I wonder if it is possible to discern between drone usage as secondary weapon system (BS like the Apoc, Abaddon or Sacrilege, Vagabond) and primary weapons system (like Worm, Gila, Dominix, Ishtar, Vexor). That graph should be somewhat different. Will it sill fit the narrative to suit the argument?

Drones will always appear inflated because the ships that don't have any I can count on one hand. Probably. It's early.

Really for these charts, they need to show us the numbers. Or at the VERY least, a scale and a key to stop guesswork.

THE ISHTAR

The problem: Ishtars are too good. They are squashing out diversity in several environments because of their excellent damage projection and solid survivability

Our thoughts: - First, we wanted to establish whether the problem was more about the Ishtar or more about Sentry Drones. The data makes a pretty convincing case that it really is mostly the Ishtar. While several other ships (Dominix, Navy Vexor, Archon, etc.) are making use of sentries, none of them are anywhere near as sentry reliant as the Ishtar and none of them are coming close to the overall damage that Ishtars represent on TQ. After deciding to just make a change to Ishtars, we considered what approach would be the most elegant. Options included changes to the bonuses, changes to base attributes (moving a mid slot was one example here), or possibly screwing around with sentry drone bandwidth use and adjusting other ships as needed. Eventually we settled on the bonuses, even though it means having the only drone damage bonus below 10% per level in the game.

Changes:

10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage becomes 10% bonus to Light, Medium, and Heavy Drone hitpoints and damage, 5% bonus to Sentry Drone hitpoints and damage