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Kalki Nibiru
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Posted - 2006.02.06 23:22:00 -
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Yeah so I come back 8 months later and I notice that the Thorax's drone bay has been nerfed, and the megathron's drone bay has been nerfed, and my drone skill that allows me to control more drones has changed too.
So wtf happend(all the changes to Gallente), what were the reasons why these changes happend, and is there any thing that needs to be changed for the gallente that haven't been changed yet?
Taken from the May 29th 2003 Devchat at EveGate
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<Muaddid> Q: When will sentry gun and station and similar construction pods be introduced on the market?
<Hellmar> we have various player owned entities already implemented. Sentry guns, power/shield generators, field repair mini-stations, mobile refineries. We are still working out the last tidbits of how they can be over taken, what is the penalty of having a sentry gun kill a n00b etc. and we have been a bit busy with plugging the holes that people have found.I would say that you'd start to see these items on the market in about 2-3 weeks, very expensive to begin with |
Cavy Dan
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Posted - 2006.02.06 23:31:00 -
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The drones changed for everybody, buddy.
(Looks at his Caracal 10 m3 Dronebay)
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Dust Angel
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Posted - 2006.02.06 23:33:00 -
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Drones bays were halved in size, but drones were made more effective.
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Zed Nash
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Posted - 2006.02.07 01:25:00 -
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 Originally by: Dust Angel
Drones bays were halved in size, but drones were made more effective.
If by "more effective" you mean that they engage random targets, stay just outside of docking range, and don't know when to engage their MWD or not, yeah, they're "more effective".
Seriously, avoid drones, they're borked. You get better performance on any gun or missile bay than you will ever get with drones, period. Use them as supplemental DPS only.
Maybe one day, CCP will fix their own product.
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Kai Jyokoroi
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Posted - 2006.02.07 01:36:00 -
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Yeah... take on a nos-equipped domi with 5 t2 heavy's and then say that 
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Zed Nash
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Posted - 2006.02.07 01:38:00 -
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Originally by: Kai Jyokoroi
Yeah... take on a nos-equipped domi with 5 t2 heavy's and then say that
It's the Nos that make that ship dangerous, not the drones.
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Twilight Moon
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Posted - 2006.02.07 02:11:00 -
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Yeah, drones may be "borked".....but I'm a new player (not Gallante) and they're a nice addition to have in your ship regardless. You may as well train the skills to use them, for that bit extras DPS for no cap cost.
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Void Dragon
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Posted - 2006.02.07 02:23:00 -
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Basically with the skills trained up drones are not only twice as durable but do Twics as much damage.
The numbers were reduced due to the fact that 50% of lag at the time came from drones [and this is a dev stated fact btw], So the number of drones needed reducing so they increased there abilitys instead.
Also we get more drone types.
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Void Dragon
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Posted - 2006.02.07 02:25:00 -
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I forgot to mention that their AI is still bad tho you have to keep a CLOSE eye on them at times.
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franny
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Posted - 2006.02.07 05:55:00 -
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as an ishtar/domi pilot
other than the borked AI(and they were dumb before too)
the new drones(sentrys, logistics, ewar), and the new drone skills(nav, durability, dmg) make drones very powerful... but you have to be VERY mindful/controling of them(think of them as a 3yr old with a fork near a power outlet)
the only ship to take a real beating was the rax(and imo it needed it) with it's drone bay getting cut twice(once as the RMR drone change, and once as the MK2 ship changes)
p.s. the domi is just as nasty(if not more so) with the dual 250s, shield tanked, gank-a-dom setup... it's a very versitile boat... just ugly
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Grimwalius d'Antan
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Posted - 2006.02.07 08:44:00 -
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Everytime someone says "drone nerf" it makes me laugh hysterically, while at the same time I want to punch puppies in anger. My drones are better than before. Period.
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Kitty O'Shay
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Posted - 2006.02.07 09:16:00 -
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Originally by: Grimwalius d'Antan
Everytime someone says "drone nerf" it makes me laugh hysterically, while at the same time I want to punch puppies in anger. My drones are better than before. Period.
Shhhh.
Drones were nerfed, do not disagree.
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Justice Bringer
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Posted - 2006.02.07 09:37:00 -
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The Thorax had it's drone bay reduced from 200m3 to 100m3.
Then came Red Moon Rising (RMR) which then reduced all ships drone bays by half, so the Thorax went from 100 to 50, and on top of that the maximum number of controllable drones went from 10 (15 for Vexor, Ishtar, Dom and others) to 5.
CCP said too many drones caused too much lag blah blah...
They basically didn't have enough powerful servers in my opinion, and if you lived in Rens then you'd have a system completely clogged up because all the agents from lvl 1 - lvl 4 were in the same station. So EVERYONE and HIS DOG was there... !
Justice 
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