EVE General Discussion

My biggest problem with drones is that ships can run missions AFK using them, and AFK rat with them (in null you can fit ECM on a carrier, so the carrier draws the aggro and your senttries/fighters rip apart the rats)....that is terrible. At the very least they need a major nerf, and personally I would prefer to see them removed from the game entirely.

Yes because the Proteus, Enyo and all gallente ships use drones as their main weapon system.

I also witnessed cruise missile & painter fitted golem eating everything on the field for breakfast, lunch, supper and late night snack.
Maybe we should nerf some golems while were at it or maybe AT isn't TQ because I certainly haven't seen much frigate eating terror marauders lately.

Sentries are not balanced. This is why every scrub in EVE runs Ishtard fleets.

The current ship balancers are right up there with greyscale on the ineptometer. We had more viable doctrines before tiercide.

This may have been the case before the AI switch.

It is no longer. Drones are eaten when ratting constantly now, with no real rhyme or reason. In general the rats stick to their own weight class and up in what they will engage, so you can safely use light drones once you have cleared all the Frigates and destroyers.

There has been a lot of rumors about ewar, logi, proximity, and other factors influencing AI behavior. I can tell you from personal experience and much testing that all of that is either wishful thinking or such a small influence as to be of no practical use. The only reliable, useful difference I have seen in drones getting aggroed is that it happens less if you have 3+ fleetmates on grid.

In many missions fully bonused light drones will be destroyed between the time it takes me to click launch drones and press the recall button.

Sentries on ishtar/VNI/Vexor are unbalanced. Sentries on carriers are unbalanced. Throw sentries on other ships and it becomes more practical in working against them and using other tactics. Mostly involved in killing the ships rather than the sentries. Cruisers using sentries with effectiveness on par with battleships in the same role is the problem.

Don't be like that. The balance changes have made a lot more ships viable in smaller and medium gang settings. Sentry drone dominant meta for large scale fights was around before any drone changes, not to mention said changes have only gone to nerf the overall viability of such fleets.

All that said you are right about sentries. Nerf damage by 15%, make it so only battleships and carriers can field them.

Guess you dont like your carrier.

Its not really, especially if you arent surrounded by blue. And no, Im not trying to take a jab, just implying the picture is sometimes bigger, than everyone see's.

Gee, I wasnt aware. I suppose I could go into a ramble about the size fleets. Either way though, carrier DPS from sentries isnt really that great. And as slow as carriers are to align, myself I find sentries a little constricting, wouldnt want them nerfed to being useless, or removed. Perhaps I should just join a blob.


I wonder which meta will be next on the nerf train, after everyone is done with this.