Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Not happy with the Ishtar changes. If you toss 300 people in ANY ship and have them attack a primary target, they are going to kill it. Then on top of that you nerf drone damage. So now your nerfing every single carrier in eve, your nerfing every single sub cap with a drone bay in eve. That's not how to balance a game, that's how to give a middle finger to every one who researched and plays with any type of drone period. If you want to have people continue to play a multitude of different ships continue to have a wide diverse field of choices. Every ship in the game, should be viable. Especially if you put 300 pilots into it. I could put 300 pilots into an ibis and nothing would be safe. Going by that logic, lets nerf the ibis its clearly over powered, because 300 of them just took out some dudes carrier. Get real, and look at things apples to apples. Forcing people to play certain ships, or fly ships only 1 way doesn't breed diversity.

People will be crying about ishtars destroying them again tomorrow, once they realize the extra low is in reality a buff payed for by the mid nerf. But its still a buff guys.

Mandatory "did you even read the second blue post" ?

I do play with every types of drone boats in the game, and I'm pretty happy with the changes. Maybe we'll start seeing more turret/missile based ships instead of ubiquitous drone boats everywhere...

Exactly, death to Drone Online, bring back lasers, autocannons and missiles CCP, please.

Yet we don't see 300 of other ships, we see 300 Drone Boat again and again and again. 300 other weapon system based ships don't happen often enough.

CCP is doing what they need to do.

Yeah \o/

Oh, I am not flying drone boats that much, I like diversity.

That (slight) nerf to DDA is just gonna help balance all class types, excellent work.

psst....like drizzer posted above this was a disguised buff.

Mid slot loss was a debatable tank hit. You can run run and gun 2 slot tanks and not die. Key is to not get tangled up into a fight.
Something Ishtar did already. Stop, drop and roll.

Stop the ship, drop the sentries....roll the hell out as fast as they can.

DPS loss covered by stacking of DDA. thanks to the....wait for it.......extra low slot. DDA was hit and the primary ship it was meant to hurt got a low slot to correct that. Yes excessive mod stacking is usually bad. When nothing else is catching your eye and you want more damage....it quickly becomes a why the hell not decision.

im breakin out the tempest! autocannons are still autocannons, but im having fun!!! we supposed to be having fun right?

Why don't you remove the Ishtar from the game instead of crippling it in each second patch?

Reduce drone bay to 25m3. Make the Ishtar a rail platform.
Oddly, its still vastly superior to the muninn. Go figure.

My EFT is broken or something? Myrmidon can field only 4 sentries...what? The bandwith Rise, bandwith. If drone BC can field less than cruiser what are we talking here?