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Posted - 2007.03.16 01:25:00 -
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Seem to remember the Thorax having a really oversized dronebay for its class. Think it could carry 9 heavy drones which made it wtfpwn any other of the tier2 cruisers back in 03. Or did it have space for 10 heavy drones?
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Maeltstome
Minmatar
Caldari Navy Raiders
DeStInY.
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Posted - 2007.03.16 01:32:00 -
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5 mediukm drones, or 10 lights - it also a tier 3
I think what your thinking of is before the changes to Drone Interfacing, when it could launch 10 drones at once.
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Captain Garret
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Posted - 2007.03.16 01:36:00 -
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The thorax used to have room for 8 heavies which it could launch all at once. However that got halved to 4 heavies as part of a nerf to the ship and then halved agains to 50m^3 when the drone bay changes came in and all drone bays got halved and all the new drone skills were added.
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Lucian Alucard
Caldari
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.03.16 01:40:00 -
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It also used to have 2 missle hard points
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xenodia
Gallente
RONA Corporation
RONA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.16 22:23:00 -
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 Originally by: Maeltstome
5 mediukm drones, or 10 lights - it also a tier 3
I think what your thinking of is before the changes to Drone Interfacing, when it could launch 10 drones at once.
No he is correct. "back in the day" a thorax could carry 8 or 9 heavy drones. And before the drone changes, if you had drone interfacing trained up, you could launch them all at once.
Then there were 2 different things with drones that changed, both at about the same time, and they have been collectively lumped together as the "drone changes":
1) Size of all drones was reduced by 90%. Heavy drones used to be 250 m/3 each. Now they are 25. Drone bay sizes of all ships were scaled down to reflect this, but the thorax's drone bay was over-nerfed. It used to be like 2000 m/3 (enough to carry 8 heavies), but instead of being reduced to 200 to keep the same "effective" size like other ships, it got reduced to 50. Basically it was a stealth nerf of the thorax.
2) Drone skills and ship bonuses were changed so that with few exceptions, only carriers could field more than 5 drones at once. Drone interfacing was changed to give a bonus to damage/mining yield instead of an additional active drone. And ships like the domi that used to have an extra active drone for every level got a damage increase instead. The plan was that a domi post-patch would do the same damage as pre-patch given the same skills... just with 5 active drones instead of 7-15.
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Chronus26
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.03.16 22:36:00 -
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Edited by: Chronus26 on 16/03/2007 22:40:33
Originally by: xenodia
Then there were 2 different things with drones that changed, both at about the same time, and they have been collectively lumped together as the "drone changes":
1) Size of all drones was reduced by 90%. Heavy drones used to be 250 m/3 each. Now they are 25. Drone bay sizes of all ships were scaled down to reflect this, but the thorax's drone bay was over-nerfed. It used to be like 2000 m/3 (enough to carry 8 heavies), but instead of being reduced to 200 to keep the same "effective" size like other ships, it got reduced to 50. Basically it was a stealth nerf of the thorax.
Wrong. The thoraxes drone bay was halved in the 'Mk 2' changes to T1 frigs and cruisers where many bonuses/stats/slots were changed to make some 'useless' ships a little more useful. The Thorax with 8 heavy drones (would be 4 heavy drones nowadays) was rather overpowerd (was more like a BC than a cruiser) and something had to be done. This I am 100% sure of.
These changes came in the same pacth as the drone changes detailed in .2 of your post, so effectivly, the Thoraxs drone bay was halfed again as part of the drone changes.
Original thorax = 200m3 drone bay
After drone changes = -50% = 100m3 drone bay.
Mk 2 cruiser change = -50% = 50m3 drone bay (which it has today)
^ all of the above however happened in the same patch.
IIRC drone sizes were changed in a patch BEFORE the changes above.
EDIT: Details of Mk 2 changes Here.
Devblog on drone changes Here
Cant find pachnotes for drone size changes, i think alot of small patch notes are missing from 2+ years ago so nvm.
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