Poba
The Collective
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2009.07.15 15:26:00 -
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oh poor poor fellow drone user the situation is actually much more worse than you may think.
faction drones, while being ridiculously overpriced due to low drop rates and BPCs dropping ONLY from drone regions, offer very little to justify their price.
 they offer identical damage to non-faction drone counterparts
they offer identical tracking to non-faction drone counterparts
they have split damage type which is epic LOL useless and in no way makes up for lack of extra raw damage
they offer slightly better speed and HP compared to non-faction drone counterpart (their only real advantage)
they are POINTLESS when u look at them with a risk vs reward standpoint
honnestly once you reach t2 heavy and sents and have a domi/ishtar you might as well start training for something else. there are no faction ships to go after, no worthwhile faction drones to save for and no improved or t2 mods that could be fit to your ship to improve drones past 3(lulz at choice) t1 modules
what ccp hasnt given drone users is a next step after getting basic improvements to themselves.
we have no implants to help speed or tracking of our drones, a simple implant set that gave speed and tracking would be an EPIC addition to drone users even if it was tracking only for sents and speed only for reg combat drones(altho i think it would be best if they got both)
drone related skills have some epic fail as well (see drone "durability") drones are also much too easy to kill, their HP is low and their sig is too big
maybe after a few more iteration of falcon changes ccp may actually look at improving content for drone users over "get something else" but its doubtful, they are more likely to find a way to nerf drones even more, for example look at the "change to ecm drone" thread listed here. the only EW drone that is at all worthwhile compared to the damage variation is on the chopping block to make sure its as useless as the other EW drones 
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