EVE Search - New drones, modules and what not

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Palicate	Posted - 2005.10.31 15:08:00 - [1] Edited by: Palicate on 31/10/2005 15:09:16 ok, first off I can't read the devblog thing, so im going by what others have said about it. The problem is that giving drones abilities like webbing is going to make some drones heavily overpowered and some heavily underused. the NOS, and web drones probably being the big ones. If you look at it, the big nos drone is about the equivalent of a med nos. and the webbers @40% only need 3 to effectively tag down anything. the problem is it totally unbalances EVERYTHING. these drones require no cap and no grid or cpu or slots. meaning that all of a sudden i can throw 3 web and 2 nos drones into my raven and i have more capabilities than i did before. I can effectively have my drones tag down ANYTHING short of a BS. basically once these come around everyone gets a free tackler is what is going to happen. EVEN WITH only five. i mean your giving us EWAR drones, but ewar ships always needed range to be TRUELY effective, so none of these are worth a second look for ewar ships. The thing is, ships abilities are limited by their high/med/low slots which are usually based upon class and specific ship and bonuses. why the hell would anyone want a scorpion in fleet now? just put 3 ships worth of heavy ECM drones together and its over. I'm going to be honest, i like armor repairing drones, and if sheild transporting drones work like sheild boosters i could learn to like them too. Those and sentry drones are the only reasonable ones. If you give drones EWAR, eve pvp is over, in a snap. the only REASONABLE ewar drone skill i would like is like a 25% warp jam strength or something of that sort. Drones in this game cannot be combat controllers as your about to make them, they need to be combat supportive. I use Heavy atack drones to fight the frigates that swarm me in PVE, in PVP they serve as a "mild" defense against frigs, inty's, and AF's You implement this and I can simply send 5 big nos drones against a HAC and i win. how far is that? especially when most HAC's don't even have drone bays.
Palicate	Posted - 2005.10.31 15:08:00 - [2] Edited by: Palicate on 31/10/2005 15:10:28 Edited by: Palicate on 31/10/2005 15:09:16 ok, first off I can't read the devblog thing, so im going by what others have said about it. The problem is that giving drones abilities like webbing is going to make some drones heavily overpowered and some heavily underused. the NOS, and web drones probably being the big ones. If you look at it, the big nos drone is about the equivalent of a med nos. and the webbers @40% only need 3 to effectively tag down anything. the problem is it totally unbalances EVERYTHING. these drones require no cap and no grid or cpu or slots. meaning that all of a sudden i can throw 3 web and 2 nos drones into my raven and i have more capabilities than i did before. I can effectively have my drones tag down ANYTHING short of a BS. basically once these come around everyone gets a free tackler is what is going to happen. EVEN WITH only five. i mean your giving us EWAR drones, but ewar ships always needed range to be TRUELY effective, so none of these are worth a second look for ewar ships. The thing is, ships abilities are limited by their high/med/low slots which are usually based upon class and specific ship and bonuses. why the hell would anyone want a scorpion in fleet now? just put 3 ships worth of heavy ECM drones together and its over. I'm going to be honest, i like armor repairing drones, and if sheild transporting drones work like sheild boosters i could learn to like them too. Those and sentry drones are the only reasonable ones. If you give drones EWAR, eve pvp is over, in a snap. the only REASONABLE ewar drone skill i would like is like a 25% warp jam strength or something of that sort. Drones in this game cannot be combat controllers as your about to make them, they need to be combat supportive. I use Heavy atack drones to fight the frigates that swarm me in PVE, in PVP they serve as a "mild" defense against frigs, inty's, and AF's You implement this and I can simply send 5 big nos drones against a HAC and i win. how fair is that? especially when most HAC's don't even have drone bays.

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