Likewise. I would've almost preferred seeing the Typhoon as a combat drone boat with missiles or guns as secondary. Maybe a resistance bonus + drone damage/hp bonus. I get this is a way-off idea though.

I can see the logic behind the proposed changes, but would it really hurt to keep the bigger drone bay? Even with a limited bandwidth?

That is not a hangar opening, but rather the fuel cap covering the WD-40 tanks .. hence the size .. also explains the general shape of the ship .. big 'ol can

Sad to see the phoon destroyed like this. I want to clarify something about the phoon though. I do all my pvp in w-space and the typhoon was something of a workhorse for my corp until we bucked up got a neut legion to compliment our T3 oriented gangs. We started out with a torp phoon and 2x heavy neuts plus 1 medium. Being in w-space you rarely see battleships used for anything other than running mass through wormholes to close them so the majority of our targets are flying BC class and smaller ships. Flying with a small gang as we do it's important that each ship carry full tackle so our phoons had MWD, web, scram, and a medium cap booster to keep the neuts running; As you can imagine the lack of TP meant our torps weren't applying much DPS at all to cruiser sized hulls especially T3's which were our most frequent targets.

Seeing as how most of our DPS was coming from the full compliment of heavy drones while facing cruisers we decided to switch the torps out for autocannons and then a real beast was born, sure they don't have the giant paper DPS that the torps touted but they made up for it in applied DPS vs. anything smaller than a battleship considering they were mostly immobile. The phoon as it was and still is today is one of the most if not THE most versatile ships in the game, it offered viable and truly effective fits for torp users and likewise for turret users while allowing ample ways to deal with smaller targets and/or GTFO ability from the sizable drone bay. Hell the ship is the TOP rated battleship on battleclinic and for good reason, it's a monster.

With the proposed changes I can't see using it over a tempest for the small gang role we utilize it in and with the new geddon looking so tasty I can't say any of the minnie BS will ever grace our hangars again. If the phoon really must be primarily a launcher platform then you can't take away it's ability to harm smaller ships by nerfing it's drone bay. Losing a utility slot on top of that is just insult to injury. If you change the navy versions of all these ships you're ruining as well, like the domi and phoon, then you're going to have a lot of disappointed pilots. Anyways that's my two cents.