, it would be peachy if you could jump them 60km away from your ship (and then back again for pickup.) The enemy would then have to decide whether to stay at the long range of your sentry drones or the long range of your railguns (i.e. low range == low transversal.)

Thanks for reaffirming that you don't play this game, at all.

1. You are nerfing supercarrier damage 30% from current levels.

2. Players can choose to compensate by fitting 2 damage mods, at the expense of 2 tank mods, so either more supers are needed to keep the same level of damage on a sov structure, or even more risk on the players' parts.

3. FBs are doubling in size while maintaining the same size drone bay. Spare FBs? CCP says, NOPE.

So now, when FBs get bombed, the super loses 10% of it's DPS without a means to replace it - with such a huge impact on dps, FBs will be getting bombed more often.

We get it, you hate drones and supercarriers, but don't you say we are doing it wrong when you handed us this steaming pile of **** nerf - because you have no understanding of what any of these FB changes actually mean.

I'm somewhat sad about this patch, in many areas.

The main one being the supers getting nerfed. In my mind, Super capitals are the endgame content, and SHOULD be somewhat overpowered to an extent. Afterall, they wouldn't be supers if they weren't in my view. :P

Personally, I love the idea of super capitals that Sh*t nightmares and actually scare people when they appear on grid, rather than just: "Meh, its another ship to kill" :P
-Maybe I'm just a little masochistic in this regard...

Add to that the love i have of carriers/supercarriers having swarms of drones...

And the other thing that I'm a little sad about is the changes to drone interfacing V... In my view, seeing as its a pre-requisite for carriers, I really think the 20% suits it. For me, it also justifies the long train time, and makes skilling up for carriers more rewarding.
(while 10% is still probably worth the train time, for me, it still lacks the same incentive as a mighty 20%)

However, maybe I'm just different, in thinking that the best part about EVE compared to other games, is that you have to put time in to get something out. i.e. you have to train longer skills to yield better results... :P
compared to some other MMOs that just require you to have money to dump into it. (ignoring buying characters) ^^
The idea of a game that isn't totally new player friendly, and is a challenge is what brought me to eve in the first place - a non forgiving game where you aren't guaranteed to see the endgame content :)

Either way, I'll be interested to see what happens with future balances :)

I like these changes, my only concern is the use of drone control units on supercarriers. With the 100% bonus to fighter damage, this will effectively give 2 fighter bombers per drone control unit, resulting in potentially double the DPS of a supercarrier without, and even more with drone damage amps. That's dread level DPS on a super.