Garviel Tarrant wrote:
How is the Gila nerfed?
it easily pushes 850 dps with an average resist profile well over 70 and 50k ehp
That is really ******* good for a cruiser...
Ok let me put this simply
Gila was pirate faction "passive drone boat" useful for lots of things from solo PvE, Exploration, Wormhole ratting, etc. Now why is it "passive" well becuase in moste wormholes you got your cap drained and really fast it was pretty useful since it was "shield tanked" (as you know shields regenerate on their own), and you didn't need cap for combat, or doing dps, since your drones where there for you. You could repair yourself (with drones), you could webiffy (with drones), you could do multiple types of dmg (with drones) ... you see where is this going, right!
Now how is it nerf-ed. Well you tell me what use is a drone boat that can not use drones!??? o.O (blink, blink) NOTHING!!! It's useless! It's junk, It's garbage!
Second question what use there is for pirate ship (which means similar to or better to T2 ship of the same class) against lets say Ishtar? Who easily does more dmg, is cheaper is much easily combined with other ships to form a fleet, and there is like 3 cruiser in every race for pvp!?
Again it's useless, it's redundant and honestly it's just plain stupid!
Since it was pretty nice and fun to fly ship, there really was no need to nerf it!
Now I know, that CCP actually kind of "jumped" before thinking. Because they introduced "Geckos" and when they realised what they have done "**** had hit the fan" (this is just my assumption), and it was too late, and they had to "fix" that. But like I sad there is here much more damage to players than actually reward, which is why I ask the question for dev's! What the hell are you doing?
But to answer your question when they reduce drone capacity/bandwidth they basically rendered that ship useless. Sure you can now put some missile launchers but then it's not a drone cruiser it's just mediocre pirate cruiser, aaaand you can't play it anymore as passive ship! Which again is loosing it's original versatility.
That is how they nerf-ed it.