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Fozzie's post trumps the dev blog because otherwise people would suddenly lose their ability to fly T2 light and medium drones in the expansion.

Currently: SDO V is required for T2 light/med drones.
Summer: T2 light/medium drones will require LDO or MDO respectively.

If LDO/MDO were to be split from CDO, and your CDO was only at IV, you would no longer be able to fly T2 light/med drones in the summer expansion. Hence, why CCP Fozzie's comment trumps the dev blog.

I most graciously disagree. Even though your deduction is most likely correct, DevBlog has more authority than a single developer writing something on forums. CCP cannot expect everyone to read the forums to find the Right and Correct Interpretation of the DevBlog. Therefore if DevBlog is wrong, CCP better fix it. To do otherwise would be a new public relation fiasco (maybe not a major one, but fiasco none the less)

Fozzie,

have you considered not decreasing the fighter base damage? I first thought these changes would buff them enough to make then usable, but if you are going to need to use two low slots just to make them as sucky as before, this is actually a nerf.

Fighters won't require low slots to make them do as much damage as they used to, Fighter Bombers will.

Please, read the sentence right after the one you quoted to me.

"Fighters will find that with Drone Interfacing trained to five their basic damage returns to normal and all the other skills and bonuses from Drone Damage Amplifiers are pure additions. Fighter Bombers will need Drone Interfacing 5 and two Tech Two Drone Damage Amplifiers to slightly surpass their current damage rates"

Erasmus Phoenix is correct.



This is not odd because, in parallel, there are no navy/faction/tech2 ammunition types for capital weapon systems (e.g. dreadnoughts, titan guns or missile launchers).

a further oversight on CCP's part then not too have T2 guns/missiles .. more for cap pilots too train :)

dreads and titans do have the option of faction ammo/crystals for the capital guns. there are also meta 1 guns to choose from.

but as far as supercarrier changes, after the proposed changes if i don't change anything, the dps on nyx will drop....that is a nerf. if you want to release faction modules, that's fine, but modules are not a buff, they are a new OPTION for fitting, which means more money to spend and more modules to carry in the already tight cargo holds. if you can't figure out the math for the new modules without nerfing the supercarriers, GO BACK TO SCHOOL and don't release the changes. This is not a change for the better, its a change for changes sake. so many problems could have been fixed, so many balances could have been done, but instead, you choose to further marginalize an already specialized ships. every time a new change is mentioned, I cringe and wonder how much worse can they be. They have lost any real self defense, e-war invulnerability is so limited anymore, its like cellular carriers calling it unlimited bandwidth (until you hit a limit) remote ECM burst is nothing but an annoyance since TiDi. We will all now have to figure out the logistics of removing half our FB's and then try and sell them on a newly glutted market. At least we don't have to worry about e-warp bumping anymore, but meh, should never have been an issue in the first place. no more 15 min timers, of safety if tackled on a disconnect, they have until downtime to kill you if they want. considering the supercarrier model is smaller than some dreads or freighters, why cant it dock? no logic there.
honestly, don't touch fighters or fighter bombers till the full capital re balance takes place.

you do know that ccp is allowed to make incremental improvements on things without fixing every real or imaginary concern tangentially related to the thing they're working on right

What about changes to the underlying mechanics, which have been creaking for the past 10 years?

The stupid 'always try to orbit' function need to go, at the very least the following should be added to drone 'orders':

*Halt* - drones cut all propulsion but continue to fire
*Approach* - drones head straight at the target using MWD
*Keep at range* - 500m, 1000m, 2000m, 5000m options. Crucially, drones using this would not try to orbit
*Orbit at* - 500m, 1000m, 2000m, 5000 options. Lets you decide if you open up range to try and avoid misses due to tracking.

Beyond these simple commands you could start to get funky; adding drone formations, preset manoeuvres ('strafe', 'bracket left/right', 'thrusters only') e.t.c, but at the very least add some basic functionality - drones missing a target because they are orbiting like retards, with no means of stopping them as the pilot, is so 2004....