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I'd love to but......

I also think the rorq staying with the drone bonus is exceptionally silly, but at least we've got a clear answer we can plan on.

Yeah. I gotta be honest — my fear of the Rorqual getting trampled in its balance pass is pretty high, now. The trade of drone damage for jump range was a no-brainer and had unilateral support.

I guess it could be worse — I could still be running POS right now. Glad I divested that stuff months ago.

The Rorqual - We didn't want that ship to have a purpose anyway.

If the usual gaggle of whiners can only come up with complaining about Rorqual drones, I would like to say the long needed projection nerf is a smashing success.

In the choice between "keep drone bonus" and "keep jump range", we landed marginally on the side of the former. We're very prepared to revisit that, we just didn't feel we'd had enough input on the matter one way or the other to sway the decision.

Thank you for some feedback.

This is a serious follow-up question: Was there anyone that actually wanted to keep the drone bonus over the jump range?

From the discussions in the other threads, it seemed pretty unanimous that the drone bonus was not worthwhile and most (if not everyone) preferred the jump range instead.

Even considering that Rorquals currently need a large fix, most of the intended functionality of the Rorqual becomes a moot point. Why have a ship hangar to store mining ships when you can just fly those ships through gates faster than the Rorq can jump there?

The actual use, aside from stationary boosting at a POS, is as a local logistics tool from a central hub. Jump Freighters are used to move goods to central locations, and rorquals are used to distribute from that hub. Forcing the secondary distribution on to Jump Freighters won't result in more PVP or destruction*, it will just make an already boring task even more tedious.

We're not asking for anything exceptional here, just to trade an offensive bonus - on a ship that really doesn't need or use it - for a range bonus so that the ship is not kneecapped.

*Note: I'm discounting bad decisions, because you can make a bad decision with any ship and get destroyed

Welp, goodbye to the Rorqual being useful as a smaller, but cheaper and easier to fly JF for smaller jobs

Just remove the goddamned drone bonus, it's ******* useless anyway. I've been playing this game for 5 years and I've heard of ONE instance where a dude ratting with a Rorq on field. That was in 2011 just before you ****** over Drone Hordes. Btw he doesn't play now. He literally would rather play WoW.

I have a more comprehensive solution.

Count how many drones were launched by rorquals.

Compare to how many light years were jumped by Rorquals in the same period.

Can we get updated excel spreadsheet on various jump ranges and fatigues and what not, wanna know how this exactly affects my blops and to lazy to do math on my own :)