ergherhdfgh wrote:You opened this blog by stating which drones are used most in PvP and used that as some type of justification for balance or lack there of. In Eve we have no damage meters or anything like that which I think is a good thing. But because of that we players have no way of knowing what drones do what in specific situations so I think most players just look and the easily quantifiable stats like damage and range and equate that to some theoretical dps which is not based in fact.
For example I have noticed that while Gallente drones may do the most damage on paper due to tracking and maybe speed they seem to miss a lot more than other drone types. I strongly suggest that you guys find a way to determine actual landed dps in real game situations and use that as a balancing factor instead of player's perceptions.
After all you guys are the devs you have access to information we players do not and any balancing should be done based on factual information that can be gained from server data logging versus what the largely ignorant player base thinks or feels.
The AI changes you guys made to empire NPCs a while back was a significant nerf to drone dps due to the constant need to continually recall drones. Because of that fact I don't think the MWD changes to large drones will even come close to making them viable versus sentries in most situations.
These guys give no crap at all about PvE. The AI nerf was a drone-killer, period. It was designed to hammer PvE income, especially high sec income, and it succeeded. Once people adapted as best they could with sentries, especially Gardes, it was decided to wreck them too in the PVE setting.
No one still will be using heavies or mediums in missions after these changes, because the AI will still chew them up in seconds. However, in PvP, the heavy drone speed buff is a big deal.
Remember where this dev and kil2 come from. They NEVER had to grind ISK, and so never even consider what havoc they wreak on people that grind for their ISK. That is , of course, they feel like nerfing that income, then they are just chock full of ideas.
Read the CSM minutes. If you think this is bad, just wait until they "improve the PvE experience" further by making missions much harder.