At the same time the gecko is the only drone not being compensated.

The indisputable fact is that with the release of Kronos, the Gecko will

This is where I am confused, for any pilot with drone interfacing trained the output of the gecko is going down.

Eliminating the controlled burst skill would be a nerf to Lasers and to a lesser degree hybrid weapons, or so I would reason, but I take it you would disagree?

At the same time the gecko is the only drone not being compensated.

GǪhave the exact same stats it has today since it comes pre-buffed to match the Kronos drone balance. It does not change. It is not getting nerfed. This is indeed the indisputable fact.

GǪhave the exact same stats it has today since it comes pre-buffed to match the Kronos drone balance. It does not change. It is not getting nerfed. This is indeed the indisputable fact.

Your entire problem is that you confuse a support skill to be an aspect of the drone. It is not. It is its own separate thing. Drone Interfacing is being nerfed. Geckos remain the same GÇö they are getting neither buffed nor nerfed.

Not quite. For any pilot with Drone Interfacing trained, the bonus from Drone Interfacing is going down. Almost all drones are getting buffed, but the Gecko is not because it was introduced pre-buffed to match the new balance. The Gecko remains the same GÇö neither buffed nor nerfed GÇö and DI is giving it, and every other drone in the game, a smaller bonus than before (wellGǪ every other non-capital drone at least).

It would be a nerf to cap-based turrets as a class just like the DI nerf is a nerf to drones as a class. It would not be a nerf to Megapulse Lasers just like how the DI nerf is not a nerf to Geckos GÇö it's a nerf to DI.

It was compensated before it was even implemented.

An item does not have to be changed in order to be nerfed.

yes it does; that's the entire point.

yes it does; that's the entire point.

No it doesn't and restricting the definition of nerf in this way is unhelpful.

... pedantry and nothing else.

An item does not have to be changed in order to be nerfed.

Nice rant post, but that still leaves the fact that an indirect change that affects the effectiveness of a Gecko

i'm not restricting the definition.

Tippia by your logic all drones besides the Gecko are getting a buff due to their stats being increased in compensation for the changes to Drone Interfacing.
Which is blatantly false.

My definition:
Nerf - A change made to a game that reduces the effectiveness or desirability of something in the game.
Your definition:
A change made to something in a game that reduces the effectiveness or desirability of that something.

Yours is more restrictive. So yes, you are restricting it.

No, it is pretty much exactly what is happening.
The Gecko got the exact same increase GÇö it just got it before all other drones.

making up your own definitions for words doesn't give you credibility, it removes it.

The Gecko should not have been released pre-Kronos with post-Kronos stats.

So you have no credibility then. Glad we cleared that up.

good job my credibility has no bearing on facts, they exist regardless of my credibility.

It would be a nerf to cap-based turrets as a class just like the DI nerf is a nerf to drones as a class. It would not be a nerf to Megapulse Lasers just like how the DI nerf is not a nerf to Geckos GÇö it's a nerf to DI.

Your "fact" is something you've never supported beyond "this is true because I said so."
If this is some well-established definition, then whose is it and where did it come from?

It's losing 50% of the drone interface bonus June 3.
But you're right, I must be imagining that it could possible have an effect...

Pulled straight from his ass, I imagine.

Good god this is dumb.

Who in their right mind thought that the heavy drone newly that is literally better than a fighter and was introduced literally weeks before a drone rebalance patch is going to stay that overpowered relative to everything else?

What did you smoke and where can I get some?

Good god this is dumb.

Who in their right mind thought that the heavy drone newly that is literally better than a fighter and was introduced literally weeks before a drone rebalance patch is going to stay that overpowered relative to everything else?

What did you smoke and where can I get some?

still a more accurate source than the one cited for the gecko's nerf since it isn't being changed, and all.

We will be minimizing this problem by reducing the bonus from the Drone Interfacing skill to 10% per level, and building the extra damage into the base stats of the drones. That means that on average, all drones will be gaining about 33% more base damage and a character with Drone Interfacing trained to level 5 will see their damage remain constant (ignoring for a moment all the other drone changes being made in this release)

Skill really doesn't matter at this point, all they did was shift the bonus from being purely skills to being skills and drones. ALL drones will be gaining 33% more damage. The Gecko will not since it has already been modified. This does not nerf the Gecko in anyway, it just buffs already existing drones. Yes, there will not be a larger gap between the two but that in no way constitutes a nerf. If you only use the Gecko all the time every time, you will still be getting the same damage, they same HP, and performance as you are now, that is not changing in any way. The only thing this change is affecting is other drones and thus you will get buffs to help be more competitive with the Gecko.

To say that this effectively kills the Gecko's usage is a bit shortsighted if you ask me. The Gecko is getting no loss in DPS, it just appears that way if you are using other heavies because the gap is smaller.

Skill really doesn't matter at this point, all they did was shift the bonus from being purely skills to being skills and drones. ALL drones will be gaining 33% more damage. The Gecko will not since it has already been modified. This does not nerf the Gecko in anyway, it just buffs already existing drones. Yes, there will not be a larger gap between the two but that in no way constitutes a nerf. If you only use the Gecko all the time every time, you will still be getting the same damage, they same HP, and performance as you are now, that is not changing in any way. The only thing this change is affecting is other drones and thus you will get buffs to help be more competitive with the Gecko.

To say that this effectively kills the Gecko's usage is a bit shortsighted if you ask me. The Gecko is getting no loss in DPS, it just appears that way if you are using other heavies because the gap is smaller.