Bellum Eternus
Gallente Blood Corsair's The Red Skull
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Posted - 2007.09.11 08:43:00 -
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All these posts whining about drone bandwidth etc. How is it possible for so many people to read simple wording and take away from it the most assinine ideas about how drones will be changed ("omg, they're gonna buff Gallente!") is beyond me.
Point one:
Drones Revisited
Quote: "About time" is probably the first thing that comes to mind. Not only are we improving the interface, we're working on the logic behind them. This should hopefully lead to them being more consistent in control and abolish their free will. Assist and Guard are new commands coming in, we're getting lots of new named drones and we're adding a new constraint on drones, bandwidth. With this, bandwidth determines the number of drones you can control, allowing the dronebay to be considerably increased on drone ships, accommodating more waves or variety. Ubar? Ja!
No, Gallente isn't getting buffed. Drone bay sizes are being decoupled (I know it's a fancy word, look it up) from the number/sizes of drone able to be deployed. Now ships with smaller drone bays will be able to have larger drone bays without increasing their total drone DPS. More drones in storage, same number/size of drones as currently able to be used by a ship.
"Violator" class BS: larger cargo bays (maybe even seperate cargo bays?) and more 'flexibility' (large drone bays?). "Long-range" doesn't mean long combat range. Simply more endurance and able to operate away from a station for a longer period than current battleships due to more ammo/cap charge carrying capacity.
Cruiser sized dictors- please God, don't let them use the Exequorer model for the Gallente one. Vexor model if at all possible. Or a completely new one.
Anyway, cruiser with big bubbles (larger than current) cloaked and with decent firepower anyone? Gate camp nightmare.
Recon frigs: pure awesomeness. Here's hoping for a jet black Helios with 4x high slots, 5 mids, and a damp bonus. Cheetah with a web bonus anyone? Awesome. Buzzard with launcher slots and an ECM bonus is scary.
Bombs: are still going to suck ass.
Killmails: pure awesome. Now we'll be able to have some uncorruptable proof as to who is doing what, with what, and to whom.
Low sec gets buffed: awesome. Drone region occupants: suck it.
Exploration: sucks that we have to wait for the fix. Oh well.
Heat: more additions to a nearly useless feature. Offensively it's just terrible. 8x guns overheat almost instantly. 1x Rep can be overheated quite a long time before burning out.
Black Ops BS: I hope it can use a CovOps Cloak II. If not, it's going to be really hosed. If it can't get past gate camps, what's the point?
600 defects fixed. Awesome.
LP store buffage, plus new named drones, plus new secondary faction content. More awesomeness.
Courier missions: let's hope that the items being hauled are actually worth something to players if the mission runner gets pirated (i.e. a cargo of 10k Zydrine instead of 3x giant sealed containers).
Back to the original point: stop whining about the drone changes. Myrm is getting nerfed. Just watch.
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