The Dominix was one the last few useful Gallente ships. Other Gallente ships also relied on drones for part of their PvE strategy. Now that drones have been nerfed for PvE Gallente have major problems on both the PvP and PvE front.

Think outside the box.

Like my sentry dropping, super RR, rocket fitted Rattlesnake.

Mr Epeen

Aside from that, there's a large number of other issues that are years old.

1. Drones still split damage (that is, attack multiple targets), even with focus fire enabled.

2. Drone UI does not tell you the condition of the drone (SH/AR/HULL) before it is deployed. As such, you often deploy a near-dead drone and lose it instantly.

3. There's no way to see if your drones are being targeted, it is only visible after they begin taking damage, again a UI issue.

4. Drone stats make no sense. 100 signature radius? When a ship holding several of these drones has a sig radius of 120? When drone is 0.02% of the ship's mass and 0.03% of that ship's size/volume? Armor tanked extra-slow Gallente blaster drone has the same sig radius as an extra-fast shield tanked Minmatar drone? On what planet does that make sense?

5. Overabundance of modules - Omni, Nav, Link, Damage. Some of these need to be merged into a single module.

6. Lack of rigs and implants - we still have very few drone rigs and no drone implants that I know of. By comparison, turret and missile implants were introduced when? 2008? Yeah, it's about time.

7. It takes one click to fire all of the ship's turrets/launchers. It takes 5 clicks to deploy a flight of drones and see their HP. Which do you think is faster? Plus drones travel slower than both turret ordinance and missiles. Meaning not only are they slower to deploy, they take far longer to apply their damage compared to any other weapon system in the game.

There's lots and lots of other reasons why drones underperform. Most of these are years old.

7. It takes one click to fire all of the ship's turrets/launchers. It takes 5 clicks to deploy a flight of drones and see their HP

It takes only 2 clicks to deploy 5 drones of the same type. Just group them in your drone bay.
Despite of this, your message is great and makes sense.

I don't remember if this expansion fixed it, but it goes like this for me:

1st click - left-click to open "Drones in Bay" to see which group I want to launch.
2nd click - right-click on the group I want to open contextual menu.
3rd click - left-click to launch drones.
4th click - send drones to attack target, if already aggressed (can be done with a hotkey too).
5th click - left-click to open "Drones in Space" to see the hitpoints/shields of the drones.

That's 5 clicks. If you launch before you are aggressed, and drones are set to aggressive, it can come down to 4 clicks (step #4 is eliminated). But it is still 4-5x more clicks than it takes to fire all turrets/launchers.

Also, since most drone boats are Gallente, and most Gallente drone boats are hybrids + drones, you still have to click that turret thing. So, other ships without drones - 1 click. Gallente drone boat with hybrids + drones? 6 clicks! That is 600% more work! If anyone thinks this is balanced, I have 1x PLEX to trade for your 6xPLEX.

If 5 mouse clicks is too much effort to ask, maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be playing computer games.

If 5 mouse clicks is too much effort to ask, maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be playing computer games.

If 5 mouse clicks is too much effort to ask, maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be playing computer games.

The part in bold. It needs fixing. No opinion on the rest.

Leave the Dominix out of this, PVP-wise. Mine is fine; drones haven't been nerfed. Your ISK faucet has.

I wonder why it is that high sec bears are so bad at adapting to changes...

The substitute away from doing it themselves in favor of, you guessed it:

Having CCP to it for them. It's like being AFK, but in terms of adapting.

Probably has something to do with the fact that the missions aren't designed for the smarter AI which results in full room pulls and all kinds of stupid. Now if the missions were redesigned like the sleeper sites things would be better.

I wonder why it is that high sec bears are so bad at adapting to changes...

I wonder why it is that high sec bears are so bad at adapting to changes...

I guess that is why lo sec is always looking to nerf hi sec.

The joke is old. Lo sec gets nerfed hi sec says deal with it. Hi sec gets nerfed lo sec says deal with it.

Poor CCP Guard probably has a honorary degree in child psychology from having to deal with the whiners on both sides.

Because null players bad at pve/eve and never learned to use drones, while more skilled hi-sec players constantly try to maximize their performance by utilizing every tool at their disposal. The problem is not adapting to change, it's the complete and absolute refusal of accepting any decrease in personal performance.

While any clueless noob can excel in null, blobing and camping gates, it takes a true maestro to shine in hi-sec. Any dumb child can fool himself into believing he is playing the piano, while only using the white keys, it's takes a lot more to understand importance of using both the black and white keys.

But you also have to up the rewards because its like fighting sleepers which reward much more.
But now, why have both exist?
It makes one of them pointless. (Missions or Sleeper pwning)

If 5 mouse clicks is too much effort to ask, maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be playing computer games.

Well I guess then everyone will be flocking to wormholes, since clearly these are similar ways of making isk.